4. Big Muster Dve - Dinner Plain, VIC, AUS
▸ OUR AIM TO ASSIST PEOPLE CREATE AND
PROMOTE QUALITY PLACES.
▸ Upon completion you should have:
▸ a shared understanding of urban design and placemaking;
▸ an appreciation of what it means individually and to Mackay;
▸ an understanding of the broad benefits to the community and
Council;
▸ an understanding of how Council can deliver Places for
People; and
▸ A common platform and language for urban design and
placemaking.
OUTCOMES
5. PROGRAM VS MANUAL
The Strand, Townsville, QLD, AUS
1 Urban Design + Placemaking 101
2 Civic Principles
3 Place Qualities
8 Outcomes
4 Place Typology
5 Place process
6 Place roles
7 Toolkit - placemaking ideas
9/10 Links+ conclusions
Placemaking Trends What+Why
How+Who
6. Gozzard St, Gungahlin, Canberra, ACT, AUS
1.1 OUR NEW PROTOCOL
▸ http://www.urbandesign.gov.au/
▸ It is concerned with the arrangement,
appearance and function of our suburbs, towns
and cities.
▸ It is both a process and an outcome of creating
localities in which people live, engage with each
other, and the physical place around them.
▸ It involves many different disciplines.
▸ It operates from the macro to the micro scale.
▸ It influences economics, the physical scale and
the social and cultural nature of a locality
▸ It is a long-term process that continues to evolve
over time.
7. Hibberson St, Gungahlin, Canberra, ACT, AUS
1.1 PIA URBAN DESIGN CHAPTER
“Urban design aims at the creation of
useful, attractive, safe, environmentally
sustainable, economically successful and
socially equitable places.
Good urban design pursues local identity
and sense of place, cultural
responsiveness and purposeful
environmental innovation.
It achieves a high level of quality, comfort,
safety, equity, beauty and cohesion in the
overall, physical outcome of all the
development, planning, engineering,
architectural and landscape design
decisions that contribute to urban change.”
8. Caroline Springs Boulevard, Caroline Springs, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
▸ “Urban Design has emerged as an area of design
practice shared between, and at the nexus of, the
professions of Landscape Architecture, Planning and
Architecture and is concerned with the visioning and
implementation of sustainable urban public spaces and
settlements.” http://www.aila.org.au/urbandesign/
1.1 AILA DEFINITION (?)
9. Ocean Keys Boulevard, Clarkson, Perth, WA, AUS
1.1 RAIA URBAN DESIGN POLICY
“Urban Design aims to maximise
public benefit by ensuring
development is coordinated and
assessed in relation to long term
urban outcomes.”
11. Coronation St, Bardon, QLD, AUS
1.1 INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS PLACEMAKING?
▸ “Placemaking is the art of creating public
places of the ‘soul’ that uplift and help us
connect with people” Course Participant
▸ “Placemaking is about creating memorable
places which are potentially transformative”
David Engwight
12. Parap Markets, Parap, Darwin, NT, AUS
1.1 INTRODUCTION: URBAN DESIGN V PLACEMAKING?
▸ Urban design:
▸ House
▸ New buildings and
infrastructure
▸ design
▸ space
▸ new places
▸ Utilitarian
▸ Experts?
▸ Enables placemaking?
▸ Placemaking:
▸ Home
▸ Existing buildings and
places
▸ social programs
▸ place
▸ existing
▸ Social
▸ Ownership by the
people (spirit)
▸ People watchers?
15. 1.2 QUALITY PUBLIC SPACES
▸ The area around buildings
which people use
▸ Public vs private space.
▸ The focus of urban design
▸ Easily left out?
▸ Pre WWII
(design over expense)
Alan + Lindy’s house (my street) – Brisbane, QLD
20. 1.2 RANGE OF PUBLIC SPACE
NEW CITY LIFE Jan Gehl
▸ Urban stroll ways: boulevards, avenues, streets
▸ Main city space: squares, frame events
▸ Local city space: playing and staying
▸ Ceremonial city: seats of power, celebrations
▸ Deserted city space: large surfaces few activities
▸ Transport hubs: dominated by people in transit
▸ Green city spaces: variety of uses
▸ Staged city space: staged sensory experiences
▸ Temporary city space
▸ Aquatic city space
▸ Waterfront city space: access to views and water; and
▸ City space for play and sport: permanent specialised equipment
Subiaco, Perth, WA, AUS
21. 1.2 QUALITY PUBLIC SPACE
▸ Urban designers believe that the arrangement and the qualities of the public
space affects the way people react, interact, behave and feel.
▸ William H Whyte : It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people.
What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished .
Apartment Building - Cairns
Deicke Richards
▸ Urban design must create public spaces of quality.
