Evaluating the physical and psychological indicators effective on promotion of the pedestrian-based capacity of major urban spaces of Farahzad village of Tehran

There are many evident that people are more interested in walking in attractive urban spaces and inappropriate physical and psychological conditions can reduce their presence in a remarkable amount. the current research investigates the influence of physical design and psychological elements and their criteria on optional physical activity and specifically walking in urban public spaces. however there are some limitations in determining specifications of physical and psychological design which have effects on walking, meanwhile the urban planning elements, transportation and crime prevention via environmental design are developed strategies which have potentials for influencing the rate of pedestrianoriented state of urban spaces. the research frameworks which are extracted from the complex of these elements include 5 functional criteria of safety, aesthetics, destination and (environmental) security which are specified by use of documents and library method. in this paper, the public general spaces of farahzad village were selected and by help of questioning technique which it's statistical community included 12 urban planning experts, the mentioned criteria were analyzed by analytic network process. the results indicates that the quality of physical design and the psychological elements have major effects on pedestrianoriented state of urban spaces and the importance degree of each factor in determining the rate of pedestrian-oriented state of urban spaces of farahzad village included the aesthetics, security and functional indicators in a value level, destination and safety. meanwhile, the most pedestrian-oriented spaces of farahzad village were specified by considering the mentioned criteria and by the selected method (analytic network process). cognition of this issue will help the above-mentioned options to overcome their challenges which are creating attractive and dynamic urban space via improving the condition.