Abstract
Public space and street networks form a significant and central determinant of urban quality. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has focused their crucial importance in the reorganisation of places that are “safe” because they allow movement through cities with minimal risk of contagion. While addressing the need for social distancing, open air exercise, and mobility without use of public transport, these measures resulted in other environmental and social benefits. Living with the coronavirus pandemic has produced a series of adaptative actions, such as barring or limiting automobile traffic, thereby expanding street space for pedestrians and bicyclists, whose impact is, as yet, difficult to fathom because of their contingent, temporary nature. In this context, this case study proposes a sustainable bicycle network to inform the future, permanent street redesign. Based on topographic, morphologic, and climatic data, it evaluates a series of contiguous road sections, defining redesign capacities and critical conditions to implement sustainable interventions to manage urban runoff, mitigate of extreme heat events, expand pedestrian paths and provide a bicycle network. This holistic approach to sustainable urban design evaluation, supported by reproducible data and parameters, serves as a replicable model for the sustainable redesign of roads in other urban settings. The extent, integration, and complexity of the study engaged an interdisciplinary framework, facilitating detailed planning and design and quantified assessments of environmental outcomes.
Highlights
In the last twenty years, urban regeneration has become integral to sustainable design, holistically linking social benefits, economic vitality, quality of life, and placemaking in addition to environmental resiliency
In a socioeconomic scenario profoundly marked by the crisis, the role of public space, and streets in particular, emerge as crucial to reconsider in future urban regeneration projects
The results indicate that in the peri-urban areas along the State Road 7 bis, the width of the roads averages more than 26 m (85 feet), allowing sufficient space to integrate green infrastructure
Summary
In the last twenty years, urban regeneration has become integral to sustainable design, holistically linking social benefits, economic vitality, quality of life, and placemaking in addition to environmental resiliency. This process goes beyond mere physical transformations, pursuing multiplier, complementary, and synergistic environmental ameliorations [1]. In this regard, the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development specifies among its objectives (goal 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities): safe transport; participatory, integrated and sustainable urbanisation; preservation of cultural and natural heritage; reduction of disaster risks and per capita environmental impact; guarantee of universal safe, inclusive, accessible public spaces; support for positive economic, social and environmental linkages between urban, peri-urban, 4.0/). Sustainability 2021, 13, 8195 and rural areas; incentives for integrated development plans and policies on inclusion, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and disaster resilience
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