Frank Gehry Building, Ultimo Rd, Sydney, NSW, AUS

PROGRAM – SESSION 5

1 Urban Design + Placemaking 101

2 Civic Principles

3 Place Qualities

8 Outcomes

4 Place Typology (P50)5 Place process

6 Place roles

7 Toolkit - placemaking ideas

9/10 Links+ conclusions

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4. URBAN DESIGN AT DIFFERENT SCALES

▸ The region: metropolis, city and town

▸ The neighbourhood, the district, and the corridor

▸ The block, the street, and the building

▸ http://www.cnu.org/charter

▸ “without design, planning is all talk; without planning, design is arrogance.” Jarvis (1992)

Urban design at different scales (Deicke Richards)

4.1 THE REGION

▸ Finite boundaries and identifiable centre and edges

▸ Infill development

▸ Costs of business as usual

▸ A framework of transportation alternatives

▸ A broad spectrum of public and private uses on streets in centres

Coogee Beach, Sydney (Randwick City Council)

4.1 THE REGION▸ Delivering good design through core

strategies

▸ how a place works

▸ what makes it special

▸ and the opportunities it offers

▸ Clearly state UD expectations as part of an overall vision for a city.

▸ Judicial language vs wider understanding

▸ Anhttp://www.cabe.org.uk/files/planning-for-places.pdf

4.2 NEIGHBOURHOODS, DISTRICTS, CORRIDORS

▸ Identifiable areas

▸ Neighbourhoods .

▸ Districts

▸ Corridors

▸ Interconnected networks of streets

Inner Brisbane (Deicke Richards)

4.2 NEIGHBOURHOODS, DISTRICTS, CORRIDORS

▸ Transit corridors, organize metropolitan structure

▸ densities and land uses support transit

▸ Public, institutional, and commercial activity should be embedded in streets and centres

▸ Graphic urban design codes - predictable guides for change

Inner NE Busway - Brisbane, QLD (BVN Architecture, Department of Transport and Main Roads and Christopher Frederick Jones)

4.2 NEIGHBOURHOODS, DISTRICTS, CORRIDORS

▸ A network of open space and recreation areas with planned functions

Comberton Loop, Butler, Perth, WA, AUS

4.3 THE BLOCK, STREET + BUILDING

▸ A primary task of architecture and landscape design is the physical definition of streets and public spaces

▸ Accommodate automobiles but respect the pedestrian and the form of public space

Tanderrum Way, Broadmeadows, Melbourne, VIC, AUS

4.3 THE BLOCK, STREET + BUILDING

▸ Civic buildings and public gathering places require important sites.

▸ All buildings provide their inhabitants with a clear sense of location, weather and time

▸ Preservation and renewal of historic buildings, districts, and landscapes

▸ Urban design relies on sound planning and design at all scales to create (and manage) the best cities and towns possible Bendigo Town Hall, Hargreaves St, Bendigo, VIC, AUS

4.5 STREETS“People have always lived on streets. They have been the places where children first learned about the world, where neighbours met, the social centres of towns and cities, the rallying points for revolts, the scenes of repression... The street has always been the scene of this conflict, between living and access, between resident and traveller, between street life and the threat of death.” Appleyard, 1981

Graceville, QLD, AUS

Musk Ave - Kelvin Grove Urban Village, Brisbane QLD

4.5 WHAT MAKES A GOOD STREET?

1. Connectivity in the surrounding network

2. Fine grain street system

3. Streets with low traffic speed (but not necessarily low volume)

4. A street that has an equal interest, activity and buildings on both sides (some exceptions)

5. A proportion of street width to building height of 1:1?

6. Width of footpath (as well as the quality of the surface) is relevant (width vs critical mass)

▸ Streets as movement corridors or outdoor rooms?

▸ “Lost the art of the small” Rob Adams (43:12:00)

4.5 WHAT MAKES A GOOD STREET?

7. Points of entry and transparency to buildings and other spaces

8. Detailing of shop fronts

9. Provide active uses at street level

10.Informal spaces including entries

11.Shop fronts that open to the street

12.Small parks, green patches or landscaped courtyards

13.Water

14.Seats

Royal Arcade, Bourke Street, Melbourne City, VIC, AUS

Orion Springfield Town Centre - Springfield, QLD, AUS

4.5 WHAT MAKES A GOOD STREET?

15. Trees and planting

16. Protect the pedestrian with awnings

17. Variety of uses and activities

18. Encourage day and night time activities to extend its active life

19. Make sure to cater for children as well as the elderly

20. Is there variety and interest in building form

21. Coordinated and integrated signage

22. Underground powerlines

▸ “Traffic is a civil problem not a design problem” David Engwicht

4.5 WHAT MAKES A GOOD STREET?

22. “Rooms within rooms”

23. “Make the experience cross the road”

24. Engwicht Secret 5 - slow people flow – linger nodes

25. Engwicht Secret 6 – cultivate the anchoring presence

26. Engwicht Secret 7 – expand the experience envelope

▸ Micro level diversity▸ Blurred boundaries▸ Senses▸ Everchanging places▸ Street of characters▸ Welcome mat

▸ “Diverse businesses, with windows to look into and with personalised frontages, prompt people to linger and window-shop. This increase in staying activity makes streets livelier and is self reinforcing, because ‘people come where people are”’ Grattan Institute 2012)

Crown St, Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW, AUS

4.0 A VERSATILE STREET?

4.0 STREETS – NEW YORK, NY