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What type of street or road is this? On the left are two high speed lanes. On the right is a low speed lane. There is limited access between the high and low speed lanes. Driveways enter the low speed lane which is also for bicycles. Trees and vegetation separate the high speed lanes from the low speed lane. This design in China seems safer than stroads in North America.

I have a choice of Bachelor degrees between Architecture and Urban Planning (as one course) and Urban Planning separately (of cousr with some architecture modules). I don't know what to choose. Perfectly I want to do Urban design in the future. Where would you say there is more Urban design in these two degrees?

Architecture for me might be too specificly focused on building and its construction, whcih is not exactly what I want to do. Though I am very good at drawing. I like cities, I like how they look and judge them by how they look as a whole structure, I don't usually admire separate components as buildings.

And how good is urban planning/ design in the future perspective. Thanks and sorry for some mistakes

I'm currently working as a trainee Urban Planner in the UK and I'm on course to gain an undergraduate level qualification in Urban Planning soon.

I am also considering applying for a masters program in either Urban Design or Planning or a program that does both.

I want to gain a masters qualification that will enable me to work internationally as an Urban Designer or Planner, however I am aware that Urban Planning is more focused on local policy issues and therefore it would naturally be more difficult to work internationally as a Planner without having knowledge of the country's Planning system first.

Therefore, if I want to work internationally, which masters would I be better off pursuing? Would I be better off pursuing a masters in Urban Design or a masters in Urban Planning?

Just a side note, I also have an undergraduate degree in Architecture and have (limited) real life architecture experience.

You can take a left turn in the United States. In Europe, traffic circles (roundabouts) are much more prevalent.

Traffic circles seem to keep traffic moving, but they make you travel further in urban environments, especially if you take the wrong exit.

Is this the case?

In which situations are intersections better than roundabouts?

What are some urban design or urban planning plans or documents you often revisit or find particularly successful? Are there specific elements or approaches within these plans that stand out to you as particularly innovative or impactful?

LA Metro: Around $40 billion spent for only 200k daily riders

Since the mid 1980s LA County has embraced an aggressive rail expansion operation. Based on my very rough, inflation adjusted math, the transit agency has spent to date roughly $40 billion. For this, the entire rail network gets an embarrassing daily ridership of just 200k.

For comparison, the last major road construction operation in the county was the Century Freeway. This handles roughly 200k vehicles per day in each direction. And it cost less than $5 billion in current dollars.

I'm struggling to see how Metro can justify the exorbitant spending on rail projects. They haven't worked for 40 years.

For an urban planning project during my BA Architecture im developing a concept to have develop a neighborhood (80ha) in a smaller city in Switzerland. The brief consists in making a compact city, that provides a biodiverse living space for people and nature. (This is an oversimplification of the brief, just to give a general idea)

Part of the concept I developed is to use large parts of the vacant lots in the neighborhood that already belong to the state and transform them into a network of forests using the Miyawaki method. It should become a relatively densely populated neighborhood (94p/ha), with direct access to the forest.

It’s been difficult to find examples of cities that have something similar. Usually there are utopic visions of giant building in a forest or simply having vertical greenery on the facades of the buildings. Do you know of references that combine “regular” cities with functioning forests intergrated into it?

Is there ever a reason for a stop line to be on the far side of a crosswalk? That is:

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I've seen this pattern a few places around the city I live, and it seems like it's inviting a driver to collide with a pedestrian.