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Framework Paper by Anastasia P. Kamai:

I propose that each of the workshop participants prepare responses to especially items 1, 2 and 4.

  1. What is your concept of culture? Does Dorothy Lee's definition provide adequate support for your concept of culture?
  2. What is your definition of traffic culture?
  3. The workshop will have three levels of discussion:
    • a. What additional human needs and factors must be considered in the planning of an urban transport system e.g.
      1. city size and layout
      2. traffic movement within the city
      3. existing road network
      4. land use policies
      5. parking
      6. environmental impacts
      7. pedestrian flow
      8. peak-hour crowding on urban transport system
      9. accidents
      10. adequacy of off-peak public transport system
      11. safety / security
      12. neighbourhoods to be served
      13. inexpensive (cost factors)
      14. dependence on private vehicles
      15. relationship of the city to the needs to the people who live there
      16. comfort
      17. aesthetics: architecture, art
      18. ____________________ other factors etc. please list
    • b. How does the culture of a region or country (customs, norms, values, behaviour, experiences, historical perspectives) affect the above considerations in developing an urban transport system. Rank the above and others for the sample cities
      • Athens
      • Milano
      • Lille
      • London
      • Berlin
      • No affect
    • c. Which of the factors culturally effected can be implemented and in which of the
      following three phases: planning phase, design phase, operations phase?
      Here think the specific proposals or input from the workshop participants can be
      incorporated into the discussion.
  4. Please provide a brief description of how your proposal fits into the general framework of the workshop.

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