Title: How urban design is improving state highways in our communities
Abstract: Urban design implementation principles developed by the Transit New Zealand Board provide a framework to manage urban design issues and implement appropriate responses, on a case-by-case basis. How these principles are incorporated into planning, constructing and maintaining state highways is a key to ensuring transportation makes a positive difference to the places where we all live, work and play. Incorporating urban design in a way that contributes to liveable communities is an exciting challenge for Transit. It offers a unique opportunity to influence the form and function of the communities we live in, and requires long-term vision to successfully achieve this. This paper will explore the options available to Transit, as a national infrastructure provider, in using urban design to help shape prosperous communities. It will also discuss the challenges to making this work successfully including collaboration, funding, historical inadequacies and the importance of getting multi-disciplinary teams involved from the outset. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E215472.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
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