Abstract
Terminals and stations as one of the most important parts of transportation systems and also as the arteries of the country’s economy life undertake significant role in adjustment and regulation of the traffic pulse of cities and roads. Urban furniture is one of the components considered in urban designing and as a part of the whole city, it defines the urban identity and structure. In today’s world, the importance of designing the urban equipment and furniture is to an extent that even active architects in the field of industrial designing are invited for designing and performing the urban furniture and equipment. Urban designing is a thing beyond making some flower box in squares and determining bus and taxi stations. Evidently, what gives identity to the city or according to the saying of “Sansovini”, what has tranquility for the city’s residents and creates attraction for foreigner tourists, not only include the mass buildings and streets traffic, but also include landscape, parks and furniture of the city. Standard designing of bus terminals like other urban furniture influences on urban face and it can have significant role in satisfaction of domestic tourists and increase and propagation of using of terminals. In this research, it has been attempted that the effect of furniture in the terminals of Isfahan city on domestic tourists should be studied that for this purpose, descriptive-analytic method has been used and data have been collected through field and library studies and secondary sources by using of SWOT model.
Highlights
It is attempted that with a comparison on Isfahan city terminals by using of SWT technique, the strength and weaknesses points, opportunities and threats existing in this transportation system of Isfahan to be studied and some solutions are presented for improvement and elimination of its difficulties, with regard to the urban elements and furniture in these 4 terminals, their effects on attracting the domestic tourists are studied
In the elements like telephone booth, mailbox, bus station, water-view which are the components of urban furniture, in addition to the specialized issues of each case which should be considered in designing and constructing them completely, attention to the common cases like being exposed to the vision, feasibility of correct use of it for persons in different ages, the performance combination of some of them with each other like telephone booth or mailbox in a general design and other cases are the factors which are considered in designing [11]
Isfahan city has 4 main transportation terminals which are: Kaveh terminal, Soffeh terminal, Jay terminal, Zayandehrood terminal. As it is evident in the table, Kaveh terminal is the main terminal of Isfahan and it is the largest terminal of it and it has the most amount of attracting the tourist (Table 1 & Table 2)
Summary
Azani spaces with proper limitations, conditions and facilities. Public spaces of the city as one of the physical components of city have public and social concept and social needs of human have much importance [1]. Since several previous decades till another time public places were considered as a space for living and the importance of proper planning and designing of urban elements such as furniture is an affair which has been explored again. The main purposes of urban planning are health, tranquility and beauty; achieving them depends on accuracy, patience and correct planning of urban furniture [2]
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