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URBAN UPDATE22nd Jan 2016Main newsVision Zero UK Launch – aiming to eliminate deaths on UK’s streetsUDG Exec Supports Vision Zero CampaignVolvo promises zero death car by 2020Savills report – Completing StreetsTown Centre Investments Zone – joining together to regenerate high streetsEdinburgh Council Adopts area wide 20mph limitsPatent filed for drive-in SupermarketIs Odense, with its commitment to whole city cycling, Europe’s most liveable city? Can a High-Rise Apartment Make You Fat?Practice of the Week – NLP – West SaltashJobs – EDP, Phil Jones Associates, ProVision, Turley, Place Services Essex County Council, Crawley Borough Council, Barton Willmore Edinburghfrom the Urban Design GroupA free service for all individuals and organisations who care about life in cities towns and villages ………planners – landscape architects – architects – conservation practitioners – engineers –surveyors – masterplanners – managers – urban designers - urbanists – health professionals - politicians – public We are here to encourage anyone and everyone who wants to see better urban design – the design of towns and cities – streets and spaces Join │ About │ Regions │ UD Update │ Events │ STREET │ Publications │ Journal │ Practice Index │ Universities │ JobsJoin the Urban Design Group viewing this email?Especially people using Hotmail accounts Download as.docx document Urban Design Awards 2016Wednesday 9th March 2016 18.15-22.15Sponsored by MarshallsPractice Award - Francis Tibbalds ?1000 AwardPublic Sector AwardBook AwardStudent Award – Francis Tibbalds ?500 AwardLifetime Achievement AwardPractitioner Tickets - 50 % discount ?37.50UDG, RICS, RIBA, ICE, CIHT, RTPI and other sister professions Standard Tickets ?75 UDG Solent EventThursday February 11th 2016 – 4-6.30pmDelivering Custom and Self Build HousingYolande Barnes (Savills) – Research on build to ownFabiano Lemes/ Silvio Caputo (Portsmouth University) – Custom Build and Urban DesignRon Beattie (Beattie Passivhaus) – Building your own Passivhaus – training and deliveryAll events start at 4.00pm and are located in Savills Southampton office:Floor 82 Charlotte Place Southampton SO14 0TBPlease email Peter Frankum at Savills if you wish to attend. PFrankum@UDG London Events 2016PUBLIC SPACE or PUBLIC CORPORATE SPACEwith lessons from Kings Cross and City of London. Wed 10 FebruaryA view of what public realm been achieved, how is financed and managedAnna Strongman, Partner at Argent, and Victor Callister, now Deputy Director at Design Council Cabe and previously Assist Director of Environmental Enhancement at the City. Chaired by Philip Cave.6.30 – 8.45pm at Argent Offices, 4 Stable Street, London N1C 4AB (argentllp.co.uk for directions). Talk followed by complementary drinks and networking?7 advanced booking only through Eventbright . Numbers are restrictedPLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOT BEING HELD AT THE GALLERY - BUT WITHIN THE KINGS CROSS DEVELOPMENT?Latin AmericaTuesday 15 March? South WestUrban Design - From Process to PlaceRTPI supported by UDG16th March 2016 - @ Taunton(1)/Rebuilding “open planned” council housing estates could help meet London’s housing needsUp to 360,000 extra homes could be created in London by redeveloping council estates to a higher density along street patterns, according to Government commissioned report London needs to build some 50,000 new homes a year over the next 20 years and some of this requirement can be accommodated by increasing the density of existing places, including local authority housing estates. Many such estates require updating and this can be done in a way that creates many more homes, a significantly improved living environment for existing and future residents, and better value for local authorities. This would be achieved by rebuilding estates in a street-based pattern, fully integrated into the urban network of neighbouring streets. PDF – Completing Streets Zero UK LaunchHow many people should die on our streets and highways each year? 2000? 200? 