RESEARCH ARTICLE

Toward time-based design: Creating an applied time evaluation checklist for urban design research

  • Amir Shakibamanesh , 1 ,
  • Mahshid Ghorbanian 2
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  • 1. Department of Urban Planningand Design, School of Architecture and Urban Studies, Art University, Tehran, Iran.
  • 2. Department of Urban Studies, School of Architectureand Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Received date: 24 Oct 2016

Revised date: 26 May 2017

Accepted date: 30 May 2017

Published date: 26 Sep 2017

Copyright

2017 2017 Higher Education Press Limited Company. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Abstract

The perception of a 3D space, in which movement takes place, is subjectively based on experience. The pedestrians’ perception of subjective duration is one of the related issues that receive little attention in urban design literature. Pedestrians often misperceive the required time to pass a certain distance. A wide range of factors affects one'sperception of time in urban environments. These factors include individual factors (e.g.,gender,age,and psychological state), social and cultural contexts, purpose and motivation for being in the space, and knowledge of the given area. This study aims to create an applied checklist that can be used by urban designers in analyzing the effects of individual experience on subjective duration. This checklist will enable urban designers to perform a phenomenological assessment of time perception and compare this perception in different urban spaces,thereby improving pedestrians’ experiences of time through a purposeful design. A combination of exploratory and descriptive analytical research is used as methodology due to the complexity of time perception.

Cite this article

Amir Shakibamanesh , Mahshid Ghorbanian . Toward time-based design: Creating an applied time evaluation checklist for urban design research[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2017 , 6(3) : 290 -307 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2017.05.004

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