Abstract
This research is subjected to the study of the impact of street scape on human psychology. The study mainly focuses on the importance of the design of sidewalks on the street so that it can’t become the space for the criminal activities as described by the journalist jane Jacobs. The research also aims to study the role of urbanization in changing the street scaping of the cities. The study comprises of the statistical data which is the output of the survey conducted by the researcher and live case study of the streets of two cities i.e. Chandigarh and Pune.42% Part of the city are imbued with streets and therefore they play a vital role on the psychology of a human being. Keeping this in mind, the research is made on how streets could be designed in a manner that create the surrounding safe and happier to live.
Highlights
Urbanization conditions the changes observed in human behavior, as a number of occupants from rural areas are migrating in cities for various reasons, cities are rapidly experiencing growth in its multitude, turning out to be crowded which is further resulting in lack of resources
There is an unavoidable relationship between human behavior and its habitual livelihood
From various researches it is quite clear that environment influences human behavior in several prospects
Summary
Urbanization conditions the changes observed in human behavior, as a number of occupants from rural areas are migrating in cities for various reasons, cities are rapidly experiencing growth in its multitude, turning out to be crowded which is further resulting in lack of resources. From various researches it is quite clear that environment influences human behavior in several prospects. Streets and alleys as a major connecting space of any society or build environment as well as accessed by humans of every class and creed, effects and change human psychology. The street creates a link between buildings either way; within the street or in the city at large scale As a link it facilitates the movement of people as pedestrians or vehicles within the street. Negotiation of crowded sidewalks, unwanted crowd, and various thug cases arising on the street are making them unsafe for the public. All these issues lead to mental stress and various psychological disorders designing of streets needs improvisation
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