Social-oriented approach to street public spaces design

Abstract

Abstract Global challenges for urban development determine the need to develop new approaches to urban environment design aimed on smart and sustainable cities. City streets become centre of human life and places where many public functions are concentrated. Thats why nowadays the issue of street function relates non only to its transportation use, but also to the development of public interaction and a new progressive approach to the social-oriented design of the urban environment with the involvement of the population is becoming a great demand. The article offers a social-oriented approach to the functional zoning of public spaces along city streets to create comfortable and safe environments and to ensure the effective land use of the linear street space resource. The approach is based on the concept of demand and supply relative to territorial assessment of various public functions. It is proposed a model of functional planning of the territory and social space depending on the users needs. The proposed approach to urban development was tested for example in Moscow streets.