Historical city center in the XX - XXI centuries: back to pedestrian

Abstract

Abstract The article describes the main factors that affect the change of the public space paradigm of city planning throughout the XX – XXI centuries. The authors cover cities of Europe, America, and Russia. The research is theoretically based on the works of Scott McQuire, Jan Gehl, Jeff Speck. The research outcome presents two groups of the factors: those affecting change of the city-panning paradigm towards car drivers in the first half of the XX century, and back towards pedestrian in the second half of the XX century. The authors choose the space planning model of the medieval European town as the benchmark.