Print Email Facebook Twitter Shifting Urbanity Title Shifting Urbanity: Urban experiment on walkability and traffic efficiency, the case of Amsterdam Centrum in the automated era Author WEI, ZONGHAO (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor Calabrese, L.M. (mentor) van Nes, A. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Date 2019-06-28 Abstract Amsterdam Centrum has been suffering from the spatial competition between overcrowded pedestrian visitors and busy vehicular flows. Application of automated vehicles is a historic opportunity to reclaim the streets for people and change the predicament of the downtown. The thesis focuses on the relationship between walkability and traffic efficiency in Amsterdam Centrum, aiming to maximize the viability and vitality of the city center in the automated era. The whole project, from research to design, is an urban experiment on walkable and efficient-functional city centers. Scenario building is the core approach that has linked research with design. Also, it is a bridge to connect the existing reality with future reality. First, the theoretical study of walkability and traffic efficiency provides the objects for analytical research of Amsterdam. It also helps to select the driving forces for scenario building. Second, theories about viability and vitality provide the evaluation materials for scenario assessment. And the urban design is the continuation of selected scenarios. The key idea of the final design is the movable programme, which means urban functions/human activities can travel in the city like automated vehicles. In the final, the project presents a dynamic urban system and flexible streetscape. It reshapes the relationship between walkability and traffic efficiency by redefining the meaning of city centers and public street with emphasizing on time dimension Subject walkabilitytraffic efficiencymovable urban programmescenario buildingAmsterdam CentrumAutomated vehiclesPedestrian To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3074ed7e-2fb7-4516-8c8d-964fc98e73e6 Coordinates 52.370216, 4.895168 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 ZONGHAO WEI Files PDF P5_Poster_Z.WEI_4707125.pdf 17.64 MB PDF P5_Presentation_Z.WEI_4707125.pdf 233.06 MB PDF P5_Report_Z.WEI_4707125.pdf 176.96 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3074ed7e-2fb7-4516-8c8d-964fc98e73e6/datastream/OBJ2/view