Florian Steinbeck, Houston / Mainstreet

Haupstrasse als Identität der Stadt

Dear Mayor Brown and fellow Houstonians,

On behalf of the Main Street Coalition, it is my pleasure to present to you the Main Street Corridor Master Plan: Design Concepts for Main Street, an exciting vision of the future possibilities for Main Street. This Plan focuses on the opportunities for transforming Main Street into the City's "signature" boulevard, a magnificent treelined place with landscaped esplanades and gardens linking the many and varied urban venues and activity centers in the Corridor. It celebrates our diversity, demonstrates our "can-do" attitude, formulates our future and improves our quality of life.

For the past several years, Houston's Downtown, Midtown, Museum District, Texas Medical Center, Astrodome complex and their surrounding areas have experienced a vibrant resurgence of major public and private development activity and strong economic growth. The Main Street Coalition, with the support of the City of Houston, Harris County, Metro and over seventy-five stakeholders, institutions and organizations, developed this Plan to articulate a comprehensive new vision for Main Street. The Coalition will be the catalyst to help create an inviting, pedestrianfriendly, urban environment; and this Master Plan will point to a wide spectrum of exciting new focal points within the Corridor. Main Street is more than a right-of-way. It is a series of districts that vary extensively in their resources and history. Our goal is to maintain this diversity to promote the maximum number of choices within the corridor. The concepts for each district encourage greater density, active ground floors, and a mixture of uses in smaller „catchment areas" within walking distance of the LRT stations.

_Quelle: www.ci.houston.tx.us/department/planning/projects/mainstreet/home.html

 

Das vorhandene Strassennetz des Ruhrgebietes ist ein idealer Ausgangspunkt um die Städte zu vereinen. Deutsche Autobahnen verfügen über keine Adressen, sie sind kein Teil der Städte. Die A40/42 als zukünftige Hauptstrasse des Ruhrgebietes, verbindet die verschiedenen Zentren zu einer Metropole; sie wird zur Adresse des Ruhrgebietes.