12. Waterside Impact
• Waterside Campus development, operational by 2018;
• How much ‘good stuff’ can we do when we spend £330million
building a campus?;
• How much additional funding can we lever into the County?;
• Strategic partnerships: Moulton College, NCC, NBC, NEP,
University and contractors – how many trained and employed
construction apprentices can we support through the
Waterside construction;
• How many new houses can this new work force build in the
County by 2031 (target is 80,000);
• University has a detailed social impact action plan for the
Waterside.
13. Waterside Impact
• One new hall of residence in Northampton brings over
£750k p.a. new spend by students to the town centre
(440 students);
• What will 15,000 students and 650 staff bring to the town
centre?;
• Effect on cultural life of town?;
• Impact of University as largest organisation in Enterprise
Zone;
• Strategic projects to bring businesses to
Northamptonshire, as well as grow our own.
14. Waterside Impact
• Significant opportunities for local SMEs in supply chains
of major contractors working on Waterside (social impact
a key element of PQQ and ITT);
• Significant opportunities for local SMEs as suppliers of
services to University when new campus is operating.
15. Quote from the Prime Minister
“The Government is playing its part through the
Enterprise Zone and through the development of
the railway station, but what’s so exciting about
this is the amount of good work that the borough
is doing alongside the Government initiative and
the private sector is coming forward and
developing it. It you take it all together –
the Enterprise Zone, the railway station and all the projects I
saw on the on the Northampton Alive map – and also the fact
that one day the University might want to move and free up
more sites for development and change where it is in the town,
all of that is ambition, it’s drive, it’s exciting and it means
Northampton can be a success story...”
18. ‘Streets and public spaces are not only the
settings for our everyday lives……..they can
also be seen as drivers of urban prosperity.’
UN- Habitat , 2013
Urban Design Mapping and Assessment
21. Key Routes
Methodology:
Key routes selected using most integrated lines of movement
Data on ease of movement and other factors likely to influence route choice
such as:
- Waiting time and movement data
- Active passive and dead frontage
- Building quality
(Jan Gehl, 2014)
39. B
Observation studies show that most people prefer simple, more
direct paths over complex, indirect paths – even if the complex
path is shorter.
A
B
A
Most people prefer simplest paths
Source: Space
40. .
A way to describe space: Graph theory
Two different spatial layouts:
Two different graphs:
Source: Space
41. Total depth =
10
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Measuring ‘depth’ in graphs
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1 1
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Depth is a ‘system metric’ and varies from place to
place in the spatial layout.
Source: Space
42. 30
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Adding colours to show ‘heat’
Using colours to represent numerical values provides an
effective visualisation of simultaneous relations in
spatial layouts.
Source: Space
43. Tate Britain – Room ‘depth’ and visitors
Observed Modelled
Source: Space
89. Connectivity and Town Centre Regeneration
Behind Michael Bloomberg’s long-term plan for
the city is a Danish professor and urban planner
named Jan Gehl, who for several years has been
quietly, if not slowly, guiding the remaking of New
York.
“We used to say we plan at the scale of Robert
Moses, but we judge ourselves by the standard of
Jane Jacobs,” she said. “That’s not really true
anymore. We judge ourselves now by Jan Gehl’s
standard.”
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2010/09/468271/planyc-guru-plays-west-village-gig-sold-out
105. New Urban Extension: Malmö Bo01
Key Learning Points
As a district, Bo01 has succeeded in establishing quality building with the focus on the
choice of materials and better integration of the landscape and urban spaces. As far as
insuring the success of Bo01 is concerned the two most important documents have been
the quality programme and the detail plan.
The unique thing about the quality programme was that it was initiated before the plots
went on the market. The quality programme formulates a shared ambition which obliges
the involved parties to guarantee quality of architectural expression, materials and
technology. The detail plan specifies physical requirements concerning execution.
Monthly lectures for the developers, the municipality and other partners maintained a
focus on the vision on a new district, the sustainability of which would be way above
average. Compliance with the quality programme was important, although most of all it
was the fact that planning became a shared learning process which ensured that the
parties involved remained in step.
