Compare and Contrast the Approaches of Buchanan and Monderman to Ordering Public Spaces That Include Pedestrian and Motor Vehicles
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Social Order is how people ‘fit’ together with each other and the world around them ( Silva, 2009. pg 311), it is how people know how to behave and what they expect from others in social situations. Social Scientists understand there are many factors to consider when studying order; it is a combination of imagination, practices and the ideas of past and the future (Silva, 2009. Pg 311). This essay will look at an influential report by Buchanan, produced in 1963 and a thesis by Hans Monderman, both of these look at the connection between social ordering in public spaces between pedestrians and motor vehicles. The essay will compare the studies and show the similarities and differences between them, and how they both solve the problem to traffic management. It will also discuss the models in which both Monderman and Buchanan use in their thesis.
The Buchanan report was published in 1963; it was extremely influential at the time and was commissioned by the UK Government (Silva, 2009. Pg325) the report was based on the idea of segregating pedestrians and cars. Buchanans idea was to create ‘rooms’ for shops, workers and leisure activities, and create ‘corridors’ for traffic to move through (Silva, 2009. Pg328). To create a ‘civilised environment’ between people and the increasing number of car owners he suggested that either the use of cars would have to be greatly restricted or towns would have to be reconstructed to be able to accommodate more traffic. Due to the amount of money the reconstruction would cost, the restricted use of cars in town areas became the vision for ordering space (Silva, 2009. Pg328) Buchanan’s report is supported by a statistical data table (Silva, 2009. Pg 326) which show a huge increase in road traffic between 1949 and 2006, the data shows that public space was clearly now dominated by cars and other motor vehicles and had grown by a minimum of ten times emphasising a greater need for some sort of order to be created so pedestrians and...
The Buchanan report was published in 1963; it was extremely influential at the time and was commissioned by the UK Government (Silva, 2009. Pg325) the report was based on the idea of segregating pedestrians and cars. Buchanans idea was to create ‘rooms’ for shops, workers and leisure activities, and create ‘corridors’ for traffic to move through (Silva, 2009. Pg328). To create a ‘civilised environment’ between people and the increasing number of car owners he suggested that either the use of cars would have to be greatly restricted or towns would have to be reconstructed to be able to accommodate more traffic. Due to the amount of money the reconstruction would cost, the restricted use of cars in town areas became the vision for ordering space (Silva, 2009. Pg328) Buchanan’s report is supported by a statistical data table (Silva, 2009. Pg 326) which show a huge increase in road traffic between 1949 and 2006, the data shows that public space was clearly now dominated by cars and other motor vehicles and had grown by a minimum of ten times emphasising a greater need for some sort of order to be created so pedestrians and...