Design Pre-thesis 2 | Urbanism

The concept of the woonerf was developed in the late 1960s in the city of Delft, Netherlands. Residents of a neighborhood were upset with cut-through traffic speeding through their neighborhood, making it unsafe. The main goal of a woonerf is to change the way streets are used and to improve the quality of life in residential streets by designing them for people, not just for traffic. In a woonerf, the street is shared among : 1-pedestrians, 2-bicyclists, 3-motor vehicles; However, pedestrians have priority over cars.