How to measure success or failure? Transforming Transportation 2013 Presented at Transforming Transportation 2013 Henriette Vamberg Director GEHL Architects
Dec 15, 2014
How to measure success or failure?!
Transforming Transportation 2013!
! Presented at Transforming Transportation 2013!
! Henriette Vamberg!! Director!! GEHL Architects!
How to measure success or failure ? Henrie2e Vamberg, Director
Gehl Architects
Public life
Keeping the customers happy -‐ also future genera5ons
Moscow
Melbourne, - 3 mio. Inh.
Places for People Melbourne 2004
Places for People Melbourne 1994
streets = 80%
1993 - 2004 From 1.000 to 10.000 residents in the city centre
67%
public space in 1983 accessible all hours
public space in 1993 accessible all hours
public space in 2004 accessible all hours
accessible business hours pedestrian zone -‐ lunch5mes
Extention and modernization of the Streetcar System
extent of bluestone paving in 2004
A policy of wide sidewalks with Bluestone pavements
1983
l = 5 dwellings
1987
l = 5 dwellings
1992
738 dwellings
l = 5 dwellings
1997
3,763 dwellings
l = 5 dwellings l convenience store
2000
7,399 dwellings
l = 5 dwellings l convenience store
l = 5 dwellings l convenience store
2002
9,895 dwellings
street trees since 1993
1992 2005
1992
1992
! curbside cafes in 1983
Outdoor Cafes
•
! curbside cafes in 1993 •
Outdoor Cafes
! curbside cafes in 2004 •
Outdoor Cafes
• 3311 per cent increase in apartments 1982-‐2002; • 830 per cent more residents 1992-‐2002; • 71 percent more public space 1994-‐2004; • 62 per cent more students in the CDB 1993-‐2004; • 275 per cent more cafes and restaurants 1993-‐2004; • pedestrian traffic has nearly doubled In the Bourke
Street Mall between 1993 and 2004 from 43,000 people per day to 81,000;
• Night Vme pedestrian traffic has increased 98 per cent 1993-‐2004 reflecVng the growth of bars and café’s and a safer, more welcoming environment
Retail
ResidenVal
Office Vacancies
Employment
Bars and Pubs
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New Road, Brighton _ before
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New Road -‐ Brighton, England
Before renovaVon – September 2005 Very few people choose to spend Vme at New Road despite proximity to theatres, parks, and cafe’s
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New Road – a new route in the city 175 % more pedestrian traffic
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New Road -‐ Brighton, England
600 % more staying activity
A`er the renovaVon, New Road became one of the most popular places in Brighton to spend Vme
4th most important destination in Brighton
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New Road -‐ Brighton, England
• Cars Before 1300 (7am-‐7pm) • Cars APer 100 (7am-‐7pm) • Average speed 12 mph (fastest 13 mph was a bicycle!) • Cycling up 22%
1. What makes us happy ? 2. How can we unite family life, with our job and our leisure 5me /how to avoid the segregated model of life in the suburbs and work in the city ?
3. More demands on the city to offer more for more people and for different ages, cultures, genders etc.
4. What is in fact ”urban”, diverse, lively, engaging, reflec5ng ourselves and our culture, uni5ng us, establishing common grounds
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