22. 1.2 QUALITY PUBLIC SPACE
Apartment Building - Cairns
Deicke Richards
Portside Markets, Hercules Street, Brisbane, Queensland, AUS
23. Leigh St, Adelaide, SA, AUS
1.3 URBAN DESIGN
▸ Activity + end result
▸ Verb – the process of urban design
▸ Noun – the quality of the place
24. 1.5 URBAN DESIGNERS
▸ They cannot be an
authority in all these areas
▸ They need to be experts
in integrating information
and ideas
▸ From their team, client,
stakeholders and the
community
▸ Critically they need to see
the big picture
Town Planning Museum - Shanghai
25. 1.6 URBAN DESIGN AND FORM
▸ Built form influences our
use and appreciation of place
▸ Urban designers
influence place through -
▸ buildings (location, shape and size)
▸ structures and;
▸ quality of spaces.
Wellard – Perth, WA
http://www.thevillageatwellard.com.au/Wellard.aspx
The hierarchy of form
Urban Initiatives 2003
26. 1.7 SENSE OF PLACE
“Urban design is not just about physical form, but lived experience
as well. It has a social and psychological dimension. At its best,
urban design is about feeling at home in the world: creating a
sense of continuity and authenticity.” (Buchanan, 2009)
Valley Fiesta - Brisbane
http://www.mapcreative.com.au/images/portfolio/valley-fiesta-2007.gif
27. 1.7 SENSE OF PLACE
▸ Broader meaning > built form
▸ Negative connotation of space?
▸ Our favourite part of the city is a
place
▸ Place may have a purpose,
blurry edges, identified by
name...
▸ A personal connection with
people
▸ Engwicht Secret 1 - make
people feel at home
▸ “Place is a feeling not a location”
Given Tce, Paddington, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
28. 1.7 SENSE OF PLACE
▸ Soul of the place –
attachment and
belonging
▸ Built environment
+++ features, events,
people and activities
▸ Social Fabric
▸ Emerging attributes:
opportunity, identity,
innovation, creativity,
authenticity – more
powerful attractors
29. 1.7 SENSE OF PLACE
▸ Characteristics of
successful
and highly valued
places
(Morrison Institute):
▸ quality natural
environment
▸ innovation and cultural
capacity
▸ distinctive amenities
▸ street life, “hipness”,
tolerance
▸ choice and diversity
▸ accessibility.
Queensberry Street, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
30. 1.8 OUR ROLE?
▸ Urban design – not one
person or profession
▸ Fundamentally multi-
disciplinary and
collaborative
▸ Planning – traditionally the
right mix of uses in the
right location...
▸ Successful places depend
on physical form of
development as well
▸ Plus the social fabric (soft
infrastructure)
▸ No accreditation for urban
design in Australia - AILA
City Square, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
31. 1.8 URBAN DESIGN LEADERSHIP?
▸ Planners – big picture thinkers with
broad training, project management
skills and collaborative mind set...
broad scale master planning
▸ Architects – much more than
buildings and design, offer
solutions. Increasingly focussed on
place, not just the building... form in
urban design
▸ Landscape Architects – strong site
analysis and design skills...
designing the space into place
▸ And others….
▸ Good urban designers often have
more than one qualification
Riverbank Drive - The Ponds, Sydney, NSW, AUS
38. 1. SUMMARY
▸ Urban design and Placemaking
▸ Quality public places
▸ Inherently collaborative and
multi-disciplinary
▸ Urban design and form
▸ Sense of place
▸ Our role in urban design
Hunterford Estate Oatlands - Sydney, NSW
39. 1. REFLECTION
▸ Individual – group: short answer
test p155
1.1 What is your definition of urban design?
1.2 Explain the meaning of placemaking
and its relationship to urban design
1.3 Name two examples of private urban
space and public space. What’s the
difference?
1.4 Who should take the design lead on
urban design projects?
▸ Group discussion
▸ How is urban design delivered in your
workplace?
▸ Aussie tour of our bonza places
Adelaide Arcade, Rundle St Mall– Adelaide, SA, AUS
40. PROGRAM – SESSION 2
Hitchcock Ave - Barwon Heads, VIC, AUS
1 Urban Design + Placemaking 101
2 Civic Principles
3 Place Qualities
8 Outcomes (p131)
4 Place Typology
5 Place process
6 Place roles
7 Toolkit - placemaking ideas
9/10 Links+ conclusions
Placemaking Trends
42. Palmerin St, Warwick, QLD, AUS
BENEFITS OF PLACEMAKING
▸ Avoid adverse effects
▸ Doesn't necessarily increase
costs
▸ Reduces Costs
▸ Delivers customers value
▸ Pro-development
▸ Delivers broad benefits to society
43. REDUCE ADVERSE EFFECTS
▸ “The City of Casey has the highest
reported incidence of family violence and
child protection notifications within
Victoria.”
http://www.caseyconnect.net.au/promotin
gpeace-familyviolence/
▸ “In America, Robert Putnam found “a
simple rule of thumb: every 10 minutes of
commuting results in 10% fewer social
connections”.
