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This paper argues that among all other spaces, pedestrian streets in a university campus also serve as “informal creative spaces”, where people meet each other while walking, crossing or simply standing and talking to each other. The study proposes a three-level approach to assess the street scapes of university campuses. First, a walkability audit of the pedestrian streets (sampled sequence) of higher education campuses, using a modified version of the well-established walkability audit tool developed by the Centre for Disease Control, U.S.A. Second, collecting students’ responses on the same influencing factors as used in the audit tool and questionnaire. Third, a topological analysis of the pedestrian streets using space syntax. Finally, a correlation study of the outcomes will be done to understand the factors of walkability relevant to higher education campuses. The syntactic analysis data further backs the findings theoretically. This methodology ensures the importance of pedestrian streets as an ‘informal meeting space’ within higher education campuses by relating walkability to social interaction and creative exchange in higher education campuses. Increased social interaction and liveliness through increasing walkability of pedestrian streets within higher education campuses, and establishing the role of mobility networks in overall campus creativity. The outcomes of the study can be useful for architects and planners to convince the management and decision makers to invest in building and developing pedestrian networks and facilities.