Challenges to Pedestrian Space in Historic City Centers: Raja Bazaar, Rawalpindi
By Samna Sadaf Khan Project Location: Streets of Raja Bazaar, A historic market in the core of the city, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Raja Bazaar, a historic market, liesContinue Reading
Göteborg – 400 years
Happy 400th Göteborg! Did you know that Göteborg is celebrating 400 this year! We snapped this from a rooftop in Summer 2020 before beginning to get toContinue Reading
Welcoming Contributions
Welcoming contributions to pedestrianspace.org! Pedestrian Space is a media, research & advocacy project on the benefits & challenges of historic & contemporary pedestrian initiatives. It relates toContinue Reading
Suggestions for Summer Street Improvements (Stockholm)
In learning more about Summer Streets of Stockholm, we are reading the survey Resultat Medborgarpanel Sommarplatser (August 2020), prepared for Stockholm city by Novus.se. These were suggestionsContinue Reading
SHARE-North Mobility pyramid
There are many great reverse mobility pyramids out there and we happen to value this one by SHARE-North (whose permission we have received to republish here). SHARE-North’sContinue Reading
Stockholm Summer Streets Research
We recently spoke with Joanna Saber about her 2017 thesis work at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan -“En plats att vara på- Den tillfälliga gågatans inverkan på Stockholms stads- och näringsliv.”Continue Reading
Summer Street: Swedenborgsgatan
Swedenborgsgatan, located in Södermalm, is one of several Summer streets in Stockholm. We’ve recently begun communicating with some of the businesses on the street to gain insightContinue Reading
Urbanism Next Virtual Forum 2021
I will be presenting at the Urbanism Next (University of Oregon) Virtual Forum 2021 on March 18th. I’ll be sharing about Pedestrian Space, the website this projectContinue Reading
Challenges to Pedestrianization
As we communicate with municipalities, planners, advocates, businesses, organizations, residents and more about pedestrianization issues, we always welcome learning about the challenges. It is instructive to learnContinue Reading
“Calm Waters’
Last Summer while visiting Göteborg I passed by this artwork. I paused for several minutes to admire it and snap a few photos. This month I learnedContinue Reading