▸ In Australia 10% of working parents
spend more time commuting than they do
with their children.” (Grattan Institute
2012)
“The modern America of
obesity, inactivity,
depression, and loss of
community has not
‘happened’ to us; rather we
legislated, subsidized, and
planned it.”
http://www.placemakers.co
m/2012/11/12/urban-
happiness-index-
revisited/
44. DOESN'T NEED TO COST MORE
Section 8 Bar, Tatersalls Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
▸ “Improving social connection is not
necessarily hard or costly. In many
cases, big returns can come from small
outlays.” (Grattan Institute 2012)
45. Dallas, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
COSTS AND BENEFITS OF PLACEMAKING
▸ Avoid adverse effects
▸ Doesn't necessarily increase
costs
▸ Reduce Costs
▸ Delivers benefits customers value
▸ Pro-development
▸ Delivers broad benefits to society
49. REDUCE COSTS – DISASTER RESILIENCE
Victoria St – Mackay, QLD, AUS
▸ “the quality of the built environment has
been shown to have some association
with social cohesion in these
neighbourhoods” Dempsey, N., 2009
▸ Through our social connections we
share information, resources and skills.
This makes communities more
dynamic and more resilient” (Grattan
Institute 2012)
▸ “The impact of a Chicago heatwave on
the elderly shows that social
connection can make the difference
between life and death.” (Grattan
Institute 2012)
50. Amp Ln - Albury, NSW, AUS
REDUCE COSTS – ENABLE THE LOCALS
51. Centre Place, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
▸ "in a world where slow growth is normal,
society can't afford the costs of our
shopping centres” Joe Nickol
REDUCE COSTS - OVERALL
▸ Poor design can have significant adverse
effects
▸ May not always cost more upfront
▸ Utilise existing infrastructure
▸ Enable natural disaster resilience
▸ Enable the locals (SCIP)
52. Ford St - Beechworth, VIC, AUS
COSTS AND BENEFITS OF PLACEMAKING?
▸ Avoid adverse effects
▸ Doesn't necessarily increase costs
▸ Reduce Costs
▸ Delivers benefits customers value
▸ Pro-development
▸ Delivers broad benefits to society
54. PLACE = AFFORDABLE LIVING
Palmerston Lane, Fitzgibbon Chase, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
▸ AusHomes Villa House
▸ 320 m² (two community titles – Villa + loft)
▸ 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms (121 m²)
▸ $299,900 in 2011
▸ Fitzgibbon Chase Snapshot
▸ Housing Innovations
Kuranda Park Way, Fitzgibbon Chase, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
55. ▸ AusHomes Villa House
▸ 320 m² (two community titles – Villa + loft)
▸ $299,900 in 2011
▸ Aiming to achieve 50 dwellings/ha in next
stage on freehold title.
▸ Housing Innovations
▸ Fitzgibbon Chase Snapshot
PLACE = AFFORDABLE LIVING
Palmerston Lane, Fitzgibbon Chase, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
▸ AusHomes Loft Home
▸ 320 m² (two community titles – Villa + loft)
▸ 1 Bedroom + 1 bathroom (97m²)
▸ $199,900 in 2011
▸ Aiming to achieve 50 dwellings/ha in next
stage on freehold title.
▸ Housing Innovations
56. 8.4 HOUSING AFFORDABILITY
▸ Matusik Missive 26th May 2010
▸ How can we actually deliver a cheaper home?
▸ Maximum built product size of 150 m². Owners could extend in the future if they wished.
▸ Allotment sizes below 400 m². Frontages, if possible, kept at 10 metres.
▸ Rear lane access wherever possible.
▸ Offset density, in clusters, adjacent to open space and where appropriate, institutional land
use such as schools, sports facilities etc.
▸ Provide carports rather than garages.
▸ Tandem parking – designed to hold two cars off the street.
▸ Double storey construction.
▸ Alternative building materials – brick and tile, takes way too long to construct.
57. 8.4 AFFORDABLE LIVING
▸ Next Generation Planning
Source:
http://versatile1.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/
58. PLACE = SAFETY
Darwin Waterfront, Darwin, NT, AUS
▸ “Current research has already
shown that CPTED is an effective tool
in reducing opportunities for crime, fear
of crime and nuisance problems“ ACT
Crime Prevention and Urban Design
Resource Manual
▸ "Some benefits can be achieved from
CCTV roll-out, but these are often
misunderstood and overstated. Aside
from the large costs, there are also risks,
including the loss of privacy, particularly
as the technology becomes more
sophisticated.“Sydney Morning Herald
59. PLACE = HEALTHY + FIT
State Library, Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
▸ If one in ten Massachusetts adults started a
regular walking program, the state would save
$121 million in heart disease expenditures
annually. [MA Dept. of Public Health, 2008]
▸ Combining vigorous exercise and walking each
week produced a 50% reduced mortality. [Arch
Internal Medicine, 2007]
▸ 1 in 3 children born in USA in 2000 will develop
diabetes
▸ Car accidents are the leading cause of deaths
0-24
▸ Exercise affects learning, memory and
cognition. College students showed improved
performance on recognition memory tasks
after exercise. [NYU current research]
60. PLACE = TRANSPORT SAVINGS
Flinders St, Adelaide, SA, AUS
▸ “In Melbourne, almost 8% of areas with
the greatest need for public transport
have no access at all.“(Grattan Institute
2012)
61. PLACE = MORE TIME, LESS CONGESTION
Clarkson, Perth, WA, AUS
▸ Living car-free in walkable areas fits younger lifestyles. Fewer
young people want cars. In 1995 people age 21 to 30 drove 21
percent of all miles driven in the U.S.; in 2009 it was 14 percent,
despite consistent growth of the age group. [Advertising Age,
2010]
64. Laneway, Little Stanley Street – Southbank, QLD
PLACE = OPPORTUNITIES
▸ Kaid Benfield
▸ One entrepreneur noted that there are lots of
people in Raleigh doing interesting things, ‘but
they're miles apart from each other.’
