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Urban Design Issues
Milton Keynes, Thomas Smith-Keary, 14045700
"How can retrofitted transport infrastructre create innovative & vibrant social spaces for people that impacts positevley on local identity?"
Social Streets Framework
Introduction
This section will aim to draw together bits of research that has been completed so far from the both parts of the literature review which established what a social street actually is, and general qualities to explain why they work, and what what was previously established in Issues I. This frameworkwill help to focus what this research will explore and how the findings will be assessed. The qualities in this framework all contribute to what makes a socially active stree, as established in the literature review. Indicators were then established for each quality that allows the quality to be assessed in case studies and models.


Conclusion
This evaluative framework will be used to help assess the extent that different aspects that assist in the creation of socially active streets are present. It should not be assumed that this framework could take account of every aspect that helps to improve the sociable nature of streets but highlights many of the key points through a focus on designable solutions.

fig 36, Dutch "Woonerf" Street http://www.walkonomics.com/.
fig 35, informal seating fufilling "edge effect" (Gehl, 2010)
fig 34, San Francisco Parklet
fig 37, shared space in the Netherlands (Gehl, 2010)
fig 38, Childten and adults playing in the street, (http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/boys_and_girls_come_out_to_play_as_norwich_street_closed_off_to_traffic_1_2167271)
fig 39, Exhibition Road Kensington, shaed surface allowing users to cross the street wherever they wish
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