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A city design session in May 1998 gathered local architects, engineers, and citizens to propose designs for a pedestrian crossing. [ 4 ] The workshop produced, among other options, a design for a bridge with a "double curve" deck connecting the trails on the north and south shores along natural "paths of travel," giving the bridge an hourglass ...
In Europe, the walking city was dominant up to 1850, when walking, or at most, horse-drawn transport, was the primary means of movement. [1] Many walking cities around the world became overrun by cars during the 1950s and 1960s, but some gradually reclaimed their walking qualities, such as Freiburg and Munich in Germany and Copenhagen in ...
The Beck Group is a company that provides architecture, construction, sustainability, virtual building, and technology services. The company is based in Dallas, Texas.It has regional offices in Atlanta, Austin, Carolinas, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Mexico City, Monterrey, South Florida, and Tampa. [3]
Auto-focused street design diminishes walking and needed "eyes on the street" [16]: 35 provided by the steady presence of people in an area. Walkability increases social interaction, mixing of populations, the average number of friends and associates where people live, reduced crime (with more people walking and watching over neighborhoods ...
Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes based on geographical location. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities , and regional spaces, urban design considers 'bigger picture' issues of economic, social and ...
Megastructure is an architectural and urban concept of the post-war era, which envisions a city or an urban form that could be encased in a massive single human-made structure or a relatively small number of interconnected structures.
LSE Cities is a research centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. [1]The purpose of the centre is to increase knowledge and understanding of how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focusing on how the physical form and design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment; [2] and educate and train new generations of researchers and ...
The 15-minute city (FMC [2] or 15mC [3]) is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride from any point in the city. [4]