The Role of Pedestrian-Based Regions in Development of Social Interactions (Case Study: Ancient Context of Gorgan City)

Since the Second World War, cities have attached more importance to pedestrian regions, attempting to both improve stability of cities and resolve transportation problems via vehicles and to facilitate social interactions through pedestrian flows. This has been neglected in our country’s cities. Moreover, timeworn contexts are experiencing no good conditions due to place extenuations. Therefore, in order to investigate the current conditions and present solutions, two methods of place-time and hydraulic-like were used to study the ancient context of Gorgan City by means of survey and library studies. On this side, the present research makes use of, and is categorized based on, practical approach. Since pedestrian movements are of A-Z service level in Iran, results of the paths ending to ancient context of Gorgan City are illustrative of the fact that Panj-Azar St. possesses the best conditions and Imam Khomeini St., especially its southern margin, has the worst conditions respecting pedestrian status. In addition, there was no significant difference between place-time and hydraulic-like methods, with results gained by one were verified by the other one.

Keywords:

Pedestrian level of service , ancient context , place-time method