connectivity

The choice of a single development partner has been a fundamental driver in the success of a retail-led mixed-use development in Liverpool. The Paradise Project was planned to create a new, easily accessible city centre.

Juliana O’Rourke speaks with Capita Symonds’ Peter Mynors, transport advisor to the project at the pre-construction stage

The masterplan for a new neighbourhood, Ordsall Riverside in Salford, aims to avoid piecemeal development and to create a vibrant mixed use waterfront quarter providing continued employment opportunities and riverside living. By Hugo Nowell

With the 2014 Commonwealth Games on the horizon, the opportunity to deliver radical and far-reaching ‘place change’ in one of Glasgow’s most deprived communities is considerable, says Stephen Tucker

No longer can the simplistic idea of 9-5 commuting to the city centre and role of the local shop define suburbia. Increasingly suburbia presents the perfect location for personalised cities built on a modern day mantra of choice and personal mobility. This shift in behaviour has significant impact on the nature of how we understand and classify suburbs, and how we comprehend the infrastructures which support suburbia.

This project aims to develop a series of integrated ‘next practice’ toolkits that can span the design of the built environment, social software, policy and service delivery in line with the interdependent challenges of sustainability. In process, developing a series of propositions that are based on the effective design of supply chains – water, energy etc and the efficient use of mobility – rather than seeking to rebuild romantic notions of the local.