The Modern Urban Street: An Innovative Approach to Safety

Abstract

The article explores the issues of danger in the streets of a modern Russian city and establishes the need to introduce preventive measures to address the offenses. The author presents a classification of the major measures to ensure the safety of city streets and considers the qualitatively innovative types of these tools, both city planning and urbanistic ones. The paper assesses various urban concepts, features the drawbacks of urban planning policy of modern Russia, and suggests some alternatives. The author examines the key concepts of the street and identifies the measures to transform roads for cars into streets accessible to all. A few recommendations for increasing the level of safety on the city roads are formulated, and the concept of an innovative safe street is presented.