SPAŢIUL PUBLIC. STRĂZI ACCESIBILE
PUBLIC SPACE. ACCESSIBLE STREETS

Summary/Abstract: Cities are undergoing a fundamental process of transformation, focusing on the conversion of public spaces and transport routes in areas that correspond to the requirements of all users in the same extent. This modern form of urban design brings on the same level, the car user, public transportation, especially cyclists and pedestrians. With the modernist movement, pedestrian rights were greatly diminished, people were being forced to displace on increasing longer distances between home, office, shops and entertainment centers. Today, the increasing oil prices and the problems in maintaining the physical condition (level of obesity) resulted in analyzing and implementing policies that changed the urban space in order to promote natural relations between man and the built space. An exponent of this movement is Jan Gehl, architect and professor of urban design, with his successful remodeling cities such as Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, New York and London. Fair usage of public space has become in recent years a researched subject for cities, understanding that this is the correct direction of development, and it is required directly by users. Recent results and the increased importance of public spaces and green areas set new directions for the development agenda of the municipality. After numerous studies, including computer-assisted programs we learn more specifically, what are the criteria and hierarchies that must be met to achieve fully used and the acknowledgment public space. People need safe spaces, readable and comfortable, a sense of place and a pleasure to walk a certain direction. The urban space designer is more interested today in environmental designed qualities, in order to ensure the achievement of sensory and social needs in a certain space, besides the activity aspects directly related to its purpose.

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