Showing posts with label sustainable drainage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sustainable drainage. Show all posts
Vauban - The Livable Streets Design Concept
d zone,
dutch woonerf,
fahrradstrasse,
livable streets design concept,
shared space,
spielstrasse,
stormwater infiltration,
sustainable drainage,
traffic-calming
The Livable Streets Design Concepts
The Quartier Vauban contains many best practices in Livable Streets design. Traffic-calming concepts in the Vauban include shared space and extremely slow speed limits.
D-Zone
30 km/h Zone (D-Zone) – The main street through the Quartier Vauban has a speed limit of 30 km/h (20 mph), as does every residential street in Freiburg.
Play Street (Spielstrasse)
Every street in the Quartier Vauban except for the main street is a Spielstrasse. The German Spielstrasse is derived from the Dutch Woonerf concept where streets are designed as a shared space for all users.
In the Vauban, this means pavement widths of 3 to 5 meters (about 10 to 15 feet) with 1 meter-wide pervious and drivable curbs. These curbs allow for the occasional large vehicle to access the neighborhood and also provide for stormwater infiltration in line with the neighborhood’s sustainable drainage concepts.
Bicycle Street (Fahrradstrasse)
Bicycle streets are one-way streets for cars and two-way streets for bicycles. This concept provides a variety of route options to make cycling more attractive.
Pedestrian Paths
The Quartier Vauban contains many pedestrian-only paths linking residents to nature, retail districts and public transportation.
Today, 27.1% of Quartier Vauban residents say they walk more often than they did before they moved to the district.
Next : Bicycle
