scholarly journals Keele Street Avenue Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Country Road ◽  
The Right ◽  
Form Development

From its humble origins as a rural country road to its present form as a suburban arterial, the Keele Street Corridor - stretching from Wilson Avenue to Grandravine Drive - has long served the transportation and day-to-day needs of North York and Toronto residents. The following study presents the corridor as it was, as it is, and as it could be. Through a series of recommendations, this report intends to offer a vision of the corridor as an urbanized, livable, and beautiful corridor in keeping with the Official Plan’s Avenues policies and based on the following principles: Locating new and denser housing types that encourage a mix of use, make efficient use of lands, frame the right-of-way, are appropriately massed and attractively designed. Supporting the creation of complete communities that provide a mix of unit types and offers a range of affordability. Creating high-quality and well-planned public spaces that retain existing residents, attract new residents, encourage interaction and animation, and provide the infrastructure required by all. Prioritizing opportunities for greening within the right-of-way, including planting new trees, creating new parks with frontage along Keele Street, planters, and green buildings. Reconfiguring and civilizing Keele Street into a complete street that serves as a living space for its residents, assigns priority to safety, and encourages active transportation and transit. The report is divided into two parts: The first part - BACKGROUND - contains a description of the corridor’s boundaries, its evolution from an agrarian community, presents the current built environment, and reviews the existing policy layers affecting the Corridor. The second part - PLAN - contains recommendations related to the future development and revitalization of the corridor related to future land uses, built form, development, public realm, parks and open space, and transportation network. Key words: Avenue, urban design, urbanization, suburbs, mid-rise building, corridor.

scholarly journals Keele Street Avenue Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Country Road ◽  
The Right ◽  
Form Development

From its humble origins as a rural country road to its present form as a suburban arterial, the Keele Street Corridor - stretching from Wilson Avenue to Grandravine Drive - has long served the transportation and day-to-day needs of North York and Toronto residents. The following study presents the corridor as it was, as it is, and as it could be. Through a series of recommendations, this report intends to offer a vision of the corridor as an urbanized, livable, and beautiful corridor in keeping with the Official Plan’s Avenues policies and based on the following principles: Locating new and denser housing types that encourage a mix of use, make efficient use of lands, frame the right-of-way, are appropriately massed and attractively designed. Supporting the creation of complete communities that provide a mix of unit types and offers a range of affordability. Creating high-quality and well-planned public spaces that retain existing residents, attract new residents, encourage interaction and animation, and provide the infrastructure required by all. Prioritizing opportunities for greening within the right-of-way, including planting new trees, creating new parks with frontage along Keele Street, planters, and green buildings. Reconfiguring and civilizing Keele Street into a complete street that serves as a living space for its residents, assigns priority to safety, and encourages active transportation and transit. The report is divided into two parts: The first part - BACKGROUND - contains a description of the corridor’s boundaries, its evolution from an agrarian community, presents the current built environment, and reviews the existing policy layers affecting the Corridor. The second part - PLAN - contains recommendations related to the future development and revitalization of the corridor related to future land uses, built form, development, public realm, parks and open space, and transportation network. Key words: Avenue, urban design, urbanization, suburbs, mid-rise building, corridor.

scholarly journals Lebreton Flats: redeveloping former brownfield land in Canada's capital. A study of urban design qualities and best practices.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Kanavas
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Compact Design ◽  
National Significance

In 2014, the National Capital Commission made a call for proposals to develop approximately 9.3 hectares of Le- Breton Flats, a former brownfield in Canada’s Capital. The objective is to create a new mixed-use community characterized by an institutional use to anchor the development. This report seeks to investigate what policies and urban design principles may be used to develop LeBreton Flats through a review of brownfield and urban design literature; policy analysis; and a review of case precedents for brownfield redevelopments. The recommendations provided seek to establish that good urban design for LeBreton Flats must contain elements of mixed-land uses with compact design; an institutional use of international or national significance to attract visitors and support local residents; walkable neighbourhoods with integrated public transportation; public realm dedication through parks and open space access to the waterfront; and innovative, architectural building construction with green design standards.

scholarly journals Lebreton Flats: redeveloping former brownfield land in Canada's capital. A study of urban design qualities and best practices.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Kanavas
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Compact Design ◽  
National Significance

