1) Home zones originated in the Netherlands in the 1960s-1970s as "woonerfs", which were residential streets designed to reduce car dominance and prioritize pedestrian safety.
2) The concept spread to other European countries and was introduced in the UK in the late 1990s through pilot programs and legislation allowing 20mph speed limits.
3) By the early 2000s, the UK government was providing guidance for planning and public participation in home zones, which aim to improve residents' quality of life by making streets safer for walking, cycling, and children's play.
The document outlines a vision to transform the Figueroa Corridor by linking Downtown Los Angeles and USC through street improvements that encourage walking, community cohesion, public transit, and economic development. It identifies three key criteria to achieve this vision: 1) allocating public space fairly for various modes of transportation; 2) designing the street at a human scale with building edges; and 3) making building facades and hubs of activity more inviting to pedestrians. A series of strategies are proposed, including rezonings to create unique districts, establishing public shared spaces, infilling underutilized areas with parks, and engaging the community.
The presentation evaluated two potential sites for the Council for Watershed Health's new headquarters: Block 20 and Block 48/49. Block 20 is located near the LA River and Metro Gold Line in an industrial area known as an "art haven". The vision for Block 20's headquarters included rehabilitating the historic building, adding bioswales for rainwater capture, and developing community spaces. It was seen as an opportunity to demonstrate sustainable redevelopment of an existing building and engage the local artist community.
Michael Fishman (principal in charge) Sam Schwartz Engineering (lead)
Urban Question: How to immediately respond to the unprecedented events of 9/11/01 and provide access, egress and circulation for the largest crime scene in
history?
Urban Answer: Working with the NYPD, FDNY, PAPD, NYCDOT, NYSDOT and the Federal Government, immediate solutions were developed to provide access
for emergency vehicles, equipment and personnel while maintaining security and circulation for the general public. This included:
- Realigning streets and sidewalks to provide staging areas and access points for heavy equipment and personnel.
- Designing temporary pedestrian walkways and bikeways to reconnect neighborhoods.
Radburn was a planned community developed in 1929 in New Jersey as a response to rapid urbanization. It included single family homes, row houses, apartments and amenities across 149 acres. Key features included separating pedestrian and vehicle networks using cul-de-sacs and footpaths, orienting homes around common green spaces rather than facing streets, and organizing commercial areas at block intersections. While innovative at the time, some elements like underused front green spaces and preferences for more private yards led to some failures in implementation. Overall though, Radburn demonstrated an early model for planned communities that influenced later suburban developments.
Union Studio: Proposed Waterfront Master Plan for Newburyport, MAunionstudio
After months of heated discussion, public input, and careful consideration, the proposed Newburyport Waterfront Master Plan was received with public applause on 9/12/12. Union Studio Architecture & Community Design completed the plan for the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority (NRA), who owns 4.2 acres of waterfront land surrounding a public park in the town's downtown commercial district. The NRA hired Union Studio to help develop a vision for the property, which would be the basis for a "Request for Proposals" for development of the vacant land. Ultimately, the solution needs to balance viable economic development opportunity with the public's enjoyment of this special waterfront open space. For more information, visit http://unionstudioarch.com/news-and-ideas/46-firm-events/147-newburyport-proposed-plan
(to hear the narrated version with transitions viewers must download the file)
Gardiner East EA Public Forum 3 (Feb062014) - panelsGardinerEast
The document provides an overview of the Future of the Gardiner East Environmental Assessment and Urban Design Study. It discusses:
- The study area, which is the section of the Gardiner Expressway East/Lake Shore Boulevard extending from west of Lower Jarvis Street to Leslie Street.
- The goals of the study, which are to revitalize the waterfront, reconnect the city with the lake, balance modes of travel, achieve sustainability, and create value.
- Consultation activities conducted so far, including stakeholder meetings, public forums, online engagement, and social media, engaging over 5,000 individuals.
Neighborhood planning in capital city of chandigarh an appraisal JIT KUMAR GUPTA
1. The document discusses the neighborhood planning concepts used in the development of Chandigarh, India. It describes the initial plans created by Albert Mayer and Matthew Nowicki, which divided the city into large superblocks.
2. The plan was later revised by Le Corbusier, who changed the basic unit to sectors and organized the city into residential, commercial, industrial and educational areas connected by a road network.
3. The document analyzes the principles of neighborhood planning that influenced Le Corbusier's sector-based design for Chandigarh, including defining boundaries, excluding vehicular traffic, and allocating open spaces.
The document summarizes public consultation for alternatives to replace or modify the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. It provides information on how people currently get downtown in Toronto and comparable traffic volumes. It then outlines objectives of the public consultation process and the first round of consultation, which engaged over 5,000 individuals. Key ideas presented to the public are summarized. The document also provides examples of other infrastructure projects and evaluates them based on criteria like age, costs, impacts. Finally, it outlines the development of alternative solutions for the Gardiner Expressway based on public input and lists the evaluation criteria for comparing the alternatives.
