28 Relationship between Street Furniture in Pune and User’s Convenience Ar. Pradnya Patki Sinhgad College of Architecture, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India International Journal of Research in Civil Engineering, Architecture & Design Volume 5, Issue 2, April-June, 2017, pp. 28-35 ISSN Online: 2347-2855, Print: 2347-8284, DOA: 27022017 © IASTER 2017, www.iaster.com ABSTRACT A Street is a public thoroughfare in the built environment. In an urban environment every person as an individual comes in contact either physically or visually with the street at least once in a day. Circulation, or transportation, is a street's most visible and important use. A very careful and detail analysis of design of such corridors is necessary to cater to all the users. At the urban scale the details of elements in the street may be as important as buildings in determining the aesthetic quality of the city. The study is aimed to find out the requirements of the users in Pune city and the kind of street environment they want to live in. Also there is a need to find out areas for improvement in the design of street furniture in Pune and to provide policy guidelines. The method employed is such that findings are obtained by interaction with people in order to know their views regarding street furniture today in Pune and the improvement they would like to see in future with the help of questionnaire tool. The hypothesis set for the research is that there is a relationship between the Street furniture and user’s convenience and satisfaction. Keywords: Circulation, Public Thoroughfare, Street Environment, Street Furniture, User‟s Convenience. I. INTRODUCTION We normally relate the word furniture with indoor spaces rather than exterior elements on street. We pass through the streets without noticing the urban furniture, which are important elements capable of making life much more comfortable. Street furniture can be defined as fixed elements in the public right-of-way that are intended for use by the public and that require clear ground space for approach or use in an outdoor landscape. There are a variety of fixtures that we come across on the street which are relatively small in scale in the urban environment and tend to present in large numbers. It is often the small things that cumulatively, can have an impact on the quality of urban environment. (Davis C) A well distributed arrangement of these elements will contribute in making the streets more accessible, encouraging and a positive relation between the visitors could be formed. Not only can these items become a distinctive feature of a neighbourhood and of a town, but it is their design and the degree to which they address the solution to everyday problems that prove their validity. Today street furniture has not only practical use, but also visual pleasure vital to street scenery. The paper aims to find out whether street furniture in Pune contributes to the convenience of the people and is there is a relationship between the Street furniture and user‟s satisfaction. The objectives are to identify and classify the different elements of street furniture according to its use and to study the elements with respect to scale, style, colour, robustness, sitting etc. The subject street furniture covers wide range of items, but the scope of research paper is limited to city streets of Pune.