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From the streets: behaviour and experience

Mobility and Publics
Samruddhi Pawar, 2022


Space has the power to affect one’s behaviour and experience. It is influenced by the physical and social factors around it. Streets, a major part of public space, not only allows for transition on an everyday basis but extends itself to become a space for social exchanges. A road allows transport from one place to another, but a street allows public interaction. The physical spatial setting around the street impacts the behaviour and experience.

This dissertation is a study to decode the relationship between the spatiality of streets with the behaviour and experience of people. Three streets in Nashik were examined for the same, one market street, a commercial street and a residential street. These streets were selected based on their proportions (width/length/volume of traffic etc.) with specific programmatic conditions of the street and built form to understand relationships that emerge on the edges. The extent of the street was selected also based upon the activities unfolding during different times of the day. The functional adjacencies at the street edge played a major role in impacting the behaviour and experience. People to people, people to elements, people to builtform and people to threshold are the spatial categories through which the behaviour and experience is influenced.


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The spatiality of urban mobilities


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Highway urbanization: architecture of flux, uncertainty and anticipation

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Street affordance: a case in Amravati

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The politics of commons


Mobility and Publics
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Upgrading roads: transforming edge affordances

Mobility and Publics
Bharvi Shetye, 2022

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City undone: fragmenting the narrative

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Maitreyee Rele, 2020

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Highway urbanization in Chiplun


Mobility and Publics
Ninad Thatte, 2022

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Suburban streets: claims and affordances

Mobility and Publics
Riddhi Shah, 2022

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(Inter-)active spaces


Mobility and Publics
Saloni Vora, 2020

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Street as a carnival


Mobility and Publics
Simran Panchal, 2020

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