Urban renewal in central Linkping

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Urban renewal incentral Linköping Draft version
21 November 2007
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• Contents
• City centre environment and attraction
• Scope and goals of the urban renewal project
• Urban spaces
• Ground coverage programme
• Lighting programme
• Equipment programme
• Colour programme
• Sources

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The urban environment programme contains advice
and guidelines for designing the public spaces in
the city, city centre and other central
areas. Appropriate sections of the programme
will be used in areas adjacent to other central
areas. The programme will also considered in
urban planning and planning permission
decisions.
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Goals and measures

• Create the conditions for genuine street life
• wide pavements and more alleys without kerbs
  that can be furnished or used more flexibly, such
  as pavement cafes, more street trading etc.
• better general accessibility and availability
  for pedestrians through lower kerb heights and
  smaller radii in crossings
• calmer traffic rhythm through street design,
  using alleys etc.

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• Better accessibility for disabled persons -
  simpler geometric shapes and street design
• easily accessible pavement slabs or flared areas
  of cobbles on pedestrian paths
• - fewer obstructions, posts, bollards etc.
• furnishing alongside facades or in clearly
  marked furnishing zones
• - marked and easily accessible paths for people
  with reduced movement or orientation ability
• - all gulleys that cross pavements will be
  successively removed

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• More security and safety 
• - calmer traffic rhythm
• better lighting and colour reproduction, spec.
  in strategic positions
• more uniform and easily understood street
  environment
• Easier orientation
• - St Larsgatan and Storgatan will become parade
  streets
• simple geometric design with clear street
  hierarchy
• boulevard system developed in city centre
• squares, yards and parks will have individual
  characters
• Better contact with Stångån/Kinda canal and the
  Travel Centre
• - Storgatan will link the City Centre with
  Tannefors and a new Travel Centre

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• Create aesthetic values
• Simple and functional basic standard with strong
  public feel
• deep harmony through clear and consistent
  implementation
• timeless materials and careful workmanship
• Reinforce the identity of the city centre
• more alleys reinforce the small-scale feel of
  the city centre
• more natural stone material and care with
  details reinforces the small-scale feel and gives
  a hand-crafted feel
• street sections reinforce urban construction
  history

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Streets
Esplanades boulevards, avenues and wide city
streets Parade streets Storgatan and St
Larsgatan Urban streets traditional streets
with pavements, kerbs and roads Alleys
streets without kerbs Market streets alleys
with furnishing Historic alleys alleys with
medieval routes and cobbles or large flagstones
Pedestrian streets alleys that are reserved for
pedestrians
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Surfacing programme

• IN GENERAL
• wide granite kerbs in all inner city
• light surfaces
• care with details

CITY CENTRE - Large areas of natural stone, but
also concrete flags and asphalt INNER CITY
OUTSIDE CITY CORE - Asphalt on roads and
concrete flags on pavements

• CITY
• primarily natural Swedish bedrock
• traditional and timeless shapes and patterns
• long durability and recyclable
• age with beauty
• environmentally friendly and easy to care for
  and maintain
• easily commercial availability
• position and type of street determines actions
• flared granite slabs and types of cobbles for
  good accessibility

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Lighting programme

• greater security
• easier orientation
• good colour reproduction
• consistent basic lighting

- lighting plans
- squares, parks and parade streets will be given
individual, high class lighting
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Decorative lighting
- supplementary or decorative lighting
- tree lighting
- special lighting effects
Low energy technology and environmentally
friendly designs
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Example of boulevard
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Example of urban street alt. 1
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Example of urban street alt. 2
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Example of parade street in city alt. 1
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Photomontage of Storgatan as a parade street
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Photomontage of Storgatan as a parade street
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Example of alley in the city alt. 1
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Example of alley in the city alt. 2
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Equipment programme
- choice of material and design to suit existing
environment
- modern materials, installations, equipment and
details should have good design and high quality
- the cultural history of the urban environment
must be made visible
- highly versatile utilisation
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Colour programme

• - Public character
• - Uniformity and discrete colours
• Accents contrasted with light background
• Simplified maintenance

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Implementation
The urban renewal programme will be implemented
in the city centre, in collaboration with city
landowners and city retail businesses. Implementat
ion rate depends on investment resources, methods
used, work on underground services, need for
renovation, new construction and a desire for
minimal interference with business life, traffic
and culture
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Finances About 600 million SEK Joint
financing No final date for implementation The
city can be renovated during a period of 15-30
years