The Impact of Pedestrian Streets Design on the Urban Scene of the Iraqi City Center

Abstract

Pedestrian streets play a vital and effective role in the visual formation of the urban scene of city centers, including the Iraqi city.  These streets are also affected by a number of influences that contribute to the composition and formation of its formal characteristics. The natural and built environment of pedestrian spaces affects the composition and formation of the urban scene, as well as its impact on society and its environment, as represented by social, cultural and civilizational dimensions. This is what the focus of the research is concerned with in the study of pedestrian streets and their impact on the urban scene, so the research problem was (Neglecting the design of pedestrian streets in the Iraqi city), and the research determined the hypothesis (the design of pedestrian streets positively affects the urban scene of the Iraqi city), up to the main objective (studying a set of indicators to ensure the optimal design of pedestrian streets in the Iraqi city), through the study of the Urban scene and pedestrian street design in global cities to be applied to the Iraqi city.