In 2014, the National Capital Commission made a call for proposals to develop approximately 9.3 hectares of Le- Breton Flats, a former brownfield in Canada’s Capital. The objective is to create a new mixed-use community characterized by an institutional use to anchor the development. This report seeks to investigate what policies and urban design principles may be used to develop LeBreton Flats through a review of brownfield and urban design literature; policy analysis; and a review of case precedents for brownfield redevelopments. The recommendations provided seek to establish that good urban design for LeBreton Flats must contain elements of mixed-land uses with compact design; an institutional use of international or national significance to attract visitors and support local residents; walkable neighbourhoods with integrated public transportation; public realm dedication through parks and open space access to the waterfront; and innovative, architectural building construction with green design standards.

scholarly journals Diagrams in Architecture:  An Examination of Diagram Based Design Methods in Contemporary Urban Architecture Projects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Fraser Shields
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
Design Methodologies ◽  
Physical Context ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Functional Logic ◽  
The Relationship

<p>This research explores the relationship between the use of diagrams in architectural production and an architectural outcome which redefines conventional relationships between urban built form and open space. Several prominent architecture practices whose design methodologies are based extensively on diagrams produce architectural outcomes which relate to their surrounding physical context in unusual ways, presenting alternative solutions to conventional urban design principles and representing an emerging trend in urban design. A variety diagram types are utilised in different ways in the design processes of these key 'diagrammatic' practices. Design proposals responding to the same brief examine the architectural and urban design outcomes of different types of diagram use. Two different diagrammatic design methodologies are executed, producing two design proposals for a complex mixed use development in central Wellington. Each diagrammatic design methodology has different implications for the relationships between built form and open space by emphasising different factors in the design process and progressing differently from diagram into built form. One method emphasises continuity and connection, thereby minimising the typical distinctions between built form and open space. The other method emphasises a strict functional logic to produce unusual programmatic organisations which create ambiguity between the building's inside and outside. Instrumentalising diagrams in the design process aids in the management of the project's complexities, allows the design to develop in an abstract manner, and presents the often unusual design outcomes on the basis of an underlying functional logic, thereby providing a significant contribution to the realisation of new architectural and urban design solutions.</p>

scholarly journals Diagrams in Architecture:  An Examination of Diagram Based Design Methods in Contemporary Urban Architecture Projects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Fraser Shields
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
Design Methodologies ◽  
Physical Context ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Functional Logic ◽  
The Relationship

<p>This research explores the relationship between the use of diagrams in architectural production and an architectural outcome which redefines conventional relationships between urban built form and open space. Several prominent architecture practices whose design methodologies are based extensively on diagrams produce architectural outcomes which relate to their surrounding physical context in unusual ways, presenting alternative solutions to conventional urban design principles and representing an emerging trend in urban design. A variety diagram types are utilised in different ways in the design processes of these key 'diagrammatic' practices. Design proposals responding to the same brief examine the architectural and urban design outcomes of different types of diagram use. Two different diagrammatic design methodologies are executed, producing two design proposals for a complex mixed use development in central Wellington. Each diagrammatic design methodology has different implications for the relationships between built form and open space by emphasising different factors in the design process and progressing differently from diagram into built form. One method emphasises continuity and connection, thereby minimising the typical distinctions between built form and open space. The other method emphasises a strict functional logic to produce unusual programmatic organisations which create ambiguity between the building's inside and outside. Instrumentalising diagrams in the design process aids in the management of the project's complexities, allows the design to develop in an abstract manner, and presents the often unusual design outcomes on the basis of an underlying functional logic, thereby providing a significant contribution to the realisation of new architectural and urban design solutions.</p>

Reimagining the Right-of-Way

2015 ◽  
Vol 2521 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Polanski
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Complete Streets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
The Right ◽  
Economic Assets ◽  
Public Right

The public right-of-way has long been viewed as a space to move cars and a conduit for utilities. Traditional roadway practices have focused on maintaining vehicular levels of service, often at the cost of the pedestrian realm, and applying standard sections with little consideration for the context of the street or the community. However, this approach is changing as communities recognize the value and opportunity within the public right-of-way and along transportation corridors and become involved as stakeholders during the design process. Community-driven transportation projects are remaking streets in cities of all sizes, and new best practices are being implemented to reclaim and activate underutilized rights-of-way. As a result, public rights-of-way are increasingly recognized as environmental and economic assets that support active living and healthy environments. FHWA's Livability Initiative recommends design considerations such as complete streets, context-sensitive approaches, green infrastructure, and sustainable roadway design. A core principle of FHWA's context-sensitive solutions approach is to exercise flexibility and creativity to shape effective transportation solutions, while preserving and enhancing community and natural environments. This paper explores three case studies of varying street classifications, scales, and land uses to show how program needs and design approaches initiated the reallocation of space within the right-of-way to benefit all users and achieve social, economic, and environmental goals within an existing transportation network.

