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Pedestrian Green Wave Presented at the BC Land Summit Whistler, British Columbia May 2009 Bruce Zvaniga, P.Eng. Manager, Transportation Division City of Toronto with Jody Rosenblatt Naderi, Landscape Architect Associate Professor,

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Bruce Zvaniga, P.Eng. Manager, Transportation Division City of Toronto

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Jody Rosenblatt Naderi, Landscape Architect Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning College of Architecture, Texas A&M University

Pedestrian Green Wave

Presented at the BC Land Summit Whistler, British Columbia May 2009

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Jody Rosenblatt Naderi , Landscape Architect, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University jrnaderi@gmail.com

Serving Pedestrians From the Community Design Paradigm The Street as a Health Facility

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From Transportation Paradigm Serving Pedestrians

GOAL

  • PROVIDE LONGER CROSSING TIME

FOR PEDESTRIANS ACTION

  • ADD PEDESTRIAN WALK TIME

BY-PRODUCT - DELAY FOR MAIN STREET TRAFFIC

  • MISMATCHED CAPACITY/DEMAND
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Toronto Walking Strategy: Encourage Walking What are the spatial and temporal characteristics

  • f walking

for contemplation and renewal?

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Outline of the Presentation

  • 1. Temporal and spatial characteristics of slower places
  • 2. Measuring the contemplative landscape experience?
  • 3. Contemplative pace and place behavior
  • 4. A proposed contemplative walk in Toronto’s Bay Street
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Mayan Sacred Open Space. Dr. Logan Wagner

The story of Mayan Sacred Open Space.

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B derived from the Classical Latin word platea meaning

broad way, street

derived from the Greek word plateia, πλατεα meaning

a wide 'plat' or 'place'; open square

derived from the Greek word platus, πλατς meaning

flat; spread out 'flat' ('plot'); broad

http://www.myetymology.com/latin/plattea.html

THE STREET AS PUBLIC REALM

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Rome versus local road They not aligned in purpose. They are not aligned in speed. They are not aligned in form.

J.B. Jackson, Discovering the Vernacular Landscape

LOCAL NETWORK CHARACTER Information exchange Temporally shifting Shortcuts to avoid interruptions Stops along the way Least threatening alignment Loosely maintained paths Closely adjusted to topography and soil

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Designing for cars is about Needing a place to go. Designing for walking is about Needing a place to stop Timing matters.

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Signal Timing Methodology

1.OPTIMIZE INDIVIDUAL SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS 2.COORDINATE SIGNALS IN GROUPS

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Jody Rosenblatt Naderi , Landscape Architect, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University jrnaderi@gmail.com

Contemplative walking is about Spontaneously Accessing a place to renew and heal. When do people do that?

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What are the characteristics of places that support a slower contemplative pace?

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Heidegger’s Daily Walk

Todtnau, Germany

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Being and Time

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Heidelberg: Philosopher Walk

managed by Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism

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2 KILOMETRES MULTIPLE MARKEDENTRANCES ALONG THE WAY FREQUENCY OF DISTANT VIEWS HIGHLY COMPLEX OR SIMPLE CONTEXTUAL LANDSCAPE SIMPLE REPETITIVE PATH SURFACE, RELATIVELY EVEN SLOPE LINKS WITH SACRED /IMPORTANT COMMUNITY PLACES IN THE CITY View of Honen-in from the Philosopher Walk

Kyoto philosopher’s walk

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Evolutionary Impulse

  • 1. Temporal and spatial characteristics of slower places
  • 2. Measuring the contemplative landscape experience
  • 3. Contemplative pace and place behavior
  • 4. A proposed contemplative walk in Toronto’s Bay Street
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SEARCHING FOR PATTERN:S Rate of the philosophers walk in various locations

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TYPE OF WALKING PATH ORDER FREQUENCY

  • 1. for commuters

a-to-b-to-a twice daily

  • 2. for renewal

a-to-fulfillment spontaneously

What kind of walking environments do we seek for health and renewal? Can their features be translated into deep urban streets?

