Theories and practices for reconciling transport, public space, and people - a review

摘要

Prioritising people and public spaces in urban transport infrastructure planning is crucial to achieving sustainabledevelopment. This paper examines the theories, principles and real-world practices in pursuing a human-centred andsustainable design of an integrated transport infrastructure–public space system. The paper chronologically reviewsthe origins of the concept for building such a holistic system within urban and transportation planning discourse andrevisits a set of typical practices of applying the design theories to various urban contexts. The findings of this paperare presented in a timeline of multi-disciplinary theories, and in a table of development patterns of context-basedsolutions for reconciling transport, spaces and people. These results expand theoretical and practical knowledge ofstrategies for integrating transport, spaces and people in urban regeneration programmes. Furthermore, they couldsupport practitioners and scholars to revisit existing urban projects and to develop sustainable transport plansprioritising the roles of people and public space.