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leap and choose to broaden their experience more can be gained than offered, and with Bonilla 10
21ST CENTURY
SUBURBS Practice Index 42
Topic: 21st century suburbs
Introduction, Jon Rowland 12 Education Index 49
Creating the New Suburb, Isabel Allen and
Be a Leader in Urban Design Set up an Urban Salon find out how you can get involved. The Loss of the Garden, Tim Hagyard 20
Invite a group of people from as diverse back- Forgotten Suburbs and Smarter Growth,
grounds as you can find, including banking, Universities and Students Nicholas Falk and Barry Munday 23
transportation, health, science, and so on, to The UDG is also very keen to support stu- Building a New Suburbia, Clare Mitchell 26
There are many opportunities to get more in- meet together once a month at a quiet wine dents and lecturers, and earlier this year held Sustainable Suburbia, Kevin Logan 29
volved in urban design, and to take a leading bar or similar venue to discuss the changes an impromptu meeting between the leaders The 21st Century Suburb, Jon Rowland 31
role in what happens in the future. Here are that are happening around us. The ideal of some of the key UK courses. As a result in
some suggestions. number of people for a salon is about six to spring 2011 there will be an event for people
eight. who run courses in urban design, providing
Get involved with the Urban an opportunity to exchange best practice and
Design Group – locally or in Hold an event in Urban Design to discuss the development of urban design
London week 2010: 18-26 September education.
We welcome individuals to join in the running Urban Design Week is an annual national Use your interests, enthusiasms and
of the Urban Design Group, or developing event that champions urban design by pro- ambitions to help lead the profession. Please
new ideas, initiatives, policies and publica-
tions. We would welcome summaries of core
moting and encouraging awareness of places
through good practice, fostering innovation in
don’t hesitate to contact the Urban Design
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THURSDAY 21 – SATURDAY 23
OCTOBER 2010, LEEDS
documents, including policy statements, and
seminal publications. There are also active
the built environment, and celebrating urban
culture and lifestyles. Urban Design Week
EVENTS Great Castle Street and Regent Street. For
further details contact admin@udg.org.uk
The National Conference on Urban Design:
Urban Design on the Edge
people in many regions of the UK, and the was first launched in the United Kingdom but What happens to places in an age of auster-
latest is Georgia Giannopoulou from the Uni- other countries are encouraged to participate Unless otherwise indicated, all LONDON WEDNESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2010 ity? What role do those involved in shaping
versity of Newcastle who is running an event by promoting it to make this a truly interna- events are held at The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Secure By Design? the urban environment have to play in an
in 2010 on Transition Towns and opportuni- tional event. Street, London EC1M 6EJ at 6.30 pm. Tickets It is now more than 30 years since the IRA’s era of cuts in the public sector and when the
ties to join with them. can be purchased at the door from 6.00pm: threat led to anti-terrorism interventions in private sector is being starved of funds? How
Activities can include £5.00 non-members, £2.00 members, £1.00 the urban environment. Speakers from the should urban designers work with and along-
Set up a local STREET group
For young professionals and students inter-
• an event, a lecture, seminar or award
presentation
students Centre for the Protection of National Infra-
structure and the National Counter Terrorism
side local communities and their elected
representatives to help fulfil their potential?
ested in urban design. People can be drawn • a walkabout or urban safari, a workshop WEDNESDAY 7 JULY 2010 Security Office will discuss the challenges we This conference brings together a wide
from any background at all: the wider the • a petition, a campaign The Language of Urbanism face and how urban designers can be at the range of people who have already begun to
better. The recipe for success is to have free • a street audit Rob Cowan, author of The Dictionary of forefront in making our built environment address the challenges facing our neighbour-
or very low cost events, that won’t take more • a street make-over or an exhibition Urbanism, will trace the emergence of spe- safer for everyone. hoods, towns and cities. It will hear from
than three hours out of someone’s life, or • or direct action cialist languages within the built and natural
environment professions, including how WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2010
those involved in innovative projects that
have successfully engaged with - and made
this confounds understanding, consumes Urban Design for Developing Cities the most of - the relationship between design
resources and compromises the public good. Three speakers explore the challenges and and local economic sustainability. Par-
Current subscriptions Annual membership rates UD practice index and on the udg website) lessons to be learned from urban design in ticipants will have the chance to review and
Urban Design is free to Urban Design Group Uk individuals £40 uk students £20 Local authorities £100 (including two WEDNESDAY 25 AUGUST 2010 developing cities: Ed Parham on the un- debate appropriate responses to key contem-
members who also receive newsletters and International individuals £50 copies of Urban Design) Public Realm Interventions: planned settlements of Jeddah; Prof Nabeel porary design, social, economic, political and
the directory at the time of printing Recognised practitioner in urban Uk libraries £40 A free two hour walking tour: Paul Reynolds Hamdi on community centred urban pro- environmental issues. The event will examine
design £80 International libraries £50 will guide us around public realm interven- grammes from around the world, and Tony and explore the contribution practitioners in
UDG Office Practices £250 (including a listing in the UD Individual issues of Urban Design cost £5 tions currently being realised within central Lloyd Jones on sustainable development and urban design can make to addressing current
Tel 020 7250 0872/0892 practice index and on the udg website) London, including Oxford Circus, Piccadilly strategic urban design in Africa. and future problems and learn through exam-
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Leader News
English Partnerships (now the Housing and return to the bad practices of the 80s, when
Communities Agency) and English Heritage local authorities were not allowed to interfere
joined in on the act, publishing helpful in design and market forces were given free Morphological urban tissue. Using a number of examples,
he showed how different studies have added
manuals and promoting urban design. rein to ruin the environment? The UDG and its investigations: layers of information to complete the picture
and understand the complexities of a place.
Beyond publications, the world outside has allies will have to be vigilant and reinforce cutting into the Some studies for instance include environ-
changed as well: shared spaces, improved their campaigns; Jon Rowland in this issue substance of urban mental aspects in order to measure the
‘environmental comfort’ and the sustain-
public realm, successful regeneration throws down the gauntlet with his proposal for form ability of an area. Others add socio-economic
data to try and correlate these to physical
schemes, bike lanes, new and improved public a new Sub-urban Task Force. The Gallery, London 21 April 2010 characteristics. In the French city of Rennes,
spaces, can be found in an increasing number the statutory local plan (PLU) was based
on a morphological analysis that identified
of cities. It no longer is always necessary • Sebastian Loew
Who would imagine that urban morphol-
specific character areas of the city.
Karl’s own work in Leighton Buzzard
ogy would be a subject to generate a heated added movement patterns to the traditional
debate? A well informed and intellectually morphological analysis in order to identify something better and more beautiful. The
challenging talk by Karl Kropf, director of potential expansion areas at the edges of same advice is therefore given to the urban
urban design at studio | REAL and researcher the town. And in South Yorkshire studio | designer facing a geographical area, with the
Urban Design Group Editorial Board Design at the University of Birmingham, managed to REAL involved highway engineers in order to added complication that many seemingly
Chairman Duncan Ecob John Billingham, Matthew Carmona, trockenbrot (Claudia Schenk and Anja Sicka) provoke UDG members into questioning that develop a design guide for residential areas distinct elements need to be combined in
Patrons Alan Baxter, Tom Bloxham, Sir Terry Tim Catchpole, Richard Cole, Alastair Donald, www.trockenbrot.com went on well after the end of the lecture. that would combine morphology, Building for parallel in the mind of the designer.
Farrell, Colin Fudge, Nicky Gavron, Dickon Neil Double, Tim Hagyard, Liezel Kruger, Karl peppered his talk with quotes to Life criteria and the hierarchy of streets. Karl The audience had many questions for
Robinson, Les Sparks, John Worthington Sebastian Loew, Malcolm Moor, Judith Ryser, Printing Nuffield Press explain what morphological studies were and reiterated the argument he put forward in Karl mostly dealing with the boundaries
Director Robert Huxford Louise Thomas © Urban Design Group ISSN 1750 712X how they could be applied. Walter Ben- UD issue 97, that the perimeter block is not a of morphology: how far should it go, what
jamin, Kevin Lynch, Richard Rogers as well uniform entity and each of its elements needs should and should not be included, to what
Office Editors Advertising enquiries as PPS1 (‘understanding the characteristics to be adapted to the streets that surround it. purpose? Not all of these could be debated
Urban Design Group Sebastian Loew (this issue) and Please contact UDG office of a place’) were called to give the subject a The principal analogy used by Karl came in the short remaining time but members
70 Cowcross Street Louise Thomas Material for publication wide context and to support Karl’s argument from Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman (2008) stayed at the Gallery, or adjourned to a
London EC1M 6EJ sebastianloew@btinternet.com Please send text by email to the that morphology is more than just charac- where a carpenter looking at a piece of wood nearby hostelry to continue digging.
