Street recovery in the age of COVID-19: Simultaneous design for mobility, customer traffic and physical distancing
This paper explores the relationship between urban traffic, retail location and disease control during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and tries to find a way to simultaneously address these issues for the purpose of street recovery. Drawing on the concept of the 15 min city, the study also aims at see...
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| author | Wen, Liang Marinova, Dora Kenworthy, Jeff Guo, Xiumei |
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| description | This paper explores the relationship between urban traffic, retail location and disease control during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and tries to find a way to simultaneously address these issues for the purpose of street recovery. Drawing on the concept of the 15 min city, the study also aims at seeking COVID-19 exit paths and next-normal operating models to support long-term business prosperity using a case study of Royal Street, East Perth in Western Australia. Nearly half of the shops became vacant or closed at the end of 2020 along the east section of Royal Street, demonstrating the fragility of small business in a car-oriented street milieu that is inadequately supported by proper physical, digital and social infrastructure. A key finding from the analysis is the formulation of the concept of the Minute City. This describes a truly proximity-centred and socially driven hyper-local city, where residents and retailers work together on the local street as a walkable public open space (other than movement space), and benefit from ameliorated traffic flow, improved business location and a safer, connected community. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-881652022-03-28T03:46:12Z Street recovery in the age of COVID-19: Simultaneous design for mobility, customer traffic and physical distancing Wen, Liang Marinova, Dora Kenworthy, Jeff Guo, Xiumei 1205 - Urban and Regional Planning This paper explores the relationship between urban traffic, retail location and disease control during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and tries to find a way to simultaneously address these issues for the purpose of street recovery. Drawing on the concept of the 15 min city, the study also aims at seeking COVID-19 exit paths and next-normal operating models to support long-term business prosperity using a case study of Royal Street, East Perth in Western Australia. Nearly half of the shops became vacant or closed at the end of 2020 along the east section of Royal Street, demonstrating the fragility of small business in a car-oriented street milieu that is inadequately supported by proper physical, digital and social infrastructure. A key finding from the analysis is the formulation of the concept of the Minute City. This describes a truly proximity-centred and socially driven hyper-local city, where residents and retailers work together on the local street as a walkable public open space (other than movement space), and benefit from ameliorated traffic flow, improved business location and a safer, connected community. 2022 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88165 10.3390/su14063653 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ MDPI AG fulltext |
| spellingShingle | 1205 - Urban and Regional Planning Wen, Liang Marinova, Dora Kenworthy, Jeff Guo, Xiumei Street recovery in the age of COVID-19: Simultaneous design for mobility, customer traffic and physical distancing |
| title | Street recovery in the age of COVID-19: Simultaneous design for mobility, customer traffic and physical distancing |
| title_full | Street recovery in the age of COVID-19: Simultaneous design for mobility, customer traffic and physical distancing |
| title_fullStr | Street recovery in the age of COVID-19: Simultaneous design for mobility, customer traffic and physical distancing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Street recovery in the age of COVID-19: Simultaneous design for mobility, customer traffic and physical distancing |
| title_short | Street recovery in the age of COVID-19: Simultaneous design for mobility, customer traffic and physical distancing |
| title_sort | street recovery in the age of covid-19: simultaneous design for mobility, customer traffic and physical distancing |
| topic | 1205 - Urban and Regional Planning |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88165 |