Wards+Corner+-+The+Community+Plan+-+Photos+-+Ideas+for+external+corridor

|| An important way to create lively, exciting and interesting street life is to make good use of relatively narrow spaces between property along the thoroughfare. It is important to increase the frequency of doors, windows and other elements that produce a vibe/energy which is essential to an enjoyable pedestrian experience.
 * The Community Plan proposes a pedestrian thoroughfare which is open to and accessible from West Green Road, Seven Sisters and Suffield Road. This pedestrian thoroughfare will also be connected to the High Road through the market.**
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Green - cafes - bicycles restaurants - organic farmers market [fresh fish market?]
 * Active and Diverse Retail**. An essential ingredient for a street to be walkable in the more urban area of a town is for the street to be lined with a rich collection of healthy, diverse, local retail establishments. Such an assemblage of enterprises ensures people that strolling down such a street will nearly always reward one with a fascinating cornucopia of sights, smells, sounds and potentially satisfying purchases-no matter how often the street is walked.

Floors opened up exposing atrium at central corridor connecting the High Road to the rear pedestrianised community café spaces

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**Human-Scaled Dimensions**. People tend to feel most comfortable and safe when they are in "human-scaled" spaces. That is, spaces that do not dwarf them, make them feel insignificant, or over-exposed. Crucially, this means that horizontal and vertical dimensions of the surrounding physical elements of a street are relatively modest in size. In general, this means that streets are no more than two or three lanes wide. In the more urban areas of a town, buildings are pulled up to and abutting street-side sidewalks, and front porches are within "conversational distance" of sidewalks. Surface parking lots are tucked //behind// buildings and walls. Street lights are no more than 20 to 30 feet tall (modest street light structures effectively establish a romantic ambience). The urban fabric is un-interrupted by gap-tooth parking lots. Instead, a continuous street wall is maintained. Buildings tend to be no greater than five stories, such as is found in Paris. Note, however, that buildings along a walkable street should generally be at least two stories in height in order to more effectively create the pleasing sense of enclosure. And to increase opportunities along the street for vertical mixed use buildings in which a first floor is occupied by an office or store, and above stories are occupied by a residence. Human-scaled streets create the overwhelmingly pleasant feeling of being within an "outdoor room." And, as a result, creating that all-important "sense of place."