Sustainability

URBAN DESIGN
 The quality of places we live in has impact on all aspects of life.

 How well they are designed will influence on how safe we feel, how easy it is
to walk around, whether we have shops, community facilities and schoold
nearby, whether the children have safe places to play.
 Whether there is easy access to public transport
 It is essential that the places we create and improve embody the principles of
good urban design.
 Good urban design is essential to deliver places that are sustainable
on all counts: places that create social, environmental and economic
value.
 Ensuring that places are well designed should be a priority of

everyone involved in shaping, designing and maintaining the built
environment.
 The development process, and the players within that process – provincial and
local government, politicians and professionals, developers, financers and
builders – have become entangled in a system which produces developments,
but not places.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
 Design is not for just designers and their colleagues. Urban design like all
design, should involve a dialogue with the customer; whether the existing
people in the area or the likely people to move in.
 It is a process that needs to generate and draw upon consumer ineterest. The
user holds the knowledge of how an existing area works, its needs and
possibilities.
 Collaborative planning and design processes and a shared understanding of
the issues ensure attention to local concerns and reduce possible antagonism
from local communities to change.
 STRENGTHENING LOCAL COMMUNITIES
To help ensure that proposed development reinforces, rather than
undermines local communities and assists successful project delivery.
 CREATING PLACES OF DISTINCTION
Drawing inspiration from a neighborhood's indigenous character strengthens
local identity. Context-less design leads to ‘anywhere places’.
 HARNESSING INTRINSIC SITE ASSETS AND RESOURCES

The existing development form, soils and geology, drainage, landscape, solar
and wind energy – to create more sustainable development.
 INTERACTING WITH SURROUNDING
Achieving careful integration with the landscape or surrounding built
environment, using the right materials, forms and landscape elements for the
locality; respecting footpaths, street and road linkages and relating to
existing urban structures.
 ENSURING FEASIBILITY
To ensure economic viability and deliverability.
 PROVIDING VISION
A vision focusses community aspirations, sells a scheme to a developer and
provides a long term aim for the project participants. It embodies a strategy
for the future that everyone can sign up to and work towards over a period of
time.
1. REGIONAL IDENTITY
 Start by identifying the local characteristics of the region or the sub-region.
 This may relate to climate and physical geography as well
 Socio-economic profile
2. LINKAGES TO SURROUNDINGS
 How do connections define the settlement characteristics – is it a linear structure
along the main route or part of a grid of streets.
3. LOCAL CHARACTER
 Establish the elements of local distinctiveness, both the form of a place and why
the way it is used.
 How can these be built into a project?
 Are there particular local materials, building forms and features that can be used
as the source of inspiration.
4. MORPHOLOGY
 Define what gives form to the local morphology (historic routes, block patterns,
building heights and massing, local vernacular)
 How this provides cues for appropriate design forms
5. NATURAL FEATURES
 Are there particular geographical or ecological features that give the place a
natural character.
6. SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE
 What are the demographics of an area
 Particular local traditions
 Events to draw influence from
7. IDENTIFY LANDSCAPE ASSETS TO PRESERVE
 Many of the most valuable spaces, places and the landscape assets are precisely
thus because they have been left alone.
 Most ecological or landscape assets need respecting, rather than exploiting.
 The value of a landscape asset can easily be degraded.
8. RE-USE AND REPAIR BROWNFIELD LAND

 Many sites will be deficient in natural or semi-natural assets, such as topographical
features, watercourses and planting.
 Decontamination or remediation may cause further impacts on the existing
landscape.
 On such sites consider ways of:
 Introducing new landscape feature and wildlife habitats
 Restoring damaged parts e.g. profiling a slope
 Integrating elements from the site’s past life
Key aspect of urban Principles of urban Design and theory Responsive Principles of good design
design design principles environments
Places for people Quality of the public Make places robustness Create an environment where
realm everyone can access and
benefit from the full range of
Continuity and opportunities available to
enclosure members of society
Enrich the existing Build beautifully Visual Permeability Be integrated into the existing
appropriateness urban form and the natural and
Legibility built environments
Richness
Make connections Ease of movement Allow movement Permeability Be integrated into the existing
logically and legibility urban form and the natural and
Legibility Legibility built environments
Address the connections

between the people and the
places by considering the needs
of the people
Key aspect of urban Principles of urban Design and theory Responsive Principles of good design
design design principles environments
Work with landscape Design using natural Consider the direct and
harmonics indirect impact on the natural
environment
Mix uses and form Diversity Create social Variety Address the connections
interaction between people and places by
considering the needs of the
people to access jobs and key
services.
Manage the investment Adaptability Sustain land value Personalization Create an environment where
everyone can access and
Design for change benefit from full range of
opportunities available to
member of society
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URBAN DESIGN

 The quality of places we live in has impact on all aspects of life.

 Ensuring that places are well designed should be a priority of

 HARNESSING INTRINSIC SITE ASSETS AND RESOURCES

8. RE-USE AND REPAIR BROWNFIELD LAND

Address the connections

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