02.1 - Redesign the street - LC

Redesign the street

Street

street

The street is the smallest partial synthesis of the city keeping its complexity.

Streets are opposite of spatial segregation and functional specialisation; only art is able to express all its richness.

The challenge in redisingning a public space is to avoid too much fragmentation or segregation.

Reclaiming road space

Traffic in town - book. Introducing the concept of avoiding cara in some environmental areas.

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Challenges in a city:

One of the goals is to change the paradigm.

The idea that cars occupy too much space in the city.

Reclaiming road space is both a goal and a mean of the transition towards a sustainable urban mobility

Global Designing Cities Initiatives

Jan Gehl (from Copenaghen)

There are several approaches to redesign public spaces:

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https://www.publicspace.org/

When Barcelona was first built, it was the densest city in th eworld since it was forbidden to build over the medieval city.

This allowed to develop the city on a white canvas

Global Street Design Guide

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Design for safe speed. Design for the speed of the weaker user that is going to share the same space.

Cost of the Superblock project of Barcelona - 300 000 000 € (the municipality budget is 300 000 000 € in one year)

3 levels of intervention:

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The first superblock

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Tactical urbanism

In Barcelona tactical urbanism is not well accepted because people are used to high quality architecture.

Street typologies

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Plan the different networks for the different uses:

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This street is residential

We can tell from: