Enhancing Walkability in pedestrian oriented gated communities Case Study: Arabia’s Gated Community-New Cairo City

Talaat, Yasmin; Emad, Marwa

doi:10.21608/erj.2022.258295

Enhancing Walkability in pedestrian oriented gated communities Case Study: Arabia’s Gated Community-New Cairo City

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Yasmin Talaat ¹
Marwa Emad ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture The higher institute of engineering and technology Fifth Settlement, Egypt,

² Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture The higher institute of engineering and technology Fifth Settlement, Egypt

10.21608/erj.2022.258295

Abstract

In the last few years, new urbanism design for walkability has been a substantial priority of city planning, especially many negative influences appear and cities started to face a lot of problems when vehicles became prior to pedestrians. A walkable street is a street where walking is safe and pleasant, where people are attracted to walk and where fast and extensive car traffic is not a priority. In order to identify and create a safe and desirable walking environment, the pedestrians are the most appropriate group to assess their perception, knowledge, and attitude towards the streets, thus this research’s main goal is investigating whether the existing pedestrian requirements in urban areas are ready to integrate walkability. The study aimed to determine the most important requirements concerning walkability in order to convert gated communities to pedestrianization especially that Gated Communities play a significant role in Cairo. Hence ,the researchers had been choose Arabia’s gated community as a case study. A description of the existing case study’s features had been done then an experimental study in order to assess the problems of walkability. After that a detailed guideline had been designed for the pedestrian facilities, this paper use indicator values based on the requirements that had been illustrated in the literature review which are accessibility, safety, convenience, attractiveness, and social interactions. These requirements later rearranged and detailed into various indicators so a successful walkable community had been reached as a model that can be adapted in other urban spaces in Egypt

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