collaborative working
The built environment sector is obsessed with designing frameworks for economic development, rather than creating adaptive, flexible stages for entrepreneurial networks and fertile communities to grow. Approaches to urban development that seek to trigger or build networks of people and spaces, linking them in such a way as to provoke new civic or social enterprise and aggregate both physical assets and social capital, could well be more effective than traditional development approaches. David Barrie outlines his ideas for open source placemaking to Juliana O'Rourke
October 26, 2010 - The National Skills Action Partnership has announced a new measure that will help improve and widen the learning of up to 300,000 housing and regeneration professionals.
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October 22, 2010 - Radical proposals to look at sharing ‘every major service’ have been announced by three of Britain’s local councils.
Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster City Council and Kensington & Chelsea believe that merging services is the only way to try and avoid cuts to frontline services following the toughest public spending squeeze on local government in living-memory. more >
June 17, 2009 - Twenty-three organisations including the TCPA, the HCA and UDAL (Urban Design Alliance) have joined forces to launch a pioneering action plan that will overhaul place-making skills and improve the delivery of homes and communities. more >
By Juliana O'Rourke The Homes and Communities Agency, formed in December 2008, defines its mission as creating quality places. For the next three years it has almost £18 billion at its disposal to achieve this aim. In today’s challenging times, many are waiting see what kind of placemaking revolution the HCA team, led by chief executive Sir Bob Kerslake, can deliver
The HCA (formerly English Partnerships) will work locally to broker a positive response to placemaking; helping to raise ambition and using its skills to support enabling and design review in partnership with CABE and others.
June 15, 2008 - A new guide to speed up planning partnerships between councils and developers has been published by Planning Minister Iain Wright. It sets outs how voluntary Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs) between a local planning authority and an applicant can help speed up major developments in England. more >
The Dove Lane project in St Paul’s, Bristol, encouraged a collaborative approach in two ways: an innovative community consultation plan engaged the public, while the development partners signed a Planning Performance Agreement (PPA). By Jim Weddell, urban design director at RPS
Collaborative practice between artists and urban designers produces creative solutions for urban environments; enhancing the quality of urban design and creating imaginative environments that reflect local identity and meet communities’ needs.
RUDI and Public Art South West (PASW) presented a one-day conference with the aim of informing, challenging and debating collaborative practice in the realm of contemporary art and urban design.
Multimedia presentations from the day, featuring sound, graphics, slides and video, are available to view
At Upton, design codes have been used to raise the standard of housebuilding and encourage developers to explore the Northamptonshire vernacular rather than to prescribe architectural style, say Guy Briggs and Giles Thomson
Delivering the vision: interdisciplinary working andthe practical implications of remodelling local areas Paul Reynolds, urban design team leader, Atkins
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Paul Reynolds' presentation and biography can also be downloaded
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