Tel 020 7250 0872/0892
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Book Review Editor
editors, images to be supplied at a
high-resolution (180mm width @300dpi)
ter: it includes process (the way people use
the space), form (types and configurations)
is advised to ‘localise, question and open
up’ in order to understand the object and
• Sebastian Loew
Website www.udg.org.uk Richard Cole preferably as jpeg and levels of space, from plot pattern to transform it through craftsmanship, into
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News News
approaches in the region. The first discus- ‘For an artwork to be public, it must invite leave families in Bonn. For all the euphoria the only church to have been built in East ↑ Top to bottom
sions focused on how to protect the role of engagement not only from different groups of 1989, a wall of sorts lives on in the minds City Centre model in Planning
Germany in the last 50 years, a contemporary
Department, Berlin
artists and their profession in the current but between them... If negotiation between of Germany and it may take a generation design complete with photovoltaics which Hackescher Markt
economic climate, and on how to assist their diverse social identities is not invited, then to change this. The government’s policy of clad the blue church spire! Karlsdorf-Nord
inclusion in the construction industry. the artwork is not public’. not permitting dual citizenship for foreign Berlin’s future is promising, the kind of Sony Centre, Postdamer Platz
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Urban Design Interview CABE
leave a mark on the built environment. I’m Harlow would be my chosen example of a Supermarkets have gone from strength to
also quite fond of a nice lunch. successful new settlement. strength through the economic downturn,
to the point where they are becoming major
What do you think are the most important Where is your favourite town or city and players in defining the built fabric of our
skills of an urban designer? why? towns and cities. Their ambitious building
The most important skill is that of observa- Berlin: despite or because of the impact of programmes now include more mixed-use
tion: an ability to take an interest in the built the Second World War, and subsequent divi- developments, with housing, shopping
environment and to observe new facets of a sion, it rebuilt itself after the fall of the Berlin streets and schools clustered around the
place each time, even if visited many times wall into a modern, vibrant, edgy capital city, supermarket.
before. and it is home to my favourite modern build- In large part, this is a consequence
ing, the dramatic main railway station, Berlin of government policy that has favoured
What would you like to be doing in ten Hauptbahnhof (illustrated). integrated town centre development over
years’ time? out-of-town retail sheds. Such schemes often
Working as part of a team masterplanning Where is your most hated place and why? bring much needed affordable housing and
a new settlement where the built realm and Dubai: although there are many similar community facilities. There is a downside
movement network are seamlessly integrated places, it exemplifies the worst excesses though – vulnerable local authorities can feel
and mutually reinforcing rather than in of globalisation and greed. Not only is it a under pressure to accept poorly designed Second, the development needs to be And above all else, supermarkets must
continual conflict and tension; alternatively failure in terms of urbanism, it is one of the schemes. integrated into the neighbourhood. Will the plan for change. Building homes represents
working on the moon with Richard Branson most imbalanced societies in the world and CABE has reviewed over twenty super- mix of uses proposed enhance the town cen- a long term commitment to a town and city
What is your current job and how long have designing Virgin City. was only made possible through the use of market-led mixed-use schemes where stores tre? The public realm should not be defined and they need to look beyond their standard
you been there? effectively slave-labour. The unsustainability are typically around 4000 sqm (net sales by the servicing and parking requirements of 5-10 year business plans. CABE is working
I am Director of Urban Design & Development As an urban designer, do you have a role of Dubai defies imagination; the per-capita area) or more. It is clear that design teams the store. We want to see inventive solutions, with them to explore how the future of retail
Planning at JMP, based in London Docklands. model? water consumption is the highest in the world find it a challenge to create convincing urban linked to surrounding streets and spaces, and impacts upon design. Increased internet
The company has its roots in the principles of Sir Frederick Gibberd (1908 – 1984) for to allow the elite to play on innumerable golf forms and attractive residential environ- building frontages that are animated with shopping might, for instance, mean that
land use and transport planning seen in the his commitment to Harlow, the town he courses and ski on snow in the desert. ments out of this new typology. We see regular entrances onto the street. A Sains- the demand for traditional retail floorspace
New Towns programme, having been set up designed, saw built, and lived in until his schemes that are car focused and architec- bury’s scheme proposed in Fulham, west shrinks and more space is given to service
by George Jamieson and Bill McKay on leav- death. He designed the town to be ‘an organ- What advice would you give to UD readers? turally confused. The housing they propose London, illustrated here, has been designed deliveries. They need to consider building
ing Cumbernauld in 1964. ism which would go on changing and being Leave early enough for meetings where you can appear to be an add-on to the store. with only a limited store frontage and a café flexibility into the construction of the store
In the six years since I joined, the com- rebuilt’ and understood the need for urbanity can walk the last part of your journey (or all The problem is that planning a place in on the street, and the terraced housing is box, to allow for conversion to other uses.
pany has evolved from its core transport in the creation of a new town. He was also of it, if it’s not far) and experience more than response to the needs of the retailer can get also designed to engage with the street. This is critical for developments which lock
planning business to the creation of a single a truly inspirational landscape gardener; the inside of the train / tube / bus / taxi. in the way of creating an attractive environ- Third, supermarket schemes need a together building uses with very different life
combined team of transport and urban I would strongly recommend a visit to the ment which contributes to local identity and long-term strategy to minimise energy use. expectancies and cycles of redevelopment.
design professionals which has proven very gardens of his house in Harlow: the Gibberd What should the Urban Design Group be a sense of place. In Bromley-by-Bow in east This means going beyond bolt-on features, Residential units will have a much longer
successful. This has led to this strategy being Garden, which he designed and largely built doing now or in the future? London, for instance, a new district centre such as wind turbines or timber cladding. lifespan than the retail floorspace below
rolled out across the company; therefore for himself. (www.thegibberdgarden.co.uk) The UDG should be emphasising the need for has been planned to a Tesco-led master plan. It requires careful thought about how uses them.
the last two years my role has been to cham- mutual respect between all professionals in We found it gave priority to the siting of the are arranged. Positioning parking above the Buildings with large footprints do have
pion JMP’s urban design capability nationally. If you were to recommend an urban design the built environment, and not allowing the store rather than respond to the bigger de- store, for example, severely limits opportuni- a place in our towns and cities: you only
scheme or study (past or present) for an friction which has emerged in recent years sign challenge, that of creating an integrated ties for daylighting and natural ventilation. have to look at how Victorian market halls
Can you describe the path that you fol- award, what would you chose? between designers and highway engineers to and sustainable neighbourhood. For in- Fourth, developments should provide and corn exchanges have adapted to the
lowed to become an urban designer and Although it has been mentioned in previous become a corrosive influence on our cities. stance, it plans a residential tower overlook- residents with clear and safe access routes demands of the 21st century city. But if any
what motivated you? UD interviews, the work of Ben Hamilton-Bai- ing the busy A12 where noise, air quality and to their homes, regardless of tenure, and a supermarket is to become the market hall of
I started my career as a highway and traffic lie and Whitelaw Turkington on the Ashford Finally, who would you like to see inter- outlook for residents are at their worst. real ‘address’ – a proud and visible entrance tomorrow, the planning authority has a big
engineer working on out of town shopping Ring Road is the perfect example of urban viewed by UD? CABE has also been critical of proposals and front door on the street. CABE often sees responsibility too. It will need a clear vision
centres in the early 1990s, before they fell
out of fashion. Through a series of coinci-
design and highway engineering working
cooperatively to deliver a successful public
Prince Charles, for so many reasons. • that crudely superimpose housing on top of
a standard format store box and multi-storey
proposals where residents are obliged to en-
ter their homes behind the store beside the
and a policy setting out how it will attract
high quality development, in order to pave
dences and happy accidents, I ended up space. Roger Evans’ Newhall master plan in car park. As well as failing to create con- service yard entrance. Dual-aspect accom- the way to negotiate outcomes that work for
doing a short course in urban design which vincing architecture in their own right, such modation should be a priority, as should the both the supermarket and the community it
caused me to refocus my career. Five years developments often produce a poor living provision of high quality, functional amenity will serve.
ago I undertook the MA in Urban Design at
the University of Westminster and started an
environment for residents. space at podium level, with a clear division
between the public and private realm.
• Jonathan Freeman is CABE design review
adviser
urban design team in the transport planning How to get it right Fifth, customer car parking and access to
company where I worked. I also resented the First, when it comes to scale, supermarkets servicing can too easily be allowed to domi-
continual bashing that transport engineers need to understand the nature of the neigh- nate pedestrian routes and public space.
got from those in the architecture and bourhood they are working in, and create Supermarkets should minimise parking
urban design profession and felt I could in a brief which responds to it. Can it accom- requirements, for instance by working with
some small way, try to heal the rift that had modate buildings with a large footprint, or their prospective communities to share park-
developed. does the street pattern have too fine a grain? ing facilities and providing incentive schemes
Can the standard rectangular floorplate be to manage shopping peaks. More sustainable
What do you find exciting about your work? tailored to fit the site? Other types of use modes of transport should be encouraged. At
I feel lucky to work in an industry which gives wrapping the store, such as housing, should some Waitrose stores, for instance, cyclists
me the opportunity to help shape places, and also be designed at an appropriate scale. can hire shopping baskets on wheels.
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Viewpoints Viewpoints
Neil Double looks at how to embed urban design into the Local Development
Framework under
examination
↙↙ Community Plan graphic
↙ Jelly Bean map of Tower Hamlets’
neighbourhoods
→ Progress of LDF’s Core Strategies from
February to July 2009
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Viewpoints Viewpoints
tourist destination, historic centres play been left at the mercy of corrupt leaders,
an important role for visitors. City centres authorities, politicians and many other
have been transformed into spaces for individuals and groups who negotiate it in
tourism and retail, considering historic exchange for private interests, political or
cores as urban spaces of heritage that economic power. Authorities often neglect
should be preserved and revitalised in the interests of ordinary inhabitants,
favour of economic regeneration. This marginalising them in favour of powerful
has resulted in successful improvements; economic agents and urban areas where
however, in some cases local inhabitants major economic gains can be obtained.
have been ignored, and social and However, in many urban neighbourhoods,
symbolic identities that have characterised residents are concerned about public
these urban spaces for many centuries, space; consequently they struggle for their
have been neglected. Interesting urban right to enjoy it within their communities.
interventions are observed, for example in The case of Ciudad Bicentenario
the revitalisation of Mexico city’s historic in Metepec, in the State of México, is
centre: a great number of public spaces, an important example of real citizen
streets, squares and parks have been participation to defend a great public
improved, together with the promotion space: here the state authorities intended
of major development projects (hotels, to sell the land to private investors to build
restaurants, offices, housing). If we a new commercial and financial centre,
consider that for many decades, this putting at risk more than 100has available
central area was totally abandoned with for public urban space, and affecting the
great problems of insecurity, low property urban infrastructure capacity available
prices, public space invasion by street to the city. The citizens organised the
vendors and cars, low urban quality and defence and protection of this space
Public space is the setting where history, Marginal and conflictive global supermarkets come together with very low housing occupation, the urban through strong urban protests, and forced
culture, development, progress or even Public spaces this new city growth where public space regeneration strategies implemented the authorities to reconsider their plans.
the pitfalls of a society become visible. In low-income peripheral neighbourhoods is only regarded as a space for motorised in this area have led to a successful Instead of the privatisation of this public
In this sense, public urban space and and some other fragmented traffic and therefore lacks a pleasant transformation. land, inhabitants achieved the planning of
the public realm are useful indicators environments, public space represents pedestrian environment. In these areas, Another successful case is the a park and public facilities for the city.
