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Main Street, Main Stage
Same day, time and Small Town. Two public realms centuries and realities appart. Main Street beautified and “fixed”, displaying history, small retail and street parking; it stands empty. All the attributes of good urbanism but no activity. Main Stage, at the end of the same street, is an enclosed 2-level shopping mall boasting affordable groceries, large stores [...] -
Fused Grid Worlds – Mutual discovery
Looking around I realized that there exist other inhabited Fused Grid worlds Hello Simtropolis! Players of SimCity 4 discovered the Fused Grid and are using it to build efficient cities that, apparently, work well, when the points are counted. Take a look at their work, full of good ideas of how to use the Fused Grid model to [...] -
Pattern Language Threads and Fabric design
Among Christopher Alexander’s patterns, some deal with the conflict between car and pedestrian movement. Pattern 49, proclaims looped streets as the most suitable type at the neighbourhood scale followed by connected cul-de-sacs. Pattern 50 asserts that the T-Junctions are the safest type. Pattern 51 sets forth the idea of pedestrian-only streets and pattern 52 recommends [...] -
New words for new layouts
Recently, I found a new, useful term that was introduced in the discussion about street networks: filtered permeability. Its author Steve Melia explains: “It is the concept… that networks for walking and cycling should be more permeable than the road network for motor vehicles” This new term helps place many known street patterns into a spectrum, [...]
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