Stauskis, G., 2009, Tvarus turizmas ir rekreacija – alternatyvaus mobilumo skatinimo būdas, in: Urbanistika ir architektūra, NULL, 1
- Author : Stauskis, G.
- Year : 2009
- Title English : Development of Sustainable Recreation and Tourism as a Way to Promote Alternative Urban Mobility
- Journal/Series : Urbanistika ir architektūra
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 1
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : NULL
- Pages : 28-38
- Abstract in English : The research presents a method for developing sustainable recreation and tourism network in urban and suburban areas. For this reason interaction between urban and the surrounding spaces of Vilnius City has been analyzed. Sustainable recreation is considered as a complex of measures to control unlimited expansion of motorized traffic into residential and public areas and facilitate development of pedestrian, cycling and water mobility in cities. The obstacles to develop sustainable recreation from urban area to suburban spaces are analyzed and disclosed. Structural disconnections between urban passages and public spaces, absence of direct access corridors from residential parts of the city to recreation areas in suburban region, uncoordinated spontaneous urban development are the main ones. Because of this Vilnius City is experiencing a shrinking net of pedestrian and cycling tracks and river mobility lines that are especially favored by citizens for recreation purposes in town. Uncontrolled traffic sprawl is another connected reality that makes sustainable mobility in town even more difficult. The proposed method for creating a network of sustainable mobility tracks in residential and public environment is based on coordinated planning of “green corridors” linking urban and suburban areas with interior and exterior recreation resources, connection of urban, regional and national networks of pedestrian, cycling and river travel tracks. Integration of diverse types of recreational mobility in planned travel routes is applied as an attractive innovation. Public transport as trolleybuses, busses and railway - is also integrated into the system of sustainable recreation in residential spaces. The planning proposals of sustainable recreation network for Vilnius City were presented to municipality and now are undergoing a practical testing phase in the analyzed sites with involvement of local residents and the visitors.
- Contents in English : GINTARAS STAUSKIS Dr (since 1994), Assoc Prof ( since 2000), Dept of Urban Design, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), Traku str. 1/26, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania. E–mail: gintaras.stauskis@vtu.lt The author is engaged in international and European research projects on the topics of future development of diverse elements in modern urban systems. Research interests: humanization of urban environment, future development of networks of health and social services, development of non–engine mobility in cities, accessibility of buildings and facilities.
- Comments/Notes : Full text at VGTU Scientific magasine "Town Planning and Architecture": http://www.tpa.vgtu.lt/lt/3/NR/PUB/14823