for understanding how societies are the precariousness and marginalisation of public spending for good infrastructure development of Paseo Santa Lucia in
coping with the new challenges posed the society. We may think that the urban and services are also concentrated in the northern city of Monterrey. This final comments
by economic, social and environmental poor in Latin America are not interested favour of private investment; this is in intervention is over a 3 km long route Public spaces of quality which bring
trends of the 21st century city. In urban in public spaces, but on the contrary, they contrast to the lack of investment and linking the historic centre of the city with communities together, represent an
Mexico, different forms of public aspire to urban continuity rather than improvement of public spaces in low- a former steel factory, converted into an important asset for the viable development
space production and consumption discontinuity, integration rather than income areas. urban park. The result is a canal where of our cities. Without public spaces,
are observed. On the one hand, in the fragmentation and spatial quality rather On the other hand, some cities are footpaths, fountains, green areas, public urban societies do not have a future. A
affluent areas of most cities, public than merely satisfying basic necessities, characterised by a public space dominated art, cultural spaces, and restaurants are community that shares a common place,
urban space reflects contemporary and this is shown through some public by violence and insecurity, and a lack located. This canal was built as a public interests and values cannot be visualised,
economic trends and capital dominance; spaces developed in poor neighbourhoods, of social values. The city of Juarez on space to link the Monterrey Macroplaza if the significance of urban public
on the other hand, traditional areas commonly created informally. Through the northern border, is a city where with the second most important zone of the spaces is not recognised. The vitality,
and lower income neighbourhoods the struggle to defend, protect and public space has lost its role of social city, the Fundidora convention centre and identity and character of public spaces
reflect completely different logics and improve public places, residents develop integrator and linker. This is a sick urban the Fundidora Park. Fundidora Park was are sustained by people’s interactions,
dynamics. Lack of adequate territorial a sense of belonging and attachment and environment characterised by drug opened in 2001 and also represents one of activities and participation in the creation
policies, unemployment, insecurity, learn to value public space, which leads to dealing and killings in public space, and the greatest public spaces in the country, an and transformation of cities. Public
social exclusion, insufficient social actions for improvement. However, this where murders of women have been a amazing park of 114has in the metropolitan space processes need to be collaborative
services, urban blight and fragmentation, is not a general rule: abandonment and problem for almost a decade. To sum area of Monterrey. These new public spaces and participative, and all interested
precarious conditions of housing and neglect are often the regular condition of up, in cities like these, low quality and have been a total success, giving a new parties recognised, respected and taken
urban infrastructure are the main public places in poor urban areas. an arid and threatening physical urban face to Monterrey for the enjoyment and into account. Actors in charge of the
problems in Mexico and these can be Nevertheless, from a different environment are the main characteristics. socialisation of both its own inhabitants, management of our cities should make a
observed in the public realm. They perspective, the urban population with and visitors from all over the world. great effort to promote urban development
are evident through the physical more economic power is configuring new Good practice that takes into account and direct their
characteristics of the space, social forms of urban space which promote In contrast to marginal and fragmented Democratic public spaces public policies to the values of social
interaction, political protests and all the privatisation and fragmentation through or privatised public spaces, renovation In contemporary urban Mexico, the equity, environmental quality, economic
appropriation practices that people carry the creation of closed residential and beautification of public space in balance between issues of equity, inclusion efficiency, political participation, real
out in city streets and squares, pavements, neighbourhoods protected by walls and historic city centres has been the main and accessibility to matters of collective democracy and pluralism.
parks, market places and the urban space
of their neighbourhoods.
gates and where only the residents and
members of their community are allowed
focus in most Mexican cities during the
last few decades. Since the country has
interest, has often been undermined.
Public land for neighbourhood parks,
• Mauricio Hernández-Bonilla, Architect,
lecturer and Researcher, Faculty of Architecture,
to enter. Moreover, shopping malls and strongly been promoted as an attractive playgrounds and other public facilities has Universidad Veracruzana, México
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Topic Leader Topic
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•
is perhaps an emerging awareness of the value villages that are incorporated, the arterial roads several provenances.
Isabel Allen is Design of a less didactic approach to urban identity. As and so on. The polarity of the inner city (deprivation) and
Director of Hab, Kevin
McCloud is the founder and developers and designers we can – and should – Cities push outwards. This is especially the the leafy suburbs (affluence) is propagated by
director of Hab, a housing value character, narrative, historic resonance. But case in England where suburbs have a tendency unobservant politicians and indolent journalists:
development company we should also understand that the most powerful to imagery and place names which belong to the it is as accurate as claiming that Indian restaurants
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•
variety of ways without letting such considerations a European network? Instead of trying to fit this
Rethinking mobility and space limit how we wish to live. As an aside, neither new world into the old urban, suburban, rural Alastair Donald,
urbanist, currently
Lynch also argued that ‘as far as possible, an should we limit ourselves to suburban densities continuum, why not move on? Over the years co-editing The Future
individual should have the greatest variety of just because recent research from the University there have been a numbers of attempts to develop of Community: Back from
goods, services and facilities readily available of South Australia shows the highest greenhouse a framework to handle these new landscapes. Beyond the Grave
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Topic Topic
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Topic Topic
• Tim Hagyard,
for instance mixed-use schemes at local centres and
transport interchanges and smaller accommodation
design element that values green gardens, rather
than merely seeing them as wasted land and a
of council homes in outlying areas which are not
well connected to the successful city centre and
The notable exceptions, like Castle Vale in
Birmingham or the Eldonians in Liverpool, are
•
Development Control Team ↑ Newhall in Harlow shows
Manager (West) East Herts for young people. Some post-war suburbs could development opportunity. where conditions for residents remain bleak. where residents have been empowered to redevelop what is possible through
Council adopt a more comprehensive approach to reforming These places suffer from years of neglect and their own estates. Cooperatives seem to be having a good design
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Topic Topic
Renaissance in Harlow
Whilst most local authorities and other public
bodies are severely constrained financially, many
have underused assets in the form of land and
property. Post-war suburban New Towns are
generally well located and the basic infrastructure
is in place. There is an ageing stock of housing
which would benefit from some modest increase
in density (say 50 per cent) together with a
broadening of tenure. Homes that are structurally
sound need to be brought up to high standards of
thermal efficiency, which will be made easier by
the fact that they are generally unconstrained by
heritage or conservation factors.
The roads coming into former New Towns like
Harlow are congested in the mornings with staff
driving in from surrounding villages and smaller
towns. They do not live locally both because of in terms of house sizes, densities, income levels ↑ Harlow New Town
the limited housing choice, but also the stigma and tenures; the resulting choice should enable
of living in or near what was once New Town people to move home without having to move
housing. The impressive performance of local neighbourhood. It should also overcome the stigma
colleges cannot allay middle-class fears about of living in a forgotten suburb.
their children being dragged down, or erase the
major impact in the former New Town of Redditch. Renewal through urban design hostile image that post-war town centres present,
New forms of tenure, for example the housing Instead of using housing associations to lead the with monotonous concrete blocks, cut off by a Post-war suburban New Towns
cooperative in Hulme called Homes for People, have way, as in the Netherlands where half the new busy ring-road. This has all sorts of implications are generally well located and the
helped regenerate a notorious inner suburb close to homes for sale or rent have been provided by for employers and investors. They need attractive
Manchester’s city centre. privatised associations, the British government homes for senior employees and directors as well as basic infrastructure is in place
Why have we achieved so little in the UK has relied on private housing developers to lead high-quality services, particularly schools, if staff
compared with the efforts of the Dutch or the renewal in the suburbs. They are expected to cross- are not to spend all their spare time commuting.
Swedes to improve peripheral suburban estates subsidise social housing out of the profits from The exemplary new neighbourhood of Newhall Climate: live with nature. Renewal schemes
in places such as Rotterdam or Gothenburg? developing homes for sale. Though the problems in Harlow is promoted on posters at Tottenham should make active use of green space, and add
One reason is that the Neighbourhood Renewal that residents complain of largely relate to the way Hale Station as being in North Chase to avoid any to biodiversity, for example through community
programme was in fact tiny compared with the neighbourhoods and public spaces are managed, unfavourable associations. stewardship; we should also be cutting resource
larger expenditure on regeneration, and often the solutions adopted are ones of large-scale Within Harlow, the public open spaces or green consumption, for example by insulating homes
piecemeal rather than complimenting mainstream rebuilding, not small-scale urban design. wedges are fiercely guarded by the residents, properly, or by creating streets that encourage
programmes. Another reason was the fickleness A smarter model might have been to increase particularly those who can still remember moving walking and cycling. Success could be measured in
of policy; Neighbourhood Renewal lost its place in the densities and choice of housing by building on out of overcrowded cities, even though these terms of energy consumption per capita.
the sun. A more radical explanation could be that the edge. Would different approaches to tenure, spaces often lack quality and amenity, and are Community: building skills through learning
we have relied on the market where we should have such as cooperatives and co-housing, have bridged prized just because they are there. They could be and working together should be at the heart of
adopted a different model. the gaps? Such an approach could certainly help restructured and increased in quality or made renewal efforts, which is where mechanisms like
In 2001 PRP were invited to look at the issues overcome feelings of resentment about obvious productive (and more attractive) by growing fruit development trusts and co-housing groups can
of high density in Europe and were struck by how inequalities, and the difficulties facing residents and vegetables, which would reduce food miles and play a key role. By starting with common interests
other countries had seemingly managed to create in getting on to a housing ladder when they have provide a new source of activity. Similarly measures and concerns, for example providing better
more pleasant and enjoyable places from their little or no savings, and no prospects of a secure such as bus rapid transit linked to initiatives to play facilities, funds can be used to build better
housing programmes. It was not simply that the job. As experience in suburban estates like Marsh promote walking and cycling, plus a new link to neighbourhoods, not just new homes.
homes were more spacious and better designed Farm in Luton demonstrate, there are sufficient the M11 could reconnect Harlow residents to wider Collaboration: finally we should measure what
but that they sat within the context of planning people who are worried about losing out to either opportunities. matters. Instead of being obsessed with building on
and governance structures that were very different wealthier incomers or poorer immigrants, to make brownfield sites, many of which should be allowed
from our own. Local government still retained the it extremely hard to secure community approval for Conclusions to return to nature, or maximising the numbers of
skills and the determination to have a vision for changes other than ‘pull it all down and start again’. It would help to guide suburban renewal to homes built on a site, suburbs should be upgraded
the kind of place it wanted and the wherewithal to Similarly on the edge of York an ambitious scheme have an agreed set of principles, rather as the to improve the well-being of residents enabling
make it happen. Whilst the private sector was still by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to create a Cambridgeshire Quality Charter for Growth is being them to spend more time with their friends and
involved, it was only at the right time and within
clear boundaries. It was also clear that the market
successor to New Earswick has so far been foiled by
community opposition, even to the point of taking
used to shape new housing growth. Here are five
ideas and possible indicators:
•
neighbours, and less time in their cars.
for housing was much more varied with less of a role objections to the European Court. Connectivity: develop sustainable urban
for large developers and more opportunity for small Yet these peripheral sites should be easier and neighbourhoods. Developments should be within
builders, cooperatives and co-owners. Subsequent cheaper to improve because they can piggyback off walking distance of facilities such as a primary
research showed that some of the best examples
were to be found in the new suburbs being built
existing infrastructure, such as schools and utilities.