▸ Further, said Josh Whiton, a 31-year-old chief
executive of a software company downtown,
‘There's not the serendipitous running into each
other when you go to get coffee’
65. Lane off Winn St, The Valley, Brisbane. QLD, AUS
THE BENEFITS – ENHANCE VALUES
▸ A one-point increase in Walk
Score is associated with
between a $700 and $3,000
increase in home
values. [CEOs for Cities,
2009]
▸ NY Times
▸ 1990s, high-end outer
suburbs contained most of
the expensive housing in the
USA.
▸ Today, it’s in the high-
density, pedestrian-friendly
neighbourhoods of the centre
city and inner suburbs
66. Le Dinner en Blanc, South Banc, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
PLACE = FUTURE PROOFING
▸ Ellen Dunham Jones
▸ 85% of households in 2025 will not have kids
▸ 77% of Millenniums/Gen Y want to live in urban
core
▸ 75% of retiring baby boomers say they want mixed
use and mixed age
▸ Combined they represent ½ of the popn in the USA
▸ “A quarter of Australian households now consist of
people living by themselves and this is the fastest
growing household type” (Grattan Institute 2012)
70. WHAT CAN YOUR PLACE DELIVER?
Lakeside Dve, Joondalup, Perth, WA, AUS
▸ Affordable housing
▸ Affordable Living
▸ Safety
▸ Fitness – physically and mentally
▸ Less money on transport
▸ More time, less congestion
▸ Convenience
▸ Choice
▸ Opportunities
▸ Enhances values
▸ Future proofing
71. COSTS AND BENEFITS OF PLACEMAKING
Queen St Mall, Brisbane, QLD, AU
▸ Avoid adverse effects
▸ Doesn't necessarily increase
costs
▸ Reduce Costs
▸ Delivers customers value
▸ Pro-development
▸ Delivers broad benefits to society
72. THE BENEFITS – UNDERPERFORMING ASSETS
Mizner Park - Boca Raton USA
73. 8 RETROFITTING SUBURBIA?
Mizner Park - Boca Raton USA
▸ New York Times -
February 5, 2012
▸ Near-record vacancy rates
(11%) at malls of all kinds.
▸ There are about 108,000
shopping centres in
America.
▸ A new enclosed mall has
not opened in the United
States since 2006.
80. ▸ The Australian May 05,
2012 12:00AM
▸ “A pall over the mall”
▸ “Shopping malls may be booming
across China and parts of the Middle
East but in the US, the birthplace of
the mall, they're dying and in
Australia they're haemorrhaging”
AUSTRALIA?
81. ▸ The Australian June 15, 2011 12:00AM
▸ Some are saying the end is nigh for the traditional
shopping mall retail model.
▸ Online retailing is making its mark
▸ Typical anchor tenants such as fashion stores and book
shops are struggling.
▸ "The retailers that are most at risk are in the shopping
strips that aren't somewhere like Toorak Road or Bridge
Road in Melbourne, where there's upmarket coffee
shops and lifestyle options to attract people to the area."
A SLOW DEATH HERE?
Victoria Ave, Chatswood, Sydney, NSW, AUS
84. Geelong, Victoria, AUS
COSTS AND BENEFITS OF PLACEMAKING
▸ Avoid adverse effects
▸ Doesn't necessarily increase
costs
▸ Reduce Costs
▸ Delivers customers value
▸ Pro-development
▸ Delivers broad benefits to
society
85. THE BENEFITS – CREATIVE ECONOMY
Murray St Mall - Perth, WA, AUS
86. THE BENEFITS – BRANDING + PROMOTION
Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
87. Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, QLD, AUS
THE BENEFITS – LOCAL BUSINESS
▸ “UK research suggests that improving the
pedestrian environment on ten high
streets (totalling 24 km) would result in
annual public benefits of up to £4.3 million
a year“(Grattan Institute 2012)
88. THE BENEFITS – INTERACTION
Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC, AUS
▸ “Loneliness can have serious health
consequences, with a similar impact to
high blood pressure, lack of exercise,
obesity, or smoking.” (Grattan Institute
2012)
▸ “The importance of social connection to
health and wellbeing means that, for
many people, improved relationships
are a much more realistic path to a
better life than increased income.”