The document outlines a vision to transform the Figueroa Corridor by linking Downtown Los Angeles and USC through street improvements that encourage walking, community cohesion, public transit, and economic development. It identifies three key criteria to achieve this vision: 1) allocating public space fairly for various modes of transportation; 2) designing the street at a human scale with building edges; and 3) making building facades and hubs of activity more inviting to pedestrians. A series of strategies are proposed, including rezonings to create unique districts, establishing public shared spaces, infilling underutilized areas with parks, and engaging the community.
The presentation evaluated two potential sites for the Council for Watershed Health's new headquarters: Block 20 and Block 48/49. Block 20 is located near the LA River and Metro Gold Line in an industrial area known as an "art haven". The vision for Block 20's headquarters included rehabilitating the historic building, adding bioswales for rainwater capture, and developing community spaces. It was seen as an opportunity to demonstrate sustainable redevelopment of an existing building and engage the local artist community.
Michael Fishman (principal in charge) Sam Schwartz Engineering (lead)
Urban Question: How to immediately respond to the unprecedented events of 9/11/01 and provide access, egress and circulation for the largest crime scene in
history?
Urban Answer: Working with the NYPD, FDNY, PAPD, NYCDOT, NYSDOT and the Federal Government, immediate solutions were developed to provide access
for emergency vehicles, equipment and personnel while maintaining security and circulation for the general public. This included:
- Realigning streets and sidewalks to provide staging areas and access points for heavy equipment and personnel.
- Designing temporary pedestrian walkways and bikeways to reconnect neighborhoods.
Radburn was a planned community developed in 1929 in New Jersey as a response to rapid urbanization. It included single family homes, row houses, apartments and amenities across 149 acres. Key features included separating pedestrian and vehicle networks using cul-de-sacs and footpaths, orienting homes around common green spaces rather than facing streets, and organizing commercial areas at block intersections. While innovative at the time, some elements like underused front green spaces and preferences for more private yards led to some failures in implementation. Overall though, Radburn demonstrated an early model for planned communities that influenced later suburban developments.
Union Studio: Proposed Waterfront Master Plan for Newburyport, MAunionstudio
After months of heated discussion, public input, and careful consideration, the proposed Newburyport Waterfront Master Plan was received with public applause on 9/12/12. Union Studio Architecture & Community Design completed the plan for the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority (NRA), who owns 4.2 acres of waterfront land surrounding a public park in the town's downtown commercial district. The NRA hired Union Studio to help develop a vision for the property, which would be the basis for a "Request for Proposals" for development of the vacant land. Ultimately, the solution needs to balance viable economic development opportunity with the public's enjoyment of this special waterfront open space. For more information, visit http://unionstudioarch.com/news-and-ideas/46-firm-events/147-newburyport-proposed-plan
(to hear the narrated version with transitions viewers must download the file)
Gardiner East EA Public Forum 3 (Feb062014) - panelsGardinerEast
The document provides an overview of the Future of the Gardiner East Environmental Assessment and Urban Design Study. It discusses:
- The study area, which is the section of the Gardiner Expressway East/Lake Shore Boulevard extending from west of Lower Jarvis Street to Leslie Street.
- The goals of the study, which are to revitalize the waterfront, reconnect the city with the lake, balance modes of travel, achieve sustainability, and create value.
- Consultation activities conducted so far, including stakeholder meetings, public forums, online engagement, and social media, engaging over 5,000 individuals.
Neighborhood planning in capital city of chandigarh an appraisal JIT KUMAR GUPTA
1. The document discusses the neighborhood planning concepts used in the development of Chandigarh, India. It describes the initial plans created by Albert Mayer and Matthew Nowicki, which divided the city into large superblocks.
2. The plan was later revised by Le Corbusier, who changed the basic unit to sectors and organized the city into residential, commercial, industrial and educational areas connected by a road network.
3. The document analyzes the principles of neighborhood planning that influenced Le Corbusier's sector-based design for Chandigarh, including defining boundaries, excluding vehicular traffic, and allocating open spaces.
The document summarizes public consultation for alternatives to replace or modify the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. It provides information on how people currently get downtown in Toronto and comparable traffic volumes. It then outlines objectives of the public consultation process and the first round of consultation, which engaged over 5,000 individuals. Key ideas presented to the public are summarized. The document also provides examples of other infrastructure projects and evaluates them based on criteria like age, costs, impacts. Finally, it outlines the development of alternative solutions for the Gardiner Expressway based on public input and lists the evaluation criteria for comparing the alternatives.
