RESEARCH ARTICLE

Walking experience: Exploring the trilateral interrelation of walkability, temporal perception, and urban ambiance

  • Doaa K. Hassan ,
  • Ahmed Elkhateeb
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  • Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Received date: 09 Nov 2020

Accepted date: 03 Feb 2021

Published date: 15 Sep 2021

Copyright

2021 Higher Education Press Limited Company. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Abstract

Walking experience through urban spaces is a frequent daily activity. Thus, planning and designing for walkability become crucial for building up quality of life. Our daily walks around the city are affected by fulfilling the needed psychological contentment that is in turn measured unconsciously by our temporal perception. This contentment is inherent in what we experience in accordance with urban ambiance that goes beyond the spatial attributes of spaces to include their social and sensorial dimensions. Thus, the question here is how walkability of urban routes is affected by urban ambiance and therefore perceived in terms of time. Therefore, this study aims to understate the trilateral interrelation of walkability, temporal perception, and urban ambiance in walkable routes for daily routine use. This work depends on an experimental study where participants are asked to walk along two selected routes. Data-gathering tools rely on documenting the lived experience of the target group via reporting their trips and answering a questionnaire. Pattern analysis demonstrates this trilateral interrelation to clarify the interplay. This study concludes specific qualities of walkable routes for routine use that reduce sense of time, which is highly crucial to be realized in such daily walk journeys.

Cite this article

Doaa K. Hassan , Ahmed Elkhateeb . Walking experience: Exploring the trilateral interrelation of walkability, temporal perception, and urban ambiance[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2021 , 10(3) : 516 -539 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2021.02.004

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