Given the high levels of previous investment which
school; they should also be on public transport
routes that enable residents to commute to jobs • Barry Munday is former
Chairman of PRP and
under the Dutch VINEX ten-year housing plan, for make these locations intrinsically good ones to and services in half an hour. Existing and planned member of Harlow’s Property
example in Vathorst on the edge of Amersfoort, as grow, we need to find the basis for quality deals infrastructure should be fully used in order to get Advisory Group
Nicholas Falk is a director
↑ Vathorst, Netherlands: well as on the edge of new towns such as Ypenburg that address local concerns. In the absence of new maximum value from any investment. of URBED and non-
urban extensions use canals near the Hague. These new suburbs not only look fiscal policies, this means accepting major new Character: provide a wider choice of homes. New executive director of Harlow
to create a sense of place attractive, but are better for building communities. development on the edge, and using the value in homes should be used to rebalance neighbourhoods Renaissance Ltd
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Topic Topic
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Topic Topic
Conclusion
Community and self-build in the UK tends to take
an ad hoc approach to land acquisition. In a market
where up to 10 – 20 years of housing land supply
has already been secured by major house builders,
there is little room for alternative approaches.
However, when resources are available, as seen in
The Yard in Bristol, new and innovative approaches
to sustainability and house building can succeed.
By contrast the European model offers a more
↑ Nieuw Leiden, small 2.1 acre plot that plugged in well to existing structured approach to community and self-build.
Netherlands: Diverse form infrastructure and required limited site works was
and architecture style fundamental to The Yard’s success. There are several key areas that are fundamental to
Photograph courtesy of
the delivery of the European model:
•
Wichert Akkerman
the Netherlands There has to be a strong public/private
Community and self-build in the UK is very partnership that promotes and invests in the
uncommon in comparison with our European design and infrastructure planning for the site The English suburbs have long been vilified as desirable housing model within England.
neighbours. The better accessibility in other
countries to this type of development can be
• A coherent master plan needs to be established
that sets out plots, streets and open spaces
benign, characterless and of no cultural value.
Architects and indeed government policy are
England has a housing crisis: with an increasing
population and reducing housing occupancy levels,
understood through the consideration of typical
European methods of planning and land supply.
• The master plan needs to be supported by other
documentation such as design codes to ensure
quick to dismiss the qualities of the suburbs as
un-designed and simplistic in their intellectual
it is predicted that the number of households
within the country will increase from 20.9 million
Strategic sites in Europe are generally developed that, while design innovation is promoted, the construction. However, as CABE observes, ‘there in 2003 to 25.7 million by 2026. In response, the
as a joint venture between a local authority and a final development has a cohesive townscape and is a long history of suburban living in England and Government has committed to delivering 2 million
consortium of private landowners and developers urban form simply rejecting a way of life that has been the homes by 2016 and 3 million homes in total by
who are jointly responsible for land acquisition, aspiration for several generations is not a viable 2020. This equates to the production of 240,000
urban planning, engineering, commissioning This model is currently being tested in New position’. The vast majority of the English populace units per annum by 2016. However, housing
infrastructure and allocating sites. Furthermore Islington in Manchester, indicating a potential resides in suburbia, 84 per cent of English housing production is at an 87 year low; in 2009/10 a mere
the absence of an oligopoly of national house future direction for self-build in the UK. Tutti can be classified as suburban. The semi-detached 123,000 units were produced in England and Wales.
builders has meant that there has been limited land Frutti is a joint venture between the Homes and house remains the most prevalent house typology In addition, an increasing sustainability agenda
hoarding, providing access to land for community Communities Agency and Urban Splash, offering in England, making up one in three of the housing demands an ever-increasing technical performance,
and self-builders. This model of development is 26 canal side building plots to self-builders. The stock, closely followed by the terrace and the with the Government seeking all new homes in
similar in many ways to the system that structured project replicates many of the positive approaches detached house. England to be carbon neutral by 2016.
much of the UK’s 1930s development, where in European case studies. The area forms part The question is, is suburbia a valid and
landowners often master planned an area, invested of a strong master plan and all the plots include Desires vs. feasibility responsible model to solve the housing crisis and to
in roads and infrastructure, before selling plots to a parking space and heat, power and water CABE research (What home buyers want: attitudes procure a sustainable, qualitative environment for
small development companies and individuals. infrastructure. and decision making among consumers) provides future generations and beyond?
A good example of this model in the Netherlands Political weight is required to bring about change an analysis of the current desires of the house- The suburban model was developed out of a
can be seen in Nieuw Leiden. The Netherlands in the UK. New planning mechanisms would be buying public. It concludes that the most desirable desire for an idyllic lifestyle. Large, quality family
has faced many of the same issues as the UK in required in order to promote the partnerships and house typology is the detached house. A front housing set within a rural landscape, in close
terms of housing need and development over the opportunities required to fully support self-build. garden is desired in order to provide a buffer to proximity to urban cores, was perceived to offer a
last 20 years. Their response to this challenge has While it is unlikely that community and self-build the street and the potential for car parking. A rear superior quality of life and a more amenable and
been different utilising planning and development will ever form a large component of our housing garden is deemed necessary for use as a children’s safe environment in which to raise a family. As
mechanisms that can support a variety of stock, the potential and foundation for significant play space. Fences are an important feature in more and more of us pursued this, ever-increasing
approaches, including community / self-build growth does exist. Increasing the opportunities terms of privacy and security. Respondents to the swathes of suburbia have resulted in sprawl. This
developments. In Nieuw Leiden the promotion for this approach will promote sustainability and survey also claimed that the overall appearance of sprawl denies the founding concepts of suburbia,
of self-build has been a core strategic aim, where architectural innovation, and provide competition the neighbourhood was more important than that neither linked to city nor countryside. The resultant
•
it is intended that at least 30 per cent of plots to the house builders that could force them to of individual houses, stating that ‘within limits mono-functional sea of cul-de-sacs, populated by
Clare Mitchell is a are developed by self-builders. Fundamental to reconsider and improve their product. The benefits, – a home should look similar but not the same generic house types, is inward-looking, insular,
Landscape Architect and
Urban Designer who has facilitating this has been the establishment of a direct and indirect, could be highly significant and as others in the vicinity’. Iconographic suburbia de-contextual and banal. Modern suburban ↑ De Haverlij, Netherlands:
strong master plan and development principles by could support the development of a richer and a delivers these aspects as standard, therefore it patterns are designed to maximise sellable,
•
worked on projects in The Suburban castles as objects
Netherlands, USA and UK MVRDV that underpin the development by multiple more diverse suburbia. can be concluded that suburbia offers the most privatised space and therefore reduce collective in the landscape
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Topic Topic
• Kevin Logan is an
safeguarding the qualities of both existing cities and
landscapes. The suburban clusters are holistically
of comfort. It has been left to volume builders to
express this perception. The result has been the
• The opportunity to establish parks, have gardens
and till allotments, all within the development
↑ Housing at Telford
Architect and Urban Millennium Community
Designer and an Associate masterplanned within a regional landscape construction of smaller and smaller dwellings in a that would satisfy aspirations for a better ↑ ↑ Ypenberg, Netherlands,
of Maccreanor Lavington strategy, which leads to the creation of distinct market that has become more commodified. environment but also add value scheme by MVRDV
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Topic Topic
• Sfrom
ustainability – reflecting a range of attributes
energy efficiency to compactness that Towards an underlying philosophy for the 21st Century suburb?
demands interdependency. Some of the key
The suburb will be a lively and vital place with a range of Low-energy solutions will become mainstream through
technical challenges relate to reducing energy commercial, retail and cultural activities with small squares fiscal, infrastructural and other mechanisms, including
consumption and carbon footprint; others to and convivial meeting places in which these activities can improvements to the energy market.
cultural and behavioural aspects. Lifestyle has take place.
always been a driver: what constitutes the good The design of the new suburb will need to positively
life needs redefining but, as Harriet Tregonning The opportunities for such a rich mix will be built into the increase the social value of the area and its existing
development, through the provision of flexible and multi- community. The new suburb with its intricacies of shared
says ‘You can only get so far by telling people to functional space. energy resources, shared space, aspirations, even shared
live differently for the good of the planet. They ownership and construction, will be carefully nurtured
need to be shown how they might benefit right New forms of housing will be designed to cater for the through appropriate programmes and mechanisms to
now, in their waistlines, their wallets, and their hybrid nature of life in the 21st century where work, living promote the social values and hence the attraction of living
own backyard.’ (It’s sprawl, but it’s my sprawl - and play become more interrelated. Streets and parks too there.
will take on this multi-functional role.
Urban Design Futures, Routledge 2006). Until we Social aspects will be addressed through special
answer that conundrum, expect the poor quality The suburb will be a connected place, linked physically with mechanisms designed to support community development
of suburban development to continue.
•
its neighbours, and virtually with the world, allowing a range throughout the life of the suburb.
