Streets rank amongst the most valuable assets in any city. They ensure residents’ mobility and offer people the opportunity to meet, interact, do business, and have fun. Streets make a city liveable. Street furniture suppliers now design their products to transform public spaces into exciting conversation nooks.
They foster social and economic ties, bringing the public together. The allocation and design of streetscapes have a tremendous influence on the quality of life in a city. Almost every street furniture company is going out of its way, developing more designs to help cities. But with the ever-increasing influx of vehicles, Dubai’s cities are struggling to reconcile the competing needs of mobility and liveability.
Good footpaths promote safe and comfortable pedestrian mobility. Together with other elements, such as smart street furniture and landscaping, they constitute the city’s primary public space and are accessible to all users.
Colour and Greenery to Beautify Public Spaces
Free-standing planters enhance UAE’s streets by adding colour and landscaping to areas that sometimes become an urban maze for local inhabitants. Flowers, plants, and trees render a welcome contrast to tough city streets, creating a cheerful, oasis-like background, and softening the urban panorama.
Additionally, landscaping with smart street furniture provides a canopy. It adds colors, fragrances, and textures along the road, making it a more memorable space and encouraging people to spend time in these places.
In many cases, as modern public spaces become more visually attractive, high-quality new products are needed to help make them so.
Defining Spaces Stabilises the Pedestrian Movement
Large planters, a street furniture bench, and other additions can also define and divide public domain areas. More and more street furniture suppliers are providing eco-friendly and sustainable alternatives to do so.
The best street-scenes use planters and smart street furniture intelligently to direct the flow and direct pedestrian movement. Trees and street furniture in landscape architecture at retail destinations, hospitality destinations, and other public spaces make them more pleasant.
The Environmental Bonus of Streetscaping
Effective tree-planting on streetscapes reduces the street temperature, making it comfortable for people to walk, cycle, or gather for social activities, even during summer afternoons. On a larger scale, plants keep a city cool by reducing the urban heat island effect. Trees also capture dust and remove glare. During storms, they reduce wind velocity.
Bluestream’s Role in Street Beautification
As a street furniture company, Bluestream offers locally manufactured planters made from steel, timber slats, GRP, or GRC materials. Our street furniture solutions offer economical price, customization, and fast deliveries as there’s no overseas transport cost involved, and the raw materials are produced locally.
Our conventional and industrial planters and smart street furniture designs also fit in with various design schemes. The application of shapes and heights adds variety and architectural value, with round, square and rectangular planters.
We have actively worked with municipalities and other local bodies such as RTA and several different contractors. We have had the privilege of working with prestigious clients such as the Expo Site, City Walk Miras, and the Dubai Municipality to enhance outdoor public spaces with our extensive smart street furniture range.