(Grattan Institute 2012)
▸ “People have fewer friendships and
neighbourhood connections than they
did two decades ago” (Grattan Institute
2012)
▸ “Improving social connection is not
necessarily hard or costly. In many
cases, big returns can come from small
89. Juniper Bank Way, Subiaco, Perth, WA, AUS
THE BENEFITS - CONNECTED AND VITAL
▸ “A city that ‘builds in’ isolation through
its housing options, transport
accessibility, and other features, can
have significant consequences for the
strength of people’s relationships and
for physical and mental health. .”
(Grattan Institute 2012)
90. High St - Yackandandah, VIC, AUS
THE BENEFITS – EXTEND ECONOMIC LIFE
▸ Homes in walkable
urban neighbourhoods
have experienced less
than half the average
decline in price from
the housing peak in the
mid-2000s. [Brookings
Institution, 2011]
91. High St - Yackandandah, VIC, AUS
CLIMATE CHANGE: REDUCTION + ADAPTION
▸ Average urban dweller in the USA has 1/3
carbon footprint of suburban dweller.
▸ “ClimateSmart innovation in urban
▸ compact, self-contained regional
development
▸ active and public transport-based
community
▸ maintaining ecologically diverse and
viable natural habitats.
92. SUSTAINABILITY
Christie Walk Eco-Village, Sturt St – Adelaide, SA, AUS
▸ Any sound principles for a good
urban place must be sustainable
▸ social equity
▸ economic vitality
▸ environmental responsibility
▸ Cities can make a significant
contribution
Good urban design is a powerful tool for achieving a higher
quality of life, greater economic vitality and a more efficient use of
resources. It is key to making places where talented people will
want to live, and which will nurture economic success.”
Urban Initiatives, 2003, p. 3
93. Clyde St, Batemans Bay NSW, AUS
DELIVERS BROAD BENEFITS TO SOCIETY
▸ Attract creative class
▸ Brand + Promote cities and regions
▸ Support local shops and facilities
▸ Promote social connectedness and vitality
▸ Extend the economic life of buildings and public
spaces
▸ Sustainability
▸ Climate change mitigation and adaption
94. STAY AHEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT
Lochiel Park – Adelaide, SA, AUS
▸ http://www.urbandesign.gov.au/
▸ National Urban Design Protocol
▸ draft Urban Design Framework in QLD
▸ Growth Management QLD
▸ Public Sector training (DLGP,DTMR, Health,
Arts, ULDA, DPW, Councils, etc)
▸ Next Generation Planning – for streets?
▸ Outcomes... Reduces government expenditure
95. Commercial Road, Strathalbyn, SA, AUS
ISN’T THIS WHAT YOU WANT?
▸ Avoid adverse effects
▸ Doesn't necessarily increase
costs
▸ Reduce Costs
▸ Delivers customers value
▸ Pro-development
▸ Delivers broad benefits to society
▸ A Car-free Street Grows in Queens
96. PLACE ALLIANCE
King George Square, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
▸ Information and tools for consumers
▸ Advocate
▸ Quantify benefits
▸ Promote best practice
▸ Identify case studies
▸ Professional training
▸ National coordination
97. Rusty’s markets – Sheridan St, Cairns, QLD, AUS
KEY MESSAGES
1. Create authentic public places for people
2. It’s common sense (requires urban manners)
3. Science + ‘art’
4. We all participate in placemaking + urban design -
collaborative and multidisciplinary
5. Planning: outcome (3D form) + process
6. Government buildings – activating centres
7. Take the time to get to know a place - may not be
a design solution (economics, social)
8. Placemaking role for your places
98. 8. REFLECTION – OUTCOMES
8.19 (P159 - Different) What outcomes or
benefits relate to your study area? Why?
10.21 (P160) What could you do differently to
deliver urban design and placemaking
outcomes?
▸ Think Like a Fool
Federation Square - Melbourne, Victoria
99. PROGRAM – SESSION 3
Private Laneway off Market St, Merimbula, NSW, AUS
1 Urban Design + Placemaking 101
2 Civic Principles
3 Place Qualities
8 Outcomes
4 Place Typology
5 Place process
6 Place roles
7 Toolkit - placemaking ideas
9/10 Links+ conclusions
Placemaking Trends
What+Why
How+Who
100. Victoria St – Mackay, QLD, AUS
5.5 PLACE MANAGE –MALCOLM SNOW
101. Northbridge Piazza - Northbridge, Perth, WA, AUS
PLACE MANAGER
▸ Brimbank City Council - CBP
▸ Sunshine and Sydenham Place
Manager
▸ Total Project Cost: $180,000
(Brimbank City Council $80,000
CBP $100,000)
▸ ......reference materialplace
managementPlaceManagementBro
chure.pdf
▸ Engwicht Secret 9 – Focus on the
micro – 50% of budget allocated to
the micro
▸ Junk Bank
A Place Manager for Sydenham
and Sunshine provides a focus for
coordinated Council, State
Government, business and
community involvement in the
implementation of the strategic
plans for each centre. The Place
Manager is responsible for driving
the implementation of the
Sydenham Transit City Master
Plan and the Sunshine Principal
Activity Centre Structure Plan and
facilitates project delivery for a
range of development and
infrastructure works and
community engagement initiatives.
