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Potential for change Main menu Part One - identifying the greenstructure characteristics the users require Part Two - identifying landscape character zones
Park
de Gagel more will be added later onthe following greenspace issues: Other District Sports and Play Facilities The greenspaces along river de Vecht and links into the City The Forts and the Countryside - The "Green-routes"
Potential for change Main menu Part One - identifying the greenstructure characteristics the users require Part Two - identifying landscape character zones
Park
de Gagel more will be added later onthe following greenspace issues: Other District Sports and Play Facilities The greenspaces along river de Vecht and links into the City The Forts and the Countryside - The "Green-routes"
Potential for change Main menu Part One - identifying the greenstructure characteristics the users require Part Two - identifying landscape character zones
Park
de Gagel more will be added later onthe following greenspace issues: Other District Sports and Play Facilities The greenspaces along river de Vecht and links into the City The Forts and the Countryside - The "Green-routes"
Potential for change Main menu Part One - identifying the greenstructure characteristics the users require Part Two - identifying landscape character zones
Park
de Gagel more will be added later onthe following greenspace issues: Other District Sports and Play Facilities The greenspaces along river de Vecht and links into the City The Forts and the Countryside - The "Green-routes"
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OVERVECHT - THE POTENTIAL OF THE ROUTEWAYS Routeways - Parkways, roads,
cycles and footpaths Examples of the present routeways system  The wide central verge makes it pleasant for drivers - but it has no other use - the potential ecological value of these strips of land needs to be developed as it has been so successfully elsewhere in Utrecht.  There are wide cycleways throughout the district
Some redesign is necessary to rationalise the path system - providing new paths where desire lines have developed as in the foreground - should such paths be design like motorways?  This sort of footpath feels comfortable to use as it gets informal surveivance from nearby housing - where paths meet is a "natural" place to develop a small sitting area/ meeting point. If there are many of these "resting" points the problems sometimes associated with them becoming "hang outs" for youngsters rarely developso near housing. A chain of such "resting places" along circular walks where the paths allow the user a choice of routes is often very attractive to older people - it gives a focus for an outing and stimulates exercise.  Such walkways are only attractive when there are many people around - in a dense urban environment this psuedo rural landscape can alienate users. In redesigning such areas some trees could be felled and others planted.  Along a Parkway verge this appears an attractive footpath. By day people might use it butdo people want to walk beside traffic? It has no features which might attract people to visit the area and to stay in it. At night time it is too far from housing. This sort of space could with benefit be reconsiderd and reclassified a a "nature area" - instead giving the local people a footpath further from the traffic - within sight of windows and with lots of "resting" areas for use on the way to and from the shops and other facilities. Such an area could be part of a recreational cycleway but again there is the issue of it being beside polluting traffic.
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Latest update : 30 may 2001