What is it?
Every individual living in the city must be able to access public spaces.
The project’s aim for people who live in disadvantaged districts, is to help them live a more active life in the city by enabling their mobility as pedestrians and on bicycle. The target group’s inability to allocate funds for transportation and so being deprived of social activities cause both social and psychological impoverishment. For this reason, the Triple-i team aims to design axes that are accessible for everyone and to unify these axes with open public spaces with a systematic urban planning approach. The heart of the idea is enabling the beneficiaries to travel in a cheap and comfortable way to spaces where they can carry out their social activities. At the same time, while designing the connection with open public spaces of these proposed accessible axes, integration with public transportation (rail system, rubber tire system) is also aimed for.
Why?
Transportation costs can take up a major portion of financially disadvantaged groups’ resources. People who end up having to compromise from social life due to this are limited in the spaces they can use. The team aims for the creation of open public spaces which people from all income segments can use and easily access, development of existing spaces, and connecting those spaces with bicycle and pedestrian axes to create a common, continuous network. Urban mobility is made more accessible with the provision of free travel thanks to the use of bicycles in the project. This also provides a solution to the problem of immobility. With this project, livable spaces will be created for people who carry out their social activities in unfavorable spaces by the formation of enveloping axes connecting to potential public spaces.