VIRTUAL: Livable Cities – New York
Abstract
This paper builds upon previously published research to further define and explore urban streetscapes as a ‘walkspace system’. The aim is to understand the current (sustainability and placemaking) shift from the prevalent traffic-oriented planning practice towards creating sequences of open spaces by incorporating various walking-based strategies. The comparisons of walkspace systems identified in a range of well-known historical and contemporary streetscapes look at differences in scale, models of movement, types of urban functions and public spaces. While car-free cities are reserved for specific areas and cases, observed (re)design solutions suggest the roles of networked open spaces in achieving healthier pedestrian neighborhoods supporting urban connectivity and creating new urban values. Results describe the urbanscape emanation of walkspace systems and their potential in creating more livable cities.
Tamara Zaninović (nee Marić), PhD, mag.ing.arch, completed her Master studies of architecture and urbanism in 2011 at the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Zagreb, where she is currently employed as post-doctoral at the Department of Urban Planning, Spatial Planning and Landscape Architecture. She completed her doctoral studies in 2022 at Vienna University of Technology (TUW) with the dissertation ‘Streets as Heritage’. Her main research topics are streetscapes, cultural heritage, urbanscape, memorials, walkability and space syntax.
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Thursday 15th June, 2023