Bringing Gardens Back: Renovation of the Garden Ring

Middle Density, Project, Strelka KB, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Active Public Spaces, City, City living, Collective garden, Environment, Global Awareness, Greenery, Moscow, Open Space, Pedestrian realm, Renovation, Ring roads, Russia, Territorial Approach, Traffic, Urban design, Urban ecology, Urban mobility, Urban Paradigms, Urban planning

During the Soviet Union, the Garden Ring was developed as a major transport highway with an aggressive automobile environment in the center of the city, which was designed primarily for motorists. Underground crosswalks, though created to safely bring pedestrians from one side to the other, ended up sacrificing the best and most sunlit portion of the Garden Ring to traffic and breaking the visual connection between the two sides of the road.