Graphical-analytical Approach to Increasing Pedestrian Walkability in the City

In large cities, due to a complex structure and a wide area, the need for planning solutions for securing links between districts and larger territorial units is reinforced by the fact that the structure of such cities is more fragmented due to the presence of natural and man-made barriers. Systemic errors in planning have led to a disjunction of the urban environment. In the current configuration, Moscow is not perceived as a system of established pedestrian connections. The modern big city is experiencing the problem of the disunity of the territory, in many respects it was a consequence of the shift in the development priority towards motor transport. Most of the existing techniques assess pedestrian environment in isolation from urban macroelements, whereas graphic analysis of the territory can reveal implicit factors and ways of development of the pedestrian environment. The analysis of the situation and the development trend of the urban environment can be based on the development plans for the territory, existing and promising schemes of transport planning, publicly accessible green spaces. The potential for the development of pedestrian links between the structural units of the city can be identified using geoinformation analysis of existing public areas. The scale of the planning of the territory will determine the parameters of the whole city. Publicly accessible landscaped spaces can be one of the most important data sets in decision-making at a large territorial level. The study showed the possibility of finding and developing pedestrian and bicycle connections within a large city on the basis of an analysis of the urban environment, in general, and on the location of publicly accessible green spaces, isochronous analysis, data of bicycle infrastructures and behavioral features of displacement in particular. This practice should be applicable at the early stages of designing systems of intra-urban interaction.