Engineering, Urbanism and the Struggle for Street Design

• Autores: Michael Hebbert
• Localización: Journal of urban design, ISSN 1357-4809, ISSN-e 1469-9664, Nº. 10, 1, 2005, págs. 39-59
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The making and upkeep of streets is a central task of urban design. In a critical review of the relation between urban design and highway engineering, the paper distinguishes two paradigms: on one side, the hierarchical model, pervasive and institutionally entrenched through design standards and traffic management; on the other, an alternative non-hierarchical paradigm which has developed piecemeal and experimentally on the back of policies for social exclusion, city centre regeneration, liveable neighbourhoods and neo-traditional urbanism. The paper discusses the tension between the two frameworks and highlights the health, safety and environmental arguments for reinventing the mixed-use urban street.