20? Well how about zero? This is the goal of the Vision Zero Campaign launched in the UK on Tuesday. The Vision Zero movement began in 1997 in Sweden. Led by central government, it has succeeded in making the streets and highways in Sweden being among the safest in the world.One of the ways to reduce deaths, is to reduce exposure. It is easy to reduce cyclist deaths by reducing the number of people cycling. But this would be a totally wrong interpretation of the Vision Zero ambition, which is to encourage healthy, active mobility and especially walking and cycling, and also to reduce fear. Around 90 percent of crashes are caused by human error. This can lead to an approach which focuses on blaming the road users. But central to the Vision Zero philosophy is to accept that people make mistakes and to try to create a street environment that does not punish human fallibility with death and injury. What few UK practitioners realise is that that is also what the Common Law requires – which is to have regard to the safety of careful and negligent road users – (see Yetkin vs Newham). At the launch event Professor Anders Lie, from the, Swedish Transport Administration, outlined the measures adopted in Sweden including.. ABS for motorcycles (50 percent reduction in fatalities) 2+1 roads – placing a crash barrier down the centre of rural highways to stop head on collisions - 90% reduction in fatalities (2+1 road is a specific category of three-lane road inter-urban road, consisting of two lanes in one direction (to enable overtaking) and one lane in the other, alternating every few kilometres, and separated usually with a steel cable barrier.Seat belt reminders - 80% reduction in fatalitiesRearward facing child restraints CRS 90% reduction in fatalities Automatic Braking Systems (ABS) on Motorcycles 50 percent reduction in fatality risk Electronic Stability Control Electronic Stability ControlLatterly the focus has been shifting to urban areas. Speed limits should be set to ensure survival given the current state of vehicle design:Head on 80 kph 50mphSide Collisions70 kph44mphRear end 40 kph25mphPedestrian 40 kph & preferably 30 kph 25 / 19 mphDr Adrian Davis, of Public Health Bristol, spoke of the need for a systems wide approach, as there were so many different interests involved and so many different effects. Obesity for example is linked to the amount of physical activity, which is in part influenced by people’s perception of road danger. He quoted the vision for Bristol that it should be a city safe for a 10-year-old to walk independently to school. Anna Semlyen, Co Founder, Vision Zero UK, warned that the consequences of fear, death and injury on the roads in the UK was costing at least ?500 per head per individual. When roads are dangerous, people don’t exercise enough risking obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other health problems. The UK currently had terrible levels of cycling – as few as 4 percent of people cycling daily – amongst 5th lowest of all EU 28 countries. Costing just ?3 per head, she argued that 20 mph limits were an effective option, offering 20 percent fewer casualties Noise reduced by halfAn improvement in air quality equivalent to talking half the petrol cars off the road Main roads in urban areas should go 20 as well she added. Professor John Whitelegg, Co Founder, Vision Zero UK, spoke of the challenges involved in getting some professionals to take road safety seriously. He related the story of an encounter between a Swedish Government minister who asked her officials, after they had indicated that they didn’t like Vision zero – what should we aim for in numbers of dead Swedish children. They replied that it was an unfair question. “Well I think its zero”, said the minister, adding that if they thought there should a different target then they should say so and make their views public. Needless to say, Sweden got its Vision Zero initiative.Vision zero means getting to grips with urban design Professor Whitelegg added – a huge increase in people walking and cycling is needed. He also called for much more team working. How often does a roads designer sit down with an urban designer or with a public health practitioner? – he asked. DiscussionIn discussion, there the need for the proper investigation of road deaths was a repeated theme. In the marine, rail and aviation sectors each incident is investigated and recommendations made. On streets and highways, while coroners have powers to make recommendations, the attitude is that deaths are an unfortunate but inevitable, and there is little to be done. The impression is one of resignation at best, and complacency at worst. There was concern about an inherent bias towards vehicles and vehicle safety and a tendency to give pedestrians and cyclists a lower priority. Adrian Davis complained that the time saving debate is skewed and unscientific – eg that the time of people in cars are more important than people cycling or on buses. It is these hidden but devastating biases that compromise the way cities are designed and built. More information. UDG Executive Supports Vision ZeroThe UDG Executive has given the UK Vision Zero Campaign its support