What makes a people friendly place? Trey Hahn Critical Placemaking - Fall 2016
agenda 1. Research Question 2. Human Perspective 3. Methodology + Process 4. Criteria 5. Significance 6. Next Steps
CONCEPT
LARGER QUESTIONS S O C I E TA L
AND SYSTEMIC ISSUES
PROJECT
research questions
1. What makes a people friendly street? 2.How can we measure that?
social experiment
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67% which street would you stay on?
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What makes a people friendly place? =
LIVING STREET ( D U TC H “ WO O N E R F ” ) EXAMPLES
1. Minimize space dedicated to cars 2. Use design to slow cars and make an environment where everyone must move at human speed 3. Identify community strengths and facilitate ownership to “make it a place”
28TH STREET
methodology
methods experiment
Can Google Maps Show Us Diversity of Activity on a Street?
Can Google Maps Show Us Diversity of Activity on a Street?
yes, with some limitations
process
1. RQ: What makes a people friendly place? 2. Literature Review to investigate (class + external readings) 3. Aggregate ideas from different sources, and narrow down to a few main criteria that I find most important and related to streets
Literature •
James J. Gibson “The Theory of Affordances”
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My Place, Nadia Wheatley, Donna Rawlins
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Zeisel, John, “Observing Physical Traces” in Inquiry by Design”, pp. 89-110
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Zeisel, John, “Observing Environmental Behavior”, pp. 111-13
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James Rojas, PlaceIT
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Jane Jacobs “The Uses of Sidewalks: Contact”
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Harold Proshansky, “Place-Identity: Physical World Socialization of the Self”
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Dolores Hayden “Urban Landscape History: The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space”
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Jan Gehl Cities for People
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NACTO Urban Street Design Guide
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Project for Public Spaces Streets as Places
Criteria
process part 2
1. Criteria 2. Build methods to measure criteria 3. Street evaluations 4. Compare with human interpretations (class experiment) 5. Decide next steps
Significance/big idea
Why measure how people friendly a street is? Because of Decision Makers and Planners. Reshape discussion on street design and community planning.
placemaking
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People want to be there
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Quality of life
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Equity
Next Steps
1. Continue developing methods 2. Evaluate streets 3. Talk with decision makers 4. Ask more questions
your thoughts? =