Winter 2006 Issue

7 URBAN DESIGN AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AGAINST THE PERIMETER BLOCK URBAN DESIGN IN WALES URBAN ADVERTISING 2006 ISSUE 9 CALGARY HAFENCITY WINTER PRICE £5.00 ISSN 0266-6480 COVER DIARY OF EVENTS Bullring Security, Photo Joe Holyoak Unless otherwise indicated all LONDON events are held at The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1 at 6.30 pm. All tickets purchased at the door from 6.00 pm. LEADER 2 £5.00 non-members, £2.00 UDG members, £1.00 students NEWS AND EVENTS CONTENTS WEDNESDAY 11 JANUARY Value of Skills 3 SUSTAINABILITY: THE DESIGN CUE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Everyday Spaces 3 Riet Eeckhout and Amanda Reynolds of Llewelyn Davies Yeang will explore UDG Conference 4 the application and development of sustainable urban design solutions. Urban Design Week 5 The evening will also include an introduction to the 2006 seminar series CABE page 6 introducing the range of topics and aspirations for the year. Young Urban Designers: UDG STREET Market Places 7 WEDNESDAY 8 FEBRUARY VIEWPOINTS INSPIRATION FROM LOCAL AUTHORITIES Urban Design in Wales, John Punter 8 How are local authorities promoting, encouraging and delivering good urban Urban Advertising, Anne Cronin 10 design and what role do they think the new planning structure will play, eg Against the Perimeter Block, Karl Kropf 12 local development frameworks, design statements, area action plans etc? A Plea for Front Gardens, Tony Hall 14 Over the course of the evening representatives from local authorities will present and then, as a panel, will share their experiences with the audience. INTERNATIONAL Speakers will include representatives from Ashford Borough Council (Richard Downtown Calgary, James White 16 Alderton) and Essex County Council (David Balcombe). TOPIC: URBAN DESIGN IN A TRANSFORMING WORLD WEDNESDAY 15 MARCH Introduction Joe Holyoak 18 THE 24-HOUR CITY: THE NIGHT TIME ECONOMY Behaving Badly in Public Spaces, Henry Shaftoe 19 Professor Marion Roberts, Acting Chair of Urban Development and Alcohol-related Disorder in Nottingham, Stephen Green 22 Regeneration at the University of Westminster, will present the findings of Creating Safer Places, Gary Taylor 23 her research into the impact of the trends of night time economies on our Place Making as a Tool, Rachel Eaton 25 cities and their public realm. Permeability, Policy and Practice, Tim Stonor 28 THE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT Common Ground, Roger Evans 31 We will also explore the role businesses play in promoting improvements to the quality and management of the public realm of our cities and towns, and CASE STUDIES inviting various speakers to engage in a discussion with the audience. Hafencity, Daniela Lucchese 34 Streets Ahead, Hugo Frieszo 36 WEDNESDAY 26 APRIL DESIGN CODES: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE BOOK REVIEWS Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change STUDY TOURS 2006 S Roaf, D Crichton, F Nicol 38 13-21 MAY 2006 Marketing for Architects and Designers H Linton, Many towns in south east Sicily in 1693, under Spanish rule at the time, were L Clary, S Rost 38 reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. Fortunately, this event coincided Transport Terminals and Modal Interchanges C Blow 39 with a period of prosperity of the merchant classes, and despite the hilly Sustainable Architectures S Guy and S A Moore 39 topography, most of these towns were spectacularly rebuilt in the Baroque Urban Housing Forms J Ming Zhou 40 manner, some on new rectilinear plans, some on their old medieval alignments. Werner Hegemann C Crasemann 41 Our tour covers the best examples - Noto, Scicli, Módica and Ragusa - and also includes time in the cities of Catania and Syracuse. Further details are provided PRACTICE INDEX 42 on a leaflet enclosed with this issue of UD. Or contact Alan Stones, Tel 01376 CORPORATE INDEX 48 571351, Email [email protected]. The last booking date is EDUCATION INDEX 49 Friday 3 February. ENDPIECE Bob Jarvis 49 SEPTEMBER 2006 FUTURE ISSUES A four-day visit to Ljubljana and Trieste is planned for September 2006 and it 98 Urban Design in Australia is also hoped to arrange a four-day visit to Woonerven in Holland and Germany 99 New Growth Areas in May, led by Graham Smith. Interested parties should register with Susie Turnbull. 