and endorsement. PRACTICE OF THE WEEKWest Saltash, CornwallNathaniel Lichfield & PartnersWest Saltash is one of Cornwall’s most exciting strategic housing projects.? The site’s location, scale and inherent landscape qualities - including extensive woodland - present a unique opportunity to develop a high quality, sustainable, mixed-use community where people will want to live.The site covers approximately 120 hectares on the outskirts of Saltash. The proposal for up to 1,000 new homes, nearly six hectares of employment, a primary school, shops, hotel and community facilities.The local community has helped shape the scheme and the design has been the result of a creative exercise to achieve a high quality development. The masterplan iterations have developed through design review with the Cornwall Design Review Panel and in consultation with the Council, statutory consultees and the local community. Public consultation has been extensive and has helped shape the application proposals. There is strong public support for the development and planning permission was granted in 2014.The aim is to create a highly desirable environment which is a first choice on all levels: outstanding new homes, quality infrastructure, distinctive and extensive open spaces, education, local quality employment and comprehensive services. A ?125m construction investment will transform the area and once operational the site alone will provide 700 direct jobs.Additional facilities will include shared public orchards, allotments and imaginative children’s play areas as well as outdoor sports amenities, cycle paths and walking routes for use by existing local residents.? This mix will foster the creation of a truly sustainable extended community.Read more you used the Urban Design journal archive yet? 100+ editions now available to download freeUDG volunteers working over the holiday break have completed the digitising of all available back copies of Urban Design. Well over 100 are now available to download free. Designer Phil Jones Associates Design Consultant, Place Services - Essex County Council - EDP - Cirencester Designer – Edinburgh - Barton Willmore Urban Designer – Provision – nr Winchester Director, Urban Design, Turley - Bristol Director, Turley Designer - Crawley Borough Council advertise jobs in Urban Update – please email administration@.ukVolvo promises zero death car by 2020The vehicles will combineBlind-spot detectors now watch for oncoming vehicles, adaptive cruise controls reduce speed based on cars ahead, camera systems which warn drivers when they drift out of their lanesRear impact mitigation Pedestrian detectionCollision avoidance and automatic brakingSign reading Driver fatigue detection – many motorway crashes are caused by sleep.More on: Plenty for Us Conference Friday 26 February 2016 – The Guildhall, London and WebinarsAcademy of UrbanismPub Quiz – with Rob Cowan1 Feb 7-10pm InstituteRethinking the Urban Landscape Exhibition Leeds, Sheffield – see website for dates your own - Wolverhampton Arts & HeritageCompetition deadline 8th JanCity Builder Academy July 2016 Midlands Urban Design ForumNext events 2016YorkshireRegional Urbanism in the Era of Globalisation3-5 Feb – University of Huddersfield Liverpool The Creative Process - Film31st January Design London Events coming up – extensive programme some free, some charged/ ?175+VAT?(Free for UDL subscribers)Challenging Practice: Street Design26th January Infrastructure Skills: Achieving Balance in Scheme Design28th January 2016 (09:15 – 16:00)Design South East / Kent Design Calendar our Highways 10 February CanterburyBooking… and Design Scotland workshops on the use of traditional materials coming up. No one should attempt architecture or urban design in Scotland without a knowledge of Ballachulish slate! IHBC. Capital. Cities. UK City of Culture 2021 / European Capital of Culture 202311 February 2016 - Manchester?Museum of WalkingDash or Dawdle – Clerkenwell PubsAny day until the 22 March 2016 Out and About in Shoreditch?–?Journal making and walkshop?Saturday 13 February?10.45am-1.45pm?Geffrye Museum, London E2?Centre for CitiesCities Outlook 2016 Launch25 January 2016?| 12.30pm?