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@plan-makers
New London cycle vision announced
New vision for London cycling proposing a tube network for bikes and safer streets, to encourage people to cycle and create better places for all.
Segregated cyclepaths for new crosscity cycle scheme
Who benefits when the property developer is a privately owned public transport operator
An interesting case from Hong Kong
By converting the use of these plots of land from industrial to commercial/residential, the bus company certainly reaped huge profits even after paying the land premium. Yet the profits are not booked into the bus operation account, to avoid subsidising bus fares.
Read more of this article
Masterplanning in China
Interesting masterplan for Guangzhou Fangcun Huadi - Flower City - by landscape and urban design practice West8. It consists of a new city right on the river delta but has some interesting proposals around water recycling, mobility and recreation.
Image credit: West8
Two masterplan examples: 2. Birmingham Big City Plan
The Big City Plan for Birmingham is the masterplan for one of six enterprise zones identified by Birmingham City Council as part of their spatial and economic growth strategy.
The Zones provide the focus for the clustering of economic activity within high quality business environments that are supported by infrastructure. The City Centre Enterprise Zone, led by the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership, is the largest of the six zones and will support the implementation of the Big City Plan accelerating the delivery of growth
http://bigcityplan.birmingham.gov.uk/
Birmingham Open Space Network
Existing and proposed office locations
Existing and proposed residential locations
Two masterplan examples. 1. Greater Ashford Development Framework
The GADF has now been replaced by the more recent Core Strategy adopted by Ashford Council in 2008. The document linked below presents the implementation strategy for the GADF, and identifies phases, objectives, areas and infrastructures, actions to take, either by the Council directly or in partnership (or even as facilitator) with the private sector for the delivery of the objectives.
http://www.ashfordbestplaced.co.uk/pdf/planning_gadf8.pdf
Community Spaces: from "The Open Office" to "Self-Organised London"
For those of you interested in community hubs two interesting and very different models which seemed to have popped up today
Open Office
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/feb/20/open-office-localism-neighbourhood-planning?CMP=twt_gu
Self-Organised London
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/squatters-take-over-tower-near-atrisk-ministry-of-sound-nightclub-8503335.html
Planning bike friendly cities
Here are a series of interesting bike-planning related videos which might be of inspiration - in particular the Poynton case study is useful and the challenge would be to see how it applies in urban areas.
Poynton crossing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vzDDMzq7d0&feature=youtu.be
Going Dutch (bit of history)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o
Going Danish (with some hi-tech new ideas):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtX8qiC_rXE&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Detroit Future City
Explorations of how the Motor City can be re-envisioned and transformed over the next 50 years. Based on a 24-month long public process, the main strategic elements which emerged are as follows:
The Economic Growth Element: The Equitable City The Land Use Element: The Image of the City The City Systems and Environment Element: The Sustainable City The Neighborhoods Element: The City of Distinct and Regionally Competitive Neighborhoods The Land and Buildings Assets Element: A Strategic Approach to Public Land
http://detroitworksproject.com/
Vauxhall - Nine Elms - Battersea development "opportunity Area" Planning Framework 2012
This is an interesting example of an ongoing planning strategy framework in London - with different set of challenges to East London and Southwark. Interesting to see how different agendas are reflected in the final document. Two alternative affordable housing scenarios are proposed at 15% and 40%. The final chapter is focussed on some traditional planning funding mechanisms too.
"The framework sets out an ambition for around 16,000 new homes and a range of 20,000 - 25,0000 jobs. It contains proposals for an extension to the Northern Line from Kennington to Battersea via Nine Elms; a new linear park connecting Vauxhall to Battersea Power Station; a tall buildings strategy which supports an emerging cluster at Vauxhall within the parameters of the London Views Management Framework; and the creation of a Combined Cooling and Heat Power network. Additionally, a Development Infrastructure Funding Study has been undertaken which informed the advancement of a Section 106 tariff to fund the full range of infrastructure required to support new development."
http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/mayor/publications/planning/vauxhall-nine-elms-battersea-opportunity-area-planning-framework
Visualising Densities
Some different ways to approach density potentials: http://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/visualizing-density/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/31/hotel-inntel-zaandam
The Western Riverside Environmental Fund was set up in April 1999 as a partnership between the Western Riverside Waste Authority and Groundwork UK. To date over £3 million has been made available to environmental projects within the boroughs of Lambeth, Wandsworth, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea.