102. A BIAS TOWARDS ACTION
http://startupquote.com/post/534823829
▸ Can visions be
inspirational and
realistic?
▸ “Bring the future today”
David Engwicht
▸ A “Bias Towards
Action”
1. Decide from where
you want to be
2. Have a plan to get
from A to B
3. Bad decisions are
better than no
decision.
4. Make decisions from a
state of peace
103. GRAPHIC CODES AND POLICY
▸ SEQ Place Model (transect)
and guidelines
134. AUTHENTICITY - TOWNSVILLE
Townsville, QLD, AUS
▸ Pubs
▸ History
▸ Landmarks
▸ Port
▸ Rail
▸ Beach/The Strand
▸ Street Trees
▸ Roundabouts !
▸ Ross River
▸ Bridges
▸ Rail
▸ Rob Adams (41.18)
135. Empathy Map - Logan City Council Course Oct 2012
Participants not only identified the following ideas,
they volunteered to investigate implementation
within Council.
Corporate
1.Urban design protocol 'creating better places' - sign up or
adoption.
2.Location and design of council buildings and facilities to
deliver good urban design outcomes - leading by example -
Additional information - procurement.
3.Consider adopting Place Principles into the Corporate Plan,
urban manners etc.
4.Consider where placemaking sits within the organisation –
across the silos?
ITS WHAT WE DO ‘DAY TO DAY’ THAT COUNTS
136. Group Discussion - Darwin Course April 2012, NT, AUS (Photo:Jan Kinsella)
Technical
5.Complete streets integration.
6.Flexible planning scheme making changes over time rather than once every five years.
7.Location of car parks to the rear or underneath buildings.
8.Urban design audit incorporated into the development assessment process.
9.Stepping back from the detail to focus on the outcomes rather than the process - getting in early to the
design process.
10.Review development which ticks the boxes but does not deliver good places.
11.Change the front fence policy in the building code.
12.Ask developers for design changes to make places more livable but currently restricted by the process.
13.Constructive feedback to industry in appropriate ways.
14.Who benefits from streets: pedestrians v cars reclaiming the space for pedestrians - Radio Interview -
Enrique Penalosa.
15.Having processes in place to change the rules based on feedback from technical staff.
ITS WHAT WE DO ‘DAY TO DAY’ THAT COUNTS
137. Sydney Course, Canada Bay, Sydney, NSW, AUS
Systems
16.Internal urban design champions – not necessarily
a senior person - Additional information -
procurement.
17.Use 242s as an opportunity to trial new planning.
18.Urban design panel to comment on significant
developments or local area plans.
Place Managers
19.Place managers for key sites - Place Manage.
20.Trialling/prototyping in regards to flexible spaces -
Six opportunities to improve our places through
prototyping .
ITS WHAT WE DO ‘DAY TO DAY’ THAT COUNTS
138. Place Proposals developed during Training Course
People
21.Conversations over the phone or in person rather than through formal legislative processes.
22.Consistent language across the organisation - Development Assessment or Place Enabling?
23.Education for councillors, champions, decision makers.
24.Involve as many voices in the decision making process - Place Roles .
25.Speak to the users and not just the community - Place User.
26.Recognise that consensus is not always the key to being visionary eg the Sydney Opera House - "New
visions do not start with majority support".
Across all categories
27.Investigate alternatives within transport.
28.transport planning as a leader for placemaking being part of the solution rather than part of the problem -
Transforming NYC streets into places.
ITS WHAT WE DO ‘DAY TO DAY’ THAT COUNTS
139. Rusty’s markets – Sheridan St, Cairns, QLD, AUS
COUNCIL AS CITY BUILDER
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Notes de l'éditeur
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
Note how the buildings in Salamanca Place enclose the space? The markets (soft infrastructure) create wonderful place based experiences - "the icing on the cake".
Photo of my favourite oz place what's yours?
Great view, gritty place (functioning rear lane with rubbish bins and cobblestones). Doesn't meet classic urban design criteria - no active edges, although the graffiti helps as does Movida restaurant.
Every city seems to need markets (and laneways)!
The Nolli plan (in this instance Rome) is a useful urban design tool. It shows buildings in black and the spaces in between in white. Generally the more complex the pattern the more interesting the place. Think of the pattern of your nearest big box shopping centre - box in black surrounded by hectares of white parking!
What would the Nolli plan be of your favourite place?
A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!).
Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
Another short planning definition! It is comprehensive though – covers a lot of the points.
