Compare and Contrast the Approaches of Buchanan and Monderman to Ordering Public Spaces That Include Pedestrians and Motor Vehicles.

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Compare and contrast the approaches of Buchanan and Monderman to ordering public spaces that include pedestrians and motor vehicles. This essay will be looking at two different approaches to ordering public spaces. A public space is a social space that is generally open and accessible to people, i.e - roads, pavements, parks and beaches. (Wikipedia, 2012) The aim for this essay is to compare and contrast Buchanan's approach with Monderman's approach. This will be done by first giving a description of both of their approaches and then let it lead through in to four different comparison points which are: The aim of their work, their methods, how each approach gives order to the streets and lastly how safe their approaches makes the roads. To end, it will give and summary and conclude the essay. To start this essay, It needs to give a little bit of information on Buchanan's and Monderman's work. Proffesser Sir Colin D Buchanan was a British town planner. He became Britain's most famous town planner following the publication of the report he did called 'traffic in towns' which presented a comprehensive view of the issues surrounding the growth of personal car ownership and urban traffic in the UK. (Oxford University Press, 2013) The 'traffic in towns' report was written by Buchanan when he was commisioned by the U.K government. The report showed of a new design for urban spaces across the United Kingdom. The idea was to segregate the motor vehicles from the pedestrians in order to engineer the efficient access and distribution of a growing number of vehicles and pedestrians whilst also trying to keep a good standard environment for life in the towns. (Darkes, T et al, 2009). Han Monderman was a Dutch road traffic engineer. He became recognised for radically challenging the criteria used to evaluate engineering solutions for street designs. (World Technology

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