NathanPaulPrince.com
July 2009
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ELEMENTS of a CITY
Transit Routes
Streets
Boulevards
Intersections
Bicycle Routes
Sidewalks, Paths
Parks
Buildings
Public
Libraries
Schools
Leisure
Business
Administrative
Commercial
Warehouse
Monuments
Bridges
Transportation Hubs
Airport
Train Station
Metro
Bus Routes
All cities built nowadays are expanding with no thought to the generations after them who will have to live with what was built 50 years ago. Even today we live in cities that don't seem to have been constructed with any thought other than fixing immediate problems. It's time people helped plan the cities they live in.
An efficient city is a Smart City. Planning your city is Smart Design. Smart Design, Smart City.
SUSTAINABLE STREETS
Streets provide alternative routes for short, local trips helps to reduce traffic demand on major roadways.When large new urban areas are laid out, it is simplest to apply a rectilinear grid pattern, which simplifies the task of surveying.
Streets are urban connections to boulevards. Access Management seeks to limit and consolidate access along major roadways, while promoting a supporting street system and unified access and circulation systems for development. The result is a street that functions safely and efficiently for its useful life, and provides for a more attractive traffic corridor.
Access management is the systematic control of the location, spacing, design and operation of driveways, median openings, interchanges, and street connections. It also encompasses roadway design treatments such as medians and auxiliary lanes, and the appropriate spacing of traffic signals.
BOULEVARD OF DREAMS
Grid pattern by design, boulevard traffic flows easily from one district to another and improves emergency vehicle circulation. Designed to allow large volumes of traffic to flow from one end of the city to another, on the surface or underground, a boulevard generally has two lanes of traffic and a center divider lined with trees or lawn.
Sustainable boulevards allow the rain water to drain into a specifically designed area called a swale. The rain water is absorbed into the ground and supports plantings of native grasses, shrubs and trees. Allowing more rain water to drain into the ground causes the water table to recharge, important in places that rely on underground water sources.
INTERSECTIONS
Perfect example of a boulevard swale
intersecting boulevards
street, bicycle route, sidewalk
housing subdivision
