Presentation in Vienna, in The Beratung. Project Knowledge Transfer Programme of the European Union, partners Spain, Austria and Sweden, recipient: Turkey.

1. APPSA PROJECT
The Pedestrian Code
some experiences into urban protected
itineraries
Vienna, November 2012
Changing attitudes of drivers & pedestrians on Antalya
Gloria Conde Rodríguez – www.a3net.net - Barcelona

2. how to build a pedestrian culture in a short time?
KIT TOOL
THE PEDESTRIAN CODE
YAYA KODU
TYK
*five-year program*
WHAT’S THAT?
a quite simple a model to be applied everywhere to solve
a repetitive problem for everybody
because
everybody is a pedestrian

3. an experience in a suburban district in Barcelona
and into downtown business district in Buenos Aires
commonalities
there were multicultural families & companies
families economies were historically vulnerable
it depended on
local services & local trade & tourism

4. families hope innovations but not changes
(the change threatens their business)
families could block the projec, not companies
THE PEDESTRIAN CODE WOULD BE A CODE
FOR FAMILIES NO FOR COMPANIES

5. local government in Buenos Aires
has not legal power to invest in
sidewalks –they are in charge of
the private, only roadways are
in charge of citycouncil
local government in Barcelona
has not the power to modify
public space without consent by
citizen participation
Within both places –Buenos Aires
Downtown and Barcelona suburban
district, the families legitimate
‘what & where’

6. THE PEDESTRIAN CODE ALLOW REPEAT
MANY SMALL, COMPREHENSIVE and EFFECTIVE
INTERVENTIONS
in order to build a common language, easy to learn, easy to
use
In a Barcelona suburban district the changes would be made
without any way of discrimination
so, in the whole district
In Buenos Aires the changes couldn't be large scale ones
it would be made with
public & private investments

7. THE PEDESTRIAN CODE WOULD CONSTRUCT A SMART
STREET
families, companies, tourists using the street in the same time
easy to use
easy to
build

8. about the concern of
‘OUT OF OBSTACLES SPACE’
‘READY TO BE IN MOVEMENT’
it begins about the eighties, first focused on eliminating
architectural barriers for people in wheelchairs,
no much later
it spreads into the blind people needs
shortly afterwards
to the hearing impaired difficulties
now to
EVERYBODY!

9. now, we have some new ideas & concepts
1º idea… lets think on…
‘ALL IS IN MOVEMENT SPACE’
‘OUT OF OBSTACLES SPACE’
because
PUBLIC SPACE MAKE US ‘DISABLED’
1º concept…‘Disabled’ =
‘ countless limitations, that may occur everybody, at any time’
we need public space ready to use!

10. 2º idea…lets think on…
regardless of the means of transport we use
(...shoes, bicycle, motorcycle, wheelchair, crutches, trains, ship, aircraft...)
‘the car is not the enemy’

11. 3º idea...
new public space benefit concept
new european quality requirement
has evolved from first 1993 United Nations Uniform Rules...
2º concept =
OUT OF DIFFICULTIES PUBLIC SPACE =
‘is those that discharge basic functions,
impossible to satisfy using other suitable way in the
neighbourhood, with limit in the district’
based on
the number of demanded services
the users can’t access ‘out of obstacles’ to basic
services, in other way

12. ‘free obstacles movements guaranteed’
construct a worthy citizen behaviour city
ACCIDENTALLY SUMMARY REDUCED TO EXCEPTIONAL EPISODES
the goal is: to get an autonomous citizens city
more effective & efficient
‘requires public administration monitoring & reduce assistance to exceptional episodes
that makes a best valued city &
A VALUED CITY IS AN USABILITY ONE

13. KIT TOOL
THE PEDESTRIAN CODE
‘a whole connected city is a safe city of everyone’
In order to get a safe city for everybody
- capable of integrating
- low traffic accidentally
- low urban criminality
- high profitable for everybody
3º concept
THE PROTECTED ITINERARY
-the ambit for applying the code-

14. Compatible Itineary Concept = out of obstacles itinerary
for pedestrians, bycicles, drivers, urban furniture, all whole organized
…the art of the ‘empty’ space
…the art of the ‘a hard designed space
you don’t notice…’

15. Plain and vertical connection
make usability the city.
Everybody is disable
in public space: shopping carts
make us dissable, not only
wheelchairs!

16. All the streets are not to be protected/compatible itinerary
It’s important to identify & select them in the district
and develop solutions to resold ‘usability problems’
(…) sections that joins points of interest / superhabit of uses sections
infrahabit of space sections / unique trafique conflicts sections
unique sections by its topography or geography

17. now…lets see it > YAYA KODU > the elements catalogue
Customized and repetitive solutions by neighbourhood,
so it can construct the city image > city brand concept

18. from 1995, all public space projects in Barcelona must
create
1 (one) protected itinerary within the ambit of every draft
from 2019, all Spanish cities should begin to create it ,
progressively, in every existent public spaces
if you visit us
you will automatically move in the pedestrian code way
by foot, by car, by bike, by wheelschair, because the city
requires you, everyway & everywhere,
to act as a pedestrian
thank you!
Changing attitudes of drivers & pedestrian on Antalya
Gloria Conde Rodríguez - www.a3net.net - Barcelona