Jul 17, 2020 07:00:00

A local government that implements city planning that prioritizes new coronavirus measures appears

It is said that it is important to keep a social distance, because new coronaviruses are generally thought to

spread due to flight and contact infections . However, depending on the shape of the cityscape, it may be physically difficult to secure a social distance. Baltimore City, Maryland, which is also known as the birthplace of the American Star Flag, has made a city plan that emphasizes countermeasures against the new coronavirus, and it costs 1.5 million dollars (about 160 million yen) to realize it. I plan to throw it.

Ideas_Guidebook_Final.pdf
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10 Design Concepts for City Living Under Covid-19-Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-14/10-design-concepts-for-city-living-under-covid-19

Baltimore City held a “Design For Distancing” urban planning design competition where citizens can secure sufficient social distance as measures against the new coronavirus in urban environments such as streets, alleys, vacant lots, and parking lots.

Design For Distancing
https://www.designfordistancing.org/

The Baltimore City Authority, the Baltimore City Development Corporation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the city, and the Neighborhood Design Center, a non-profit organization for urban planning, received 162 applications from architects in the city. , Selected 10 city plans. The selection criteria are 'Comprehensive and equal, protecting the health of citizens,' 'Securing both physical and social distances,' 'Supporting businesses in need in a pandemic,' and 'Practical.' $5,000 for each winner, such as 'to make use of the existing environment', 'to be able to achieve in a short period of time', 'to be unique, warm, attractive, and safe'. About 540,000 yen) was given.

An example of the winning plan looks like this. 'Organizing the Street' plans to use existing roads to install seats where pedestrians can relax. Each seat can secure a sufficient social distance. Since the new coronavirus has a lower risk of infection outdoors, all the plans chosen are ideas for using outdoors.

'The Food Court' is a food court where you can physically set up a table and set up a table in a space like a boardwalk. The idea is to plant grass seeds and make grass unevenness, and it is also possible to reduce the

heat island effect.

'Micro District' is an idea to build such facilities into outdoor spaces in response to the lack of essential facilities such as grocery stores, restaurants and libraries in black and

brown communities due to pandemics.

In the ' (PDF file) Ideas Guidebook Final ', which was released as announcing the winners, we received a review of the plans that were won.

On the blueprints of the equipment necessary for planning...

Details such as the whole design are open to the public. These are plans that have been collected for the city of Baltimore, but they are willing to use other municipalities and companies.

Several plans have been selected based on the concept of 'a cityscape without cars' that utilizes existing roads, based on the idea that 'access to the neighborhood will be unfair if the space for cars is prioritized in the cityscape'. ..

The City of Baltimore allocates a budget of $5,000 to $100,000 (about ¥100.7 million) to each of the 10 selected city plans, and executes the plan at 17 locations in the city in the summer of 2020. I plan to move to. These 17 locations are selected in areas that suffer from long-term investment slumps. Each position is below.

Each plan also takes into account racist issues.