Street experiences in a car-dominant city

Street experiences in a car-dominant city

van Langelaar, CM (TU Delft OLD Urban Design)
van der Spek, S.C. (TU Delft OLD Urban Design)

Karssenberg, H. (editor)
Laven, J. (editor)
Glaser, M. (editor)
van 't Hoff, M. (editor)

2016

There are basically two kinds of city centres: historic and modern. Historic city centres, built in an era when no cars existed, tend to be very walkable environments. Modern cities, however, are much more car-dominated, leading to a less attractive walking environment. Rotterdam is one of the four main cities in the Netherlands and its historic city centre was destroyed during the Second World War. The post-war reconstruction mainly caters to cars, like many other cities throughout the world, resulting in a somewhat pedestrianunfriendly walking environment. We set out to analyse this environment and its users, and hopefully with our results, make recommendations for car-dominated cities worldwide. We wanted to find out which paths people really took and to gain insight about personal preferences in a modern, cardominated city. We wanted to extract lessons for improving the city centre based on both real experiences and objectively measured behaviour.

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Eburon Academic Publishers, Delft

978-90-5972-999-5

The City at Eye Level (2nd and extended version)

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© 2016 CM van Langelaar, S.C. van der Spek