I concept design presentation - expooilgaspegasgroupfzc
The document describes a two-day workshop to present and critique conceptual neighborhood designs for a new development in Kabul. Day 1 includes presentations of neighborhood modules and design critiques. Day 2 focuses on continuing the work session, a cultural facilities planning lesson, and reviewing an urban planning checklist. The document also provides details on proposed neighborhood designs, including street networks, open spaces, land uses, and 3D massings. The goal is to test design principles and create an exemplary model for future phases.
This document provides an overview of the history and evolution of urban planning through summaries of key figures and developments. It discusses the work of Frederick Law Olmsted in designing Central Park and shaping urban planning in New York City and Chicago. It also covers Haussmann's redesign of Paris in the 1850s and Robert Moses' impact on infrastructure and development projects in New York City in the 1900s. The document then introduces concepts from Jane Jacobs and new urbanist approaches to planning exemplified by Seaside, Florida.
Gardiner East EA - Public Forum 5 PanelsGardinerEast
The document discusses the Future of the Gardiner East Environmental Assessment and Urban Design Study being conducted by Waterfront Toronto. It provides background on the study area along Lake Shore Boulevard and the Gardiner Expressway from Lower Jarvis Street to Leslie Street. The study includes developing and evaluating alternative designs for the Hybrid option endorsed by City Council in 2015. It outlines the work completed since June 2015, including developing three Hybrid Design Alternative concepts and evaluating them. It also discusses the goals and principles guiding the study to revitalize the waterfront, reconnect the city to the lake, balance transportation modes, achieve sustainability, and create value.
The document is a report from the Dublin City Manager to the Lord Mayor and Members of Dublin City Council regarding a proposed interim cycleway and footway project between Bull Wall and Causeway Road. It provides details of the project including its location, proposed works including construction of a cycle track and footway, flood defence works, and submissions received from the public. It evaluates the project's compliance with various national, regional and local planning policies supporting sustainable transportation initiatives and flood management.
The Gardiner Expressway is in need of significant maintenance work.
The City is undertaking an in-depth analysis of possible procurement options to deliver the project in the most effcient and cost-effective way. This includes the possibility of delivering the construction project as a Public-Private-Partnership (P3).
The document discusses building great neighbourhoods in Red Deer through careful planning and design. It outlines nine principles for creating neighbourhoods that are sustainable, walkable, vibrant, and livable. These include considering natural areas, a mix of land uses, connectivity through various transportation options, compact urban form and density, parks and community spaces, housing variety, resilience and sustainability, safety, and unique identity. The standards provide guidance for both new neighbourhood developments and smaller redevelopment within existing areas to achieve well-designed neighbourhoods that improve quality of life.
The document summarizes the dismantling of a 1.4 km section of the elevated F.G. Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. The expressway was replaced with a 4-lane arterial road, pedestrian/cycle path, and landscaped areas. This created opportunities for redevelopment, encouraged alternative transportation, and improved the urban environment. The project was completed on time and on budget through careful planning, community consultation, and innovative construction techniques.
The document discusses how buildings are major contributors to energy consumption, waste output, CO2 emissions, and water use. Green buildings can reduce energy use by 24-50%, CO2 emissions by 33-39%, water use by 40%, and solid waste by 70%. Green building techniques include building reuse, green roofs, rainwater management, and LEED for Neighborhood Development certification which focuses on smart location, mixed-use neighborhoods, walkability, and access to transit. Local examples of LEED ND projects are provided. The presentation encourages making every building green by utilizing credits for local food production, tree-lined streets, and reducing heat islands.
This document discusses a proposed site for a recreational center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to address urban stress. It analyzes the site context, including lack of green space, noise from traffic, and air and water pollution. Precedent studies of community centers are examined for their strategies in integrating work and recreation facilities. The proposed design for this site aims to bring people together through a variety of programs and activities to promote healthy lifestyle and reduce urban stress. Landscaping and building orientation strategies seek to minimize heat gain and noise impact.
This document provides a vision and plan for transforming the town center of Kajang, Malaysia into a more self-reliant town through urban renewal strategies. It begins with background on Kajang's population growth and current land use. The vision is to create a sustainable economic growth and livable environment for residents. The plan involves altering and extending existing buildings, constructing sustainable new buildings, developing the downtown area, and creating a "naked street" concept and central mosque area to improve the public realm. Specific guidelines are provided for each strategy to enhance the town center and environment while encouraging mixed use and transit-oriented development.
This document provides a course review for an urban form and design planning course. It summarizes key concepts covered in the course, including Renaissance urban design principles from Michelangelo's Piazza Del Campidoglio in Rome, Haussmann's redesign of Paris, the urban parks movement led by Frederick Law Olmstead, Ebenezer Howard's Garden City ideas, Le Corbusier's modernist city planning principles, Jane Jacobs' work on urban neighborhoods, and new urbanism. It also features images related to these topics to illustrate important urban planning and design concepts discussed in the course.
