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Doing some research on urban design for an artistic project (crossposted from urbanism) (slrpnk.net)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/37159586

Hey everyone ! as some of you may know, i'm currently making some concept arts of a solarpunk city for an animation project, and there is one thing that i find particularly complicated, it's the urban design and street design ! It's one big puzzle and the things i find on the internet are not quite what i want and i might miss some keywords. (also a LOT of AI images so it doesn't help)
Does anyone have good resources on urban design planning, like cadastral maps in sustainable city studies ? I know there is a lot of take on that from wonderful artists, but I'm searching for a more "technical" point of view.
I've also heard that redesigning urban spaces is an effective way to help ensure women's safety. If anyone knows of maps designs made on the subject It would be greatly appreciated, I found serveral interesting articles on the subject but it is often staying kind of general in terms of solutions.
Cheers everyone !

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I just posted a little bit of info on your previous post but I just wanted to say that I really like how you're going about this research and the emphasis you're placing on getting it right!

If you'd be up with sharing whatever notes/resources you're able to gather up, I'd love to reference them in my own projects and to add them to the writing community's solarpunk worldbuilding wiki.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Thanks a lot for the support ! I'm glad you point it out because I've never had to do this much research for a project (also there was never a project that mattered in this extend to me), and it's really encouraging !
    Yeah that would be really great if these researches that's been a bit simplified could benefit everyone. I just got my hands on a great pdf about consideration and facilities for the building's fauna in order to halt the destruction of the habitats of certain target species without compromising the energy efficiency of buildings. How do you think I should share my notes and resources to you ? i'm a bit wary of spam (that's why I don't post too much in the art community, i'm affraid of flooding it)

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I totally get it! Good solarpunk needs good ideas and tracking them down can be a challenge - especially when they're split into lots of niche domains.

    I'm glad you'd be up for sharing notes - we don't have a good page on pedestrianized streets in the worldbuilding wiki yet so anything we track down for this could be a great addition. I tend to focus more on rural/exurban areas so I haven't done much reading on the subject yet but I can ask around on a few communities I'm in!

    I could set up a document we can paste links and notes into, maybe etherpad, cryptpad, or Google docs, whatever works for you!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    yeah ! I mean eventually I'd like to have some really specific subjects/professions or certain community represented in the octasolis project and I won't be able to just... do it out of only me, because i'm just not concerned and people just live their lives and they can tell you tons of little details that really makes the environment and ambiance speak for itself haha
    Ofc ! etherpad sounds great. I can just add my notes on the one you created about the Mcmansion Hell discord responses if it's ok ? Did you add your work on rural and exurban areas to the wiki too ? sounds like a fantastic source for inspiration !

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    [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm probably biased in saying this, but I'm a fan of the red and green handbooks (handboeken Rood or Groen) from Amsterdam, but they are only available in Dutch, if you don't mind using a translator to help you

    It goes in depth and there are a lot of pictures and illustrations. It is based on the PDF alert! Puccini Method, which tries to make designs that are user friendly and accessible

    You can find them here

    A summary can also be seen here with the main principles

    The two handbooks contain the technical specifications of the policy, including drawings, technical details and lists of materials.

    PDF alert below!

    1. Red Handbook covers pavements, street lighting and street furniture.
    2. Groen Handboeken covers the correct planting of greenery in the city, including trees, perennials, grasses, shrubs and wadi gardens.
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  • [–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago*

    oh woah, this looks actually really great for the project i'm on, I'll have to look into it a bit more but the summary is really interesting, it seems a lot is covered, I downloaded the pdf's, the traduction part might be a bit tedious but it seems really well organized so it will ease the researches.
    Also I was so foccused on road and cycling space amenagement that i Absolutely did not think about "correct planting of greenery", so it will surely come really handy ~
    thanks very much for those resources !!

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    • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I find that Gothenburg tends to have very easily digestible materials about planning, from guides to actual detail plans with nice graphics.

    Here's a brochure summarizing their general approach to urban design, for example: https://goteborg.se/dx/api/dam/v1/collections/7e8b1b3a-e30e-480b-a156-394933b22134/items/f43d3c1e-81c6-4867-950e-da0302d21aa6/renditions/0885a5d1-6586-4bb1-a99a-29044ffd3735?binary=true

    And here's the page with all their urban planning stuff: https://goteborg.se/wps/portal/start/goteborg-vaxer/sa-planeras-staden

    Obviously has to be translated but that should be painless enough

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago

    ohh some very interesting stuff here, also regarding children in urban places and green space ! the part with the detailed plans in their site is great too, this is really complete thanks !

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    • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The first thing that came to mind was Habitat 67 in Montreal (part of a world fair, but a really desirable place to live to this day).

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago

    woah that's something !! that would be crazy to have them redesigned in solarpunk, I'll look into it (also for now i'm not bad at perspective but it's something else haha), thank you very much !

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