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Re-Creating Human Scaled Streets

This study deals with the issues of creating a vivid and pedestrian oriented street network. It is an emerging and vital question in a domain of urban sustainability and place-making for the most cities. This research seeks out to explore an increasing number of diverse studies regarding the public realm and streetscape. The aim is to set a background for spatial analysis of case studies through an overview of authors and their contribution on this topic. This paper uses case studies analysis as the main method through which it develops the systematization for a further study of this theme. Streets and public life as the subjects of this research are categorized through main aspects: Aspect of Change, Place-making, Implementation and Sustainability in order to develop a method for their observing. As a result, all four aspects are then divided into attributes, which form the basis for a theory of human scaled streets. Attributes are mutually complementary and they interconnect the aspects. In that way they define a network of criteria when dealing with issues of streetscape and pedestrians. Aspect of Change through motion and time defines street and its character. Experience is the third attribute of the change, which enables the formation of public places in streets. Aspect of Place-making combines spatial and social characteristics through symbolical meanings and usages in order to promote sense of place, identity, and community. Interdisciplinary approach and participation strategies should create a synergy that ushers design and theory into practice. In that way through design and theory we can re-create human scaled streets and achieve urban and social sustainability. Aspects and attributes together create the basis for transforming streets spaces into public places. This network of criteria and theory is the groundwork for defining guidelines of urban streetscape, which will be presented in this paper through comparative case study of Central European cities Zagreb and Vienna.

Streetscape ; Human Scale ; Public Space and Place ; Walkability

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