Oatlands a redevelopment of an old state school in Sydney by Landcom which used rear lanes to get garages at the back of houses (and apartments) to improve the street. Designed by one of our interviewees - Clive Alcock.
Another short planning definition! It is comprehensive though – covers a lot of the points.
Oatlands a redevelopment of an old state school in Sydney by Landcom which used rear lanes to get garages at the back of houses (and apartments) to improve the street. Designed by one of our interviewees - Clive Alcock.
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
A simpler definition of urban design (thanks to participant feedback!).
Places like Federation Square are designed with one or more functions in mind.
I have made several movies from interviews I have done with Ozzie urban designers/placemakers. Unfortunately, these are hard to share online at present. Keep your eye out for Placefocus.com - a website I am setting up so you can view these in the future.
I have made several movies from interviews I have done with Ozzie urban designers/placemakers. Unfortunately, these are hard to share online at present. Keep your eye out for Placefocus.com - a website I am setting up so you can view these in the future.
I have made several movies from interviews I have done with Ozzie urban designers/placemakers. Unfortunately, these are hard to share online at present. Keep your eye out for Placefocus.com - a website I am setting up so you can view these in the future.
It's all about the quality of the public space - the area between the buildings (usually in public ownership) which is quickly forgotten.
Lindy + Allan's house in my street contributes to the street by defining the transition from public to private space. It features an obvious front gate and low fence, front door leading to the veranda (a place for strangers out of the rain), front room is semi public (sitting room not a bedroom). Garage to the side.
It's all about the quality of the public space - the area between the buildings (usually in public ownership) which is quickly forgotten.
Lindy + Allan's house in my street contributes to the street by defining the transition from public to private space. It features an obvious front gate and low fence, front door leading to the veranda (a place for strangers out of the rain), front room is semi public (sitting room not a bedroom). Garage to the side.
Suburban fringe residential development by Mirvac (through Landcom) which is closer to the street, two stories and not dominated by garages.
Shame about the bollards?
It does this by placing the garages at the rear of the house. A little parsley on the pig though as the rest of the estate utilises standard garages at the front which impact on the street. (WA is leading the charge in good suburban (and inner city) development).
A good introduction to urban design – which hasn’t dated. Beautiful hand drawn illustrations of European cities by the author.
An easy book to read (do yourself a favour and borrow it from the library!) which confirms that cities need public places with different functions. Not just deserted city spaces!
It's all about quality public space - which can affect the way people feel. A drawing of an apartment building which not only responds to the climate... but also the street!
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”. Winston Churchill
It's all about quality public space - which can affect the way people feel. A drawing of an apartment building which not only responds to the climate... but also the street!
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us”. Winston Churchill
Urban design is an activity and an end result.
The linear park in KGUV looked good on plan, but may be missing a clear function. Could be a really good playground or skate park, or performance space?
According to Chris Melsom (HASSELL Perth) a key characteristic of urban designers is emotional intelligence. Wikipedia says that there are 2 characteristics of EI:
Self-awareness – the ability to read one's emotions and recognize their impact while using gut feelings to guide decisions.
Self-management – involves controlling one's emotions and impulses and adapting to changing circumstances.
Social awareness – the ability to sense, understand, and react to others' emotions while comprehending social networks.
Relationship management – the ability to inspire, influence, and develop others while managing conflict.
Image is a scale model of Shanghai in the Town Planning museum in a prominent location the cities central square.
Urban design relies on built form at different scales. The plan of Wellard on the southern Perth railway line should deliver good urban design based on its structure and scale.
Great places benefit from a ‘sense of place’...
which is broader than built form. Places tend to be our favourite parts of the city - whereas spaces tend to be dead or unsafe?
A lookout along Latrobe Tce in Paddington, Brisbane – one of my favourite places (has anyone seen the TV remote?).
Often social fabric (soft infrastructure) is critical to placemaking - the events, festivals etc
The arrow marks the couch!
The Morrison Institute have built on the work of Richard Florida and others to identify the qualities of cites (and their regions) which attract knowledge based workers (like us).
Percentage of gay and lesbian people in a city is an indicator of the populations tolerance.
Cities are know competing with each other to deliver these outcomes.
So because urban design is multidisciplinary planners can not only contribute they can also lead the process. Particularly when we think creatively and work in 3 dimensions.
Melbourne city square – controversially created in the 1960s with the demolition of heritage buildings and opened in 1980 by QEII. It was redeveloped from1997 to 2000 with part of the site sold for a hotel.
"Andrew's guide to design leadership in urban design projects."
Most projects as need a facilitator to support the design lead. Planners tend to make good project facilitators.
Fringe residential development by Australand which is creating a centre through two storey town houses overlooking a new park. Garages at the rear help.
This is a good way of making a centre in the suburbs without retail uses. It need not rely on high quality landscaping either.
Pathways @ Northlakes (yellow circle) - opposite the new Westfield shopping centre (blue) which engages with the street.
The old Pine Rivers Shire Council worked hard to deliver urban outcomes in this new Centre.
