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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Street design"”.
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Standard values : change in urban arterial street design
… traces the evolution of values in urban arterial street design and standards in the United States and California. For nearly 100 years, the design criteria of geometric street standards have been based on increasing automobility, as if without end. Since the 1960s, liability concerns have guided …
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Successful streets : performance measures, community engagement, and urban street design
… transportation agencies have increasingly re-designed urban arterials, their cities' major surface streets, to better accommodate a wide range of users. At the same time, a growing number of agencies are using performance measurement, the tracking and reporting of specific …
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Planning policy and landscape architecture : street design in theory and practice
… discipline to the other. Planning’s roots in street design and landscape architecture’s new theory of landscape urbanism, which focuses on infrastructure, provide common ground for a fruitful dialogue between the two – a dialogue that could have particular significance given the historical …
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Urban Street Design of Mid-size Chinese Cities: The Case of Lishui
… the traditional human dimensions and function of streets has changed, being replaced by modern, engineered roads and large poorly defined open spaces. This is causing many problems such as loss of street vitality, safety, negative climatic conditions and the lack of designated spaces for walking, …
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Dependence of outdoor thermal comfort on street design in hot and dry climate
The present work addresses the contribution of street design toward the development of a comfortable microclimate at street level for pedestrians. The work is design-oriented and seeks to provide a quantitative knowledge readily interpretable from the perspective of urban designers. Street …
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Street design, traffic, and fear of crime : moving from gated communities to transit villages
… to gated communities and explores urban design paradigms that take a different tack at satisfying these concerns in a more connected context. Analysis of the underlying roots of fear of crime and other perceived benefits of gated communities in San Juan reveals a common denominator …
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The place of complete streets: aligning urban street design practices with pedestrian and cycling priorities
… and the movement of goods through complete streets, aspiring to enable all people, regardless of age, income, abilities, or lifestyle choices to use streets. Canadian municipal transportation practices are largely based on conventional approaches, where the movement of motor vehicles is a …
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A MORE COMPLETE STREET A STREET FOR EVERYONE TO ENJOY, NORTH EAST STREET, FREDERICK, MARYLAND – A DESIGN INVESTIGATION OF DIFFERENT STREET DESIGN THEORIES
This design-research thesis suggests that the improvement of North East Street performances by using Complete Streets, Green Street, Place Making and Context Sensitive Solution principles and practices. Heavily used by a variety of users, often conflicting with one another, University of Maryland …
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Complete drawing prototypes for urban complete streets
… was performed to determine how drawings for streets may be tailored to a broad range of viewers and agendas, yet still be viewed as a credible design tool for architects. With a growing number of cities designing their own guidelines according to the Complete Streets movements, it's necessary …
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Street smart: Do effective design guidelines exist for enhancing the main streets of rural small towns in New Zealand through landscape architecture? : A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University
… usability and attractiveness of the towns main streets. In New Zealand there are broad landscape and urban design guidelines for metropolitan centres such as Auckland and Christchurch, however there is no governing design document for rural small towns in decline. This dissertation will answer …
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Balancing people, place and the automobile : recommendations for the redesign of Belmont's Trapelo Road
… a case study of the planning process for the redesign of Trapelo Road in Belmont, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb. The case is an on-going planning controversy that deals with a number of key issues facing inner-ring suburbs: the impact of sprawl development on older commercial areas, the …
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Contested landscapes: An exploration into street-based sex work and its implications for urban design in Christchurch, New Zealand : A Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Landscape Architecture
… to develop and implement a range of ‘street safety’ initiatives. However, regardless of the prevailing legislation, issues amongst communities in which street-based sex workers operate are common worldwide including, public nuisance, anti-social behaviour, and risk of violence toward …
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Rethinking streets : urban life with autonomous vehicles
Historically, streets have served a range of functions, primarily those associated with traffic circulation and social interaction. However, in the 20th century, the street design became centered on traffic movement and maximum space for automobiles, while public lives were marginalized to narrow …
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Analyzing Physical Characteristics that Support Sense of Place and Context-Sensitive Community Design in Santa Fe, New Mexico
… The results are a set of contemporary community design guidelines for the Santa Fe, New Mexico region that address sense of place in the following categories: (a) Spatial Planning and Architecture: street design characteristics and their physical relationship to architecture; (b) Environmentally …
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Modelling pedestrians’ utilisation of crossing facilities, gap acceptance and crossing decision in urban area
… whether to use a crossing facility or to cross a street illegally. An incorrect decision made will expose the pedestrian to the risk of accident. Pedestrian crossing behaviour has been sighted in the focus in the last decades. In the past, several studies investigating the risk of crossing a road …
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The Complexities of Walking and Rolling: Using Crowdsourced Data to Understand and Analyze the Mobility Barriers Vulnerable Populations Experience as Pedestrians
… of vehicle dominated mobility policy has created streetscapes that endanger pedestrians. Pedestrian-vehicle collisions disproportionately impact older adults (aged 65+), with fatality rates three times higher than younger age groups. Similarly, factors such as episodic or permanent disability, and …
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Water Fluxes in Soil-Pavement Systems: Integrating Trees, Soils and Infrastructure
… functioning can inform improved tree pit and street design for greater sustainability of urban environments. We conducted experiments at two sites in Virginia, USA (Mountains and Coastal Plain) with different climate and soil. At each location, we constructed 24 tree pits in a completely …
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Designing the superblock : a model for Taipei redevelopment
… presents a flexible redevelopment proposal by re-designing a typical urban super block in the City of Taipei; it illustrates the importance of historical precedents, as these may fit one or more particular situations in a Taipei super block. Both the process itself and the outcome of these …
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Non-Motorised Linkages To Public Transport Facilities Case Study: Cape Town Railway Station
… to be applied to improve the NMT infrastructure design for linkages to Public Transport interchanges, by using the Cape Town Railway Station as a case study. The study used best practice international and South African design guidelines to develop design improvements to three existing NMT …
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