Connectivity – linking suburbs and integrating of activities to occur and a more collaborative lifestyle to
emerge through the sharing of resources. The nature of continued long term stewardship through
them with adjacent development, establishing
different ownership patterns like leasehold, or co-ownership
networks whether information, social, or New forms of housing will also be designed and procured will become the norm, recycling benefits over time. We will
movement, without forgetting a decent public to maximise communal benefits through a range of move from the individuality of the 20th century to a new
transport service, rather than establishing organisations from self-build, to condominiums, housing communality in the 21st, where ownership doesn’t just mean
insulated estates. companies, as well as the more traditional route of being in hock to the mortgage company, but having a
•
diversity through design Director of Jon Rowland
codes number of guiding principles emerge, including: Garden Suburb’s main attributes is perceived models for financing, ownership, partnership, provided for us. Urban Design
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Hanham Hall
HTA and Arup aim to create a sustainable housing development through
a holistic approach ↙ View along Hall Green towards
Hanham Hall
↙ ↙ The development in context
↓ Hanham Hall detail
↘ Top to bottom: Master plan
Concept
Character areas
A process of dialogue
A pioneering and relatively high-density
housing development in an unremarkable
suburban setting 7km from the centre
of Bristol, the scheme involves adapting
a historic Grade II* listed building
for new uses and working around an At a more detailed level, the overarching The benefits of basic urban design
existing NHS mental health unit, which aim to reconnect with the environment decisions about how buildings and spaces
is landlocked on the site. HTA’s team of is manifest in each home’s direct are arranged, are often at odds with the
designers and planning specialists gained relationship with a quality open space, benefits of maximising energy efficiency.
planning consent at the first attempt. each part of a network that connects This project succeeds in reconciling these
The greatest challenge for the project was linear parks, formal lawns, road planting, differences : while achieving high levels of
the complexity of the Carbon Challenge greenhouses, playing fields, parks, environmental sustainability, it has also
brief, and our multi-disciplinary team’s allotments, private gardens, sustainable created a place where privacy is protected
response was to explore each aspect of the drainage, meadows and existing mature and activity is encouraged – there are no
community through a process of dialogue planting. The whole site is designed as a dead spaces because all the buildings have
and co-design. Similar continuity and natural habitat. to be oriented the same way. This has been
collaboration with the many stakeholders achieved through the team’s integrated
was achieved through workshops with Parking approach to design : the master plan has
South Gloucester Council, English Despite the excellent provision for been informed by the design of the homes,
Heritage, the HCA, the parish council and pedestrians and cyclists, most households and the housing design is responsive to
the wider community. are likely to need a car, and 252 residential the overall place-making objectives. For
parking spaces are proposed – around 1.3 example, each housing type has a flexible
Architecture and landscape per dwelling. The strategy in addressing plan, allowing the design team to rotate
Providing a transition between the this relatively high level of parking the living spaces to achieve maximum
residential suburbs of Bristol and the provision was to use a variety of different daylighting whether the building is
countryside of South Gloucestershire, parking solutions allowing the most orientated predominantly east–west
the master plan identified a number of organic and responsive solution. The or north–south. These homes are also
different character areas that reflect parking strategy – essentially driven by designed to avoid the inevitable conflicts
the site’s history as a family home urban design decisions – was to devise between fronts and backs, public and
and working farm. The layout, form, a palette of parking options – on street, private, when orientation for solar gain is
landscaping, scale and architectural style on plot and off plot - each interfacing a priority.
of the proposals for each area respond to with homes and streets in a different way
the specific characteristics and constraints depending on the immediate conditions, Lessons learned
of the existing environment. This gives and resulting in the lack of dominance On master plans of this scale, it is
the new development a rich and varied of any one solution. An example of this impossible to separate urban design issues
grain, which connects it both to its past is the accommodation of parking in the from the intricacies of detailed housing
and to its surroundings. The retained and secondary mews roads and courtyards – design, and this project demonstrates
refurbished Hall is central to the team’s spaces which are active, well overlooked, that success can be achieved at every
vision for the site. As well as providing an and attractive. level and scale of design. While Hanham
important sense of identity and history, it Hall has been tailored very closely to its
adds vibrancy to the community through Urban design and zero energy specific environment, the underlying
Hanham Hall is one of a number of all kinds of people: sustainable housing a number of non-residential uses, which The empirical and engineered solutions design approach provides a model for
flagship Carbon Challenge schemes that would fly off the shelf. HTA developed include commercial space as well as a of the Code for Sustainable Homes are sustainable place-making that can be
promoted by the Homes and Communities this vision through a holistic interplay crèche and cafe. only part of the answer to reaching zero replicated anywhere. The key ingredients
Agency. These exemplar projects are between urban and landscape design, and More than a third of the site cannot be carbon development. The proposals for are a holistic approach to design and an
intended to demonstrate how new housing the responding architectural form and built on due to green belt restrictions and Hanham Hall seek to go beyond this understanding that people want to be
developments can meet the exacting expression. the need to retain views of the Hanham scientific quantification and address the empowered rather than coerced to live
targets of the Code for Sustainable Homes Due for completion in 2011, Hanham Hills. The result is an array of shared fundamental challenge of understanding sustainably. The success of the scheme can
while providing attractive places to live Hall will be England’s first large-scale amenity spaces for Hanham Hall residents our relationships with the world around be attributed not only to the quality of the
and remaining cost-effective for the housing scheme to achieve Level 6 of the and the surrounding community. Hall us, translating these and providing design but also to a continuous process
developer. Code. The development will create 195 new Green – the main pedestrian and cycle opportunities for lifestyles that touch the of dialogue with the many stakeholders
The ambition for Hanham Hall was to
create a place that would be attractive to
homes, ranging from one-bedroom starter
flats to five-bedroom family houses. Two
route that runs through the site – is the
key legibility feature of the master plan .
planet more lightly, and which are more
collaborative and communal.
involved in the project.•
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Over the past three years, Kettering As with all good master plans, a and long-lasting place and a growing heart an evaluation of infrastructure costs and from a little used space to a vibrant place. it quickly became apparent that the
town centre has benefited from a high thorough baseline analysis of the to the expanding town. By introducing development value. This was fundamental The driving force for the scheme was to outputs would be more robust and useful
level of commitment to regeneration physical, socio-economic and cultural opportunities for more residential to understanding the need and role of create opportunities for using the space in planning terms if they could be written
from its local authority, Kettering characteristics of the town centre and development within the town centre, the planning obligation policies and any for both informal and formal events, as as an Area Action Plan. Following careful
Borough Council (KBC) and partners its context was undertaken. Movement master plan sought to improve the night- additional grant funding requirements, well as an attractive place to meet, eat, consideration both client and consultant
North Northants Development Company and transport was an integral element time economy, reduce crime and reduce including highways and public realm. and linger. The design team incorporated decided that this would be the best way
(NNDC) and Northamptonshire County of this, with Alan Baxter Associates car journeys. Whilst each of the mixed- Input from planning consultants (Savills an amphitheatre as both a functional and forward and the brief was amended,
Council. The market town is located only guiding the structure of the master plan use character areas has its own land use Planning & Regeneration) ensured that sculptural feature, together with a bespoke giving KBC a tool that will be actively used
one hour from St Pancras Station and via an extensive review of vehicular and emphasis, they work together as a unified best practice guidance on emerging and canopy design which acts as an informal through the planning process.
the heart of the Milton Keynes South pedestrian movement both within the whole to promote the strengths of the current policy requirements was also stage as well as a sheltered seating area. Stakeholder’s engagement: the
Midlands (MKSM) growth area. With town centre and its wider hinterland. town centre as a living, walkable focus followed. Using high quality materials, architectural geographical scope of the project
its population expected to grow from This resulted in the development of a for the community. As well as providing Whilst using 3D computer modelling lighting and an interactive water feature, necessitated an inclusive and thorough
82,000 to over 101,000 by 2021, the number of options to illustrate how traffic good access to facilities, homes and public techniques that are expected of today’s the space now offers a vibrant place approach to stakeholder engagement
opportunities for the town are obvious. In movement around the town could be transport (including a new rail station urban designers, the Kettering master for the community to enjoy the town throughout the design process. An
the meanwhile however, the town centre changed, including changing the direction quarter), the master plan also responds to plan took technology a stage further, using centre during both the day and evening. innovative and varied approach was
is currently failing. Despite having an of one-way streets, amending bus routes, the site’s natural opportunities, including an intelligent three dimensional model This is already acting as a stimulus to taken, to help overcome local consultation
attractive historic core, it suffers from downgrading junctions and introducing passive solar design opportunities and of the town centre that linked the master the economy of the surrounding area, fatigue and try and include hard-to-
large numbers of vacant properties and a traffic-calming. techniques for sustainable urban drainage plan to the council’s GIS system. Team with KBC marketing it as the town’s new reach communities. Methods included
general lack of vibrancy, especially in the The historic character of the town systems. The Design Code element also members VoxVue, incorporated a database Restaurant Quarter, existing businesses leaflet drops, media slots, a movie,
evening. was seen as an important opportunity. set out best practice in terms of Code for of information into an interactive user- investigating upgrading their properties interactive exhibitions, design workshops,
Savills Urban Designers and heritage Sustainable Homes and environmental friendly model, enabling development and a new mixed-use development presentations, public walkabouts,
A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH specialists took a character-based best practice. to be monitored as well as setting out planned for the southern frontage of the workshops involving local school children
In recognition of the importance of approach to reinforcing this historic The master plan, which ultimately planning history and proposed policy Market Place. and one-to-one stakeholder interviews.
regenerating the town for both the identity and respecting existing listed evolved into a draft Area Action Plan, requirements. In addition to the delivery of the Market Technology was used to stimulate
present and future communities KBC buildings and a conservation area. This was to be more than just a policy Place scheme, a Public Realm Strategy, involvement, with design workshops,
commissioned a suite of development also enabled areas that would benefit from document but was based on site tested Lessons Learned Public Art Strategy, Lighting Strategy and which incorporated interactive and
briefs, a town centre master plan and a contemporary approach to development proposals and an understanding of Public realm delivery - a catalyst to Wayfinding Strategy was also produced adjustable computer models and a project
design strategies as well as a detailed
scheme for public realm enhancements
to be highlighted. Preceding recent CABE
guidance on Capitalising on the Inherited
market requirements. Involving a team of
retail and economic specialists (Drivers
change: the client recognised that a key
part of the project was to incorporate
for the entire town centre. By providing a
committed, integrated approach, all future
website launched to inform and engage. •
to the town’s Market Place. Led by Savills Landscape, the master plan reinforced Jonas & Savills Development) as integral a deliverable public realm scheme that private and public sector schemes will
Urban Design, a multi-disciplinary the existing identity of the town’s historic members of the design team gave both would indicate to local residents and therefore be committing to visually unified
consultancy team of designers, planners, street patterns and architecture where clarity and certainty to the development businesses that they were committed place.
