Evaluating Non-Motorized Transportation through Selected Walkability Factors: The Case of Famagusta, Cyprus

Walkability is one of the techniques to design more sustainable and livable cities. In contemporary architecture and urban design, the topic has gained significance due to many benefits it offers in relation to people’s health and sustainable mobility. After the Second World War, there were tendencies to design more humanized cities as a reaction to modern urbanism, which gave rise to rapidly developing cities with increasing car ownership. The character of the modern city deprived the citizen from the most basic right, the act of walking. Constructed on this diagnosis, the thesis investigates the transformation of the city from car-dominated approach of modern urbanism to a more humanized, walkable approach of new urbanism. In this respect, the thesis draws attention to the history of urbanism with an emphasis on walkability and its techniques. After a thorough look into the theory of walkability introduced by new urbanism, specific factors have been selected to analyze the case study of Famagusta. Finally, the study presents a comparison between the walkable city factors and the selected case study in order to propose more walkable paths in between these nodes by the help of a map of walkability. Keywords: Non-Motorized Transportation (NMT), Sustainable Mobility, Walkability, New Urbanism, Famagusta, North Cyprus.