Compare and Contrast Buchanan and Monderman’s Approaches to the Production of Social Order in Public Spaces.
Compare and contrast Buchanan and Monderman’s approaches to the production of social order in public spaces.
Public spaces are places which we have to share with others and where apply shared sets of values or expectations about how people should behave. Social order is very important in social life. Order is part of the way people practice their social existence. It is about how individuals fit together with others and with things around them. Ordering is all the time practised by people and is central to social life. Social order is not easy to make, it involves a lot of things like practices, making everything and everyone fit together and also having in mind ideas about the past and the future (Silva, 2009). Social order needs to be regularly remade, as it delivers rules, norms and expectations which enable people to go about their daily life. Social order is not the same everywhere; each society has its own order and changes across the time (Silva, 2009). The road traffic and the design of streets are one of the examples of the order in social life. Following different strategies about benefits, governments across the time, have wanted to plan, design and carry through the road systems which segregate pedestrians and motor vehicles (Silva, 2009). This essay will explore two different strategies for relations between humans and vehicles on the roads. First one is the Buchanan Report from 1963, which stated on the segregation of cars and pedestrians. Second one is based on the idea of ‘shared space’ from Dutch engineer, Hans Monderman. Also this essay will look at Goffman’s and Foucalt’s work in this subject.
Between 1949 and 1969 the number of vehicle-kilometres has increased four times. There were lots of changes needed, not only more roads built, but also new towns layout for the growing number of cars. All of those changes show favouritism for flexible arrangements in the ordering of social life (Silva, 2009). In 1961, Colin Buchanan, started work on
Public spaces are places which we have to share with others and where apply shared sets of values or expectations about how people should behave. Social order is very important in social life. Order is part of the way people practice their social existence. It is about how individuals fit together with others and with things around them. Ordering is all the time practised by people and is central to social life. Social order is not easy to make, it involves a lot of things like practices, making everything and everyone fit together and also having in mind ideas about the past and the future (Silva, 2009). Social order needs to be regularly remade, as it delivers rules, norms and expectations which enable people to go about their daily life. Social order is not the same everywhere; each society has its own order and changes across the time (Silva, 2009). The road traffic and the design of streets are one of the examples of the order in social life. Following different strategies about benefits, governments across the time, have wanted to plan, design and carry through the road systems which segregate pedestrians and motor vehicles (Silva, 2009). This essay will explore two different strategies for relations between humans and vehicles on the roads. First one is the Buchanan Report from 1963, which stated on the segregation of cars and pedestrians. Second one is based on the idea of ‘shared space’ from Dutch engineer, Hans Monderman. Also this essay will look at Goffman’s and Foucalt’s work in this subject.
Between 1949 and 1969 the number of vehicle-kilometres has increased four times. There were lots of changes needed, not only more roads built, but also new towns layout for the growing number of cars. All of those changes show favouritism for flexible arrangements in the ordering of social life (Silva, 2009). In 1961, Colin Buchanan, started work on