Landfill tax was introduced by the Government in October 1996. The tax places a levy on all waste (domestic and commercial) which is disposed of in landfill sites. By raising the cost of disposal it aims to encourage waste minimisation and the development of more sustainable waste management techniques. In addition the regulations allow landfill operators to redirect a proportion of the tax towards approved environmental projects through the Landfill Communities Fund.
More information on the funding scheme at Western Riverside Environmental Fund
New London Architecture
http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/
This place just off Store Street has some interesting exhibitions, ideas and masterplans. Worth going down for a look!
Localism and community ownership of social services and infrastructures: the example of Bramley Baths
The Localism Act awards local communities a number of rights: to bid for ownership of community buildings, to build small scale community developments, to reclaim unused land and, of course, the right to prepare neighbourhood plans. One right is the the right to challenge the monopoly of the council for the provision of social services.
In Leeds
the Friends of Bramley Baths group has taken over management of Bramley Baths from cash-strapped Leeds City Council, which in its next fiscal year faces crippling £51 million of cuts and savings. (The Guardian, 31/12/2012)
Read the Statutory Guidance for the Community Right to Challenge
Read more about the new rights acquired by communities by means of the Localism Act.
Auckland let your spirit soar
For the first time in its history, Auckland (NZ) has a plan. The Auckland Plan is more than just an urban development plan and is Auckland Council's resource management plan and would be used to manage future development on land and water.
It aims to make Auckland the world’s most liveable city and gives a growth strategy for the next 30 years, with around 70 per cent of new dwellings to be built within the urban boundaries of the city, and 30 per cent in greenfields areas around the fringes of the city.
The CABE archives and resources
Before its merging with Design Council (the UK design charity) and restricting its role to providing design review services to private developers and public sector, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) worked for several years to the preparation and promotion of policy guidance to promote good design at all scales and levels.
Their work often included reviewing and presenting good practice examples from the UK and abroad. Their archives are available to all and are a good source of case studies for anyone involved in delivering regional plans, masterplans and urban design strategies.
CABE Sustainable Places
CABE Large Scale Urban Design (including the Thames Gateway Identity Project, 2006)
Emscher Landshaftspark. Regenerating an old industrial region
The Emscher Landshaftspark (Landscape Park) was originally conceived as a part of a 10year regeneration programme led by the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park (IBA). The programme addressed the decline of the Ruhr Region in North-Rhine Westphalia, the industrial heartland of north west Germany, stretching across 20 local authorities and including several major urban centres.
The area was characterised by social deprivation, huge outward migration and economic problems caused by the closure of most of the mines and steel factories. Its environment was extremely poor because of decades of heavy industrial pollution.
The regeneration programme’s coordination group made a bold decision to focus on a handful of strategic themes to reverse the decline and change the internal and external perceptions of the area
The Emscher Landshaftspark is a "classic" example of a regional regeneration strategy which combines strategic urban masterplanning and environmental sustainability goals to address a long-term social and industrial decline at the regional level for the RuhR mining district in Germany.
The project was coordinated by the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) or Internationale Architecture Exhibition between 1989 and 1999. Despite the name, IBA are state funded programmes of urban initiatives that take their name from the region or city where they are located. Individual developments are also funded through private initiative.
More on the IBA Emscher Landschaftspark from CABE
Shaw, R. 2002. The International Building Exhibition (IBA) Emscher Park, Germany: A Model for Sustainable Restructuring? European Planning Studies, 10, 77-97.
Other IBA initiatives
IBA Berlin 2020
IBA Hamburg 2013
IBA Fürst-Pückler-Land 2010 (regenerating after industrial decline)
Nine Landscape islands
Creative Use And Adaptation Of Infrastructure To Support Compact Development In America’s Suburbs - Urban Land Institute
The report focuses on the growing trend for suburbs to be redesigned and redeveloped to be more people-oriented than car-dependent, offering more options for walking, cycling or using public transit to get from one place to another. With the U.S. population anticipated to grow by 95 million people over the next 30 years, and with the vast majority of this growth expected to occur in the suburbs of metropolitan areas, the challenge of providing the appropriate infrastructure to encourage compact growth has never been more important, notes Shifting Suburbs. Specifically, suburban arterials and first ring suburbs would benefit from the development of new approaches to solving infrastructure and land use challenges, it says.
ULI's Shifting Suburbs