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The First International Turkey&Japan Environment and Forestry Symposium, Trabzon, Turkey, 4 - 06 November 2010, vol.1, no.1, pp.920-935, (Full Text)
Pedestrian transportation is the first transportation type in the world. With the emergence of different types of transport over time, some problems between the various forms of transportation occurred and today traffic-free streets or zones for pedestrians has become mandatory. In this paper, two pedestrian areas selected from Anatolian and European parts of İstanbul have been worked on. İstiklal Street is located on the European part of İstanbul and Bahariye Street is located on the Anatolian part of İstanbul. This study aims to determine the success and performance of the planning and design of the chosen pedestrian areas, to emphasize the importance of these areas related to urban planning, to examine the effects of these areas to its own environment, preferability reasons, usage purposes, to what degree provides the needs of the users, essential problems the pedestrian areas face and the main deficiencies based on the planning process. The first method used in the course of this paper is collecting data from the written sources and Internet. Then, current conditions of these areas have been determined and photos and notes are taken regarding to the landscape characteristics, pedestrian and vehicular circulation and urban furniture and equipments. A survey is conducted in the chosen pedestrian areas to determine the actual usage by the pedestrians, the user characteristics and tendencies and opinions on pedestrianisation applications. The achieved diagnosis as the result of the methods used has been compared to the main pedestrian area examples in the world and the case problems of research pedestrian areas are examined and solutions for these problems have been presented.