Place networks. Experience the city on foot

Abstract

Considering the walking as the everyday activity of the most of the citizens and visitors of particular city or town, the experiences that arises in this kind of the interaction with the place are of great importance because they affect the formation of a general impression of a certain place. In order to mark these interdependences the method for evaluation and public spaces design in accordance with the user needs and human size need to be reached in order to create a good and visited public space. The methodology is used and tested during the student workshop in Golubac, within the DANUrB project. This paper will present the results of the research that aimed to discover how to organise the network of pedestrian spaces in order to increase the attractiveness at the destination level, establish appropriate links between them and achieve the desired effect creating a liveable town.