Urban mobility planning as a frame for urban design of squares and streets, the Peja case in Kosovo
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- Dirk Lauwers (UGent) , Jozef Zuallaert and Modest Gashi
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- Abstract
- Urban streets and squares have a dual function: as links in transport networks and as places for accommodating urban life. In this paper an integrated approach of urban design of the public domain is developed, highlighting the layers multimodal mobility planning can provide for the design. The approach is shown on the basis of some cases for the city of Peja (Kosovo). The designs of two strategic elements in the urban network, the railway station boulevard and the Haxhi Zeka Square as well as a district collector street within the Zatra living area are described. These design projects were elaborated by a mixed international and local team, working together in design studios within the frame of the ‘MOBKOS’ cooperation project (www.mobkos.eu). This project was co financed by the Flemish and the Kosovar Governments in the period 2009-2011. A well the structured road categorisation system and urban parking strategy are determining elements of the design. But even so a ‘soft spine’ accommodating walking and biking routes and a new system of urban bus routes are important layers of the design. The paper doesn’t call for a traffic engineering dominated design. It is gradually understood that the prevailing ‘city for cars’ practices in Kosovo (that had already shown its limits in Pristine) would lead Peja into a dead end street. That is why concepts such as urban boulevards, ‘shared spaces’, green trails… are used in the designs. The same international team is preparing design studios in the city of Shkodra in Albania.
- Keywords
- place making, research by design, Peja, street functions, mobility planning instruments., road categorization
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-3175632
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- Lauwers, Dirk, et al. “Urban Mobility Planning as a Frame for Urban Design of Squares and Streets, the Peja Case in Kosovo.” First International Conference on Architecture & Urban Design, Proceedings, edited by Dorina Pojani, Epoka University Tirana, 2012, pp. 1–7.
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- Lauwers, D., Zuallaert, J., & Gashi, M. (2012). Urban mobility planning as a frame for urban design of squares and streets, the Peja case in Kosovo. In D. Pojani (Ed.), First International Conference on Architecture & Urban Design, Proceedings (pp. 1–7). Tirana, Albania: Epoka University Tirana.
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- Lauwers, Dirk, Jozef Zuallaert, and Modest Gashi. 2012. “Urban Mobility Planning as a Frame for Urban Design of Squares and Streets, the Peja Case in Kosovo.” In First International Conference on Architecture & Urban Design, Proceedings, edited by Dorina Pojani, 1–7. Tirana, Albania: Epoka University Tirana.
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- Lauwers, Dirk, Jozef Zuallaert, and Modest Gashi. 2012. “Urban Mobility Planning as a Frame for Urban Design of Squares and Streets, the Peja Case in Kosovo.” In First International Conference on Architecture & Urban Design, Proceedings, ed by. Dorina Pojani, 1–7. Tirana, Albania: Epoka University Tirana.
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- 1.Lauwers D, Zuallaert J, Gashi M. Urban mobility planning as a frame for urban design of squares and streets, the Peja case in Kosovo. In: Pojani D, editor. First International Conference on Architecture & Urban Design, Proceedings. Tirana, Albania: Epoka University Tirana; 2012. p. 1–7.
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- [1]D. Lauwers, J. Zuallaert, and M. Gashi, “Urban mobility planning as a frame for urban design of squares and streets, the Peja case in Kosovo,” in First International Conference on Architecture & Urban Design, Proceedings, Tirana, Albania, 2012, pp. 1–7.
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abstract = {{Urban streets and squares have a dual function: as links in transport networks and as places for accommodating urban life. In this paper an integrated approach of urban design of the public domain is developed, highlighting the layers multimodal mobility planning can provide for the design. The approach is shown on the basis of some cases for the city of Peja (Kosovo). The designs of two strategic elements in the urban network, the railway station boulevard and the Haxhi Zeka Square as well as a district collector street within the Zatra living area are described. These design projects were elaborated by a mixed international and local team, working together in design studios within the frame of the ‘MOBKOS’ cooperation project (www.mobkos.eu). This project was co financed by the Flemish and the Kosovar Governments in the period 2009-2011. A well the structured road categorisation system and urban parking strategy are determining elements of the design. But even so a ‘soft spine’ accommodating walking and biking routes and a new system of urban bus routes are important layers of the design. The paper doesn’t call for a traffic engineering dominated design. It is gradually understood that the prevailing ‘city for cars’ practices in Kosovo (that had already shown its limits in Pristine) would lead Peja into a dead end street. That is why concepts such as urban boulevards, ‘shared spaces’, green trails… are used in the designs. The same international team is preparing design studios in the city of Shkodra in Albania.}},
author = {{Lauwers, Dirk and Zuallaert, Jozef and Gashi, Modest}},
booktitle = {{First International Conference on Architecture & Urban Design, Proceedings}},
editor = {{Pojani, Dorina}},
keywords = {{place making,research by design,Peja,street functions,mobility planning instruments.,road categorization}},
language = {{eng}},
location = {{Tirana, Albania}},
pages = {{1--7}},
publisher = {{Epoka University Tirana}},
title = {{Urban mobility planning as a frame for urban design of squares and streets, the Peja case in Kosovo}},
year = {{2012}},
}