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The course investigates the interaction between pedestrian activity, urban form and land-use patterns in urban environments. Informed by recent literature on pedestrian mobility, behavior and biases, we take a hands-on view and learn how to operationalize and model pedestrian activity in built environments using software tools and analysis methods.

Rather than engaging in comprehensive travel demand modeling across all modes, we use simplified, yet powerful and scalable network analysis methods that focus uniquely on pedestrians. Emphasis is placed on not only modeling or predicting pedestrian activity in existing built settings, but also on analyzing and understanding how changes in the built environment—land use changes, density changes, connectivity changes—can affect pedestrian activity.

KEYWORDS:
Pedestrian activity, Built environment, Quantitative modeling, Urban network analysis

• Understand and be able to operationalize spatial accessibility from a pedestrian perspective.

• Use applied urban analysis techniques to understand, analyze and predict pedestrian flows in

built environments.

• Explain how each of the analysis technique works in detail to stakeholders.

• Understand and explain how urban form, land uses, urban design, and public policy can affect pedestrian flows on city streets.

• Formulate analysis projects from beginning to end, presenting the findings with clarity and

precision.

• Learn how to solve problems in teams (all experiments are in teams)