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Rethinking Streets - Walkable, Smart and Safe: Preface

The document discusses rethinking streets to make them more walkable, smart, and safe. It outlines objectives to create more pedestrian-friendly streets, transform streets to prioritize walking and cycling, and revitalize parking and dead spaces. The aim is to understand and reimagine urban streets as living corridors that enhance people's experience of the city and enable daily social encounters. The scope includes incorporating local climate, materials, and social aspects, while policy-level interventions are outside the scope.

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Rethinking Streets - Walkable, Smart and Safe: Preface

The document discusses rethinking streets to make them more walkable, smart, and safe. It outlines objectives to create more pedestrian-friendly streets, transform streets to prioritize walking and cycling, and revitalize parking and dead spaces. The aim is to understand and reimagine urban streets as living corridors that enhance people's experience of the city and enable daily social encounters. The scope includes incorporating local climate, materials, and social aspects, while policy-level interventions are outside the scope.

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Krupali Thakkar 10th Semester, 5th Year

Rethinking Streets – Walkable, smart and safe

Preface:

Introduction: Streets in India have traditionally been the public spaces around which social life has
revolved. They constitute the urban public realm where people congregate, celebrate and interact.
Emerging covid situations has also highlighted the importance of urban open spaces for recreation,
mental health, and to enhance the liveability of a city. Haggling with vendors, eating at tables on the
spaces outside the local restaurants, getting the tyre of your car replaced, and sipping a cup of chai
at a paan stall, is the hustle and bustle that defines the experience of almost every city street of
India.

But are these streets designed to their fullest potential?

Present Scenario: The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has recommended holistic planning for
pedestrian friendly market spaces in various cities and municipal areas in the country in consultation
with stake holders.

‘The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday
streets, the more successfully, casually and economically its people thereby enliven and
support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighbourhoods
instead of vacuity.’ – Jane Jacobs

Building Typology: Public Realm; Recreational

Objectives:

1. Create pedestrian friendly streets in high footfall areas


2. Transform streets for walking and cycling and providing safe mobility keeping in mind the
times like covid-19.
3. Revitalise parking and dead spaces in the neighbourhood of the selected street.

Aim:

To understand and reimagine the urban streets as living corridors through which one perceives and
understands the city, and the places where one has daily social encounters to make them more safe
and people friendly.

Scope:

1. Incorporating local climate, local materials and social aspects.

Limitations:

1. Policy level interventions are out of the scope of the project.


Way Forward:

SYNOPSIS

Preface

Objectives

Aim

Scope and Limitations

LITERATURE STUDY PHYSICAL STUDY

Understanding the basics of Street Design Case study of existing typology related
projects and taking inferences from it
Understanding the potential of scope of
Site location and data collection
design in street designing.

Studying the ITDP guidelines and other


Documentation
important government regulations.

Selection of site for proposal


Analysing and understanding the site

Site justification and analysis

Inferences

Developing Area Programme

Conceptual Design

Design Development

Final Proposal

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