Case Study On Streets Of Future

The author Jeff Speck is city planner and an urban designer. He is trying to save Americans lives by trying to make the city more walkable since automobiles have now become a great danger to the Americans. This book is more concerned with cars and buildings in order to achieve the goal of a walkable city. People are the lifeblood of the city and not cars therefore, in order to pull off the feat of ushering America to the urban century, there is need to prove to people that walkability is important and also that their actions and decisions will help will to improve this aspect.

To increase sustainability, civil engineers should consider reliability and transport expenditures in the new design. The current design of the intersection is unsustainable due to improper timing of the traffic signals. There should be some regulations to the current traffic signals to avoid long delays in traffic (Kockelman and Shabih 17). Mobility barriers at the intersection can result to a slow response to emergencies. Therefore, the timing of traffic lights at the

To implement a Complete Street policy, it has a model that it must follow to make sure the policy will be beneficial. This model follows ten ideal elements. These elements can be divided into four categories which are vision, core commitment, best practices, and implementation. These elements are graded on a scale with 1 being the minimum and 5 being the max. Each element is also weighted different (Complete Streets). Vision is recognizing that streets without safe and comfortable places for walking and bicycling were an impediment to their goal of improving public health and the element that falls under this is intent (Complete Streets). Core Commitment is making sure you include everyone and the policy is clear of that. The elements that

Historic evidence states that streets has been a place of interaction, movement and activity. When cars were firstly introduced the road corridors were still a place to walk, move, and play. However, in the mid twenty century motor vehicles become more popular, where two concepts came to dominate road design:

Rapid urbanisation has caused a variety of problems, including transport congestion, lack of sufficient homes and living conditions, sanitary and health care issues, and crime. For all these problems, city planners have attempted potential solutions, each with varying degrees of success. Cities including London, Manila and Mumbai have several of the aforementioned problems, and have each tried their own potential solutions. This essay will discuss how successful these schemes have been in resolving these issues.

Main goals of Complete Streets (CS), Context-Sensitive Solutions (CSS) Design, and Traffic Calming are given below:

What is the one thing you can do to make a design of a city a place rich in architectural conditions? To answer this shortly, it is not just one thing, but a combination of architectural elements that make a design successful. To make a city rich in urban conditions, various elements have to be shown throughout the city. In my opinion, a well organized city, is a city well structured with a successful design. To form such successful design elements such as urban pattern and hierarchy need to be taken into considerations, in that way every single aspect of architecture included in the design of a city brings will bring it closer to a spatially rich urban condition. Following, I have listed the main key elements, including Hierarchy of objects, Urban Pattern, and Public Space, and the reasons why they are necessary for an urban conditions to accomplish it’s purpose of enriching a designed city.

Throughout the centuries humans have seen cities rise and fall; each one had its own unique style and charm. Although no city is completely alike, they all have one thing in common: the elements that create them. Without these components, cities would not be successful and they would not foster memorable urban experiences. The main critical elements that are essential when designing a spatially rich urban condition are density, street, hierarchy, urban edge, streetwall and facades, and public/urban space.

Historic evidence states that streets has been a place of interaction, movement and activity. When cars were firstly introduced, the road corridors were still a place to walk, move, and play. However, in the mid twentieth century motor vehicles become more popular, where two concepts arose to dominate road design:

Technological advancements and their rapid effects on humanity are forcing our cities to transform at all levels, as modern cities are becoming more dynamic and opened for future changes. During the urban planning process, the traditional conceptual design phase usually comprises a complex set of objectives and requirements that needs to be addressed, such as site considerations, circulation, land use, and environmental issues. To respond to these complexities, a number of design alternatives is developed and assessed against certain criteria, which require a lot of repetitive steps resulting in fewer and slowly-developed design varieties. The traditional development processes are no longer able to give the optimum design solution, as they are considered static ones. They lack the flexibility and responsiveness needed to follow the speed of new paradigm shifts. Urban planners find themselves at the mid-point of an ongoing cycle of adaptation to comply with the demand for an increased level of complexity. It is not simply the use of pre-compiled computer aided design software that aims to replicate the drawing board, but rather the development of computer

Another strategy developed by Metrro focused solely on developing streets and highways, adding lanes and reducing congestion. This strategy largely focuses on the need to then build a larger network of streets between the main and local streets. There is also the possibility of adding lanes to highways to reduce congestion and produce a faster commute time. This strategy would help create jobs and improve access to goods and services, which would boost business revenue. There would also be an improved response time for emergency personal and vehicles (Metro.17) Drawbacks include the fact that this strategy may in fact create more congestion than relieve it, thus continue to concentrate air toxins in major travel corridors.(Metro.17). There

A general impact which is possible to observe and experience in a short period, developed by road infrastructure and road transportation system is the environmental impact. road infrastructure and Transportation development brings parallel changes to the environment. Mobilization demand of road infrastructure and transportation of urban areas to the rural areas by the passenger freights are eventually linked to the international market. Road infrastructure and road Transportation has become a numerous part of the society which is also considered as the main element of the development. Road infrastructure and Transportation has a grand influence on human choices like, urbanization. Extensive development of road infrastructure influences the people to choose the different place to live, establish their business, leisure travel, shopping and vacations etc, which directly helps a country to develop different parts of a country that helps to parallel development (Kulash 1999, 4.) Environmental impacts of the road infrastructure and

As per the authors definition of what urban design should be he discusses three aspects of cities, control and process, activities of humans and also the physical form of the city. As a planner or urban designer one should pay attention to all these aspects which forms a better

The construction of transportation infrastructure to national economic strength and efficiency is usually mentioned as a key to promoting development. We believe that it provides a strong support for the both economics and social undertaking, so that it focuses on where people live and where businesses locate. In other words, the decision of transportation construction affect the land use patterns, the use of natural recourses, issues of urban sprawl, and the overall life quality. Modern transportation is a comprehensive transportation system composed of five modes of transportation, including highway, railway, waterway, aviation and pipeline. The road transport is the most extensive and most popular one that has a leading role among all transportations, especially the highway. Compare with the ordinary highway, the highway can increase the driving speed by 50% and increase transport capacity 2-6 times. Also, it can reduce 1/3 car accident and reduce 30% of fuel consumption. We can see that the development of the highway can effectively promote the growth of the national economy, speed up the process of urbanization, improve people 's living quality. It plays an important role in the development of automobile and other related industries. Also increase employment. In this case, the highway development has become a national traffic

The paper will give a scope in depth to urban design strategies and its influences in public open space to promote the urban health of a rapidly growing Saudi Arabia city.