The 8-acre Quarry Hill site in Leeds City Centre is being transformed into a new cultural destination with offices, apartments, and leisure uses connected by squares, piazzas and gardens. The redevelopment will add over 500 apartments, offices, restaurants, and public spaces to the site, which is already home to cultural organizations. The landscaping will include open spaces for public art and improve access to the city center.
Good design can add economic value by creating areas where people want to spend time and helping to transform property markets. Well-designed places provide benefits like comfortable living/working areas, safety, and transportation/job opportunities. Achieving high design standards, understanding how design adds value, and having the right tools and developers to create successful places are important. Poor design can impose long-term costs on communities through issues like unsustainability, disconnection, and crime. Investment in good urban design can create value through efficient use of land, social/environmental benefits, and avoiding future costs of bad design.
The document discusses optimizing urban structure through an integrated New Urbanist model. It reviews traditional Australian urban structuring and its influence on the development of Australian New Urbanism. Key points include clustering walkable neighborhoods to form mixed-use towns served by public transit. Integrating neighborhoods, towns, and regional structure can optimize prosperity, sustainability and transit access. The document also compares different international models and their relative performance on public transit, retail and centers.
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Salient features of a well-designed inclusive Neighbourhood (Colony) for the urban poor is characterized by a well conceptualized effort at social cohesion:
I. Housing Unit and Layouts of Cluster Housing
II. Neighbourhood Colony Layouts
III. Basic Physical Infrastructure (Water Supply, Sanitation, Drainage, Roads, Street Lighting, Solid
Waste Management, etc.)
IV. Cohesive Social Infrastructure (Community Centre, Informal Sector Market, Livelihood Centre,
etc.)
APWA Award Winning Roundabout in Ann ArborOHM Advisors
http://www.ohm-advisors.com. This award winning roundabout in Ann Arbor is making the intersection of Huron Parkway and Nixon Road safer, greener, quicker and cheaper. The project was named APWA Michigan Chapter's Project of the Year. Aggressive public outreach efforts that included Russian and Chinese translators and field trips with visually impaired people made this project both an engineering and a public relations success.
The document provides details about the applicant's landscape design experience and philosophy. It includes descriptions of several projects the applicant worked on, including a luxury beachfront hotel in the United Arab Emirates, a mixed-use development in Dubai, and a large shopping mall complex on the Dubai Canal. Hand drawings and renderings are included to illustrate the applicant's design concepts and process. The applicant's passion for connecting people with nature through regenerative landscape design is emphasized.
The document proposes a design called "Four Flows" to reconfigure the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. It focuses on improving access to the waterfront for people ("Flow 1") by removing the elevated expressway and replacing it with an underground tunnel and new boulevard above. This would open up land for development ("Flow 4") while maintaining the existing traffic capacity ("Flow 2"). It aims to enhance the natural environment along the waterfront and Don River through new parks and green spaces ("Flow 3"). The proposal argues this integrated approach will improve quality of life for residents while providing economic benefits from increased development opportunities.
The document provides biographical and professional details about Sarah Foqué. It includes information about her education, qualifications, work experience, computer skills, languages, and references. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture from Leeds Metropolitan University and a Master of Fine Arts in Art, Space and Nature from Edinburgh College of Art. Her work experience includes freelance landscape architect positions and a role as a Landscape Architect for the Council of Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands. She is also active as an artist and her work explores relationships between people and their surroundings.
This document summarizes Palma Real Villas, a residential development located within the exclusive Hacienda Pinilla Beach Resort and Residential Community in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. It offers spacious 2-3 bedroom villas ranging from 3,100-3,950 square feet with colonial Spanish architecture and amenities including a pool, tennis courts, and access to the golf course. The development is close to beaches and nature but also near services and airports, providing an ideal luxury lifestyle within a gated community on the Pacific coast.
I concept design presentation - expooilgaspegasgroupfzc
The document describes a two-day workshop to present and critique conceptual neighborhood designs for a new development in Kabul. Day 1 includes presentations of neighborhood modules and design critiques. Day 2 focuses on continuing the work session, a cultural facilities planning lesson, and reviewing an urban planning checklist. The document also provides details on proposed neighborhood designs, including street networks, open spaces, land uses, and 3D massings. The goal is to test design principles and create an exemplary model for future phases.
This document provides an overview of the history and evolution of urban planning through summaries of key figures and developments. It discusses the work of Frederick Law Olmsted in designing Central Park and shaping urban planning in New York City and Chicago. It also covers Haussmann's redesign of Paris in the 1850s and Robert Moses' impact on infrastructure and development projects in New York City in the 1900s. The document then introduces concepts from Jane Jacobs and new urbanist approaches to planning exemplified by Seaside, Florida.
