streets and street use

Westminster University launches new course in street design and management RUDI subscribers only

July 27, 2008 - It is now becoming accepted that good street design is as important to the well-being of a town or city as beautiful architecture. First the Manual for Streets and now the Manual for Historic Streets make clear that streets are places for people as well as arteries for movement. The University of Westminster has devised a new course to help busy professionals to keep up with this changing world. more >

New series of street improvement guides and case studies published RUDI subscribers only

July 18, 2008 - Across the UK, local authorities are increasingly recognising that improving the streets brings a range of benefits to everyone. Local businesses report better trade, more people are encouraged to walk and cycle, the streets become safer, more sociable places, and the historic character of an area is enhanced rather than degraded. more >

Proposals for £4 million pedestrian-friendly redesign set out for Oxford Circus, London RUDI subscribers only

July 10, 2008 - Proposals for a £4 million redesign to allow pedestrians to walk across Oxford Circus in London have been launched for consultation. more >

What makes a great place: O’Connell Street, Dublin Free to all

What makes a great place: O’Connell Street, Dublin

Dick Gleeson , Chief City Planner, Dublin City Council, explains in detail what makes the redeveloped O'Connel Street, Dublin, a great placeO’Connell Street, Dublin, is a current holder of an Academy of Urbanism Great Place award

Integration of traffic management requirements into well designed streets: new guidance from the Department for Transport Free to all

Integration of traffic management requirements into well designed streets: new guidance from the Department for Transport
John Emslie , Projects Director, MVA Consultancy

John Emslie , Projects Director, MVA Consultancy

John discusses transport modelling and its impact on street scene, and integrating transport modelling into street environments

Making space for play: Wayne Hemingway on safer space for young people Free to all

Making space for play: Wayne Hemingway on safer space for young people
The design and use of public space to enable greater access by children and young people is now under unprecedented scrutiny. In the first half of 2008, a national play strategy will set out work across government to provide children with ‘better physical environments and to create more child-friendly public space’. Part of the challenge willbe renewing play space, but also identifying and overcoming barriers to children and young people’s access to the public realm and their independent mobility.

The design and use of public space to enable greater access by children and young people is now under unprecedented scrutiny. In the first half of 2008, a national play strategy will set out work across government to provide children with ‘better physical environments and to create more child-friendly public space’. Part of the challenge will be renewing play space, but also identifying and overcoming barriers to children and young people’s access to the public realm and their independent mobility.

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Best practice street design and public space guide for Wales aims to draw people back to Welsh towns RUDI subscribers only

June 14, 2008 - Cardiff-based Powell Dobson Urbanists has won a commission to develop a good practice guide that will shape the future of 11 town centres in the south Wales valleys. The document will provide a bespoke set of guidelines to approach the street design in five key local authorities in the ‘Heads of the Valleys’ region. more >

Vital and viable towns Free to all

Vital and viable towns

Measuring the relationship between successful public realm and successful development. By Roger Evans and Conrad Kickert (REAL)

Street design guides from CABE Free to all

Street design guides from CABE

Most streets in this country are failing pedestrians, and need to become destinations again, and not simply ways of getting traffic from A to B. Radical new thinking in urban street design may point the way forward. Civilised streets, a new report from CABE, sets out the opportunities and challenges of new design approaches. It argues that the car still dominates and our streets will only become more civilised places if the needs of pedestrians are prioritised over cars.

Civilised streets is the latest in a series of CABE Space publications highlighting the benefits of better street design. Publications include :

Edinburgh Standards for Streets Free to all

Edinburgh Standards for Streets

The Edinburgh Standards for Streets propose a mechanism for achieving improvement and coherence in the public realm. The Standards are based on a review of the Edinburgh Streetscape Manual and it is intended that they will illustrate the extent to which guidance can be given by good design in the context of existing legislation and the need to balance Streetscape issues with transport safety matters.

  • Parts One and Two set out the Principles for Streets and the delivery mechanisms,
  • Part Three, outline detailed design guidance for specific activities undertaken in the street.
  • Appendices, set out the historical context for streets and include a report on setted streets prepared by Edinburgh World Heritage and BGS.
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