Regularities of the Formation of the City Pedestrian Environment
The article critically examines the design and construction of pedestrian areas, considering the specifics of transport services in the largest cities of Russia, cultural heritage and scale of modern mobility of the population. It also emphasizes the need to solve the problem of formation of pedestrian streets, adjusting the relevance of the proposed small urban design, without forgetting the main purpose of the street - to ensure the movement of pedestrians. At the same time, it is asserted that the content of the street is a showcase of the actual functional purpose of objects that are placed in a certain place, often with along history, and not a contrived decoration, often out of place borrowed from foreign practice. In order to identify public opinion about the latest trends in the organization of pedestrian traffic, a preliminary survey of residents, mainly with children or grandchildren, was conducted, and it showed the failure of the idea of carrying out yard functions on the street for our practice. At the same time, the return of the experience of the XII-XIII centuries, when vehicles were not allowed into the yards and two exits from residential buildings were created: one "front" and the other "black", overlooking the economic yard, helped to solve the modern problem of separation of space for pedestrians and transport.