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Streetscape Urban Design Group Urban and MAKING STREETS PEOPLE ENJOY Summer 2018 Urban Design Group Journal 147URBAN ISSN 1750 712X DESIGN STREETSCAPE Clapham Old Town Public Realm Brighton North Street Public Realm WINNER: NLA Awards 2015 ‘Best Public Space’; and HIGHLY COMMENDED at the Landscape Institute Awards 2017, WINNER: London Planning Awards 2015 ‘Best New Public Space’ ‘Adding Value through Landscape’. Venn Street Public Realm Glasgow City Centre Avenues WINNER: London Transport Awards 2015 ‘Excellence in Walking’; UM is the lead designer for this ambitious project, making the and HIGHLY COMMENDED at the RTPI Awards 2015. city centre’s main streets better for walking, cycling, + city life. We specialise in research, planning, strategy and design for streets, and our inter-disciplinary team has all the skills necessary to work creatively and effectively in the most complex and challenging of urban environments. Exmouth House 3 - 11 Pine Street We understand the real social, cultural and London EC1R 0JH economic value of streets and spaces, and always @UM_Streets URBAN strive to make cities and towns healthier, more +44 (0)20 3567 0710 [email protected] DESIGN successful, and more enjoyable. www.urbanmovement.co.uk GROUP URBAN DESIGN UDG_Streets_v2.indd 1 06/04/2018 16:37 GROUP NewsUDG NEWS By my current counting, Canary Wharf is going through its third rebuilding in some 30 years, and probably its 30th masterplan. I’m also pretty sure that someone is already thinking that the pointy bit at the top of the Shard is a waste of valuable real estate, and is drafting plans for something more ambitious. I digress. What was especially delight- ful about the UDG’s debate was the sense of unity amongst the speakers, which included our special guest, and president of Civic Voice. Griff Rhys Jones (his talk is on Urban Nous, please watch it and share). Of course, the UDG is a broad church: we welcome the medical profession with open arms for they understand the consequences of loneli- ness in society; and we always have space for traffic/highway engineers, near the exit (only joking) as they have a much under- appreciated role in successful urban design. But to be able to welcome a world-famous comedian who has a significant public voice, is a first! As it happens Griff is a mixed use developer and has been a resident of Clerk- enwell for many years; who could be more qualified to represent Civic Voice and, as it happens, the Victorian Society? Incidentally talking of loneliness, the latest wheeze to address this issue, and to tackle the housing crisis (always a crisis, never a problem) is to convert student dorms into ‘shared commu- nity living’. Now, I can remember my student dorm days and it was a rite of passage to share a kitchen and toilet with 14 others. Today’s single bedrooms may be en-suite, but they are very cramped. Is this really the way forward? But I digress, again. What do pubs, Clerkenwell, meetings and making a dif- 1 ference have in common? Well, the Crown was design quality, not so much the need Tavern in Clerkenwell is where Lenin and COLLABORATION for it, but how to deliver it. After some 10 Trotsky allegedly first met in 1905, and we FOR DESIGN years of austerity, designers are very thin know what changes soon followed. Not that on the ground, as is highlighted by the the we are looking for revolution, but change QUALITY local authorities’ design skills survey carried can be a great thing; to quote Margaret out by Matthew Carmona’s team for the UDG Mead ‘never doubt that a small group of and Place Alliance. thoughtful committed citizens can change Even if there is a design resource, there the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that Recently, the Urban Design Group (UDG) are no funds to pay for it. It’s not that good ever has’. hosted a collaborative event along with quality design is particularly expensive, it’s Place Alliance, inviting speakers from nine just that it is seemingly way down on the list Time to join the UDG! organisations to co-ordinate a response to of financial priorities for local government, • the emerging government policy on design. somewhere below pothole repairs but above Colin Pullan, Chair of Urban Design Group What started as a discussion between the annual fete. We, at the UDG, want this and Director of Urban Design at Lichfields UDG’s Director Robert Huxford and me to change. The new norm is to accept poor over a pint of beer in a local tavern, quickly design on the understanding that in a few developed into an entertaining evening years’ time, we can start again anyway. This debate, fuelled by quick-fire presenta- may be good news for architects, but it is 1 The Clerkenwell