Abstract:
Planning and designing for pedestrians in the
streets has been the main concern of this study.
Central Business District of Colombo is been considered as
the case study area for the exercise. This discussion has
been persued in five Chapters.
The
The first chapter reviews the historical background
of the great ancient cities being built to human scale
where walking was the primary mode of transport,
discusses how despite of its advantages of personal
mobility the automobile made negative changes to the
Finally the opportunities arising to
It also
pedestrian society,
step back to the pedestrian scale in the future by the
organized pedestrian programs carriedout in the western
world has also been looked into.
An attempt has been made in the se
