done by: Hala Sobhi Skaik

Supervisor: Dr. farid Al-qeeq

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Definition

• A pedestrian village is a compact, pedestrian-oriented neighborhood or town, with a mixed-use village center, Shared-use lanes for pedestrians and those using bicycles, Segways, wheelchairs, and other small rolling conveyances that do not use internal combustion engines. Generally, these lanes are in front of the houses and businesses, and streets for motor vehicles are always at the rear. Some pedestrian villages might be nearly car-free with cars either hidden below the buildings or on the periphery of the village.

• Venice, Italy is essentially a pedestrian village with canals

Conditions must be achieved in pedestrian streets

Main pedestrian streets kinds

• Public: on safety movement between homes, shops, work places.

• Children: between schools and homes

• Elderly people: on small picnic for sport.

• Entertainment areas: shopping, parks.

Criteria affects on pedestrian streets design

Goals of pedestrian village

To create usable, attractive pedestrian open spaces what ever possible.

To increase the use of landscaping, street furniture, ornamental paving, awnings and similar enviromental elements that are designed to serve the convenience of pedestrians.

To provide attractive and convenient pedestrian facilities

To provide safer four-way stop intersections access

Achieve visual simplicity and continuity within puplic rights-of-way and adjacent private pedestrian areas

(cont.) Goals of pedestrian village

there are improvements that could be made with Pedestrian Villages:

– Formal, tree-lined pedestrian lanes, 12’ to 15’ wide, that connect to plazas, amenities, water features, and a neighborhood or villagecenter. These lanes are texture coded. They have a smooth portion for rolling conveyances (bicycles, Segways, wheelchairs, skates, etc) and a textured portion for pedestrians.

– Cars and motorcycles are only allowed at the rear of all houses and businesses, on attractive, tree-lined streets with sidewalks.

– Carriage houses are encouraged on the rear street, for aesthetics and lower-cost housing.

– Solar energy, where feasible, both on rooftops, and in solar parks. – Public transit need only connect one village center to another, with

stops in-between. – Village centers have higher density housing, and a wide range of

businesses, offices, and attractions including water features (e.g. beach, public pool, river-front and/or man-made lake.

Pedestrian environment

Crosswalks and paving

• Using decprative brick paving stones in crosswalks and parking areas anhances the pedestrian nature of the village

• The surface is attractive sturdy enough for vehicular use & comfortable for pedestrians

• Concrete or asfalt as decorative paving stones encourage privately-pwned parking areas & drive ays .. The ‘cobble’ shape in a riddishbrooth color should be used for the field

sidewalks

Directories

Street Furniture

• Its by using decorative elements of the streetscape such as:

Steel Furniture

Benches• There must be a variety of bench styles

• Tow types:

- Structurally integrated into landscaping and wall feature

- Free-standing benches to the pedestrian areas around the building

Trash Cans

• The trash can design uses the same material and styles as the benchese cans are round with a flat top, and durably made of wood slates with a black metal frame.

• Trash Enclosures:

All grebeage dumpsters are required to be enclosed and screened from public view

Telephone Enclosures

Bicycle Facilities

New Pedestrianism

• New Pedestrianism, is a more ecology and pedestrian-oriented branch of the New Urbanism movement that began in the early1990s.

• New Urbanism is primarily a revival of the old, pre-World War II urbanism commonly seen before World War II.

• Traditional urbanism included multi-tiered, cohesive communities with a rich tapestry of beloved buildings and institutions.

• New Urbanism revives the compact, walkable downtowns that included a mix of commercial and residential mixed-use. Storefronts are built close to the sidewalk, separated from the street with formal plantings of trees along streets properly scaled to pedestrians. Town squares, pocket parks, and other amenities enliven the public spaces

Typical front view of house from pedestrian lane

Street view at rear of house, showing"carriage house" and formal garden gate

• New Pedestrianism takes all this a few steps further. Under New Urbanism

- there is usually a street in front and an alley in back. This isgreat for cars, but awful for pedestrians and cyclists.

- With New Pedestrianism, the alley in back is replaced with a serviceable, attractive tree-lined street along which one can find carriage houses (with garages below and housing above).

- The street in front is turned into a tree-lined pedestrian lane that functions like a linear park thus increasing the charm and value of all properties.

- Pedestrian Villages provide for equal but separate networks for pedestrian/cyclists and cars

1. PEDESTRIAN LANES: Minimum 12’ wide in front of all homes and businesses. The lane includes at least 7’ of smooth pavement for rolling conveyances like bicycles, Segways, skates, and wheelchairs, and a textured walkway at least 5’ wide indicates pedestrian use.

