stephen o'malley, future of town centres
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Stephen O’Malley
Attract, Nurture and Retain the skilled and talented
‘Urban enjoyment helps determine a city’s success, talent
is mobile, and it seeks out good places to consume as
well as produce.’
‘As the global population becomes wealthier more people
will choose their locations on the basis of pleasure as well
as productivity.’
Europe
• Amsterdam – Public realm @ its most creative
• Barcelona – people populating public squares and passing through them
• Hamburg – iconic architecture and public art
• Lyon – Creative festivals
UK
• Covent garden – Business meets creative enterprise
• South Bank – Culture, entertainment and pleasure
TfGM – Vision for Sustainability
Local Sustainable Transport Fund
‘From circuitous routes out of housing estates to a lack of confidence in where to park your bike when you get there, walking and cycling to their local station or transport hub currently seem just one complication too many in the busy lives of most local commuters’.
45% of peak time journeys are less than 5km
Its not about radical surgery…..
Interstate 81, Syracuse, NY State
© B-HB
1950’s Harlow New Town
© B-HB
© B-HB
The solution is worse than the problem
Mechanical product of regulations…
Sequential and silo working…
Source: IEA (2008) and International Association of Public Transport (2006)
‘…for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge
which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being
the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the
use and convenience of man (kind)…’
‘4.17 to encourage the discovery of and investigate and make
known the nature and merits of invention and processes
which advance the science and art of highways and
transportation;…’
Before
New Road, Brighton
After
New Road, Brighton
A place where all are welcome – but where civility prevails
New Road, Brighton
New Road, Brighton
Park Lane, Poynton
Park Lane, Poynton
Park Lane, Poynton
Park Lane, Poynton
An act of civility with no special regulations
Acts of civility with normal behavioural rules