The doctoral thesis is focused on the integration of traffic flows into the open public space.
The purpose is to research any city ground floor components and to demonstrate their coherence and correlation. The main aim and objective are to find out how and under what conditions it is possible to realise the integration of traffic flows into the city ground floor space.
A systematic assessment of any and all components of the city ground floor (e.g. programmes and elements) and traffic flows was conducted based on criteria of the qualitative space. The purpose was to achieve the highest level of the integration of the components in addition to protection of the vulnerable groups.
A review of theoretical sources is followed by research of all pioneering functional examples of shared space in the European Union and the United Kingdom that is providing the criteria and a method for assessment of the integration of the traffic into the city ground floor space as well as the guidelines for planning and devising a public space type that would provide a successful community development. Research methodology and the criteria obtained were tested on a case study of Slovenska cesta (Slovenska Street) in Ljubljana. Reference case analysis, case study and the theoretical framework provide a scope of criteria and guidelines on how to integrate traffic flows into the city ground floor in the best possible way. The end result is a qualitative, economically feasible and inclusive space (the so-called community space).
Any criteria and guidelines for the selection of adequate programmes and elements that are required for the integration into the city ground floor in a way that would help support the community development and therefore the formation of the community space, are also defined.
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