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City centres in today’s big cities, particularly in metropolises and megalopolises, play a crucial role in revival of human scale in an urban context. Nowadays, a city centre that corresponds to needs of various groups of users, contributes to creating a safe, healthy, vibrant, inclusive and sustainable city. Accordingly, identification of the major and minor groups of users of city centres as well as their likes, dislikes and preferences is a primary step. To this end, this paper investigates the city centre of Tehran and a recently pedestrianised street called 30-E-Tir. With a focus on the three indicators of age, gender and speed, this paper aims to elucidate the existing divergent groups of users of 30-E-Tir and their physical, mental, and spiritual expectations of this street. This 1.3-km street—as a linear path incorporating food & junk food kiosks and the associated small-scale canopies, and flagstone floorscaping—passes through many famous museums of Tehran. These specific features have converted 30-E-Tir Street into a convivial destination point for Tehranians. The existing problems, however, necessitate a detailed investigation of the current situation. The applied methodology for this qualitative-quantitative analysis of the present condition includes the literature review and the related analysis, direct appraisal, photography, and dot-based analysis.

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City centre, age, gender, inclusiveness, pedestrian, Tehran, 30-E-Tir Street.

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