Escenarios peatonales: del espacio compartido a la red exclusiva

Abstract

Over time, pedestrian spaces have been conceived to perform diverse roles such as settlers of an urban space, as defined –but not preferred– spaces in a diversified street section, as segregated spaces of urban life, and recently, as elements that ensure the liveliness in an area, neighborhood or city. In the majority of the mentioned roles, the pedestrian is the one who has been adapting to the resulting spaces, the ones that have come from interventions that centralize the vehicle. Currently, spaces that prioritize the pedestrian have been multiplied in the cities with the aim of bringing people to the urban structure. However, in a very imbalanced mobility system, it is absolutely necessary to plan exclusive and continuous pedestrian areas, in a connected organized network, as a mean for giving back to the pedestrian what the vehicle has taken away.