Urbanism

IFP wants to will gradually increase the information on urbanism and urban solutions which are interesting for pedestrians. Here are some links and downloads on this topic. If you have more material and links on urbanism, please send an email to sectretary@pedestrians-int.org
For information on urbanism and children see "Walking" --> "Children".

Links on urbanism

International Links

On the website of the United Nations Habitat Organisation there is a section on urban transport.
www.UN-Habitat.org
Unfortunately the important role of the pedestrians in an urban environment is not made evident there.

The International Network for Urban Research:
www.inura.org

City Planners Network:
www.city-planners-network.org.

A lot of Information you find on the website of the Carfree Network:
www.worldcarfree.net

This international EU-project site contains the information on best practise of shared spaces:
www.shared-space.org

For more information on livable cities see:
http://www.livablecities.org/


National Links

All on homezones in the United Kingdom, including a discussion group, you find here:
www.homezones.org.uk
And here is a link that thells you how to proceed to get a homezone:
BBC - Actionnetwork


In Switzerland, the pedestrian priority zones are not only used in residential areas, bus in central urban districts as well. On this website you find a data bank with different criteria to look at the numerous examples:
in German: www.Begegnungszonen.ch,
and the same in French: www.zonederencontre.ch

Project For Public Spaces: www.pps.org
PPS' mission is to create and sustain public places which build communities in America.

The International Institute for the Urban Environment:
www.urban.nl

Downloads on pedestrians and urbanism

Five Functions of Pedestrian Priority Zones - or: Homezones go downtown: The Evolution of shared spaces in Switzerland
Here you may download a powerpoint-presentation (ca. 60 pictures) and a Word-file with background-information on the various ways to use pedestian priority zones, and in particular on the "City Lounge" in St. Gallen (Bleicheli), which is a shared space designed to make cars behave like guests in a pedestrian space. (by Christian M. Thomas)

• PDF of powerpoint presentation "Homezones go Downtown" (pictures only) (pdf / 5.3 MB)
• Text of the presentation "Homezones go Downtown" (pdf / 168.4 KB)

What do pedestrians want in a city? Here is an article on Copenhagen by Ekim Tan.

• "What the Pedestrian Wants" - the Copenhagen experience (Terra incognita, 2006) (pdf / 1.1 MB)
• Short Essay "Downtown" by Rudy Almeida (doc / 30.5 KB)

Many papers on urbanism by authors from different countries
you find on the search-page of the walk21-website:
http://www.walk21.com/paper_search/default.asp#