| Titre | Entre la rue résidentielle et le boulevard : le cas des soi de Bangkok | |
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| Auteur | Éric Charmes | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 34, octobre-décembre 1998 | |
| Page | 21-32 | |
| Résumé anglais |
On the ground that they unavoidably mix car drivers and residents, many contemporary urban planners consider that distributor and collector roads should not exist: to them, apart from expressways, an ideal street network should be made up of only residential streets and boulevards devoid of dwellings. This model is based on the assumption that traffic is not compatible with the day-today life of street dwellers. To the opinion of most planners, only dead-end streets are suitable for residential areas. This article suggests, however, that traffic externalities are not always negative. The case of Bangkok's dead-end streets opening to traffic shows that street dwellers may be satisfied with a higher-than-negligible traffic volume. This is related to the fact that more traffic generally means better accessibility and more opportunities for commerce. Even if one should be cautious in inferring general rules from particular cases, one may at least conclude that the appearance of distributor roads in the urban fabric is not necessarily pathological. The differentiation of streets must be understood as a consequence of the fact that territorial and local uses of the urban space are maintained together in a complex relationship, constituted by a dynamic mixture of repelling and attractive forces. These findings may seem of little account but, considering how urban planners work in general, they deserve to be repeated again with a certain degree of insistence. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/flux_1154-2721_1998_num_14_34_1234 |