Gardiner East EA - Public Forum 5 PanelsGardinerEast
The document discusses the Future of the Gardiner East Environmental Assessment and Urban Design Study being conducted by Waterfront Toronto. It provides background on the study area along Lake Shore Boulevard and the Gardiner Expressway from Lower Jarvis Street to Leslie Street. The study includes developing and evaluating alternative designs for the Hybrid option endorsed by City Council in 2015. It outlines the work completed since June 2015, including developing three Hybrid Design Alternative concepts and evaluating them. It also discusses the goals and principles guiding the study to revitalize the waterfront, reconnect the city to the lake, balance transportation modes, achieve sustainability, and create value.
The document is a report from the Dublin City Manager to the Lord Mayor and Members of Dublin City Council regarding a proposed interim cycleway and footway project between Bull Wall and Causeway Road. It provides details of the project including its location, proposed works including construction of a cycle track and footway, flood defence works, and submissions received from the public. It evaluates the project's compliance with various national, regional and local planning policies supporting sustainable transportation initiatives and flood management.
The Gardiner Expressway is in need of significant maintenance work.
The City is undertaking an in-depth analysis of possible procurement options to deliver the project in the most effcient and cost-effective way. This includes the possibility of delivering the construction project as a Public-Private-Partnership (P3).
The document discusses building great neighbourhoods in Red Deer through careful planning and design. It outlines nine principles for creating neighbourhoods that are sustainable, walkable, vibrant, and livable. These include considering natural areas, a mix of land uses, connectivity through various transportation options, compact urban form and density, parks and community spaces, housing variety, resilience and sustainability, safety, and unique identity. The standards provide guidance for both new neighbourhood developments and smaller redevelopment within existing areas to achieve well-designed neighbourhoods that improve quality of life.
The document summarizes the dismantling of a 1.4 km section of the elevated F.G. Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. The expressway was replaced with a 4-lane arterial road, pedestrian/cycle path, and landscaped areas. This created opportunities for redevelopment, encouraged alternative transportation, and improved the urban environment. The project was completed on time and on budget through careful planning, community consultation, and innovative construction techniques.
The document discusses how buildings are major contributors to energy consumption, waste output, CO2 emissions, and water use. Green buildings can reduce energy use by 24-50%, CO2 emissions by 33-39%, water use by 40%, and solid waste by 70%. Green building techniques include building reuse, green roofs, rainwater management, and LEED for Neighborhood Development certification which focuses on smart location, mixed-use neighborhoods, walkability, and access to transit. Local examples of LEED ND projects are provided. The presentation encourages making every building green by utilizing credits for local food production, tree-lined streets, and reducing heat islands.
This document discusses a proposed site for a recreational center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to address urban stress. It analyzes the site context, including lack of green space, noise from traffic, and air and water pollution. Precedent studies of community centers are examined for their strategies in integrating work and recreation facilities. The proposed design for this site aims to bring people together through a variety of programs and activities to promote healthy lifestyle and reduce urban stress. Landscaping and building orientation strategies seek to minimize heat gain and noise impact.
This document provides a vision and plan for transforming the town center of Kajang, Malaysia into a more self-reliant town through urban renewal strategies. It begins with background on Kajang's population growth and current land use. The vision is to create a sustainable economic growth and livable environment for residents. The plan involves altering and extending existing buildings, constructing sustainable new buildings, developing the downtown area, and creating a "naked street" concept and central mosque area to improve the public realm. Specific guidelines are provided for each strategy to enhance the town center and environment while encouraging mixed use and transit-oriented development.
This document provides a course review for an urban form and design planning course. It summarizes key concepts covered in the course, including Renaissance urban design principles from Michelangelo's Piazza Del Campidoglio in Rome, Haussmann's redesign of Paris, the urban parks movement led by Frederick Law Olmstead, Ebenezer Howard's Garden City ideas, Le Corbusier's modernist city planning principles, Jane Jacobs' work on urban neighborhoods, and new urbanism. It also features images related to these topics to illustrate important urban planning and design concepts discussed in the course.
The 8-acre Quarry Hill site in Leeds City Centre is being transformed into a new cultural destination with offices, apartments, and leisure uses connected by squares, piazzas and gardens. The redevelopment will add over 500 apartments, offices, restaurants, and public spaces to the site, which is already home to cultural organizations. The landscaping will include open spaces for public art and improve access to the city center.
Good design can add economic value by creating areas where people want to spend time and helping to transform property markets. Well-designed places provide benefits like comfortable living/working areas, safety, and transportation/job opportunities. Achieving high design standards, understanding how design adds value, and having the right tools and developers to create successful places are important. Poor design can impose long-term costs on communities through issues like unsustainability, disconnection, and crime. Investment in good urban design can create value through efficient use of land, social/environmental benefits, and avoiding future costs of bad design.
