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Focusing on the street level experience, Ewing et al. (2005, 2006) developed measurement protocols for nine urban design qualities cited in the literature—imageability, enclosure, human scale, transparency, complexity, coherence, linkage, legibility, and tidiness. The first five were successfully operationalized and then related to pedestrian counts on 588 street segments in New York City. Ewing et al. (2013) showed that the one urban design quality--transparency-- is more significant in explaining pedestrian counts than development density, land use diversity, street network design, destination accessibility, distance to transit, or demographics, the so-called D variables. This paper builds on the research of Ewing et al. (2005, 2013) to distinguish which specific streetscape features influence levels of pedestrian activity after controlling for the other D variables: A composite variable comprised of windows overlooking the street, continuous building facades forming a street wall, active street frontage, proportion of historic buildings, number of buildings with identifiers, and number of pieces of street furniture, prove to be highly significant.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Pedestrians. Alternate title: Streetscape Features Related to Pedestrian Activities

01503729

14-5420

English

20p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Measures of effectiveness; Pedestrian counts; Streetscape; Urban design; Windows (Buildings)

New York (New York)

Design; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-5420

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 3:54PM