ecobuild 2013 nicholas falk presentation - garden cities, compact towns or what?
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Ecobuild Seminar session 16.30 – 18.00 Sustainable urban form - compact city or garden suburb? The future health of our planet will be determined in our cities. Achieving urban sustainability appears to be an imperative with a short timescale for delivery. Given that sustainability needs to be a balance of social, environmental and economic factors, what are the current drivers for creating sustainable urban environments in our existing cities and what should be the drivers for creating sustainable urban environments? This seminar will explore the issues through a comparison of city forms. Developing City Visions - Professor Tim Dixon, Chair, Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment, University of Reading Urban metabolism - Dr Adriana Allen, Senior Lecturer, Development Planning Unit, UCL Compact cities: understanding the role of density - Dr Chris Boyko, Senior Research Fellow, University of Lancaster Garden suburbs? Appropriate solutions with case studies from the Sustainable Urban Neighborhood Network - Dr Nicholas Falk, Founder & Director, URBEDTRANSCRIPT
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Garden cities, compact towns or what?
Dr Nicholas Falkwww.urbed.coop
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WHO AM I?• An economist, strategic planner and urbanist - Founder Director of URBED
(Urban and Economic Development) in London 1976 set up to tackle urban regeneration
• The co author of Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood: Building the 21st Century Home (AP 2009)
• The leader of learning networks e.g. Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods Network, TEN Group which has just visited Paris.
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WHERE AM I FROM?I have lived in three distinctly different neighbourhood models:
• Hampstead Garden Suburb (early C. 20th)• Stroud, a Market Town (C. 18th) • Kings Cross, Cromer Street (inter/post war)
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TODAY I WILL...
• Explain why we need new housing models• Draw lessons from recent experience• Propose a smarter growth model
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Most cities sprawl around transport links. Ebenezer Howard’offered a
compromise which needs updat
GROWTH COULD TAKE MANY FORMS
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WE NEED TO ROLL THEM OUT!
1. Agree the Spatial Framework
2. Facilitate Public Private Development Partnerships
3. Mobilize Undesignated Public land
4. Attract Private Funding for Infrastructure
5. Open up Housing Markets
6. Endow Community Stewardship
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• Cambridge map• Aerial of orchard park school• housing
Orchard Park, Cambridge
1. AGREE THE SPATIAL FRAMEWORK
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Cambridge Graylingwell. Existing hospital buildings. Next to water tower
Ancoats & New Islington
Ancoats & New Islington
3. MOBILIZE UNDESIGNATED LAND
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Lightmoor, Telford is the 2nd Bournville
3. MOBILIZE UNDESIGNATED LAND
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Upton – Drainage bridge etc
Upton, Northampton, an initiative by English Partnerships
4. ATTRACT PRIVATE FUNDING
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Derwenthorpe, York (JRHT)Super Sustainable centre, and energy efficient design
4. ATTRACT PRIVATE FUNDING
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Add an ironstone information centre
Newhall picture
Newhall, Harlow
Orchard Park, Cambridge
Ironstone, Telford
Walker Riverside, NewcastleSmaller serviced sites (housing
careers)
Management agreements
5. OPEN UP HOUSING MARKETS
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Lightmoor school
6. ENDOW COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIPLightmoor, Telford; social as well as physical capital – community trusts
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Vinex is a Dutch Ten Year Housing Programme. This has similarities with the previous government’s Sustainable Communities Plan however the Dutch have succeeded between 1996 and 2005 in building some 90 new settlements, which have increased their housing stock by 7.5%
THE DUTCH ARE SHOWING THE WAY
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VINEX Plan
Select priority areas for growth and regeneration
Link transport and development investment
The Netherlands increased their housing stock by 7.6% 1996-2005 (Half over 1500 units and one quarter over 5000)
DUTCH VINEX SETTLEMENTS
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HOUTEN; THE BUTTERFLYHOUTEN, NL Lack of public vehicle traffic within the development i.e. walk or cycle to bus stop
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HOUTEN; THE BUTTERFLYVATHORST, AMERSFOORT, NLShared Courtyards and patios over parking and branding of neighbourhoods to appeal to different tastes
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The four C’s are helping design in Cambridgeshire
1. Community
2. Connectivity
3. Character
4. Climate
5. Collaboration
KEY ELEMENTS OF SMARTER GROWTH
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Places for people of all ages e.g. Reiselfeld, Freiburg, Germany
COMMUNITY
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CONNECTIVITYIntegrated Transport and short distances, e.g. Freiburg, Germany
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– Stations at the heart – Primacy for cycling and walking
e.g. Houten, NL
CONNECTIVITY
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Orestad New Town, Copenhagen
CONNECTIVITY
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CHARACTER
Paris Rive Gauche, blocks are designed as open plots with landscape running through
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COLLABORATIONVathorst, Amersfoort; the local Authority is the driving force
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German Building Groups (Baugruppen Architektur), Vauban
COLLABORATION
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1. Focus on transport links and growth points2. Recognise key opportunities and constraints3. Rebalance city regions and neighbourhoods4. Fund infrastructure through land values5. Create ongoing partnerships
THE PRINCIPLES FOR SMARTER GROWTH ARE CLEAR:
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GREEN FINGERS MAY BE BETTER
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