How Attractive for Walking Are the Main Streets of a Shrinking City?

Istrate, Aura-Luciana; Bosák, Vojtěch; Nováček, Alexandr; Slach, Ondřej

doi:10.3390/su12156060

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“…Only joint planning and implementation efforts may result in well-structured interventions, which deal both with the site infrastructure (i.e., related to transportation) and with the transformation of the area into a truly multi-use type of district (Bach-Głowińska et al, 2020). This should also result in developing pedestrian-oriented structures, well served by the pub-lic transit (Istrate et al, 2020;Viderman & Knierbein, 2020). Developed according to the principles of placemaking and public space design, these can serve as the new type of urban center of metropolitan importance (Carmona, 2019).…”

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Surpassing the Line: Urban-Oriented Strategies in the Development of Business Complexes in Poland

Lorens

Bach-Głowińska

Habier

et al. 2021

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Development trends regarding the business-related urban complexes seem to evolve from the “big-box” towards the more “multi-use” types of structures. Within it, the special role is reserved for places, which—due to economic, political, and geographical reasons—have not been previously considered as major business hubs. Only recently, places like cities in Central and Eastern Europe have become attractive locations for business complexes. These could offer centrally located and attractive locations for new structures, which resulted in the development of the new type of commercial centers—in the form of multi-use districts, walkable, and complemented by other uses. Therefore, to some extent, these cities “surpassed the development line” of the commercial and business complexes, and have become home to something much more advanced. Within the article, the cases from Poland, including Gdańsk, Warsaw, Cracow, and Wroclaw, are discussed. Not only is the urban arrangement of selected complexes presented, but the planning and socio-economic, legal, and infrastructural aspects of these developments are also discussed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Surpassing the Line: Urban-Oriented Strategies in the Development of Business Complexes in Poland

Lorens

Bach-Głowińska

Habier

et al. 2021

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“…When studies on the threshold space are examined, it is observed that several common techniques are utilized, the most prevalent of which are the observation method (Danilina & Privezentseva, 2020;Akartuna, 2017;Şevik, 2018) and the processing of observation data on maps (Eltan et al, 2015;Akartuna, 2017;Şevik, 2018). The method of processing user observation data on the map is called the "behavior mapping technique" (Eltan et al, 2016;Akartuna, 2017;Sevik, 2018;Barker, 1968;Ittelson, Rivlin, & Prohansky ,1970;Goličnik Marušić, 2010;Guinther et al, 2014;Al-Maimani et al, 2014;Mandel, 2016;Karadeniz et al, 2018;Ozbil et al, 2018;Gharib, 2019;Onojeghuo et al, 2019;Istrate et al, 2020;Wang & Wu, 2020;Cosco et al, 2010;McQuilkin, 2016;Van der Spek et al, 2009;Valkenet et al, 2022;Milke et al, 2009;Cox et al, 2018;Arsan & Kepez, 2017;Liao et al 2022). Behavior mapping technique was first developed at the end of the 1960s, by environmental and behavioral researchers such as Barker (1968) and Ittelson, Rivlin, & Prohansky (1970).…”

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A Proposal on Detection and Analysis of Threshold Public Spaces Using On-Site Observation and Behavioral Mapping Technique

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ÖZBAYRAKTAR

2024

Kent Akademisi

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The quality of threshold spaces is one of the critical criteria that shapes user behavior. A well-constructed urban threshold space prepares the user by presenting traces from the main space, thus providing continuity between spaces, enabling the space to be read more easily and establishing an efficient human-space relationship. Threshold spaces may vary depending on the angle from which they are examined, making it challenging to develop a method for their detection and analysis. In addition, studies on "threshold space analysis" have been found to be insufficient. In addition to this, The lack of study and definition of threshold spaces in comparison to other spaces prevents the realization of a holistic perspective, the examination of the whole and a better understanding of the two spaces it separates. The aim of the study is to propose an approach for the detection and analysis of threshold spaces based on the knowledge gap in the literature. The sample study of the proposal was carried out on Gar meydanı- Station square in Adapazarı / Sakarya / Turkey, which are thought to be threshold spaces. Sample study data of Gar meydanı- Station square public space were used to express the proposed approach in this study. The developed approach proposal consists of preliminary research-examination of the study area as a threshold area, the scope of the study and three-stage threshold area detection and analysis sections. As a result of testing the approach developed in line with the study’s objective on sample study area, it was understood that the suggested approach could be used to detect and analyze threshold spaces holistically, and that the "threshold" status of the spaces could be interpreted through user behaviors.

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“…This all makes high streets a "particularly wicked problem" [6] (p. 18), as responsibility for high streets has been "disastrously fragmented"-with different stakeholders and agencies tending to their own narrow viewpoints and with barely anyone taking a holistic approach [6] (p. 18). This, however, makes the high street not only a problem in itself, but also a key part of the solution to broader urban problems-a kind of urban laboratory for walkability, resilience, and sustainability [3,[6][7][8][9][10][11].…”

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“Power to” for High Street Sustainable Development: Emerging Efforts in Warsaw, Poland

Filip

2024

Sustainability

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Global discussions on the future of high streets, especially today in times of epidemiological, political, and market turmoil, emphasize the importance of high streets as laboratories for urban walkability, resilience, and sustainability. The major condition, however, is a collaborative, cross-sectoral approach towards high street development. Such efforts have been recently undertaken in Warsaw, Poland, to develop a lively but organized shopping street almost from scratch—a few promising joint initiatives with this goal have been undertaken in Warsaw over the last two decades. Building upon a broad document review and in-depth interviews with sixteen pioneers (business consultants, public authority leaders, and planning experts) directly involved in the development of high streets in Warsaw, this study reconstructs and analyzes their efforts in urban collaboration through the lens of Urban Regime Theory. By discussing strengths and weaknesses of the regime structuring process, this paper points at critical difficulties in high street sustainable development (and consequently, also to overall urban walkability, resilience, and sustainability) which are the inertia of mutual perception by stakeholders, dependency on singular leaders and their personal motivation, the necessity to reinvent the very idea of a high street anew, lack of adequate legal tools for cross-sectoral collaboration, and the stiffening effect of previously set guidelines.

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How Attractive for Walking Are the Main Streets of a Shrinking City?

Cited by 11 publications

References 57 publications

Surpassing the Line: Urban-Oriented Strategies in the Development of Business Complexes in Poland

Surpassing the Line: Urban-Oriented Strategies in the Development of Business Complexes in Poland

A Proposal on Detection and Analysis of Threshold Public Spaces Using On-Site Observation and Behavioral Mapping Technique

“Power to” for High Street Sustainable Development: Emerging Efforts in Warsaw, Poland

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