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WEBSITE www.udg.org.uk Urban Design | Winter 2006 | Issue 97 | 1 The Value of Skills URBAN DESIGN IS NOT THE GALLERY, LONDON, 19 OCTOBER 2005 TO BLAME The Academy for Sustainable through dialogue with a wide range of LEADER Communities (ASC) is a very small stakeholders, public, private, professional, organisation; it needs to spread its community based, and others. resources as best it can. Hence, Chris A series of bullet points answered the Murray who was due to speak to the UDG, question ‘why are skills important?’ and was in Plymouth instead. He was replaced although some would be familiar to the by Helen Walker who described the audience (getting the job done well), the gestation, purpose and tasks of emphasis on economic goals (maximise the Academy. growth, maximise returns) may have been NEWS AND EVENTS One of Egan’s recommendations a surprise. The list of important skills on was the creation of such an organisation the other hand – technical competence, and convincing partners of the value of to remedy the gap in skills underlined generic skills, cross-occupational its message. Urban designers seem to by his report. Eventually the Academy learning, outcome-focussed learning, be exemplary in their inter-disciplinary The recent events in France have led to a search for explanations, scapegoats and justifications. Various was launched at the Urban Summit learning culture, lifelong learning – are form of working and Walker indicated groups have come under attack, politicians first of all, and they in turn have attacked others. So, it may not in Manchester and located in Leeds now accepted practice. that other professions could learn from be surprising to see an article by Stephen Bailey in the Independent on Sunday entitled, ‘France is burning – something of a problem since most of Towards the end of her brief talk, us. A new chief executive, Gill Taylor, – and architecture lit the match’. Fortunately the text is more subtle than the headline would imply and deals the organisations it has to deal with are Dr Walker mentioned the dilemmas has now been appointed; funding is at specifically with Candilis’ Toulouse-le-Mirail, a Corbusian development built in the dying days of post-war in London. Helen Walker rehearsed the and difficulties the Academy is facing. present limited to three years in which modernism. But the connection is made: the work of architects, planners and urban designers has an effect on definitions of Sustainable Communities Better resources and improved access the Academy needs to show that it can how society behaves. Mostly we get the blame when things go wrong, rarely the praise when problems are solved (Egan’s again) and suggested that ASC are needed, as well as a change in the make a difference. From answers given by would be a catalyst for change, a source culture, making the right links, getting the speaker at the end, it was clear that it or people are happy. of leadership and innovation and a centre people engaged, etc. With the current will not be simple and success is far from Coincidentally this issue’s topic deals with a similar situation, although in this country and not in France. for listening and learning to drive the budget and with only temporary staff guaranteed. Perhaps members of the UDG Authors show how much soul searching is going on in the professions. Few have clear answers although all development of integrated skills. Inspiring the Academy will have a hard job to have can offer help to the Academy. recognise the problems. Years of messianic architectural determinism with poor results, gave built environment and enabling were two of the expressions an impact. It will need to work through professionals a bad reputation and at the same time scared them of ‘getting involved in design solutions to used to describe its purpose to be attained other organisations, building alliances Sebastian Loew social problems’. Design couldn’t make things better, therefore design didn’t matter and could be ignored altogether. And so, urban design disappeared from the agenda for many years. The battles the Urban Design Group has had to fight since its foundation have mostly been about redressing the balance. No, we don’t pretend Everyday Spaces to resolve all of society’s problems through better design. But yes, people feel safer and more comfortable in THE GALLERY, LONDON, 16 NOVEMBER 2005 places that are well designed and well managed. No, there isn’t a single solution for everywhere; but yes, if Pauline Gallacher who calls herself a and the one Gallacher is undertaking at we understand what an area is about – and that includes the specificities of its populations – we are likely to ‘facilitator’ shared her experience of present in Neiston, a village of 5,000 provide a better solution for this particular situation.

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