engineers and development experts was appropriate. process as well as setting out a clear and to change. Through NNDC and An iterative brief: whilst at the outset
appointed to take an holistic approach The need for a sustainable approach to marketable vision for the town. The three Northamptonshire Enterprise Limited Savills Urban Design were commissioned
to creating a vision for the town in the the Area Action Plan was essential and a dimensional master plan led to detailed funding, a £1.2m public realm scheme to produce a master plan together with a
coming years, based on viable solutions. key objective was to create a sustainable schedules being produced, allowing for transformed the town’s Market Place suite of development briefs and strategies,
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Waterfront Wakefield
FaulknerBrowns reconnect Wakefield with its historic waterfront
↙ Navigation warehouse and new
square
↓ From left to right:
Master Plan
Phasing
Public spaces and routes
↘ Aerial view of scheme
↘ ↘ The waterfront from the Calder
Ground Control effect on the society of an area, and work emerges is that peak oil may mean peak wa- and compares it with New York and Paris. the public sector is interventionist and tough not to say that the historic context does not
against the creation of a safer and more inte- ter and power, and more power hungry high- Unfortunately, he does not refer to seminal with the market. Bowie does remark that the influence the shape of current gated com-
Anna Minton, Penguin, 2009, grated community. rises may not be the solution to cope with in depth studies like Working Capital, which interest of Londoners gets increasingly dif- munities. The book gives three rationales for
£9.99, ISBN 978-0-141-03391-4 Overall this may not be a scholarly piece rapid urbanisation. Other sobering factors challenges the growth determinism of the ficult to capture while its population is con- gated communities: status through exclusiv-
of research or reflect the same in-depth might surprise: after the SARS epidemic in London Plan, or Changing Cities, a critique stantly on the move and its transient lifestyle ity; security against crime and fear of crime;
In 240 densely written pages, Anna Minton knowledge of a specific location that epito- 2003, the health benefits of better ventilation of new conventional wisdom which figures in contradiction with allegiance to London feeling of belonging inside the gate, or a
challenges a number of the concepts that mised The Death and Life of Great American of estates was taken more seriously in Hong large in London’s mayoral policy making. communities, and thus to the ideals implicitly combination of these. However, the article
have been driving many projects currently Cities, but it could be as profound in its effect Kong. Together with public objections to ‘wall Bowie points out that Livingstone’s political present in the current planning agenda and on France shows other reasons, such as rent
involving urban designers. Anna Minton is not on urbanists thinking: what is lacking in effect’ buildings that resulted from the urban choice of planning for growth benefited from designer visions of regenerating London. seeking and protection of property assets,
a designer, she is a journalist, and Guardian
readers will be familiar with her crusading
rigour is made up for in Minton’s passionate
concern. This is a book that should be on the
densification that had taken place in Kow-
loon after the airport height restriction was
prolonged economic and population growth,
a far cry from Boris Johnson, who faces
• Judith Ryser traditional municipal governance, as well as
legal frameworks and homogenising planning
style. This style may not result in a balanced reading list of everybody who cares for the lifted, analysis of daylight penetration and economic decline with continuous popula- practices. Thus gated communities owe their
and carefully argued thesis but some press- future of our cities. ventilation in and around high-rises are now tion growth. existence to a much greater set of param-
ing concerns are raised and some important
questions asked.
• Richard Cole required inputs to designing layouts. At the
Conference on Planning Low Carbon Cities
Bowie shows the chasm between plan
making and development control, the latter
Gated Communities –
Social Sustainability
eters than the three individual and societal
motivations.
Ground Control is divided into three parts held in Hong Kong last May where Tony Lloyd- strengthened by the Greater London Author- What the case studies expose inadvert-
supported by notes, a very full bibliography Jones and I presented a paper on Retrofitting ity Act 2007 which enabled developers to ne- in Contemporary ently is the issue of scale. Gated communities
and a useful index. The first two parts, The Designing High- for Sustainability, many speakers demon- gotiate with the mayor who had marginalised and Historical Gated range from a few houses or a boom across
City and The Home are probably the most rel- Density Cities – For strated the welcome commitment of Hong the Greater London Authority’s scrutiny pow- Developments a dead end street to new developments on
evant but that should not provide an excuse Kong and Chinese planners to planning for ers. De facto bypassing Borough planning green fields of several thousand premises
to avoid reading the third part examining Civil Social & Environmental a more sustainable urban future. This book authorities, large scale developments were Samer Bagaeen and Ola Uduku with services, autarchic infrastructure,
Society. In The City, Minton examines the im- Sustainability brings home the need for urban designers to granted planning consent perversely in con- (eds), Earthscan, 2010, £60, management and security. The examples
pact of Thatcherism on our urban fabric and get up-to-date with their CPD on micro-cli- tradiction with provisions of the London Plan, ISBN 978-1-84407-519-5 from China are relevant here, where cities
it is not a happy review. She emphasises the Edward Ng (ed), Earthscan, 2010, matic issues whether they work in temperate exceeding densities and underperforming on of production are being turned into cities of
fragmentation of cities by the introduction £28.00, ISBN 978-1-84407-460-0 or hot urban environments. The well qualified house type and tenure mix, space standards gates. Coming back onto design, many arti-
of gated communities and the privatisation contributors add to our sum of useful knowl- and design quality. Chasing numbers over This collection of articles differs from the cles refer to Oscar Newman and his defensi-
of the public realm by Business Improve- At first glance this may not seem to be a text edge but I wish that the publisher could have liveability may result in hard to let dwellings mainstream literature on gated communi- ble space idea. Another classic reference is
ment Districts. She highlights the irony that book for urban designers but I wish that it afforded coloured illustrations to explain the after economic recovery. Under the banner ties, owing to its ambitious geographic that gated communities are socially cohesive
the home of those anti-enclosure radicals of had been available when I was working on densely laid out data and illustrations. Maybe of ‘compact city’, both the government and coverage, long term historic timeframe, and akin to garden cities or utopian settlements.
the 17th century, the Diggers, is now a gated large projects in Hong Kong. The concept of too weighty for the briefcase of the itinerant the mayor played into the hands of develop- authors from the countries from where the However, examples from New Zealand show
community which, like a Russian doll has the Breeze Corridor to allow air movement consultant but ideal to have on your e-reader, ers who leave a legacy of potential slums of case studies have been selected. Examples that common responsibility for maintenance
gated areas within it. This reflects her view of within large high-rise developments was be- ready to jet off to those overseas masterplan- tomorrow. An interesting dilemma noted by include cities from the Middle East, Africa, of communal areas can also lead to friction
our current obsession with personal security coming adopted then, but detailed analysis of ning commissions. Is it available to download Bowie is whether privately dwellings built China, Australasia, Latin America, France and and resentment. Moreover, secluding designs
and its corrosive effect. micro-climatic issues were not on the agenda digitally? below public housing standards should lead the USA. Such a global coverage raises the and secondary boundaries within gated
In the second part, The Home, the tyr-
anny of Secured by Design, where a police
and some pretty dreadful developments took
place that would leave the spaces between
• Malcolm Moor to relaxed standards or empty premises. It
remains to be seen whether Boris Johnson
question of whether there exists an ubiqui-
tous concept of gated community in space
communities create segregation from within,
sometimes along class distinctions.
based view of design is seen as stifling without the benefit of light, view or breeze. will impose more generous space standards, and time? This question seems implicit in The merit of the book is its appetite to
creation of permeable housing areas, and The twenty-two contributors to this book less density, more evenly distributed housing the book which concludes that everywhere extend the notion of gated communities
the mythology of the Pathfinder housing comprehensively cover the gamut of issues of Politics, Planning and growth and higher sustainable design quality. contemporary gated communities are rooted worldwide and its attempt to identify their
renewal programmes, are examined. Minton building at high densities, the growth of mega Homes in a World City Bowie shows that Livingstone was far in the history of their spatial development. commonalities, including their urban design
concludes that both initiatives have stifled cities and their environmental consequences. from delivering his targets, even during the Another common theme is whether and what characteristics. What remains unconvincing
choice and over-ridden community desires. While in Europe sustainable development Duncan Bowie, Routledge, 2010, boom years, partially due to limited pow- design features are characterising generic is the merits or otherwise of gated communi-
In the final part Minton turns her atten- has concentrated on reducing heat loss, in £ 29.99, ISBN 0-415-48637-8 ers, but also for wanting development on gated communities. A third purpose is to ties, and their longer term effect on cities as
tion on the more personal aspects of social the tropics ventilation, daylight and mitigat- the ground at whatever cost. The propos- challenge the conventional wisdom that a whole. There is no way to canvass people
policy, and while this part may be of less ing the heat island effect are paramount. Duncan Bowie gives a panorama of strategic als in the conservative green paper Open gated communities are intrinsically bad. in gated communities, so perhaps they may
direct relevance to the urban designer, it still Combined with the alarming rate of increase planning for London and, in particular, a Source Planning will pay put to any hope The problem with such an all-embracing hamper the democratic process for which
makes for compulsive reading. The hazards in power and water consumption, associated comprehensive analysis of London’s hous- of sufficient spatially balanced provision of collection of examples, presented in short cities and their public realm are essential
of importing ideas of American origin is with the exponential growth in high-rise cities ing policies from 2000 to 2008 during Ken affordable housing in London where Johnson articles is that the intricacies of their com- settings.
highlighted, and the effectiveness of ASBOs is
questioned: Minton suggests that their indis-
(particularly the Middle East and Las Vegas
examples of living in denial of the limits to
Livingstone’s mayorality. He assesses Lon-
don’s experience of spatial planning under
has already lowered targets. This leaves pre-
cious little chance of Bowie’s renaissance of
plex research postulates may slip through the
crudeness of the mesh. Some of the historic
• Judith Ryser
criminate application can have a damaging their profligate consumption) the picture that an elected mayor against planning theory a pragmatic approach to planning, whereby references seem a little far-fetched. This is
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C Tim Jackson T 020 7485 8555 John Thompson & Partners T 00353 1 881 4062 T 020 7324 2662 green infrastructure, ecology and
Integrated design and Halcrow Group Ltd E urbandesign@hta.co.uk 23-25 Great Sutton Street, Lavigne Lonsdale Ltd E info@loci.ie E info@metropolispd.com biodiversity, environmental planning
environmental practice. Specialists 44 Brook Green, Hammersmith C James Lord/Sally Lewis London ECIV 0DN 38 Belgrave Crescent, Camden W www.loci.ie W www.metropolispd.com and management.
