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Item Investigating Walkability Character as Quality of Life Indicator at Neighborhood Scale: An Analysis of Wapda Town Phase I(UMT, Lahore, 2023) Aliya KanwalThe Automobile Oriented planning techniques are unable to accommodate the mobility needs and leading towards the severe traffic congestion problem. Due to private vehicle dependency walkable streets are almost faded away. Growing urbanization, city sprawl, uncontrolled building density, increase in environmental pollution and lack of open green space all are the factors that affect the walkability capacity and quality of life. In recent years, Neighborhood design development has gained importance in overall world to accommodate the mobility need of the people. Walkable neighborhoods are the major requirements of the sustainable and livable neighborhood. The neighborhoods’ walkable street character is directly linked to the same idea of quality of life. Many developed and developing countries are now taking measures to enhance the walkability at the neighborhoods scale and along major roads of the cities to improve human access to basic facilities. This research involves walkability relation to Quality of Life Aspects, GIS buffer technique and the questionnaire survey of the residents of WAPDA Town. The quality of Life Aspects describe the conditions that favor or oppose walkability character within the study area. GIS analysis depicts that some of the neighborhood are not accessible to the public facilities by walking. The questionnaire survey shows that people of Wapda Town are interested to walk if they have better pedestrian’s infrastructure facilities and also want improvement in existing condition of pedestrian walkway routes. The recommendations are provided based on the findings of the study to accommodate the comfortable walkable environment in the neighborhoods of WAPDA Town.