Redesigned Pedestrian Path with the Approach to Improving the Quality of the Presence of Citizens, A Case study: Pavement in Farrokhi Street in Yazd

The pavements are an indispensable part of the cities. What we face today as the pavement is rife with the inattention to both physical and mental type of presence and movement of the pedestrians. The value of the city originates from the presence of pedestrians and people living in the city. Finding the criteria through which we can improve the capacity for presence has converted into one of the basic priorities of the urban practitioners and theorists and it has been set as the goal to achieve concerning the pedestrian path in the axis of Farrokhi Street of the city of Yazd.
The research method of the present research is analytical-descriptive and it is applied in terms of purpose. In the present paper the library, documental and field (observation) study methods have been employed to collect information. In the present paper, the pavement of axis of Farrokhi Street in the city of Yazd has been investigated based on the description and analysis of the environmental conditions in different systems of urban design. The status of the site was determined using SWOT analysis and the aggressive strategies according with the site were taken into consideration. The criteria to redesign the pavement result from the theoretical studies and three alternatives have been proposed considering these criteria. Finally, the alternatives were obtained with the scores 0.38, 0.20 and 1.37 respectively using the Analytical Hierarchy process (AHP) where the third alternative with the final score 1.37 was selected as the best alternative. The results of the research suggest that there are some factors in the study scope such as inappropriate furniture and weak flooring, all-inclusiveness, inappropriate lighting at night etc. that are involved and effective in the capacity for the presence of the people