aesthetic of street environment and the link to pedestrian activity poster
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The idea behind qualitative approach is to purposefully select participant or
sites. Study sites have been selected purposefully which assumed will best
help researcher understand the problem and answer the research question.
The works will involve Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and interviews.
Participants will be invited to a discussion session in selected room or
places and talk about their environment aesthetics. Some pictures and
videos of street activity and street environment will be provided,
Participants will comments and explain their preferences and perceptions.
Their perception towards different circumstance are hoped to be
demonstrated by comparison of beauty and broken environment.
In addition to discussion and interview, researcher will also observe
different types of urban area which portray a range of street environments
and also participate in informants journey or sojourning, meanwhile also
trying to gather their perception of street and aesthetics of environment.
This methods is chosen to avoid researchers fixated on the particular
concept or theory and information can be dug up from the participants or
informants.
To allow this research to be carried out in a limited time but complex data
collection procedures some sites has been selected, they are University of
Leeds and It’s surrounding (LS2 and LS6), includes A660 routes
Woodhouse Lane – Headingly (Otley Road). The selection of site leads by
facts that Leeds city council has recently announced the result of Action Day
Program which clearly indicated street environmental problems such as
graffiti and litter. There are six cases reported which they will start
proceedings for around noise nuisance, rubbish and drainage issues. The
Key informant to this research will be students who voluntary join this
research and the Inner North West Area Committee of Leeds City.
R e s e a r c h B a c k g r o u n d
1. Aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste. This is a very wide
area of research. However, the presence of building, spaces,
colour, street furniture (i.e. bench, fence, post, lamp, etc.), trees
and flowers will be the main observation objects.
2. Street Environment : this will includes traffic flow, pollution,
junctions, vegetations, shops, parking places, safety, and
housing area.
3. Street Activity : includes walking, shopping, meals, sojourning,
bicycling, sport and other activities
n the last decade issue of walking as part of sustainability policy has
grown strongly among the governments and the transportation
researchers. European Cooperation in Science and Technology has
recently published the Pedestrian Quality Needs (PQN) Project Result. It
concludes a comprehensive vision on ways to improve walking and
sojourning conditions. Nevertheless, PQN scientific approach is an ideal
but not yet practise. There are still question marks. The main issue will
be how to proceed from knowledge to implementation? (COST, 2010).
Newly UK Travel Survey has proven the decline of walking mode in the last 15 years.
A660 Otley Road, Leeds
Scope of Research
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Q uest ions 1. What are factors influence people’s perception of current aesthetic of
street environment?
2. How do people decide to use walking or sojourning on street or
public places?
3. What is the link of street activity to perceptions of street
environment aesthetic?
Methodology esearch will be conducted in a qualitative approach. Silverman
(2010), Strauss (2001) and Creswell (2002) agreed that qualitative
approach is a qualitative research process, which tries to understand
human problem, based on complete holistic picture formed with
words, detailed views of informants, and its natural background.
This research is very suitable with qualitative approach. It is not just
because of its ontology, epistemology and axiology assumption, but
also influenced by researcher’s experience and knowledge which walk
daily through Leeds City street, especially around Leeds University.
Lancy (1993), Smith (1987) dan Tesch (1990) in Creswell (2002) stated
that qualitative research is a powerful tools to explore the
characteristics, discover the patterns, understand contextual and acts,
and convey the freedom of mind. Based on these paradigm, a
qualitative approach will be appropriate in this study.
It has become harder to persuade people to use walking as mode in their journey.
Proofing that walk will increase the quality of life as well as contribute to transport
goal is arguably.
Average Number Of Trips By Selected Private Transport Modes Index: Great Britain, 1995 To 2009
Source: DfT, 2010
Data Collection Procedures
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1. To identify factors influence people perception of current
aesthetic of street environment
2. To understand people decision to use walking or sojourning on
street or public places
3. To analyse the link of street activity to people’s perceptions of
street environment aesthetic
R e s e a r c h Objec t ives
Significance and Implications
References
The significance of this research are :
1. The importance of an understanding of city development and
street design which provide community life improvement
2. Provide more complete picture about road user perception to the
reader and interested parties
Thus, the implications of this research are :
1. Development of science and knowledge of designing street
which reflex the highest function of human needs and sense.
2. Contribute to awareness and policy making of university
surrounding areas and city street improvement.
3. Offer a data and information availability to be used by local
authorities and practitioner for further development and research
Aswin Siregar Dr. Miles Tight (Supervisor)
Department for Transport, 2007, Manual for Street, available
athttp://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/sustainable/manforstreets
Department for Transport, National Travel Survey 2009, available
at http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/statistics/datatablespublications/nts/
Rob Methorst, Hector Monterde, Ralf Risser, Daniel Sauter, Miles
Tight and Jim Walker, 2010, Pedestrian Quality Needs (PQN) Final
Report, WALK21, Cheltenham, UK
Transport Committee, 2010, Walk This Way Making : walking
easier and safer in London, Greater London Authority
John W Creswell, 2009, Research Design : Qualitative, Quantitative,
and Mixed Methods Approaches (Third Edition), SAGE
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