Definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary:
- Public realm (n): a field or domain of activity or interest concerning the people as a whole
- Private realm (n): a field or domain of activity or interest belonging to or for the use of one particular person or group of people only
- Cities need usable size and proportion.
- Public realm threatened by private realm with traffic, noise, loss of daylight, privacy, lack of safety, insufficient planting, narrow sidewalks, excessive [building] heights, etc.
- constitute a future community
- Minimum standards to enable vision:
--- generous sidewalks of minimum width; priority public realm element
--- appropriate height of built forms on streets
--- appropriate amount and extent of sky view for daylight
--- opportunity for legacy tree growth; at least 100 years
--- connections through a site to improve walking linkage
- create a "Rue Future"
- Street of the Future by Eugène Hénard, 1911
- Parisian vision
- buildings height by 45 degree angular plane, "light beam at 45 degrees"
- sidewalks protected by rain canopies, noxious odours exhausted to chimneys, cars parked underground out of view, shops along sidewalks, mature trees shown rear of buildings, rooftops with planted gardens.
- no trees or people on the streets
- Metropolis of Tomorrow by Harvey Wiley Corbett, 1913
- displaced public realm, putting pedestrians on second, third, and ninth levels
Vision for Mississauga
- Sidewalks should be minimum of 8m wide; buildings need setback 3m
--- to allow tree growth up to 100 years, pedestrian concourse, and possible retail presence of cafes, fruit stands, product displays, plants, etc.
--- each item needs approx. 2.5m for sufficient space
--- 50cm allowed to whichever needs most
- main street buildings no taller than street width in densest centres
- historic building centres no taller than described by 30 degree angle from oppossing building face, allowing daylight, sky view, low rise heritage character.
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