The Guideline ‘Healthy Streets in Tartu’
Healthy Streets in Tartu is a guideline providing help for city officials or specialists working on spatial design.
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Data-driven Parking Norms
It is no news to architects and real estate developers that the design of a new spatial environment usually begins with parking spaces as if it was the fundamental value. More and more practitioners, however, complain about the outdated mindset related to parking norms and the need for a new approach allowing to implement more sustainable decisions. Tartu city architect and the head of the spatial design department Tõnis Arjus discusses the city’s new ambitious online app considering the parking spaces according to the actual need.
Meaningful Spatial Design in the Perplexing Procedural Culture
Contradictions of spatial planning are caused by the time required to process comprehensive and detailed plans as well as (spatial) gap between the two. How to better make sense of planning processes and to alleviate rigidity of the aforementioned?
Jaak-Adam Looveer—Creating Spaces with Bureaucratic Means
All pioneering and innovative projects need support to prevent them from getting stuck in the old rut under the pressure of red tape.
A (Sustainable, Healthy, Innovative, Creative, Diverse, and Lively) City
If there is any feeling of blandness, or risk aversion, or scant sense of place, it is not due to insufficient bike lanes or pedestrian squares, but rather because the larger questions of what is produced and who gets to have how much have already been decided.
Spatial Design at Põhja-Tallinn
The general plan for the Põhja-Tallinn city district is headed in the overall direction of diminishing the proportion of industry, increasing openness to the sea, developing the mobility environment via public transportation and bicycle traffic, and strengthening the blue-green network of the district.
From Submarines to Bicycles: The Story of Noblessner
Living close to water is good for our health: it reduces the risk of premature death, obesity, and has a generally restorative effect on people’s mental and physical health. 1 In the city, water is often so near, yet so far. Did you know there are more canals in Birmingham than there are in Venice, but people have been separated from the water by bad urban space? Tallinn has a long coastline but there are very few places in the centre where you can access the sea at all.
Rotermann Quarter 20 Years Later
Rotermann Quarter stands out for the diversity of its new-builds and reconstructed former industrial buildings. There is probably no other area in Estonia awarded with as many prizes as this one. Mathilda Viigimäe and Kristi Tšernilovksi shed light on the architectural development of Rotermann Quarter.
Why Do We Need Streets?
Thinking of design as a service means bringing into focus the user and user needs. The impact of user-specificity is steadily increasing in how the processes of spatial design are approached. Ave Habakuk from the Living Street movement writes about how to think of the street as a service.
Winter 2023 (111): Street Unrest
Spatial design of a city is not a project with a clear beginning and end, but a continuous process, and a wickedly slow one at that.