The document discusses optimizing urban structure through an integrated New Urbanist model. It reviews traditional Australian urban structuring and its influence on the development of Australian New Urbanism. Key points include clustering walkable neighborhoods to form mixed-use towns served by public transit. Integrating neighborhoods, towns, and regional structure can optimize prosperity, sustainability and transit access. The document also compares different international models and their relative performance on public transit, retail and centers.
I came to know regarding this competition from rediff.com
Salient features of a well-designed inclusive Neighbourhood (Colony) for the urban poor is characterized by a well conceptualized effort at social cohesion:
I. Housing Unit and Layouts of Cluster Housing
II. Neighbourhood Colony Layouts
III. Basic Physical Infrastructure (Water Supply, Sanitation, Drainage, Roads, Street Lighting, Solid
Waste Management, etc.)
IV. Cohesive Social Infrastructure (Community Centre, Informal Sector Market, Livelihood Centre,
etc.)
APWA Award Winning Roundabout in Ann ArborOHM Advisors
http://www.ohm-advisors.com. This award winning roundabout in Ann Arbor is making the intersection of Huron Parkway and Nixon Road safer, greener, quicker and cheaper. The project was named APWA Michigan Chapter's Project of the Year. Aggressive public outreach efforts that included Russian and Chinese translators and field trips with visually impaired people made this project both an engineering and a public relations success.
The document provides details about the applicant's landscape design experience and philosophy. It includes descriptions of several projects the applicant worked on, including a luxury beachfront hotel in the United Arab Emirates, a mixed-use development in Dubai, and a large shopping mall complex on the Dubai Canal. Hand drawings and renderings are included to illustrate the applicant's design concepts and process. The applicant's passion for connecting people with nature through regenerative landscape design is emphasized.
The document proposes a design called "Four Flows" to reconfigure the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. It focuses on improving access to the waterfront for people ("Flow 1") by removing the elevated expressway and replacing it with an underground tunnel and new boulevard above. This would open up land for development ("Flow 4") while maintaining the existing traffic capacity ("Flow 2"). It aims to enhance the natural environment along the waterfront and Don River through new parks and green spaces ("Flow 3"). The proposal argues this integrated approach will improve quality of life for residents while providing economic benefits from increased development opportunities.
The document provides biographical and professional details about Sarah Foqué. It includes information about her education, qualifications, work experience, computer skills, languages, and references. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture from Leeds Metropolitan University and a Master of Fine Arts in Art, Space and Nature from Edinburgh College of Art. Her work experience includes freelance landscape architect positions and a role as a Landscape Architect for the Council of Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands. She is also active as an artist and her work explores relationships between people and their surroundings.
This document summarizes Palma Real Villas, a residential development located within the exclusive Hacienda Pinilla Beach Resort and Residential Community in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. It offers spacious 2-3 bedroom villas ranging from 3,100-3,950 square feet with colonial Spanish architecture and amenities including a pool, tennis courts, and access to the golf course. The development is close to beaches and nature but also near services and airports, providing an ideal luxury lifestyle within a gated community on the Pacific coast.
The document discusses British values week and the rule of law. It provides information about the British legal system, including the ages at which people attain various legal rights and responsibilities. It notes that many British laws trace back to the Magna Carta and that many other countries' legal systems are based on the British system. It also gives brief overviews of the magistrates court, which hears less serious offenses, and the crown court, which hears serious offenses like murder.
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This document outlines 10 key British values: 1) the rule of law, 2) the sovereignty of the Crown in Parliament, 3) the pluralist state with no unequal treatment, 4) personal freedom and tolerance of others, 5) private property rights, 6) the importance of stable British institutions, 7) stable families, 8) teaching history and national achievements to children, 9) shared values with the English-speaking world including freedom and justice, and 10) the British character shaped by institutions emphasizing justice.
This document outlines the seven areas of learning and development that early years providers must focus on as part of the Early Years Foundation Stage framework. These areas include physical development, personal, social and emotional development, communication and language, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world, and expressive arts and design. The document suggests using the areas of learning and development as a guide to generate new ideas.
The great big British values resources pack 2015 1 of 3earlyyearscareers
The Great Big British Values pack will help practitioners and managers to fully understand what British Values are and how to implement these into everyday practice.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses the Prevent duty for schools in the UK. It notes that there is an ongoing terrorist threat and that terrorist groups actively aim to recruit young people both in person and online. The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a legal duty on public bodies like schools to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. Schools are expected to promote fundamental British values, identify students at risk of radicalization, protect students from extremist materials online, and ensure robust safeguarding policies are in place. The document provides guidance on what to look out for, such as expressions of support for terrorism or personal crises, and outlines the simple process of notice, check, and share any concerns.
