This article uses Copenhagen as an example to provide a list of characteristics that are essential in a city that is to utilise pedestrian only activity. For the most part, these can be fully extended into a Brisbane context to create a design that complies with their program.
COPENHAGEN'S 10-STEP PROGRAM
1. Convert streets into pedestrian thoroughfares
2. Reduce traffic and parking gradually
3. Turn parking lots into public squares
4. Keep scale dense and low
5. Honor the human scale
6. Populate the core
7. Encourage student living
8. Adapt the cityscape to changing seasons
9. Promote cycling as a major mode of transportation
10. Make bicycles available
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0802/ped/
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