| CIty Hall, London Events of Transport and InnovationFebruary 2016@ Milton KeynesPTRCTransport Practitioners Meeting 2016 – Nottingham29-30 June 2016 | NottinghamCall for papers open. Planning Society Annual Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects Forum 20169th February Lectures on UrbanNous New ?Improving the quality of new housing: Negotiating improvements in delivery and designAmy Burbidge is Design Action Manager at North Northamptonshire Joint Planning Unit.? the quality of new housing: New issues for affordable housing.Andy von Bradsky is former Chairman of PRP, Chair of the RIBA Housing Group, Board Member of the Housing Forum and recent chair of the Government appointed Challenge Panel for the Housing Standards Review that advised on UK standards for housing of all tenures. better future for high streets and town centres.Julian Dobson, Urban Pollinators and cities: Function in formJulian Hart, Lancefield Consulting the business model:?? Sharing land uplift and unlocking long term value.Yolande Barnes, Director of the World Research team at Savills in the City – How Design Shapes the Urban ClimateSanda Lenzholzer urban designers, architects, planners, and highway engineers should have a knowledge of this subject. UrbanNous Catalogue available on-line Highlights include Christopher Alexander, George Ferguson, Hans Monderman and scores of others. .ukUrban Nous is produced and operated by Fergus Carnegie for the benefit of practitioners worldwide.Walter Segal Housing Exhibition to March AA London Design around the World AustraliaBeat the heat: western Sydney tackles the urban heat island effect China Keeps Building So Many Western-style Copycat Towns's most liveable city? The secret of Odense's post-industrial revolution bumpy ride in Copenhagen, city of cycling goals now top revitalization plans for south downtown neighborhood U.S. Cities Design Their Way Out of the Affordable Housing Crisis?, Philosophy, EconomicsTown Centre Investments Zone - Report of the Fragmented Ownership GroupRecommendations involve the pooling of a critical mass of property assets into an investment vehicle, will allow the assets to be managed and curated, rejuvenating the high street. aims to maximize greenhouse gas reductions from bioenergy apply new method to determine whether specific climate impacts can be traced to human-caused emissions carbon dioxide emissions pose 'intoxication' threat to world's ocean fish new study puts temperature increases caused by CO2 emissions on the map virus may have infected 100,000s in South America – leads to microcephaly in new-borns of arthropods found In a typical American Midwest house? - potentially 200 species Environment A fence blocking a Wellington couple’s million-dollar views amounts to a “territorial violation … ”, a court has been told. at the photos – you will probably agree. In many countryis 6ft fences are progressively closing off the views and streetscenes. Is Odense, with its commitment to whole city cycling, Europe’s most liveable city? filed for drive-in Supermarket New Rules of Public Art Research, Policy and PracticeHealthDrexel Research and Community-Based Projects in Consortium's First Annual Report on Health and Urban Design a High-Rise Apartment Make You Fat?A?new study?out of Switzerland, however, has found a long-term connection between obesity and urban geography. “ It’s possible you behave like your neighbors, and it’s possible the fact that you arrive in a building where your neighbors are obese …it’s more likely for you to become obese” shows that heart attacks are deadlier in tall buildings exercise critical for heart health, longevity – concern that media have created a myth that exercise can damage the heart challenging activities key to a healthy aging mind a dementia-friendly world: what it looks like, and why it has to include the workplace evidence of seasonal differences in depressive symptoms – Winter blues don’t exist importance of play for young children in developing life-skills study finds parental debt affects children's socioemotional well-being stress and anxiety can damage the brain much sugar during adolescence may alter brain's reward circuits Offers Clues to Designing for Health – Air pollution caused by log burners Council Adopts area wide 20mph limitsA network of 30mph and 40mph roads is being retained but the 20mph limit will apply to many important roads, including Queen Street in the city centre, and Leith Walk, which connects the city centre to Leith in the north of the city.? trains in vacuum tubes the future for long distance travel?? with escalator at Holborn shows that standing on both sides increases capacity by 30 percent case for reversing bus deregulation a World-Class Bus System for Britain promises zero death cars by 2020 and Wi-Fi sensing from mobile devices may help improve bus service e-mail newsletter is sent to members of the Urban Design Group and to friends and colleagues who share a common interest in improving life in cities, towns and villages.? 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