Ashworth described marginal work as a "temporary design" for tactical urban life, following up on a pilot project in 2014.
Introduction
In recent ten years, the social Street experiment in Memphis may make its streets the most interesting street in the United States.In 2010, a business district organized a field weekend demonstration of hand-protected bicycle lanes and Renaissance Mall. The event originated in MEMFix, a Rolling Festival of street redesigns similar to the multi-day restructuring of public spaces around the city. In 2014, the city conducted a year-long experiment to convert half the highway along the Mississippi River into a pedestrian street.
Street reconstruction experiment of Memphis
Reason to Be Selected
The corner of Marshall and Monroe Avenue is a collection of cars designed to separate pedestrians by tall plants and shorten the distance between the crosswalk, benches, trash cans, bicycle parking racks and a public bicycle disposal station, leaving enough space for bicycles and pedestrians, making the city truly low carbon.
Highlights:
·Low cost experiments to achieve permanent improvement of streets
·Tactical urbanism: the spectrum of change
Details
Low cost experiments to achieve permanent improvement of streets: Although it took several years, Memphis's Street experiments began to improve permanently.
The final conclusion is a round of changes to a street called "temporary design" in Memphis. Most spectacularly, at the corner of Marshall and Monroe Avenues, the Memphis Medical District, in collaboration with the Memphis City Central Committee, has completed a physical permanent transformation of a street corner, based on the early MEMFIX example.
Tactical urbanism: the spectrum of change: The idea of connecting the intersections and covering the pedestrian waiting area with a kite shade is the most eye-catching design by Memphis artist CatPeña. Daniel Ashworth, the landscape architect for Alta's planning and design, has returned to the overhead towline used by car dealers in the past. Ashworth and his team added epoxy gravel to the street itself, with ceramic traffic buttons as lane markers. Tall plants separate pedestrians and shorten the distance between the crosswalk, bench, trash can, bicycle rack and a public bicycle disposal station.
Ashworth described marginal work as a "temporary design" for tactical urban life, following up on a pilot project in 2014.
"These Street improvements will last five to eight years, and it is hoped that by the end of the project, the city will be able to transform most of the design elements from temporary to permanent by remodeling some of the pavement designs," he said. At the same time, he said, these temporary design elements will help cities test how people use space - and can be analyzed using traffic safety data. If any aspect of the security risks are found, we can timely amend the final version, which can also greatly save costs.
Conclusions
Because bicycles complicate the binary system of pedestrians and cars in many cities, more analysis is needed of how we share or utilize space, and solutions are quickly found. The highlight of this project is the division of pedestrian and vehicle flows in a low-cost, efficient and rapid way, the observation of whether it works, and the eventual commitment to a permanent solution.
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