When I was at HASSELL I led a team in a 2 day design workshop with public stakeholders to plan a new library, senior school and recreation centre with a main street outcome. We also included a laneway, central park and on street carparking.
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
Keep your eye out for Placefocus.com
Have a look at the ‘Built to Last” movie on the internet site and tell me what you think? There are a couple of other movies on this site you might like to view as well.
http://www.youtube.com/user/1standMain#p/u/2/VGJt_YXIoJI
What do you understand about New Urbanism?
Have a look at the additional info - particularly the 'value of urban design' when you are trying to convince people to spend money.
An ordinary apartment building in Byron Bay compensated through a nice cafe/bar which celebrates the corner! What happens at street level is critical.
The cascades in Oatlands is a landscaped pathway designed as a compromise to the existing community who didn't want a street connection.
These houses relationship to the street is facilitated by rear garages.
The photo should give you a clue for question 1.2. I am looking for urban space (e.g. not backyards)
An impressive six green star office building in Melbourne.
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
Michael’s guide to housing affordability could easily be titled Andrew’s guide to urban design in the suburbs?
Michael’s guide to housing affordability could easily be titled Andrew’s guide to urban design in the suburbs?
Michael’s guide to housing affordability could easily be titled Andrew’s guide to urban design in the suburbs?
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
Congratulations we are over the hump!
We skip section 7 in the presentation and cover it at the end.
The next 3 sections are an opportunity to ‘roll our sleeves up and get our hands dirty’.
The East Perth Redevelopment Authority (EPRA) showed character to tackle a brownfield site first, and build a new harbour. What an asset for Perth!
A good initiative in Victoria and hopefully a trend for the rest of our valuable places.
A good initiative in Victoria and hopefully a trend for the rest of our valuable places.
Built from local granite in 1858 the Bank of Australasia was committed to the vision for Yackandandah. A nice example of single storey mixed use - the bank at the front with the managers residence to the side. A small front garden transitions between public and private space.
This contributes to one of the best and intact main streets in Australia!
Vision California is a more recent example of Calthorpe’s approach to regional planning. http://www.calthorpe.com/files/Vision%20California%20Brochure%20v2.pdf
The alternative futures produced in Vision California will not just be a collection of goals, policies, maps, or pictures – they will be quantitatively assessed to show how varying land use and infrastructure investments can meet state goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as related objectives for open space and farmland preservation, community health, mobility, housing affordability, energy and water use, and more. It is this unique combination of alternatives and the quantification of their impacts that can lead to more informed and strategic decisions about the future of our state. By clearly defining the critical consequences of various growth options, it will enable informed policy decisions to be made about how to shape the California's growth.
Another movie you will eventually be able to see on www.placefocus.com
The new library with a cafe on the corner and learning facilities upstairs is a great example of the public sector delivering good urban design with public buildings and facilitating a new urban centre!
Have a look at this movie on the James Hardie website. Glenwood Park is one of the better projects – in my view.
Another movie to look forward to!
Bill Chandler confirming that good urban design delivers places for users.
This is a new suburb in a ‘new town’ on the edge of Brisbane. Mirvac developed this shopping centre (near a new train station) with two malls running parallel to a high street.
This is leading edge for shopping centres in Queensland.
I am not sure why they closed the street on a Saturday – no obvious sign of streetworks. I don’t think they were filming a movie? Perhaps to enable the pedestrians to cross between the malls? Although, it seemed to make the space feel a little too quiet?
I wonder if this is consistent with the conditions of approval?
A good way to think about design – the physical definition of streets!
We don’t build fire stations like this anymore...
Another movie you will eventually be able to see on www.placefocus.com
The Morrison Institute have built on the work of Richard Florida and others to identify the qualities of cites (and their regions) which attract knowledge based workers (like us).
Percentage of gay and lesbian people in a city is an indicator of the populations tolerance.
Cities are know competing with each other to deliver these outcomes.
The Morrison Institute have built on the work of Richard Florida and others to identify the qualities of cites (and their regions) which attract knowledge based workers (like us).
Percentage of gay and lesbian people in a city is an indicator of the populations tolerance.
Cities are know competing with each other to deliver these outcomes.
The Morrison Institute have built on the work of Richard Florida and others to identify the qualities of cites (and their regions) which attract knowledge based workers (like us).
Percentage of gay and lesbian people in a city is an indicator of the populations tolerance.
Cities are know competing with each other to deliver these outcomes.
The Morrison Institute have built on the work of Richard Florida and others to identify the qualities of cites (and their regions) which attract knowledge based workers (like us).
Percentage of gay and lesbian people in a city is an indicator of the populations tolerance.
Cities are know competing with each other to deliver these outcomes.
The Morrison Institute have built on the work of Richard Florida and others to identify the qualities of cites (and their regions) which attract knowledge based workers (like us).
Percentage of gay and lesbian people in a city is an indicator of the populations tolerance.
Cities are know competing with each other to deliver these outcomes.
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