The influence of social interactions on the behavioral patterns of the people in urban spaces (case study: The pedestrian zone of Rasht Municipality Square, Iran)

Askarizad, Reza; Safari, Hossein

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102687

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“…Being among others provides a rich experience that ameliorates the quality of urban spaces. Also, studies have validated that individuals with strong social interactions have lower mortality levels, lower suicide rates, less fear of crime, better overall physical health, as well as higher level of psychological well-being ( Askarizad & Safari, 2020 ). The studies have also reported that densely populated urban areas could become hotspots for the prompt outbreak of the virus due to the high level of face-to-face social interactions ( Sharifi & Khavarian-Garmsir, 2020 ).…”

Section: The Balance Between Social Distancing and Social Interactionmentioning

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Post-pandemic urban design: The equilibrium between social distancing and social interactions within the built environment

Askarizad

2022

Cities

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The previous arguments in respect to the COVID-19 pandemic tend to support the lockdown and closure policy in order to prevent widespread infection of the epidemic within urban spaces. Using semi-structured interviews, the present study identifies that there are some serious consequences by adopting this policy due to the indispensable social interactions and uncooperative attitude of the general public to the harsh isolation approaches. These negative impacts on people's psychological health are partly caused by the inflexible urban design of the built environment in the pre-pandemic period. To create a balance between social distancing and social interactions within urban spaces, the paper proposes a general framework of post-pandemic street furniture design. It provides an innovative approach using a grid-based method, which can be applied to other cities across the world in order to deal with the potential analogous pandemic perils in the future.

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Section: The Balance Between Social Distancing and Social Interactionmentioning

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Post-pandemic urban design: The equilibrium between social distancing and social interactions within the built environment

Askarizad

2022

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“…Users who sustain using DBS have the potential to promote DBS continuance usage in their social networks as well. Moreover, a suggestion might be to create a cycle-friendly climate in cities to encourage users to continue using DBS, as social interactions in urban space have an impact on the travel behavior of people (Askarizad and Safari, 2020;Li et al, 2021). Last but equally important is the significant role of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, which indicate that DBS operators should continue simplifying the process of using DBS services and make digital user manuals and marketing materials to increase users' understanding of how DBS usage makes short trips more convenient.…”

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Using the Extended Acceptance Model to Understand Continuance Intention of Dockless Bike-Sharing

Lin

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Despite the fact that dockless bike-sharing (DBS) usage first experienced explosive growth, its continuous usage rate remains low. The ultimate success of a DBS service is more dependent on its continued usage rather than its initial adoption. Following the extended technology acceptance model (TAM), this study aims to explore factors that influence the continuance intention of DBS users. The framework of research was validated using a sample of 369 DBS users in China. The results show that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use positively influence a user’s intention to continue using DBS. Both descriptive social norms and injunctive social norms are positively related to the continuance intention of DBS users. Moreover, environmental concern significantly affects the continuance intention of a user indirectly via perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Furthermore, the extended TAM has stronger prediction ability than the original TAM in the context of DBS services.

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“…Social interaction means establishing a relationship between two or more people that leads to a reaction among them, and this kind of reaction is cognizant to both parties [25]. Therefore, meaningless relationships do not go under this definition [26].…”

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“…For many years, the Municipality Square has been the heart of Rasht and a place at which critical activities and traditional events take place. It is located in the central part of the city and near the main bazaar and the Green Square (another historical square in Rasht) and it houses many cultural and administrative buildings [25]. In this research, the intention is to scrutinize two critical libraries in Rasht, named the Rasht National Library and the Emam Hasan Mojtaba Library.…”

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Evaluation of the Effective Factors on Social Interactions in the Design of Public Libraries

Askarizad

2020

Teh. glas. (Online)

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Nowadays, the interaction of people in the world is deemed a controversial topic and consequently, the creation of an appropriate context for interacting with individuals is one of the issues that is considered by architects in many designs. In this research, it has been endeavored to consider the factors affecting social interactions in the design of public libraries through the descriptive-inferential analysis. The results of this research reveal that in the architectural spaces that have been designed with open-configured plans, spatial integrity and sociability will increase. On the other hand, the factors such as depth and the level of privacy are also reduced. Therefore, in designing a public library with an approach toward social interaction, there should be a variety of open and closed-configured spaces in the plan that allow users to choose the space they optionally want and in which they would enjoy in their own presence by choosing their own activities.

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The influence of social interactions on the behavioral patterns of the people in urban spaces (case study: The pedestrian zone of Rasht Municipality Square, Iran)

Cited by 79 publications

References 46 publications

Post-pandemic urban design: The equilibrium between social distancing and social interactions within the built environment

Post-pandemic urban design: The equilibrium between social distancing and social interactions within the built environment

Using the Extended Acceptance Model to Understand Continuance Intention of Dockless Bike-Sharing

Evaluation of the Effective Factors on Social Interactions in the Design of Public Libraries

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