The aim of an article is to present the threats which may be caused by the construction of the transit road inside the city structure, and some mitigation measures aiming to eliminate or minimize environmental and landscape damages and social problems. Theoretical guidelines and conclusions will be followed by the example illustrating the problem. As an answer, some guidelines enabling sustainable road planning will be presented. City structures should create resilient organism, in terms of integrated space, environment, society and transport system. Unfortunately it is not always being considered in road planning. The space between the neighbouring city structures should connect them, not divide, even if it is road corridor. Complexity of planning, long-term thinking about the city environment in design and decision making, are the ways to improve road planning, to protect existing values and minimize negative impacts. Considering urban context should be taken into account to protect local identity, environmental values, and to meet social needs. Environmental Impact Assessment procedure may help minimize negative environmental and landscape impacts. Taking all these guidelines into account during road planning potential problems should be minimized and city structures should be improved. However these commonly known theoretical guidelines are not always obvious in practice. We can observe many examples of creating new concrete and technical road corridors inside urban tissue, with no respect for landscape and greenway planning and not using such possibilities like green and blue infrastructure. The presented case study will illustrate the issues arising during planning and construction of the part of road system in Gdansk, Poland.
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- Category
- Aktywność konferencyjna
- Type
- publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2016