This document outlines Moorside High School's approach to preventing extremism and radicalization as required by the UK's Prevent strategy. It defines key terms like extremism, radicalization, and vulnerability. It explains the aims of Prevent to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. The school's responsibilities include risk assessments, promoting British values, safeguarding policies, and staff training. Teachers are instructed on how to refer concerns about students being drawn into extremism. The document provides contacts for the Staffordshire Police Prevent Team and other resources for further information.
The document discusses British values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of different beliefs. It includes poems about bullying and the environment. Students at Acle Academy discuss what British values means to them, including respect for all, accepting diversity, and knowing right from wrong. The school promotes zero tolerance for racism, homophobia and bullying. Students are tasked to think of actions to demonstrate British values within their tutor groups.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
This document discusses British values and ways to promote them in schools. It defines the key British values according to Ofsted and the Department for Education: democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. It then provides examples of activities schools could do to promote each value, such as holding mock elections to teach democracy and ensuring school rules are clear and fair to teach the rule of law. The document also discusses incorporating these values into PSHE curriculum and implementing a program called Building Learning Power to develop skills like resilience, resourcefulness, reflectiveness and reciprocity in students.
The document discusses the concept of urban green infrastructure. It defines urban green infrastructure as the parts of a city that contribute to natural processes like keeping water and air clean and recycling waste. This includes parks, stream corridors, utility corridors, and vacant lands. These green spaces, if viewed as a single interconnected system, can help keep cities clean and provide recreational areas. The green infrastructure works with engineered systems to manage resources like energy, waste, and stormwater runoff in a balanced way, analogous to natural ecological processes.
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Extended essay: Home zones in the U.K.
1. HOMEZONES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
EXTENDED ESSAY SEMINAR SIMON LAPINSKI
Ref: Images IHIE Homezone design guideline, www.homezonechallenge
2. CONTENTS 1
ELEMENTS
1. Contents. 22. Appraisal of completed projects.
23. - Reduced vehicle speeds
ELEMENTS and Reduced/perceived crime.
2. Forward.
24. - Safer play for children.
3. Indroduction. 25. - Improvement in environmental
4. - What is a Home zone? quality.
26. - Enhanced community cohesion.
5. History and development.
6-8. - The History of Home zones. 27. The future.
9-14. - Development of home zones 27. - Funding.
in the U.K. 28. - Strategy.
29. - Promotion.
15. Design considerations. 30. - New developments and the
16. - Gateways. planning system.
17. - Movement.
18. - Parking and Lighting. 31. Conclusion.
19. - Facilitating play and
Blind and disabled. 32. Bibliography.
20-21. Implementation. 33-34. Appendix
- Pilot schemes.
- Challenge schemes.
3. FORWARD 2
During our three years of studying Landscape Architecture we have
been exposed to many topics to aid our progression within the field.
Our role is attempting to create spaces to a brief, which requires satisfy-
ing a client or more generally a group of people.
Community
Growing up in central London as a child on a council estate, we took it Centre.
for granted to have what seemed hundreds of friends, playing various
games in the yard all day unhindered, except for the odd shout from the
old lady upstairs.
It appears in the last 30 years that those leagues of children that once
played outdoors have gradually disappeared. This was never more
evident than on our current project involving the Edgar Road Community
Centre in a Hanworth housing estate in London.
Our aim was to stimulate the community into rediscovering and enjoying
the mass of open space that surrounded them. I’m not naive enough
to believe that we hold all the solutions, but the concept of Home zones Visualisation of Homezone
and the benefits it purports to provide residents in reclaiming their proposal for Edgar Road Community Centre.
streets, providing safer environments for children to play and helping to
restore a vital sense of community was the stimulus in the selection of
study for this extended essay.
Through the essay will be discussed the problems currently existing in
most urban residential areas, the evolution of the home zone principle,
its claims, application and evaluation of projects to assess if it is part of
a solution to enhance the well being, quality of life and community spirit
within urban residential environments.
Edgar Road Community Centre.
Ref: Photograph and visualisation authors own work.
4. INTRODUCTION 3
The expansion of traffic volumes, a
system of streets established
primarily during the Victorian age and
shortsighted traffic engineering has
created residential environments that
are dominated by the car.
The sheer volume of traffic flow and
numbers of parked cars has led people
to become estranged from their own
communities.
Home zones (HZ) are on attempt to
reclaim the streets from poor post war
planning, which focused on the
priority of the car. This solitary
pursuit structured streets to meet
specific traffic flows, speed
requirements and a standardisation of
street setting that ultimately led to the
segregation of cars and people.
Ref: Cartoon above, reclaiming city streets for people, European commission.
5. INTRODUCTION 4
What is a home zone?
A HZ is focused on reducing speed limits of motorised vehicles to
at least 20mph or below, (preferably to walking pace) within
residential areas to generate equality and a safer environment for
its inhabitants to enjoy other activities. HZ’s are not only con-
cerned with reducing car dominance, but also extending the social
domain into the street.
