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Morphing the Grid Plan for Delight
Part of street belonging to a traditional grid, transforms into pedestrian connector, nook, parkette...
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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012
Through the Block Pedestrian Path for Delight
An opportunity to complement the normal grid streets, now busy, noisy, smelly and dangerous, opens...
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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012
Pedestrian Path and Sculpture Court
An opportunity to complement the traditional grid streets, now busy, noisy, smelly and dangerous,...
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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012
Morphing the Grid for Pedestrian Delight
Part of street belonging to a traditional grid, transforms into pedestrian connector, nook, parkette...
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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012
New Urban Adaptations -Benefits, Risks
The bicycle invaded the urban scene with a storm in the beginning of 20th century, only to fall...
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Uploaded on Jan 22, 2012
Walkable Museum Streets
A 6-foot and a 12-foot wide street from the urban past, more than a millennium old, functioned...
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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012
Bollard Emoticon - Traffic Unwelcome
Expressive and imaginative, if uncivil, these bollards communicate how residents feel about...
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Uploaded on Jan 15, 2012
Car Connection Undesirable, Peds and bikes welcome
The old grid plan, an inheritance of the premotor era, does not serve the needs of a neighbourhood...
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Uploaded on Jan 15, 2012
Variations on Neighbourhood Layout
The street network of a Fused Grid neighbourhood can have many configurations (See Fused Grid set)....
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2012
Stopping Traffic in its Tracks
The classic, traditional grid can be transformed so as to limit or eliminate cut-through traffic in...
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Uploaded on Dec 17, 2011
Traffic and Social Networks
Streets may look alike in photos but are entirely dissimilar in the minds of their residents. This...
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Uploaded on Dec 16, 2011
A Wonderful Bad Street
A delightful, welcoming street rich in texture and colour, offers coolness in the summer and wind...
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Uploaded on Dec 16, 2011
New Urban Grid: Fused Grid
The existing grid in this picture does not work in the new urban context and it has been modified to...
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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2011
New Urban Grid: Fused Grid
The existing grid in this picture does not work in the new urban context and has been modified to...
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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2011
Urban Design Celebrity
This celebrity, dictated the street form in his city. The city code, written under its four-thousand...
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Uploaded on Dec 5, 2011
Portraits of Urban Design Celebrities
In the Master’s bedroom of a Ryiad, hang these two specially commissioned portraits: One of his...
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Uploaded on Dec 4, 2011
Open Space Value and Priority
Part of a redeveloped downtown block. this public open space was the result of unusual and visonary...
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Uploaded on Nov 23, 2011
A Purposeful Practical Pattern
This 16 ha (40 ac) layout pattern for a neighbourhood incorporates patterns by several authors and...
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Uploaded on Nov 23, 2011
Fused Grid
Fused Grid Drawings, 3D...
Fused Grid Retrofits
Pedestrian streets
Urban Cul-de-sac Streets
City Streets, Traffic
Greek Island Streetscapes
Urbanome
Chance
