Abstract:
This paper explores a link between pedestrian space based safety facilitating
strategies formulated for urban settlements.
Pedestrian spaces which can be simply address as streets and alleys are
major elements of a city. City image and the level of city functionality
depend on frequency of these pedestrian spaces.
Perception of ‘safety’, which is the physical and psychological feel of
protection, is a key factor that attracts human being into spaces to behave
among them. Positive physical attributes of the pedestrian spaces are
extremely effective in ensuring the safety within them.
Most architectural and urban design theorists discuss the independent
physical attributes that facilitate the safety but usually there is combination
of a set of attributes contributing towards the term. The research
systematically reviews these attributes to formulate the legitimate
combinations to facilitate the safety. The study was launched in Kandy grid
city that contains several streets and alleys network. Kandy city is an ancient
city with a significant culture, tradition and ethnic.
Study results the least combinations of set of attributes to facilitate the
perception of safety as representing all four key attributes extracted from
literature search strategy which are built-form, planning and layout,
ambience and functions.
Citation:
Ranasinghe, A, S.M.W., & Wijesundara, J., (2016). Physical attributes of pedestrian space that facilitate the perception of safety: with special reference to kandy grid city. In J. Wijesundara, & R. Dayaratne,(Eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016. (pp. 81-92). Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa.