Perspectives on pedestrian path attributes: an intervention agenda, Alexandria Turkish district, Egypt

ABSTRACT

This research investigates the viewpoints of both users and professionals regarding a specific intervention in a pedestrian path, as a way of building an intervention agenda. The study delves into the characteristics of pedestrian paths, concerning path attributes in relation to physical improvement interventions and their impact on enhancing the overall urban landscape. The focus is on understanding how users’ perspectives and the presence of heritage could influence decision-making regarding pedestrianisation aspects. The research adopts a mixed-methods approach, combining quantitative and qualitative methods. Observations, physical surveys, illustrative drawings, questionnaires targeting users, and semi-structured interviews with professionals are employed to achieve a comprehensive perspective. The findings point to variance in users and professionals’ perspectives, regarding the impact of the decision-making policies, practice, and participation, on the prominence of path appearance, comfort, safety and social interaction considerations.

KEYWORDS:

• Decision-making
• intervention agenda
• participation
• path attributes
• pedestrianisation
• stakeholders

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Mrs. Helen Martin- Director of Regeneration and Enterprise at Dudley MBC, UK for the research editing. The authors also thank Dr. Sara S. Fouad-Research Fellow/Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation and Associate Professor at AAST, Port Said, Egypt for her kind assistance. The authors are grateful to Designer/Reem Moustafa for images articulation and technical assistance.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1. ALEX-MED is Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Centre affiliated with Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

2. A Wikala is an Islamic building which resembles the caravanserai.

3. Waqf (plural of Awqaf) are endowments to support a community function.

Additional information

Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.