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Taking example of a street
Lets see the possible levels of articulation of urban
streets, in increasing order of sensitivity/ relevance. It is noteworthy that
city administration in different parts of world simetimes choose to stop at any
given stage of sensitivity depending on their statutory mandate, resource and
motivation.
1. Basic street or road design, that can simply be achieved
by adhering to standard engineering practices (dry, wet underground/ surface
utility), following road design code book, following landuse regulations, and
following design standards for different hierarchy of roads. Above is mostly
possible without traffic modelling, without bespoke landscape design input and
even in absence of urban design guideline.
2. Further, a good street design can be considered one that
takes traffic modelling into consideration. Street that has urban design
guideline in place and follows streetscape guidelines, also one that utilises
tailored landscape, street art, street activation etc.
3. A better street design is possibly one that follows
emerging good practices of low impact development, blue-green infrastructure
design principles, urban heat island mitigation measures, rewilding, wind flow
and shadow analysis etc.
4. Even better street design is the one that takes context
into consideration i.e., adjoining laduse typology based activity intensity,
local community needs, user ability and comfort, recreational needs,
prioritization of road users including hierarchy of transit modes, adapting
activity over the day.
5. Also those streets that considers, safe way to school,
vision zero, disaster preparedness etc.
6. Then there are those streets which consider reclaiming
rights of certain types of users (sometimes bottom up and radical),
7. Further there are those streets which are adapting itself
to autonomous and EV transit regime, predictive monitoring, IOT based
experience, AI algorithm, VR utilities, and ground for ML,
8. Also there are those which just started to consider
following elements in street design, like psychological impact of street on
different demography, perception by cultural groups, adapting streets to
different demographic traits (age, gender), equity etc.
9. Then also those streets which may be adapted to
requirements of wider spectrum of special needs and aspirations of previously
subdued and unrecongnised social strata.
Realising the complexity and granularity that may exist in
design of a street (and cities in general), seems that the current narrative,
discourse and debate on street (and cities), still remains quite fragmented. A
broader outlook and comprehensive approach may help plan better.
Author: Anoop Jha
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