2. STREETS: Every house and business has a street for automobile access at the rear, with the exception of the bungalow court, which has convenient off-street and on-street automobile access.

• VILLAGE CENTER: There are restaurants with a shared village plaza for lakeside dining. Mixed-use ground floor units can be offices, shops, live-work spaces, art studios, or other uses. Apartments are available on the second floor to provide a 24-hour presence. The dynamic village center is packed with amenities, services, recreation, and community spirit.

4. SCALED DENSITY: Density is generally higher toward the center so that most people live within a short walk.

5. HOUSING: There is a wide range of housing:

1. Katrina style cottages from 400-800 sq. ft.

2. Bungalows with 2-4 bedrooms.3. Estate homes on larger lots. 4. Townhouses5. Apartments or condominiums above the

commercial buildings.6. Carriage houses or guest cottages: 350-

600 sq. .

6. LAKE: A constant level lake is created in the lowest part of the development. Businesses and homes front Lakeview trail, a one-mile long tree-lined pedestrian lane around the lake. Cars or streets are generally not visible from Lakeview trail or any other pedestrian lane.

7. RECHARGE POND: A large filtration system buried beneath the variable-level Willow Pond pumps filtered water into waterfalls on the main lake.

8. STORM WATER: Storm water runoff from parking lots and major roads goes into the recharge pond for filtering before being pumped back into the lake through waterfalls.

9. WATER RECREATION: Clear, filtered water is pumped from below the recharge pond is at a near constant 72 degrees, the same as the average annual air temperature in this part of Texas..

10. NATURE PRESERVES and PARKS: The existing deciduous woods will be augmented with palmettos and palms. The entire pedestrian lane system functions like a linear park with connections to formal parks, squares, plazas, fountains, greenbelts, and the water features.

Elements should be achieved:

GREENBELTSIRRIGATION

WASTEWATERENERGYCONNECTIVITY

WATER SUPPLY

Case StudySaratoga Village

pedestrian enhancements

Existing situation

• Truck turns will not be affected by proposed

medians because textured/decorated pavers will be flush wroadway

• In-pavement lights in crosswalk @ Starbucks

• Existing cobbles in tree wells to be replaced wplanting, stepping pavers between parking stalls & tree wells

• Lighter, warmer tone for proposed integral color concrete

• News racks which hinder people from getting out of their cars to be relocated

• New planting to be water conserving and drip irrigated, also plant palette will consider colors, tones, & textures

• A turnaround is desired in the village, but will not be considered at this time because Caltran’s prohibition of turnarounds within State right of way * Tree up-lights can be phased in over time at existing tree wells• Root upli at proposed Oak tree in the median @ 4th Street will be prevented w/ modern deep watering & root barrier techniques• Connection between creek and street to be enhanced• Provide additional drinking fountains forpeople and pets• Brick & wrought iron will be considered instreetscape materials palette• Village will not be closed during construction(expected to begin in summer)

Current scope

Typical bulb-out/intersec on @ 4th street

Bulb-out component 1: Low wall with plan ng

Bulb-out component 3: Bike racks

Bulb-out component 4: Directory

Bulb-out component 6: Hanging Baskets

Bulb-out component 5: Newsrack

Bulb-out component 8: Wood Benches

Bulb-out component 9: Pots

Bulb-out component 10: Intersec on Paving

Bulb-out component 11: In-pavement lighting

Bulb-out component 13: Wood Portal

Bulb-out component 14: Special Paving

Problems in the Gaza city

:جذور المشكلةاعتمد الفلسطیني : الأسباب التاریخیة١.

منذ التاریخ على وسیلة تنقل أساسیة و ھي العربات أو مشیا على الاقدام، و قد

كان سبب ذلك صغر حجم القطاع و سھولة الوصولیة إلى أماكن العمل و

.الزراعة بسھولة ثقافة أھل غزة تعتمد : الأسباب الثقافیة٢.

على تفضیل استخدام وسائل النقل في “ السیارة و الدراجات الناریة ”السریعة

الوصول إلى أماكن العمل و أماكن التعلیم

مناخ مدینة غزة حار : الأسباب المناخیة. ٣جاف صیفا معتدل ممطر شتاء، ھذا

المناخ یشجع على المشي شتاء و ذلك لاعتدال المناخ، أما بالنسبة للصیف

یصعب ممارسة المشي و ذلك لقلة أماك توفیر الظلال و التسھیلات اللازمة

. لشوارع المشاة

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تدرج ھرمي في شوارع المجاورة السكنیة

Advatages of pedestrian village

How to enhance pedestrianism in Gaza

• To plan the existing and make land uses

• To increase the environmental elements like trees, street furniture…

• To use solar energy

• To separate between streets, paves, lanes.

• To control the destiny.