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SURVEY of CONTEMPLATIVE WALKERS (n=86) – Preferred qualities of any walk

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VIEW TREES LESS PEOPLE WIDTH BENCHES SOUND OF BIRDS SMELL MATERIALS SHORTEST ROUTE ACTIVITY FAMILIARITY COLOR MEMORIES SENSE OF ENCLOSURE

Top three qualities

  • 1. VIEW
  • 2. TREES LINING PATH
  • 3. LESS POPULATED ROUTES
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105 100 95 90 85 80 75 70 65 60 55 50

HOW FAST IS THIS PAC

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Evolutionary Impulse

  • 1. Temporal and spatial characteristics of slower places
  • 2. Measuring the contemplative landscape experience
  • 3. Contemplative pace and place behavior
  • 4. A proposed contemplative walk in Toronto’s Bay Street
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Activites, the body position, the rate

  • f movement and the

clothing are indicators

  • f what kind
  • f health outcomes

the person is seeking In this case, the main Purposes are physical fitness and social exchange How to tell who is doing a contemplative walk:

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Contemplative indicators:

Hands clasped behind back Casual manner non-sport attire Often solo Steady uninterrupted walking Slower walking Inwardly concentrated Not carrying anything unless reading Late afternoon Contemplative walk has a slower number of beats per minute, shorter length of stride

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What are the spatial characteristics of contemplative places? Destinations for pause and reflection

Repetitive path surface Tracing feature along walkway

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What are the spatial characteristics of contemplative places? Continuous simple or complex edge Sense of time and connection to stars Long distant views from high up

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Evolutionary Impulse

  • 1. Temporal and spatial characteristics of slower places
  • 2. Measuring the contemplative landscape experience
  • 3. Contemplative pace and place behavior
  • 4. A proposed contemplative walk in Toronto’s Bay Street
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Bay Street Pedestrian Green Wave

Make a pace in the city that is Slow Design.

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Choosing Bay Street corridor

  • Off-peak hour contemplative use is self-reported

Maximum PR opportunity

  • 200,000 commuters daily
  • Financial district and City Offices
  • Active workday use, minor night and weekend
  • Mixed modalities: bus, taxi, car, pedestrians,

subway, regional train

  • Research opportunity through local intra-nets
  • City transportation management support
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Temporal Dimension. Vehicles and walking Movements On Bay Street Harmonics

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4th dimension.

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Contemplative internally focus; repetitive ; places for pause; buffered or immersed SPATIAL COMPLEXITY AROUSAL Low level high level Low High Design of environments for renewing walk purposes. Continuous uninterrupted Walk with places to sit.

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Each landscape has its own speed, its own pace, its own time. Measure the resonance of the street for vehicles and walkers. Establish the harmonics of the street.

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Protect transformational locations. Landscape thresholds. Exiting from Union Station, looking up Bay Street. Hunting for A Good Site

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Jody Rosenblatt Naderi , Landscape Architect, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University jrnaderi@gmail.com

Establish The Network using Nature’s Geometry: There is a singular main path and lots of little seasonal

  • shortcuts. The hierarchy and the ratio are both important
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Characteristics that heighten awareness of cycles of life.

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Long views, alignment to the movement of the sun, uninterrupted flow. South to the lake. North to the clock tower.

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More matches with the checklist of contemplative place characteristics.

A place for a pause. Shortcut in the summer. Out of the wind in the winter.

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Coordination/Synchronization

DISTAN CE

ONE WAY ARTERIAL ONE WAY ARTERIAL

TIME

A B

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Signal Grid

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Coordination Between Major and Minor Signalized Intersections

CYCLE LENGTH B C 90 70 70 70 100 A

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Speed is a function of distance and time length of pace X steps per minute = meters per second what is the design speed? for peds 3km/hr = .83m/sec for cars 40km/hr Time in seconds

12.0 11.0 10.0 9.0 8.0 7.0 6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 0.0

southbound northbound

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Welcome to Pedestrian Green Wave If we build it, will they come?

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Y

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g e s t r e e t Shared public realm Private public realm Private realm B a y B a y Real Estate and Real Use

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  • 1. Pace = beat

Beats per minute 48 – 88 Resting heart rate @ 72 X = Beats per second

  • 2. Length of pace = stride

.5 metre – 1.3 metres per step Y = length of stride

  • 3. Y divided by X = Metres per second

Calculating average walking speed For contemplative walk

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Shared public realm: access w/ traffic Private public realm: limited access Private realm: restricted access y

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g e Identify actual walking routes on site Identify actual seating places Identify micro-climate range

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Bay Street Green Wave Proposal : Bay Street Ravine Metaphor Evening walk time for furniture .9 kilometres green wave line Harmonic with transit is possible .75 km/sec Signage at Thresholds Banking Community and City Staff involvement

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Next Step: research design and implementation

Street furniture plan Preference survey of locals Signage, education, roll-out

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Jody Rosenblatt Naderi , Landscape Architect, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University jrnaderi@gmail.com

Thank you to The first nations of British Columbia The Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia Appraisal Institute of Canada Land Trust Alliance of British Columbia British Columbia Institute of Agrologists Planning Institute of British Columbia British Columbia Landscape Architects The Real Estate Institute of British Columbia Texas A&M University College of Architecture and students at the University of Guelph and at Texas A&M .