People deserve to live in a clean and sustainable city.
MOHAMMAD NIKKHAH
Introducing our Isfahan, Iran-based Correspondent Mohammad Nikkah!
Here at Pedestrian Space we recently launched a Global Walkability Correspondents Network, as a way to build solidarity among walkability advocates around the world and continue to create media on sustainable mobility and urbanism.
We are grateful to welcome Mohammad on board as our Isfahan, Iran Correspondent. Read on for some of his thoughts as we launch this network.
WHO
I am Mohammad Nikkhah and I am pursuing my Master’s thesis in the Urban Planning. My research interests cover my hometown issues and are also in alignment with some of the global urban issues covered here. My primary interest is CPTED, which I covered in my Bachelor’s thesis. I focus on a great range of issues including Public Health, Environment, Transportation, Vision Zero, Urban Planning, Built Environment, Urban Sprawl, CPTED, GIS, Land Use, Land Development, Urban Design, Spatial Analysis, Safety, Development Plan and Master Plans. These are my favorite topics.
Walkability, alongside safety and environment, are the most critical issues in my area that I can name at the moment.
MOHAMMAD NIKKHAH
WHERE
My hometown is Isfahan, Iran, a place of many different historical cultures and also a modernized city. Walkability, alongside safety and environment, are the most critical issues in my area that I can name at the moment.
WHY WALKABILITY
People deserve to live in a clean and sustainable city. I myself focus on health and the environment and I believe we have built a prison full of cars around ourselves. We can free ourselves by working on the right issues for change and in my point of view, this is the path for true and sustainable change for people.
Mohammad Nikkhah is a young advocate and interdisciplinary researcher. He is currently doing his Master’s thesis on Vision Zero and the link to urban planning.
Learn more about the Global Walkability Correspondents Network here