Guidelines for planning and designing for pedestrians in the streets (a case study of the central business district of Colombo)

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