what is shared space design

Shared Space

Norman W. Garrick

A New Urbanist Approach to Street Design

Shared Spaces is a challenge questioning how urban space is currently used

In shared space design signs, signal, lines play a subordinate role

However the real issues is that shared space is a re-definition of

how urban space is used

Storrs, Connecticut1950s Subdivision

Rockport, Cape Ann, Massachusetts

Hans Monderman was inspired by these types of traditional places in conceptualizing

Shared Spaces

According to Hans the best public spaces and streets are ones where human behavior governors how the space is used

Contemporary traffic engineering is based on regulation and control

From Presentation by Koop Kerkstra

A design where Human Behavior controls how the space is used

Monderman conceptualize design as being based on System Time

…. or Context Time

System Time

Traffic Behavior Governs

Single purposeRegulated

ImpersonalUniform

Predictable

Context Time

Social Behavior Governs

Multi-functionalCulturally defined

PersonalDiverse

Unpredictable

Conventional Design is a Bad Fit for Context TimeA Round Peg in a Square Hole

Shared Space Design Fits Context Time

Die Laweiplein, Drachten, The Netherland

From Presentation by Koop Kerkstra

Deregulating Drachten

From Presentation by Koop Kerkstra

From Presentation by Koop Kerkstra

From Presentation by Koop Kerkstra

From Presentation by Koop Kerkstra

http://www.fietsberaad.nl/library/repository/bestanden/Evaluation%20Laweiplein.pdf

Assessing the Laweiplein

• Less congestion - time through the intersection decrease by about 50%

• Relatively constant traffic speed• Vehicles cede priority to bikes and

pedestrians• Fewer traffic accidents• Higher quality of public space

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