Creating the Urban Structure

The Movement Framework

High quality architecture has raised design standards in the area
The Calls and Riverside Planning Framework
Leeds
Key Principles:
  • Breaking barriers to reconnect neighbourhoods
  • Creating vibrancy through improved access
New routes improve the Pedestrian experience in Birmingham.
Birmingham Inner Ring Road
Birmingham
Key Principles:
  • Breaking barriers to reconnect the city
  • Improving the pedestrian experience

Mixing Uses

A variety of active uses line the ground floor
Smithfields
Manchester
Key Principles:
  • Reusing existing buildings
  • Delivering a successful mixed use building
Sketch of proposed layout at Broughton Atterbury.
Broughton Atterbury
Milton Keynes
Key Principles:
  • Generating consensus through collaboration
  • Setting pioneering standards
Public spaces at Laganside are linked by a riverside walk.
Laganside Masterplan
Belfast
Key Principles:
  • Reconnecting the centre and the riverfront

Density, Facilities and Form

Homes provide good surveillance of internal courtyard.
Homes for Change
Manchester
Key Principles:
  • Improving design through community engagement
  • Fostering interaction through design

Energy and Resource Efficiency

Sheets, blocks and buildings are orientated for solar gain (Photographer: Jan van Ijken)
Nieuwland
Amersfoot, Netherlands
Key Principles:
  • Solar design on a grand scale

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