pub where Lenin and Trotsky met and tions given by some of urban design’s most bad news for anyone trying to create, or urban designers discussed progressive leaders. The underlying issue live in something a little more long-lasting. design quality. NATIONAL URBAN DESIGN Winchester Guildhall, followed by the DIARY OF EVENTS CONFERENCe 2018 Annual Dinner at the Cathedral. Hold the date: Friday 21 September To contribute a paper or for sponsorship Please check the UDG website with Urban Design Fest Thursday evening opportunities, please contact www.udg.org.uk for the latest events. and urban design walk Saturday morning. [email protected]. URBAN DESIGN ― summer 2018 ― Issue 147 1 and MAKING STREETS PEOPLE ENJOY Summer 2018 Urban Design Group Journal 147URBAN ISSN 1750 712X DESIGN STREETSCAPE Contents Clapham Old Town Public Realm Brighton North Street Public Realm WINNER: NLA Awards 2015 ‘Best Public Space’; and HIGHLY COMMENDED at the Landscape Institute Awards 2017, WINNER: London Planning Awards 2015 ‘Best New Public Space’ ‘Adding Value through Landscape’. This issue has been kindly sponsored 28 — Why Distributor Roads?, Graham by Urban Movement Smith 31 — Zürich: Synergies of Transport Policy Venn Street Public Realm Glasgow City Centre Avenues WINNER: London Transport Awards 2015 ‘Excellence in Walking’; UM is the lead designer for this ambitious project, making the COVER and Public Space, Willi Hüsler with and HIGHLY COMMENDED at the RTPI Awards 2015. city centre’s main streets better for walking, cycling, + city life. We specialise in research, planning, strategy and Vitoria Gasteiz: the river bordered by a Simon Jakob design for streets, and our inter-disciplinary team has all the skills necessary to work creatively and effectively in the most complex and challenging nature corridor. Photograph by Eduardo Rojo 34 — The Renovation of Avenida Gasteiz, of urban environments. Exmouth House 3 - 11 Pine Street We understand the real social, cultural and London EC1R 0JH Fraile Eduardo Rojo Fraile economic value of streets and spaces, and always @UM_Streets URBAN strive to make cities and towns healthier, more +44 (0)20 3567 0710 [email protected] DESIGN successful, and more enjoyable. www.urbanmovement.co.uk GROUP 37 — Reclaiming Historic City Centres from URBAN UPDATE Automobiles, Michelle DeRobertis and UDG_Streets_v2.indd 1 06/04/2018 16:37 DESIGN GROUP 3 — Nottingham’s Urban Room Maurizio Tira Urban Design Group 3 — Shaping Better Places Together 40 — A Pedestrian Pioneer: Florida Street in CHAIR Colin Pullan 4 — London’s Public Realm Buenos Aires, Sebastian Loew PATRONS Irena Bauman, Alan Baxter, 4 — The Draft NPPF – Consultation 43 — Impressions from China, Tim Pharoah Dickon Robinson, Lindsey Whitelaw and Meeting 46 — Making Streets Better, John Dales and John Worthington 5 — Design Quality Conference – Achieving Christopher Martin Well-designed Places Office 6 — The National Urban Design Awards BOOK REVIEWS Urban Design Group 2018 49 — Beyond Mobility – Planning Cities for 70 Cowcross Street 8 — UDG Study Tour Stockholm People and Places, Robert Cervero, London EC1M 6EJ 10 — Urban Design Library #26, New Lives, Erik Guerra and Stevan Al Tel 020 7250 0892 New Landscapes, Nan Fairbrother 49 — China’s Urban Revolution – Email [email protected] 11 — My Favourite Plan: Andy Ward Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities, Website www.udg.org.uk Austin Williams TOPIC: STREETSCAPES Editorial Board 12 — Street Design and Transport – 50 — PRACTICE INDEX Matthew Carmona, Richard Cole, International Perspectives, 56 — EDUCATION INDEX Tim Hagyard, Joe Holyoak, Tim Pharaoh Sebastian Loew, Daniela Lucchese, 15 — Shared Space: Helping to Create ENDPIECE Jane Manning, Chris Martin, Better Places, Pieter de Haan 57 — Obtaining Closure, Joe Holyoak Malcolm Moor, Geoff Noble, 18 — The Role of Connective Space in Judith Ryser, Louise Thomas Regeneration, Tanja Congiu and Alessandro Plaisant Editors 21 — Paris: Working with its Inhabitants, Sebastian Loew (this issue) Anne Faure [email protected] 24 — Reinventing Cities: From Urban FUTURE ISSUES Louise Thomas Highway to Living Space, Paul [email protected] Lecroart UD148 The Value of Design Review Book Review Editor UD149 Climate Change Jane Manning UD150 W Research Editors estern Europe Pablo Newberry and CONTRIBUTIONS Christopher Howells to THE JOURNAL Design Claudia Schenk trockenbrot www.trockenbrot.com If you are interested in contributing to The Editorial Board meets on a quarterly Printing Henry Ling Ltd the journal, please contact the editors basis and plans the forthcoming topics © Urban Design Group ISSN 1750 712X Louise Thomas and Sebastian Loew (email about a year in advance. 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