in Masterplanning, urban and mixed London W6 7BY W www.hta-arch.co.uk T 020 7017 1780 Bath BA1 5JU C Conor Norton C Greg Cooper
use regeneration, development T 020 7602 7282 Design-led housing and E info@jtp.co.uk T 01225 421539 Urban design, architecture and Metropolitan urban design solutions Nicoll Russell Studios
frameworks, EIAs and public E schmidtr@halcrow.com regeneration consultancy offering W www.jtp.co.uk TRURO planning consultancy dedicated to drawn from a multi-disciplinary 111 King Street, Broughty Ferry
inquiries. W www.halcrow.com inter-disciplinary services including C Marcus Adams 55 Lemon Street, Truro working for better places: places studio of urban designers, architects, Dundee DD5 1EL
C Robert Schmidt architecture, Masterplanning, urban Edinburgh Cornwall TR1 2PE with a real sense of identity, a better planners, and heritage architects. T 01382 778966
Framework Architecture Award winning consultancy, design, graphic design, landscape 2nd Floor Venue studios, 15-21 T 01872 273118 quality of life. E willie.watt@nrsarchitects.com
and Urban Design integrating planning, transport and design, sustainability and planning. Calton Road, Edinburgh EH8 8DL E martyn@lavignelonsdale.co.uk Mouchel W www.nrsarchitects.com
3 Marine Studios, Burton Lane, environment. Full development cycle T 0131 272 2762 W www.lavigne.co.uk LSI Architects LLP 1 Waterhouse Square, 138-142 Holborn C Willie Watt
Burton Waters, Lincoln LN1 2WN covering feasibility, concept, design Hyland Edgar Driver E info@jtp.co.uk C Martyn Lonsdale The Old Drill Hall, 23 A Cattle Market London EC1N 2HG Design led masterplanning and
T 01522 535383 and implementation. One Wessex Way, Colden Common, C Alan Stewart We are an integrated practice of Street, Norwich NR1 3DY T 020 7822 2560 town centre studies which seek to
E info@frameworklincoln.co.uk Winchester, Hants SO21 1WG Addressing the problems of physical, masterplanners, Urban Designers, T 01603 660711 E Ludovic.Pittie@mouchel.com provide holistic solutions to complex
C Gregg Wilson T 01962 711 600 social and economic regeneration Landscape Architects and Product david.thompson@lsiarchitects.co.uk W www.mouchel.com challenges, creating sustainable
Architecture and urban design. A E hed@heduk.com through collaborative interdisciplinary Designers. Experienced in large C David Thompson C Ludovic Pittie ‘joined up’ and enjoyable
commitment to the broader built W www.heduk.com community based planning. scale, mixed-use and residential Large scale Masterplanning and Integrated urban design, transport communities.
environment and the particular C John Hyland Masterplanning, health, education, visualisation in sectors such as and engineering consultancy,
dynamic of a place and the design Innovative problem solving, driven regeneration, housing, parks, public health, education and business, and changing the urban landscape in a
opportunities presented. by cost efficiency and sustainability, realm and streetscape design. new sustainable settlements. positive manner, creating places for
combined with imagination and sustainable living.
coherent aesthetic of the highest
quality.
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Practice Index Practice Index
NJBA Architects & Urban PEGASUS Pringle Brandon Richard Coleman SAVILLS (L&P) LIMITED Sheils Flynn Ltd Space Syntax Limited Terra Firma Consultancy
Designers Pegasus House, Querns Business 10 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4QJ Citydesigner Lansdowne House, 57 Berkeley Square Bank House High Street, Docking, 4 Huguenot Place, Heneage Street, Cedar Court, 5 College Road
4 Molesworth Place, Dublin 2 Centre, Whitworth Road, Cirencester T 020 7466 1000 14 Lower Grosvenor Place, London W1J 6ER Kings Lynn PE31 8NH London E1 5LN Petersfield GU31 4AE
T 00 353 1 678 8068 GL7 1RT E pbmarketing@pringle-brandon. London SW1W 0EX T 020 7353 0202 T 01485 518304 T 020 7422 7600 T 01730 262040
E njbarchitects@eircom.net T 0128 564 1717 co.uk T 020 7630 4880 E bvanbruggen@savills.com E norfolk@sheilsflynn.com E t.stonor@spacesyntax.com E contact@terrafirmaconsultancy.
W homepage.eircom.net/~njbrady1 E mike.carr@ppg-llp.co.uk C Alison Anslow E r.coleman@citydesigner.com W www.savills.com C Eoghan Sheils C Tim Stonor com
C Noel J Brady W www.ppg-llp.co.uk Offices, hotels, workplace design. C Dorthe Bendtsen C Ben van Bruggen Award winning town centre Spatial Masterplanning and C Lionel Fanshawe
Integrated landscapes, urban C Mike Carr Advice on architectural quality, SOUTHAMPTON regeneration schemes, urban research-based design; movement, Independent landscape architectural
design, town centres and squares, Masterplanning, design codes, Project Centre Ltd urban design, and conservation, Brunswick House,Brunswick Place, strategies and design guidance. connectivity, integration, practice with considerable urban
strategic design and planning. sustainable design, development Saffron Court, 14b St Cross Street, historic buildings and townscape. Southampton SO15 2AP Specialists in community consultation regeneration, safety and interaction. design experience at all scales from
briefs, development frameworks, London EC1N 8XA Environmental statements, listed T 02380 713900 and team facilitation. EIA to project delivery throughout UK
Novell Tullett expert witness, community T 020 7421 8222 buildings/area consent applications. E pfrankum@savills.com Spawforths and overseas.
7 Unity Street, Bristol BS1 5HH involvement, sustainability appraisal. E info@projectcentre.co.uk C Peter Frankum Shepheard Epstein Hunter Junction 41 Business Court, East
T 0117 922 7887 W www.projectcentre.co.uk Richards Partington Offices throughout the World Phoenix Yard, 65 King’s Cross Road, Ardsley, Leeds WF3 2AB Terry Farrell and Partners
E bristol@novelltullett.co.uk Philip Cave Associates C David Moores First Floor, Fergusson House Savills Urban Design creates value London WC1X 9LW T 01924 873873 7 Hatton Street, London NW8 8PL
C Maddy Hine 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ Landscape architecture, public realm 124 – 128 City Road, London EC1V 2NJ from places and places of value. T 020 7841 7500 E info@spawforth.co.uk T 020 7258 3433
Urban design, landscape T 020 7250 0077 design, urban regeneration, street T 020 7490 5494 Masterplanning, urban design, E stevenpidwill@seh.co.uk W www.spawforth.co.uk E tfarrell@terryfarrell.co.uk
architecture and environmental E principal@philipcave.com lighting design, planning supervision, E post@rparchitects.co.uk design coding, urban design advice, C Steven Pidwill C Adrian Spawforth W www.terryfarrell.com
planning. W www.philipcave.com traffic and transportation, parking C Simon Bradbury planning, commercial guidance. SEH is a user-friendly, award- Urbanism with planners and C Drew Nelles
C Philip Cave and highway design. W www.rparchitects.co.uk winning architects firm, known for architects specialising in Architectural, urban design, planning
Paul Davis & Partners Design-led practice with innovative Urban design, housing, retail, Saunders Partnership its work in regeneration, education, Masterplanning, community and Masterplanning services.
Mozart Terrace, 178 Ebury Street yet practical solutions to PRP Architects education, sustainability and Studio Four, 37 Broadwater Road, housing, Masterplanning, mixed-use engagement, visioning and New buildings, refurbishment,
London, SW1W 8UP environmental opportunities in urban 10 Lindsey Street commercial projects that take Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 3AX and healthcare projects. development frameworks. conference/exhibition centres and
T 020 7730 1178 regeneration. Specialist expertise in London EC1A 9HP a responsible approach to the T 01707 385 300 visitor attractions.
E p.roos@pauldavisandpartners.com landscape architecture. T 020 7653 1200 environment and resources. E martin.williams@sandersarchitects. Sheppard Robson Stuart Turner Associates
W www.pauldavisandpartners.com E lon.prp@prparchitects.co.uk com 77 Parkway, Camden Town, 12 Ledbury, Great Linford, Tibbalds Planning & Urban
C Pedro Roos PLANIT i.e. LTD C Andy von Bradsky Richard Reid & Associates C Martin Williams London NW1 7PU Milton Keynes MK14 5DS Design
New Urbanist approach establishing The Planit Group, 10-12 Cecil Road, Architects, planners, urban Whitely Farm, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, T 020 7504 1700 T 01908 678672 19 Maltings Place, 169 Tower Bridge
a capital framework with a Hale, Cheshire WA15 9PA designers and landscape architects, Kent TN14 6BS Scott Brownrigg Ltd E charles.scott@sheppardrobson. E st@studiost.co.uk Road, London SE1 3JB
subsequent incremental approach. T 0161 928 9281 specialising in housing, urban T 01732 741417 St Catherines Court, 46-48 Portsmouth com W www.studiost.co.uk T 020 7089 2121
Bridging the divide between urban E info@planit-ie.com regeneration, health, education and E richardreid@btconnect.com Road, Guildford GU2 4DU W www.sheppardrobson.com C Stuart Turner E mail@tibbalds.co.uk
design and architecture. W www.planit-ie.com leisure projects. C Richard Reid T 01483 568 686 C Charles Scott Architecture, urban design and W www.tibbalds.co.uk
C Peter Swift E L.deda@scottbrownrigg.com Manchester environmental planning, the C Andrew Karski
Paul Drew Design Ltd Quartet Design Robert Adam Architects W www.scottbrownrigg.com 27th Floor, City Tower, Piccadilly Plaza design of new settlements, urban Expertise in Masterplanning
23-25 Great Sutton Street Pod The Exchange, Lillingstone Dayrell, 9 Upper High Street, Winchester C Luan Deda Manchester M1 4BD regeneration and site development and urban design, sustainable
London EC1V 0DN 99 Galgate,Barnard Castle, Bucks MK18 5AP Hampshire SO23 8UT Integrated service of architecture, T 0161 233 8900 studies. regeneration, development
T 020 7017 1785 Co Durham DL12 8ES T 01280 860500 T 01962 843843 urban design, planning, Planners, urban designers and frameworks and design guidance,
E pdrew@pauldrewdesign.co.uk T 0845 003 7755 E quartet@qdl.co.uk E peter.critoph@ Masterplanning, involved in several architects. Strategic planning, urban studio | REAL design advice.
