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Streetscapes

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Urban streetscapes
Description

A view or scene of streets, especially in a city

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Urban planning
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Streetscapes
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Clarendon Street Arcade: reactivating South Melbourne's streets through play


This report outlines and examines the background context, design process and implementation of Clarendon Street Arcade. It offers lessons for researchers and artists undertaking similar playful interventions into public space.
Report

The playful parklet: a research report for the City of Stonnington


In 2021, researchers from RMIT University developed a 'playful parklet' - a small, portable public space for free public use that can be temporarily installed on kerb-side car parking spaces. This report evaluates the success of the project.
Conference paper

Veggies in verges: a policy inventory for footpath food gardens across Greater Sydney


This case study examines attitudes of councils towards verge gardening in Greater Sydney. The research questions include: What are council attitudes towards edible plants in verge gardening? Are the policy approaches cautious and risk averse or explicitly aiming to reduce barriers?
Conference paper

Mapping Melbourne’s parklets: understanding the capacities of street spaces


A parklet is a small, barrier-protected space which temporarily transforms kerbside parking space for public use. This paper maps and analyses 594 parklets across metropolitan Melbourne, identified from aerial surveys and field observation, and examines a range of urban design factors across various scales that positively and negatively impact the supply and demand for parklets...
Conference paper

A new perspective on the design of pedestrian bridges, inspired by Baudelaire’s Flaneur


This paper focuses on human interaction with and on bridges, and investigates how people use bridges and bridge elements by analysing visual data from social media. This set of data helps to understand different groups of individuals, their needs, values, and abilities to use bridge elements differently.