Introduction by Mr Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive, The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment. From The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment's Annual Conference 2009. The conference examined issues associated with globalisation and sought to identify better ways of meeting the aspirations of the burgeoning urban populations of the Global South and establishing settlements that are liveable, resilient and founded upon local culture and building traditions.

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Globalisation from the Bottom Up
Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive, The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment

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The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment is an educational
charity founded by HRH The Prince of Wales to improve the quality
of people’s lives by teaching and practising timeless and ecological
ways of planning, designing and building.
We are one of 24 charities for which the Prince of Wales is
President, together we comprise the largest multi-cause charitable
enterprise in the United Kingdom.
The Prince’s Foundation

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Our approach
•Timeless principles
•+ local intelligence and adaptation
•+ appropriate technology
•= Sustainable Architecture and
Urbanism

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Our approach
•Timeless principles
•+ local intelligence and adaptation
•+ appropriate technology
•= Sustainable Architecture and
Urbanism

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Our approach
•Timeless principles
•+ local intelligence and adaptation
•+ appropriate technology
•= Sustainable Architecture and
Urbanism

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Our approach
•Timeless principles
•+ local intelligence and adaptation
•+ appropriate technology
•= Sustainable Architecture and
Urbanism

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Slums and Mega Cities
“There are two cities within
one city – one part of the
urban population that has all
the benefits of urban living,
and the other part, the slums
and squatter settlements,
where the poor often live
under worse conditions than
their rural relatives.”
Anna Tibaiuka, Executive
Director, UN Habitat, 2007

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Ecological Footprint

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Cities Can Be Location Efficient

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Implications
• It is one “interrelated community building challenge”
after all -- sustainability is not just about energy
conservation and efficiency, but also about poverty,
sanitation, health and prosperity.
• Better urbanism offers the opportunity to help
decouple resource use and pollution from better
living standards.
• Engagement of resident and local stakeholders is not
only the right thing to do, it creates a better result.
• Architecture, materials use and building technology
and practice reflect adaptation to climate and local
identity and culture.
• For world wide application, solutions should be
flexible, adaptable, simple, natural and resilient.

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Exemplar Projects

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Enquiry by Design

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Recent UK Enquiries by Design
• Upton Urban Extension, Northampton
• Coed Darcy Urban Village, Wales
• Swansea University, Wales
• Sherford New Community, South Hams
• Lincoln City Centre & Growth Area
• Walthamstow Town Centre, London
• Ellon, Ballater, Nairn and Cove,
Aberdeenshire
• Newquay, Cornwall
• Castletown, Caithness
• Crewe Village
• Burnley & Nelson, East Lancashire
• Cumnock Urban Extension, East Ayrshire
• Other clients include MOD and NHS

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Community Building in Rose Town,
Kingston
The Prince’s Foundation has been working with local partners in Rose
Town, a neighbourhood plagued with gang violence, to:
•restore civil society and increase personal safety
•develop a neighbourhood master plan, and define a new approach to
housing involving rehabilitation rather than removal
•create a mixed use economic revitalisation strategy
•Train local youth in vernacular construction techniques

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Rose Town, Kingston
The project will focus on both new and rehabilitated housing and
neighbourhood renewal, as alternatives to tower blocks.

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Rose Town

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Rose Town

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Rose Town

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Rose Town

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Re-Establishing Islamic Urbanism in Saudi Arabia
In Jazan, Saudi Arabia, The Foundation held an Enquiry by Design for a
mixed-use, mixed-income neighbourhood in December 2007. The project,
on land owned by The King Abdullah Foundation, will reintroduce
principles of traditional architecture and urbanism to the Kingdom.

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Post Conflict Planning in Sierra Leone

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Freetown, Sierra Leone
PFBE has held a workshop
to address urban sprawl
slum conditions and
connected issues, such as
deforestation, public health,
governance and capacity
building.
Next steps are further public
consultation, through an
Enquiry by Design, and
preparatory work to create a
framework for
neighbourhood
regeneration.

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Uncovering Sustainable Urban Form in Beijing
The Prince’s Foundation is working with Tsinghua University to develop a
regeneration strategy for the Dai Shi Lan hutong district of Beijing,
preserving its sustainable form and relieving overcrowding and lack
sanitation and other facilities.

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Assisting Community Efforts at Murad Khane, Kabul
Working with another of The Prince’s
Charities, the Turquoise Mountain
Foundation, PFBE has helped to prepare a
master plan for Murad Khane, a mud brick
neighbourhood in Kabul.

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