Investigating Movement Patterns in Urban Public Open Spaces and Their Impact on Urban Design
Master of landscape architecture .UPM University. Faculty of Design and Architecture (FRSB). Malaysia, India
ABSTRACT
The main audience of an urban space is its users, and urban space becomes significant only by the presence of people. Therefore, it can be said that the success of any urban space is due to its response to needs of users and consistency of design (body) and content (behavior). As a result, research on the users of an urban space can be applied as a valuable resource in the planning, design and management of urban spaces. In this way, to measure the responsiveness of an urban space, paying attention to current behaviors and using a variety of behavior settings will be the first step, so that a clear picture of the current state of urban space and consistency between the design and the content can be achieved. This research aimed to investigate the movement patterns of users in public spaces using descriptive analysis in order to obtain a more complete evaluation and recognition of such spaces. It was concluded that various patterns, whether in pauses or in movements, can be extractable, and urban public spaces can be better designed by recognizing and predicting each of these patterns.
