Access and Forms of Urbanity in Public Space: Transit Urban Design Beyond the Global North

Peimani, Nastaran; Kamalipour, Hesam

doi:10.3390/su12083495

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“…The primary aim of this subject is to introduce a range of research methods concerning critical questions in the field of urban design. It also seeks to enable students to deepen their methodological understanding and critical thinking in relation to those forms of urbanism that have remained underexplored [60][61][62] and to the ways in which urban places work at the intersections between spatiality and sociality [63], between the measurable and the non-measurable [64], and between urban morphology and streetlife intensity [65,66]. Figure 1 illustrates the RMT subject in relation to other subjects in the MA UD.…”

Section: Urban Design Education and Research Methodsmentioning

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Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has become a critical challenge for the higher education sector. Exploring the capacity of this sector to adapt in the state of uncertainty has become more significant than ever. In this paper, we critically reflect on our experience of teaching urban design research methods online during the early COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. This is an exploratory case study with a qualitative approach with an aim to inform resilient practices of teaching in the face of public health emergencies. Drawing on the experience of teaching the Research Methods and Techniques subject during lockdown, we discuss the rapid transition from face-to-face to online teaching and point to the challenges and opportunities in relation to the learning and teaching activities, assessment and feedback, and digital platforms. This paper concludes by outlining some key considerations to inform the development of more adaptive and resilient approaches to online teaching in the context of unprecedented global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that it is critical to move beyond fixed pedagogical frameworks to harness the productive capacities of adaptive teaching.

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Section: Urban Design Education and Research Methodsmentioning

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Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown

2021

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“…The study also focused on mapping functional mix as a generator of synergies between different uses around transit stations, using the live/work/visit triangle [46]. Measures of CAPS 5min (Catchment of Accessible Public Spaces) and AI 5min (Accessible Interfaces) [16] were also used to analyse the total accessible public spaces for pedestrians and the total length of public/private interfaces that could be reached from the stations. The behavioural mapping method was also adopted to illustrate the spatiality of stationary activities and unravel how certain stationary activities were enabled or constrained in public spaces within walkable proximity to stations.…”

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“…This concept is linked to the notion of "pools of use" [4], which is about the functions accessible within a walkable catchment of a specific location. Pedestrian catchment, or "pedshed", in TOD is often analysed within a specific timeframe to explore the accessibility of a transit station [16].…”

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“…These studies have focused on how land use could be well integrated into the broader transit system through identifying the urban design elements associated with TOD. While developing such an understanding has also been found critical in Asian cities [13,14], there have been limited comparative and systematic studies in the global South that often struggle with the challenge of creating dynamic, high-density, and walkable neighbourhoods around transit stations [15,16].…”

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Assembling Transit Urban Design in the Global South: Urban Morphology in Relation to Forms of Urbanity and Informality in the Public Space Surrounding Transit Stations

Peimani

Kamalipour

2022

Urban Science

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The imperative to address the challenge of transforming car-dependent cities and promoting sustainable mobilities requires that we engage with the relationships between urban morphology and forms of urbanity in public spaces surrounding transit nodes. While there has been a surge of interest in investigating the agency of urban planning and design in mitigating urban sprawl and its environmental impacts by creating mixed-use, dense, and walkable places, the extent to which the public space can enable streetlife intensity in proximity to transit remains underexplored. Through extensive urban mapping and comparison of two transit nodes in Tehran, this paper articulates the key morphological elements of building density, functional mix, and access networks, how they work in relation to forms of urbanity and informality in public space around stations, and what inferences can be made on how public space within station areas work in the context of rapidly urbanising cities compared to those in Western contexts. The nexus between functional mix, retail edges, and forms of urbanity has been found critical to the spatial configuration, performance, and transformation of transit station areas. Forms of informality have also been found integral to how public space works in the context of transit urban design. This paper contributes to the newfound accent on urban design dimensions concerning TODs in the context of less formal and more congested cities of the global South.

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“…GreenPS continuity contributes a lot to urban ecology and sustainability [41,42]. A well-maintained urban green framework where spatial objects are connected by corridors improves the residents' mobility, benefits people's well-being, promotes the use of the GreenPS network and business including tourism.…”

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Evaluating Urban Green Public Spaces: The Case Study of Krasnodar Region Cities, Russia

2021

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The 21st century challenges, in particular those of climate change, population growth, air pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic global health crisis, demand greater emphasis on infrastructure facilities capable of keeping pace with population needs in well-being, health and economic prosperity. Green infrastructure aimed to intensify ecological processes in built-up areas and deliver vital ecosystem services is of a key significance for Russia, one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The article is dedicated to the issue of providing cities sustainability through creating a basic element of the urban green infrastructure—a public green network—by incorporating and linking a variety of already existing urban environmental components, both spatial and linear, such as natural areas, squares, parks, streets, boulevards, embankments and others. The territory of the case study is Krasnodar region located in the southwestern part of the North Caucasus, the warmest region of Russia characterized by highly varied urban areas. The authors propose the multiple criteria method for evaluating the existing GreenPS and creating a GreenPS framework for six cities located in Krasnodar region both on the southern seaward part and on the northern steppe part. This approach is focused on the sustainable development of the cities, adaptation to climate change and the prevention of local risks with respect to the preservation of ecosystem functions and cultural heritage. The methodology includes three stages: investigating and evaluating the present state of the existing urban GreenPS; defining sustainability potential; and the submission of master plan proposals for the improvement and further development and management of the GreenPS network implementing nature-based solutions. In addition, it follows seven main integral criteria, namely, Accessibility, Density, Sufficiency, Continuity, Diversity, Value and Clean and Sanitary, illustrated by ray diagrams. The results of the study show good potential for construction in Krasnodar region cities of an efficient GreenPS network integrating ecological and social city components. The flexibility of the method proposed makes it replicable for any other city aimed at creating a GreenPS network in sustainable, climate-change-adapted cities.

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Access and Forms of Urbanity in Public Space: Transit Urban Design Beyond the Global North

Cited by 13 publications

References 50 publications

Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown

Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown

Assembling Transit Urban Design in the Global South: Urban Morphology in Relation to Forms of Urbanity and Informality in the Public Space Surrounding Transit Stations

Evaluating Urban Green Public Spaces: The Case Study of Krasnodar Region Cities, Russia

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