ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE SAFETY ISSUES FOR CHILDREN IN THE LOW INCOME NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS IN RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA | ||
| JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences | ||
| Article 17, Volume 35, No 1, January and February 2007, Pages 285-298 PDF (942.46 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesaun.2007.111428 | ||
| Author | ||
| Dr. Omar S. BaHammam* | ||
| College of Architecture and Planning King Saud Univeristy | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Cities give serious attentions to designing their streets and lay them out to provide for the safety of pedestrians on the road especially children. Existing street situation does not encourage pedestrians nor does it provide for the safety of users especially children. The study looks at the existing situation of neighborhood streets with an analytical eye in regard to children safety and trying to determine the existing obstacles in relation to safety of children and the design of streetscape. To address this issue, a fieldwork survey was conducted assess the existing situation in the randomly selected neighborhoods in the city and determine the safety challenges facing children in streets. The main benefit of this research is to pull the attention to the issue and to set a new methodology for studying the issue of children safety and open a new frontier that is in urgent needs in our daily life. | ||
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