Social-oriented approach to street public spaces design

Abstract

Global challenges for urban development determine the need to develop new approaches to urban environment design aimed on smart and sustainable cities. City streets become centre of human life and places where many public functions are concentrated. Thats why nowadays the issue of street function relates non only to its transportation use, but also to the development of public interaction and a new progressive approach to the social-oriented design of the urban environment with the involvement of the population is becoming a great demand. The article offers a social-oriented approach to the functional zoning of public spaces along city streets to create comfortable and safe environments and to ensure the effective land use of the linear street space resource. The approach is based on the concept of demand and supply relative to territorial assessment of various public functions. It is proposed a model of functional planning of the territory and social space depending on the users needs. The proposed approach to urban development was tested for example in Moscow streets.

Evaluating the Effects of Built Environment on Street Vitality at the City Level: An Empirical Research Based on Spatial Panel Durbin Model

“…Street view images, POIs, and web-crawled building data provide the possibility to evaluate the detailed features of street design accurately at the city level, including the landscape, building space, sidewalk, and greening. The greening is part of the green infrastructure, emphasizing the connection between green spaces and functions, and contributing to the formation of a green space network [79][80][81][82]. The greening factors on a large scale can be measured more efficiently by using street view images; thus, the street design can be characterized with high quality [44].…”

Influence of pedestrians` behavior on the scenario of urban streets public spaces functional zoning

“…Thus, the persons 'demands for services provided by city streets is growing. In response of city authorities, in order to ensure the sustainable development of the living environment, an urban proposal should be formed, which is reflected in new approaches to the land use of pedestrian spaces of city streets [10][11].…”

Evaluating Urban Green Public Spaces: The Case Study of Krasnodar Region Cities, Russia

“…Used as a spatial planning instrument, green network provides not only environmental advantages, which include climate change mitigation and adaptation [1,20,21] but additionally deliver a wide range of social benefits [19,[22][23][24] and economic services [15,25], which positively impact on people's health, well-being and prosperity. Particular research considers planning streets as public spaces and interconnecting elements between city parks, natural green areas and other city attractions [26][27][28].…”

“…In world practice, this index varies from 3 square meters (Tokyo) up to 120 square meters (Vienna) per capita. In line with Russian reference standards [28], this study applies the Sufficiency Index for intercity green spaces of common use (city parks, gardens, squares, boulevards, embankments), which is 9 sq m per capita (for resort cities-15 sq m per capita).…”