The Urban Mapper

1. In the first paper, I argue that Winston-Salem should  knit historic Moravian Old Salem and modern commercial Winston back together across Business-40 and the Salem By-Pass using the principles of road dieting.
2. B-40 could be bridged; W-S should look to prior examples from Atlanta’s 5th St. Crossing, and Boston’s crossing of the Mass Pike (not the Big Dig, but prior crossings in Back Bay), along with many others.
3. In doing these projects, W-S already has many advantages, including:
   1. the skinnyness of the highways
   2. the topology that allows level crossings
   3. good urbanism on both the Winston and Salem sides of the highway
4. In the second paper (summary available here), I looked mostly at the Salem By-Pass and “coffeepot square”, and different methods of analyzing the pedestrian-friendliness, including:
   1. Identifying and Measuring Urban Design Qualities Related to Walkability by Reid Ewing, et al., the stronger tool
   2. The CDC’s Walkability Audit Tool.
5. I suggest changing the Salem By-Pass into the Salem Parkway, complete with:
   1. Creek daylighting
   2. Oak tree preservation
   3. Historic macadam pavement
   4. And, of course, the great Moravian-Czech-German institution, the Beer Garden.

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