Pedestrian scale definition

Pedestrian scale means site and building design elements that are dimensionally less than those intended to accommodate automobile traffic, flow, and buffering. Examples include ornamental lighting of limited height; bricks, pavers, or other modules of paving with small dimensions; a variety of planting and landscaping materials; arcades or awnings that reduce the height of walls; and signage and signpost details that can only be perceived from a short distance.
Pedestrian scale means to design buildings, open spaces and streets that are aimed toward pedestrians using them. [2015-02]
Pedestrian scale means site and building design elements that are dimensionally less than those intended to

Examples of Pedestrian scale in a sentence

  • Other design elements shall include: • Pedestrian scale lighting • benches and trash receptacles • exercise stations • pedestrian bridge • stormwater elements • irrigation and landscaping.

  • Pedestrian scale lighting analysis: Conduct an assessment of type, conceptual locations and quantity, cost, responsibility and on-going maintenance, and safety effectiveness for pedestrian scale lighting along the corridor.


More Definitions of Pedestrian scale

Pedestrian scale means site and building design elements that are dimensionally less than those
Pedestrian scale means copy, graphics, proportions and locations that are easy to comprehend and intended to be primarily read by pedestrians.
Pedestrian scale means the proportional relationship between an individual and his or herthe individual’s environment.
Pedestrian scale means the use of human proportioned architectural features and site design elements clearly oriented to pedestrian activity
Pedestrian scale means a luminaire mounted at no more than fourteen feet, zero inches to the top in a residential area and at no more that eighteen feet, zero inches to the top in a nonresidential area.
Pedestrian scale means site and building design elements that are dimensionally less than those intended to accommodate automobile traffic, flow and buffering. Examples include ornamental

Related to Pedestrian scale

  • Pedestrian means any person afoot.

  • Pedestrian Target means a soft target that represents a pedestrian

  • Drainage area means a geographic area within which stormwater, sediments, or dissolved materials drain to a particular receiving waterbody or to a particular point along a receiving waterbody.

  • Roads means streets, roads, and highways.

  • Parking Open unreserved vehicle parking spaces ("UNRESERVED PARKING SPACES"); and reserved vehicle parking spaces ("RESERVED PARKING SPACES"). (Also see Paragraph 2.6.)