Green Streets of Malmö © UiD

Traffic-plan for bicycles in Malmö. Commissioned by the City of Malmö. Project by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson and Martin Vozzi, 2008.

To improve safety and accessibility for bicycles, and to provide them with new experiences and possibilities, we propose to gradually remove all motor traffic from selected streets of Malmš, and to fill these streets with various activities and functions, greenery and even new buildings. In this way we intend to create a more coherent urban fabric where soft traffic and the activities and functions of the city are better integrated.

Green Streets of Malmö [1MB] pdf

Traffic plan for Shanghai. Commissioned by the Institute de Ville en Movement, Urban China and Tongji University. Project by UiD (Henrik Valeur, Rebecca Zelwak, Sarvdeep Singh Sangwan, Qian Jieyan, Zhang Meng and Xia Zhen) and Prof. Pan Haixiao.

The elevated highway is a unique feature of Shanghai. If the grid of elevated highways is expanded and parking buildings are constructed at frequent intervals to ensure short walking distances to anywhere in the neighborhood, all car traffic could be removed from the streets on ground level and the existing green areas could be vastly increased!

Green Streets of Shanghai [25.76MB]

Instead of constructing a new road in stages, of fully paved and elaborated segments, the entire road can be laid out as a simple dirt road structuring the landscape of the future urban development area. Various solutions in terms of lighting, paving and security can be tested concurrently and the road can be gradually upgraded to the required standard, step by step as new residents move in.

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