Una ciudad para el peatón: recorrido, espacio y red
- Autores: María Fernanda León Vivanco
- Directores de la Tesis: Francisco Peremiquel Lluch (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2019
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Carles Llop Torné (presid.), Pau Avellaneda Garcia (secret.), João Sousa (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Urbanismo por la Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya
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- Resumen
The pedestrian relevance in the configuration of the contemporary city had grew steadily and more spaces are demanded for them. The subject is not new, but requires a necessary update, according to the requirements of the population that lives in the urban space and demands the priority in front of the vehicle’s hierarchy.
This thesis studies the pedestrian movement in two dimensions: the route and the space –exclusive for pedestrians use–, with the aim of understanding the way in which they appropriate urban space and modifies it along the route. This could help to identify its place in the different ways of conceiving and building the city since the irruption of the automobile, to determine the characteristics or qualities of the contemporary pedestrian space. And to define basic criteria for modeling the primary pedestrian network as an indispensable element for pedestrian mobility in the city.
The results of the thesis allow to affirm that pedestrian routes modify the perception of the built city, granting some spaces more use than others. Pedestrian space, as a result of the transformation and reinterpretation in theories, models and projects, developed since the vehicle acquires prominence, has essential morphological characteristics for the configuration of the primary pedestrian network. This facilitates its implementation and systematic extension in the city, forming a basic structure to allow pedestrian moving through exclusive spaces integrated into urban life.
The interpretation and analysis of testimonies on the pedestrian experiences, staged in literature, plastic arts or drawing, illustrate and conceptualize the different ways in which pedestrians experience the city, according to distance, duration or reason of the travel, relating crossed space and movement on foot. The introduction of the automobile in the urban scene at the end of the 19th century represented a truly change of model both in the planning and in the construction and perception of the city, which had solved the different circulations in the same plane, without evident separations. Since then, there have been successive transformations and reinterpretations of the circulation space, which have also modified the place and role given to pedestrian.
The configuration of contemporary pedestrian space is a result of these processes, which have structured it giving it its own characteristics. This is the result of the comparison and contrast of twelve cases –multilevel pedestrian spaces, pedestrian areas and pedestrian axis– that validate its operation and its permanence in the city making it a significant place.
The primary pedestrian network is considered as a complex element that incorporates these characteristics, as well as the functional and formal requirements of urban networks, which will facilitate its implementation and extension in the urban space, as an integral element in itself and as a fundamental part of the mobility system, which claims a city for pedestrians.
