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It is an important factor that planners and urban planning experts need to understand how physical elements of streetscape contribute to the perception of safety in streetscapes. While the building regulations and development plans are amending due to the increased urbanization process. It is important to pay attention and maintain the safety of urban areas. However, the developers do not capture the overall perception of people in the street environment and the relationship between the urban environment and safety perceptions. Thus, most studies related to build environment target to increase women’s safety with enhancement of physical elements. However, there is little concern on how building regulations impact the perceived safety. Not many researchers did the perceived streetscape safety align with the building regulations. Thus, this study was an attempt to find out the interrelationship between the perceived streetscape safety and regulations, examine the relationship between perceived safety and gender and identify limitations on implementing building regulations in real ground.
The data collected from in person interviews from urban planning experts, questionnaire surveys from pedestrians (man & women) and the photographic surveys from respective streetscapes. Descriptive statistics methods used for data analysis. In addition, the Spatial Data Analysis, Text Search Analysis and word cloud analysis from Nvivo, Logistic regression from IBM Statistics and street profile analysis done through Adobe Photoshop were undertaken.
The height of street structures, building line, permissible land uses and zone factor are considered in case of building regulations for selected streetscapes.
The perceived safety is dependent on few urban design qualities and those are the reflection of the physical setting of environment. Thus, the physical environment incorporates urban planning regulations and their implementation process. In that, planning regulations and their implementation procedures and perceived safety are interconnected. Whereas, interrelationship between the gender and perceived streetscape safety depend on the characteristics of the physical environment. Thus, building regulations are impacting the perceived safety by gender differently.
The findings of this study help the urban planners, experts and relevant authorities to design the streetscapes with the consideration of regulations and design qualities and the safety. Further, this study argues that the urban design qualities are the reflection of physical settings and those physical settings are highly incorporated with building regulations.
| Keywords | Planning regulations; Gender; Perceived Streetscape safety; Urban Design Qualities |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
