The thesis emerged as a critical analysis
of the management of public and traffic
surfaces in urban areas, which are planned
entirely from a technical perspective, and
prioritize car travel as the most important
use of public and traffic spaces in terms
of safety, utility, and comfort. However, it
is essential for the space to approach its
planning in an interdisciplinary manner
and, in collaboration with design and traffic
engineering experts, to reprioritize the
space and subordinate it to the human
experience in urban settlements.
The thesis, created as a guide for planning
traffic surfaces, evaluates current practices,
analyzes them, and based on field analyses,
identifies fifteen systemic problems on
three levels of perception. Subsequently,
it proposes systemic solutions for these
problems, reprioritizing the space
according to an inverted traffic priority
pyramid, where the highest and largest
segment is occupied by pedestrians,
followed by cyclists, public transport, and
lastly, private motorized traffic.
In the project section, the proposed
systemic solutions are applied in a realworld
example for the Zelena Jama area in
Ljubljana, which, at the time of this work,
is undergoing urban renewal primarily
involving residential construction. The
project proposes redirected flows of car
transit to the hgher capacity throughfares,
thus reserving space for public transport
and creating calm, traffic-safe residential
neighborhoods that do not allow transit
car traffic.
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