MAKING GREAT STREET
LAND 1322 Urban Landscape Design Seminar
Yiwei Dai 3346026 / Shen Jia 3369585 Wei Zhang 3353658 / Yangzhi Ke 3349641
Fig. 1. Great Street Fig. 2. Allen B. Jacobs Allen B.Jacobs (1993) an urban designer, renowned for his publications and research on urban design
“Streets are more than public utilities, more than mere traffic conduits, more than the equivalent of water lines and sewers and electric cables, more than linear physical spaces that permit people and goods to get from here to there.”
Magic of design
What dominates the design of great street? Great streets
Requirements Qualities REQUIREMENT OF GREAT STREETS DESIGN
Fig. 3. Via dei Giubbonari from Campo dei Fiori, Rome Fig. 4. Via dei Giubbonari from Campo dei Fiori, Rome Fig. 5. Via dei Giubbonari from Campo dei Fiori, Rome QUALITIES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE DESIGN OF A GREAT STREET
Fig. 6. Trees along Viale Manlio Gelsomini, Rome Fig. 7. Along Stroget in Copenhagen Fig. 8. . Monument Avenue, Richmond “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic.
If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.” - Fred Kent “Transportation network influence As our surrounding the sense of community” environment changes, what 1. Design for appropriate speeds consequences should also be 2. Plan for community outcomes taking into account? 3. Street as public spaces “The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the centre.” － William H.Whyte
Fig. 9. Oxford Street, London Fig. 10. Byward Street near Tower Hill, London Fig. 11. Pearl Street, Boulder, U.S Urban atlas – City of St. Louis
1764-1803 1804-1865 1866-1904 1905-1980 1981-recent “The desire to go ‘THROUGH’ a place In urban public place, does must be balanced with the desire to “VALUE” take into consideration go ‘TO’ a place” for the surrounding (Pennsylvania and New Jersey DOT’s environmental space? 2007 “Smart Transportation Guide) “What is the position of street design for people?”
“The design of a street is only one aspect of its effectiveness. How the street fits within the surrounding transportation network and supports adjacent land uses will also be important to its effectiveness.”
(Charlotte “Urban Street Design Guidelines) “What designate a great street and why designing a great street?” “Placemaking.”
Fig. 12. Placing making EYES ON Jane Jacobs: “Think of a city and what THE comes to mind? STREET. Its streets. If a city’s street look interesting, the city looks interesting; If they look dull, the city looks dull.” Bibliographies
Allan B.Jacobs, 1993, “Great Street”, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press Allan B.Jacobs, Donald Appleyard, 1987, “Toward a New Urban Design Manifesto”, journal of the American Planning Associa on Allan B.Jacobs, Elizabeth Macdonald, Yodan Rofe, 2001, “Boulevard Book: “History, Evolu on, Design of Mul way Boulevards”, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Donald Appleyard, 1979, “The Conserva on of European Ci es”, (editor) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Donald Appleyard, 1967, “Planning a Pluralis c City”, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Donald Appleyard, 1964, “The View from the Road”, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Figure references: Figure 2. source from: