From Queen Street Mall to Elizabeth Street - a change of site
After gathering research on Queen street mall and intending to redesign the street with new topography and small architectural entities I have decided to focus on one of the newly proposed pedestrian streets (which you can find in earlier posts). Queen st is a well established pedestrian with a great deal of history behind it. It is currently a major route for pedestrians who are already very familiar with its elements, functions and uses. Therefore creating major changes to the street could have a negative effect. It is more logical to design a new element of public space in the city, and create new familiarities and pedestrian routes. I have chosen to focus on the pedestrianisation of Elizabeth Street. Once established and successful, this could be a prototype starting point for many streets turning into pedestrian streets. Even somewhere down the track it could be implemented in Queen st, but at the moment I think it would be more logical to design one of the newly proposed pedestrian streets.
After gathering research on Queen street mall and intending to redesign the street with new topography and small architectural entities I have decided to focus on one of the newly proposed pedestrian streets (which you can find in earlier posts). Queen st is a well established pedestrian with a great deal of history behind it. It is currently a major route for pedestrians who are already very familiar with its elements, functions and uses. Therefore creating major changes to the street could have a negative effect. It is more logical to design a new element of public space in the city, and create new familiarities and pedestrian routes. I have chosen to focus on the pedestrianisation of Elizabeth Street. Once established and successful, this could be a prototype starting point for many streets turning into pedestrian streets. Even somewhere down the track it could be implemented in Queen st, but at the moment I think it would be more logical to design one of the newly proposed pedestrian streets.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StateLibQld_1_106136_Traffic_congestion_in_Elizabeth_Street,_Brisbane,_1939.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StateLibQld_1_106136_Traffic_congestion_in_Elizabeth_Street,_Brisbane,_1939.jpg
http://www.ozatwar.com/bunkers/airraidshelterelizabethst.htm
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