SRSA 04a railway city open city pg

SRSA_04A_SPOORSTAD_OPEN_STAD_PG City development/Space Summary: The s-RSA presents the future spatial policy of the city of Antwerp. This policy is made up of a generic or city-wide vision and an active or project-based approach. The generic policy can be described as follows: · The generic policy is made up of seven images: water city, eco-city, port city, railway city, porous city, villages and metropolis and megacity. These images together form the collective memory of the city’s inhabitants and visitors. · From a generic approach, strategic policy means setting a number of goals, structured according to the city’s images, which in turn determine strategic selections and measures. These selections form the basis for the selection cards. · The images of the city form the frame of reference that every project relating to Antwerp must take into account. This framework is made up of rules drawn up from each image. Since the generic rules apply to the entire territory of the city, the active policy (the spaces, programmes and projects) should also focus on this The image of the ‘rail city’ is one of the seven images within the s-RSA. This image advocates the opening of the city by increasing its accessibility. This image, through the literal meaning of traces, creates the illusion of focusing only on public transport. In reality, this image covers all spatial and functional mobility aspects. As far as car traffic is concerned, the city and the port must remain accessible by motorways. As a result, projects are understood as closing the ring and separating on-going and destination traffic. Both have a major impact on the lower network of the city both spatially and on traffic handling. The better development of this fine mesh network, together with the overhead network, should ensure the creation of a city with open spatial system. However, public transport plays an important role in this image, as a more developed and efficient public transport network can reduce car orientation and thus increase the accessibility of the city and its liveability. The improvement of public transport translates into: strengthening the territorial boulevards that run from the districts to the city centre (this type of boulevard always includes a tram), the setting up of radial boulevards that connect the different districts (this type of tram is desirable), the complete redesign of a green Singel (for local traffic) improving the coordination between different forms of public transport and with other modes. Purpose: Visualisation of the selection map 04A_spoorstad_open_city of the SRSA,The delimitations are not hard limits, and one can further specify in the implementation process. The selection map is not a zoning plan or land use plan. The card does not confirm or deny building rights Production: The selection maps are the result of the conversion of the seven formatted images of the city into shape format. The autocad maps and the corresponding grids were used as a basis for this. The registration was done with the help of the large-scale basic map of the city of Antwerp. &Creation Date: 2006-09-18T00:00:00 &Publication date: 2006-09-18T00:00:00  Update frequency: not planned & Management: Gert Van Oost &Contact: [email protected]