Urban design and street furniture: a strategic challenge for local authorities

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Designing space for the benefit of users is one of the top priorities for mayors and their teams.
Every project involves social, ecological and safety responsibilities.
Polymobyl, an expert in urban furniture design, offers tailor-made support to local authorities and companies.
Discover our approach, our products and our services.

Planning an urban space: what's at stake for project developers?

Far from being a purely aesthetic exercise, the design of furniture in public spaces brings together political, economic and social challenges. As a manufacturer of urban furniture, Polymobyl masters the strategic aspects of this type of project, whether led by a town council or a company.

A central mission for mayors

Spatial planning is an essential tool for a functional, inclusive and sustainable city. Public benches, bus shelters and parking bays for bicycles, scooters and baby carriages shape the daily lives of citizens and contribute to the attractiveness of the area. For local authorities, they are a tool for public action with multiple challenges:

  • improve quality of life ;
  • promote soft mobility ;
  • strengthen safety ;
  • respond to environmental imperatives ;
  • attract new economic players.

As part of their mandate, mayors have to reconcile a number of objectives: meeting the expectations of local residents, boosting local trade, controlling public spending and ensuring that their actions are in line with the ecological transition. Street furniture thus becomes the visible expression of their policies and their vision of urban development.

A major challenge for business leaders

For private companies, developing outdoor spaces also represents a strategic opportunity. This type of project makes it possible to build partnerships with local authorities, integrating communication, the development of soft mobility, intelligent infrastructures… In this way, they contribute to the transformation of public spaces, while reinforcing their visibility and territorial roots.

What is good urban design?

The choice of furniture and fittings is part of a global approach that pursues several objectives.

Safety and peace of mind for users

Favoring equipment designed for intensive public use guarantees its resistance to depredation. Good furniture also enhances people’s peace of mind, for example through closed, secure bicycle shelters that prevent attempted theft. We have also designed specially adapted, vandal-resistant furniture, such as the tub line.

Attractive, practical spaces

More than anywhere else, urban uses are changing. Thedesign of public spaces must meet the new expectations of residents in terms of mobility, accessibility and connectivity. A bench or bench seat with a USB socket for plugging in a smartphone. A bicycle shelter with a repair and inflation station, or a recharging point, makes everyday life easier for cyclists.

Social interaction

One of the essential functions of public spaces is to maintain links between residents. With this in mind, installing a picnic table or a cool island, with benches or benches, combines the useful with the pleasurable. The project can even incorporate planters to create a shared vegetable garden, for example.

Enhancing the value of a site or town

For a company or local authority, outdoor space is a real showcase. Designer street furniture conveys the organization’s brand image. Beyond the insertion of a logo or message, the choice of furnishings affirms the city’s values: sustainability, combating the effects of global warming, protection of vulnerable populations…

How should urban space be designed?

A successful project depends as much on the quality of the furniture chosen as on the harmony between the various elements installed. The aim is to design a practical, elegant and homogeneous whole that meets the needs of users. This is the role of Polymobyl, which accompanies everyurban development project.

Creating useful, harmonious spaces

The right furniture blends in with its surroundings and offers real visual coherence. The Polymobyl catalog includes a wide range of references for furnishing spaces: benches and stools, picnic tables, planters, shade structures, various shelters, accessories…

Communities can use this choice of furniture to design customized projects such as :

  • modular urban pergolas, which can be used to create shaded and convivial areas (relaxation areas, break areas, smoking areas, etc.);
  • sunshades with benches, which provide comfort and protection for users in hot weather and also create warm meeting places;
  • cool islands, which combine the integration of vegetation with the creation of shaded areas;
  • rest or picnic areas, which guarantee comfort of use thanks to ergonomic tables and seats…

Combined, these elements enhance the city’s comfort and attractiveness, while meeting today’s environmental challenges. =

Choosing a range of street furniture

As a supplier of furniture for the public sector, Polymobyl is constantly adapting its products to changing user needs. For example, we have reworked the LUD and NUT lines, two flagship ranges in our catalog. To better meet the needs of local authorities, we have :

  • evolves the designs without losing the spirit of each line;
  • modernized the visuals;
  • proposed a new approach to colors;
  • includes additional products for a complete layout.

LUD furniture features modern lines, steel design and playful colors. This line includes everything you need to create a contemporary, pleasant space: tables, seats, planters, connected furniture, bike and scooter racks, cleaning accessories…

As for the NUT range, it offers wooden furniture designed for intensive urban use. The different references available allow for all kinds of projects, from the installation of bicycle shelters to the creation of relaxation areas in a park or outside a company, while creating a real aesthetic harmony, from the furniture to the shelters.

Personalize every piece of furniture

Polymobyl stands out in the field of urban furnishings for the high level of customization it offers. Each project is unique: our designers and furniture experts propose a layout that takes into account the constraints of the location, your visual identity and the expected uses. This means that we can provide you with genuine support for a tailor-made result: choice of materials, finishes and colors, addition of logos by engraving, perforating or printing… a totally coherent and refined whole in the same colors.

Why choose sustainable furniture for today's cities?

Urban planning plays an important role in improving the quality of life for city dwellers. But it must also incorporate an ecological dimension, for two reasons: current climate issues and public concerns in this area.

Creating eco-responsible urban spaces

The environmental aspect of the development is considered from three angles:
  1. greening public spaces by installing planters, planted pergolas and trellises for climbing plants;
  2. the creation of urban cool zones to protect vulnerable groups during heatwaves (children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.);
  3. the choice of ecological and sustainable furniture (FSC wood, recyclable materials, absence of toxic products in paints and wood treatments…).

Choosing a committed street furniture supplier

With over 40 years of expertise and an ambitious CSR approach, Polymobyl is the ideal partner for local authorities. Furnish your public spaces with designer, sustainable and fully customizable furniture thanks to Polymobyl. We accompany every project from audit to installation.

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