W www.pauldrewdesign.co.uk E info@pod.gb.com C David Newman robertadamarchitects.com mixed-use schemes regenerating regeneration, development planning, 59-63 High Street, Kidlington, Oxford
C Paul Drew W www.pod.gb.com Landscape architects, architects and C Peter Critoph inner city and brownfield sites. town centre renewal, new settlement OX5 2DN Townscape Solutions
Masterplanning, urban design, C Andy Dolby urban designers. Masterplanning, W www.robertadamarchitects.com planning. T 01865 377 030 128 Park Road, Smethwick, West
residential and mixed use design. Newcastle hard landscape projects in urban World-renowned for progressive, Scott Tallon Walker E design@studioreal.co.uk Midlands, B67 5HT
Creative use of design codes and 10 Summerhill Terrace, areas achieving environmental classical design covering town Architects Smeeden Foreman W www.studioreal.co.uk T 0121 429 6111
other briefing material. Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6EB sustainability. and country houses, housing 19 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 Partnership C Roger Evans E kbrown@townscapesolutions.co.uk
C Craig van Bedaf development, urban master plans, T 00 353 1 669 3000 8 East Parade, Harrogate HG1 JLT Urban regeneration, quarter W www.townscapesolutions.co.uk
The Paul Hogarth Company Masterplanning, site appraisal, QuBE commercial development and public E philip.jackson@stw.ie T 01423 520 222 frameworks and design briefs, town C Kenny Brown
Avalon House, 278-280 Newtownards layout and architectural design. Building 7, Michael Young Centre, buildings. W www.stw.com E trevor@smeeden.foreman.co.uk centre strategies, movement in towns, Specialist urban design practice
Road, Belfast BT4 1HE Development frameworks, urban Purbeck Road, Cambridge CB2 2QL C Philip Jackson C Trevor Foreman Masterplanning and development offering a wide range of services
T 028 9073 6690 regeneration, design codes, briefs T 01223 271 850 Roger Griffiths Associates Award winning international practice Ecology, landscape architecture economics. including master plans, site layouts,
E belfast@paulhogarth.com and design and access statements. E enquiries@qube.org.uk 4 Regent Place, Rugby covering all aspects of architecture, and urban design. Environmental design briefs, design and access
W www.paulhogarth.com C Sheena MacCallum/Jon Burgess Warwickshire CV21 2PN urban design and planning. assessment, detailed design, SURFACE INCLUSIVE DESIGN statements, expert witness and 3D
C James Hennessey Pollard Thomas Edwards Site specific design solutions related T 01788 540040 contract packages and site RESEARCH CENTRE illustrations.
EDINBURGH Architects to urban design and Masterplanning; E roger@rgalandscape.com SCOTT WILSON supervision. School of Construction & Property
Bankhead Steading, Bankhead Road, Diespeker Wharf 38, Graham Street, site development briefs; public realm W www.rgalandscape.com 3-4 Foxcombe Court, Wyndyke Furlong, Management, University of Salford TP bennett LLP
Edinburgh EH30 9TF London N1 8JX design; historic buildings; community C Roger Griffiths Abingdon, Oxon OX14 1DZ Soltys: Brewster Consulting M5 4WT One America Street, London SE1 0NE
T 0131 331 4811 T 020 7336 7777 consultation. A quality assured landscape T 01235 468700 87 Glebe Street, Penarth, T 0161 295 5279 T 020 7208 2029
E edinburgh@paulhogarth.com robin.saha-choudhury@ptea.co.uk consultancy offering landscape E paj.valley@scottwilson.com Vale of Glamorgan CF64 1EF E r.newton@salford.ac.uk E mike.ibbott@tpbennett.co.uk
Integrated urban design and W www.ptea.co.uk Randall Thorp architecture, land use W www.scottwilson.com T 029 2040 8476 W www.inclusive-design.it C Mike Ibbott
landscape architecture practice, C Robin Saha-Choudhury Canada House, 3 Chepstow Street, planning, urban design, project C Paj Valley/ Ken Jores E enquiry@soltysbrewster.co.uk C Rita Newton Development planning, urban
providing Masterplanning, Liverpool Manchester M1 5FW implementation, EIA and expert Also at Birmingham, Leeds, London, W www.soltysbrewster.co.uk design, conservation and
regeneration and public realm Unit S204, Second Floor, Merchants T 0161 228 7721 witness services. Manchester, Plymouth C Simon Brewster Taylor Young Urban Design Masterplanning – making places
consultancy to the public and private Court, Derby Square, Liverpool L2 1TS E mail@randallthorp.co.uk Urban design, planning, landscape, Urban design, master plans, Chadsworth House, Wilmslow Road, and adding value through creative,
sectors. T 0151 703 2220 C Pauline Randall RPS economic and architectural design strategies, visual impact, Handforth, Cheshire SK9 3HP progressive, dynamic and joyful
E roo.humpherson@ptea.co.uk Masterplanning for new Bristol, Cambridge, London, Newark, design expertise supported by environmental assessment, T 01625 542200 exploration.
PD Lane Associates C Roo Humpherson developments and settlements, Southampton & Swindon comprehensive multidisciplinary regeneration of urban space, E stephengleave@tayloryoung.co.uk
1 Church Road, Greystones, Masterplanners, urban designers, infrastructure design and urban T 0800 587 9939 skills. landscape design and project C Stephen Gleave Tribal Urban Studio Team
County Wicklow, Ireland developers, architects, listed building renewal, design guides and design E rpspte@rpsplc.co.uk management. Liverpool 87 - 91 Newman Street, London W1T 3EY
T 00 353 1287 6697 and conservation area designers; briefing, public participation. W www.rpsgroup.com Shaffrey Associates T 0151 702 6500 Offices in the UK and Overseas
E dlane@pdlane.ie specialising in inner city mixed-use Part of the RPS Group providing a 29 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin 1 _space Environment Urban design, planning and T 020 7079 9120
C Malcolm Lane high density regeneration. Random Greenway wide range of urban design services T 00 353 1872 5602 Spaceworks, Benton Park Road development. Town studies, housing, E urbanstudioteam@tribalgroup.
Urban design, architecture and Architects including Masterplanning and E studio@shaffrey.ie Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7LX commercial, distribution, health and co.uk
planning consultancy, specialising Powell Dobson Urbanists Soper Hall, Harestone Valley Road development frameworks, design C Gráinne Shaffrey T 0191 223 6600 transportation. Specialist in urban W www.tribalgroup.co.uk/
in Masterplanning, development Charterhouse, Links Business Park Caterham Surrey CR3 6HY guides and statements. Urban conservation and design, with E richard.charge@spacegroup.co.uk design training. urbanstudioteam
frameworks, site layouts, St Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0LT T 01883 346 441 a particular commitment to the W www.spacegroup.co.uk C Simon Gray/ Simon Green
applications, appeals, project co- T 029 2079 9699 E rg@randomgreenwayarchitects. Rummey Design Associates regeneration of historic urban C Richard Charge / Tony Wyatt Terence O’Rourke LTD Tribal's Urban Studio team (formerly
ordination. E james.brown@powelldobson.com co.uk South Park Studios, South Park, centres, small towns and villages, Multidisciplinary practice offering Everdene House, Deansleigh Road, the planning practice of Llewelyn
W www.powelldobsonurbanists.com C R Greenway Sevenoaks Kent TN13 1AN including new development. expertise in urban design, Bournemouth BH7 7DU Davies Yeang) have expertise in
C James Brown Architecture, planning and urban T 01732 743753 architecture, conservation and T 01202 421142 Urban Design, Masterplanning,
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people, places, sustainability, design environmental consultancy. urban design, architecture,
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economic issues. urban design problems.
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Practice Index Education Index / Endpiece
Turley Associates URBED (Urban and Economic WHITE YOUNG GREEN PLANNING ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY Edinburgh College of Art Oxford Brookes University MA/Diploma in Urban Design. Joint
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Specialist competition winning urban 33 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AA supremacy among the six, which Hanley won, of Hanley is relatively intact, with irregular carry clout too. Stoke is pinning hopes on a
regeneration practice combining T 020 7820 0388 although the railway station and the civic street blocks composed of diverse build- big new Tesco in Hanley, which is so keen to
economic and urban design skills. E post@wtlondon.com
centre are two miles away in Stoke. ings. They enclose three organically-shaped be there that it is paying for a new part of
Projects include West Ealing and C Lindsey Whitelaw
Plymouth East End. LEEDS After amalgamation, the six towns con- and linked squares on a steep hillside, which the ring road to be built to it. This will enable
16 Globe Road, Leeds LS11 5QG tinued for a long time to enjoy both individual Camillo Sitte, had he known of them, could residents of the other five towns to drive
T 0113 237 7200 identity and some economic autonomy. But have used instead of Lucca to illustrate his there, and from Newcastle-under-Lyme too,
E post@wtnorth.com
C Guy Denton more recently, municipal policy has been advocacy of the principle of Plaza Groupings. so further damaging their own economies.
Urban regeneration, streetscape to concentrate investment and growth in Forming a big square in the centre of Autonomous towns with localised economies
design, public space, high Hanley, inevitably at the expense of the other Hanley would inevitably involve damaging are a fundamental part of sustainable com-
quality residential and corporate towns. Hanley is now defined as the city demolition, and would surely be a retrogres- munities, and Stoke-on-Trent should value its
landscapes. Facilitators in public
participation. centre, and signs on the A500 direct drivers sive move. It seems to me that, other things unusual decentralised pattern. Sadly that’s
to City Centre (Hanley). The intention is that being equal, a small urban space bounded unlikely to happen.
the name of Hanley, now relegated to paren- by active edges is likely to be more sustain-
theses, will soon wither away and disappear able than a large one, in economic, climatic, PS In the last issue, I wrote Pugin when I
altogether. This policy of making Stoke-on- kinaesthetic or any other terms. I imagine meant to write Ruskin.
Trent conform to a conventional centralised what the City Centre Manager has in mind • Joe Holyoak
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