ANALYSIS OF REGULATIONS REGARDING THE SETTLEMENT OF ISSUES ON THE REMOVAL AND RECOVERY OF PLANTATIONS IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY OF PUBLIC ROADS

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Nataliia Kharytonova ◽  
Olha Mykolaienko ◽  
Tetyana Lozova
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Visual Orientation ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
Overhead Power Lines ◽  
The Right ◽  
Neck Diameter ◽  
Proper Operation

Greening of roads contributes to the protection of roads and their elements from influence of adverse weather and climatic factors; it includes the measures for improvement and landscaping of roads, ensures the protection of roadside areas from transport pollution, provides visual orientation of drivers. The solution of these issues will ensure creation and maintenance of safe and comfortable conditions for travelers. Green plantings in the right-of-way road area include woody, bushy, flower and grass vegetation of natural and artificial origin. For proper operation of public roads and satisfaction of other needs of the industry, there may be the need in removing the greenery. The reason for the removal of greenery in the right-of-way road area may be due to the following factors: construction of the architectural object, widening of the motor road, repair works in the security zone of overhead power lines, water supply, drainage, heating, telecommunications facilities, cutting of hazardous, dry and fautal trees, as well as self-grown and brushwood trees with a root neck diameter not exceeding 5 cm, elimination of the consequences of natural disasters and emergencies. The removal of plantations in the right-of-way area is executed in order to ensure traffic safety conditions and to improve the quality of plantations composition and their protective properties. Nowadays, in Ukraine there is no clear procedure for issuing permits for removing of such plantations. In order to resolve this issue, there is a need in determining the list of regulations in the area of forest resources of Ukraine and, if needed, the list of regulatory acts that have to be improved; to prepare a draft of the regulatory legal act that would establish the procedure of plantations cutting, the methodology of their condition determination, recovery costs determination, the features of cutting. Keywords: plantations, cutting, right-of-way, woodcutting permit, order.

Advanced Vehicle Parking System using PLC and SCADA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S2) ◽  
pp. 467-470
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Organization Structure ◽  
General System ◽  
General Control ◽  
Control Center ◽  
Unit Process ◽  
Basic Goal ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Access Information ◽  
The Right

This work is to perceive the open space in the halting reach using PLC and SCADA. The rule target is to recognize the unfilled space and demonstrating the driver to a particular opening. This paper tries to layout and execute an electronic stopping region organization structure. Robotized Parking Lot Management System is a totally utilitarian and painstakingly controlled parking structure organization system that is executed with the usage and compromise of different electronic equipment and littler scale figuring. The layout incorporates assorted stages, from the rule unit; process is passed on to different subunits to achieve the target of full motorization. A moving toward auto will pass on (through the driver) remotely with the essential unit associated with the Parking Office Gate. The essential unit will check the transmitted access information and will pass control after affirmation to the gateway framework drivers, this in this way drives the right entryway control (either exit or segment unit). The system currently screens the development of the driver some time later, and for entry, as the driver moves a destined eparation into the workplace ,the system turns back the entryway segment (for finish of entryway) and passes control to the space part and organization unit. The objective of this later unit is to manage the parking spaces available in the package by watching the development of the automobiles inside, allocating the spaces in a precise manner, watching consistence what's more, prompt the general control center (watched out for) of the space(s) open. It has a show interface for talking with the customers of the workplace. There is in like manner a control center that is watched out for by work power and screens the activities inside the parking structure. It is educated regarding any development, space(s) open and moreover the general system can be shut down or changed on from the control center. The basic goal of this errand is to achieve full motorization and it will find snappy use in tremendous workplaces with different access restrictions, government properties, and school grounds to sectionalize educator's auto stop and understudy's auto stop, etc.

Travel by Design

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlon Boarnet ◽  
Randall C. Crane
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
Neighborhood Design ◽  
Transportation Problems ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
The Right ◽  
Livable Communities

Can transportation problems be fixed by the right neighborhood design? The tremendous popularity of the "new urbanism" and "livable communities" initiatives suggests that many persons think so. As a systematic assessment of attempts to solve transportation problems through urban design, this book asks and answers three questions: Can such efforts work? Will they be put into practice? Are they a good idea?

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