This expansion of the social domain is aimed at improving the
quality of life to its residents, instead of being just a thoroughfare
for vehicular traffic, reversing the previous relationship with the car, Image of entance at Cavendish Rd,
which now becomes a guest in the street. Kingston-Uopn-Thames HZ.
This is achieved by a distinct approach to street design; highway View down Hastings Rd, West Ealing of the
engineering and landscaping combine to control how cars Five Roads HZ.
negotiate the new environment without restricting the number of
vehicular movements.
HZ’s are residential areas where the street is designed to change
the way it is used to improve the quality of life of residents so that
they can talk to their neighbours, play, walk and cycle safely in the
streets. The aim is to change the balance between car dominance
and the use of the streets for living
IHIE (Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers), June 2002.
Ref: Images taken by author.
6. INTRODUCTION 5
Key benefits of Home zones include:
• Providing children with a safe environment in which to play
within the close vicinity of their homes.
• Increasing the social domain by reclaiming residential streets
into valued public spaces and rediscovering a sense of
community.
• Reducing crime, a consequence of more residents and time
spent within their streets is the increase in natural surveillance,
which acts as a deterrent to potential crimes. Any reduction in crime
or the perceived threat of crime will encourage further
residents to find enjoyment in their streets, thus establishing a Images of Milford St, Southville HZ, Bristol
virtuous circle that aids the whole community. Before and after the application of the
concept.
• Reducing the dominance of the car and promoting
sustainable modes of transport such as walking, cycling and public
transport.
This way the community is also contributing to producing a cleaner
environment through the reduction in congestion, noise pollution
and carbon emissions through lower car usage.
• Lowering social segregation of older and less able members
of the community by facilitating greater social interaction.
• Improving the general well being of residents and increasing
the quality of their lives.
Ref: Bristol University, Southville HZ: An independent survey.
7. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 6
History of Home zones.
The theoretical beginnings of HZ’s can be traced back to the report Traffic in Towns (1963) written by Colin Buch-
anan. The report was a study of traffic in urban areas within the U.K. In 1959 the Ministry of Transport of the United
Kingdom (U.K) hired Buchanan to investigate the issue of improving urban transport, by reducing congestion and
coming to terms with the car.
An Architect and Engineer, he developed an innovative idea by distinguishing the conflict between providing for
easy traffic flow and the breakdown of the residential and architectural fabric of our streets. Buchanan and his team
developed a technique for evaluating and restructuring urban traffic systems into specific zones, called
Environmental areas.
These were different to conventional streets, as the volume of traffic that flowed through them would depend on
their function. Streets would not only be classified by the volume of traffic that they could accommodate, but also
by environmental aspects such as noise, pollution, social activity, pedestrianisation and visual aesthetics.
These environmental elements would be used in setting the standards and limitations, creating some Environmental
areas where pedestrians and vehicles were segregated and others, which permitted the safe mix of both pedestrians
and motorists in the street.
Initially the ideas of ‘traffic integration’ and ‘traffic calming’ in the environmental zones were not well received by the
government as they ran counter to existing polices of promoting economic development through road construction
and railway improvements.
The report re-surfaced in the late 1970’s when the government combined the departments of the Ministry of Transport
and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government into the new Department of the Environment. This provided the
first opportunity to address both land and transportation issues as a single entity, however changes were still slow to
appear.
8. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 7
It was mainland Europe who went on to adopt the theories devised from Buchanan’s report. Germany, Denmark,
Sweden and in particular Holland embraced many of the ideas, referring to Buchanan as ‘the father of traffic calming’.
In Holland the Traffic for towns report inspired Nick De Boer, Professor of Urban Planning at Deflt University of
technology and the University of Emmen.
Attempting to bridge the contradiction of streets as places of children’s play alongside the usage of cars, he
developed the notion of Buchanan’s concept of co-existence as a possible solution. Buchanan designed streets that
gave motorists the impression that they were entering a garden setting; forcing drivers to consider other road users,
where design of the physical space promoted equality amongst all users rather than just the flow of traffic. De Boer
renamed the street a Woonerf, or “residential yard”.
Plan view of the shared space of a
Woonerf, pedestrians and vehicles
share the same space, which is
designed to slow traffic and to
support play and social activities.
1. Clear marked entry.
5
2 2. Sitting area/bench.
3. Bend in driving lane.
4. Parking space.
1 3 5. Planters and trees.
4
0m 20m
Scale
Ref: Sketch authors own, applied from Streets and the shaping of towns and cities, M.Southworth & E. Ben-joseph
9. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 8
At this time in 1969 the Municipality of Delft had been considering redesigning and improving road surfaces
in inner city locations and selected De Boers ideas for a collection of poorer areas where more child play
areas were needed, but none existed. With the participation of local residents, the design incorporated pave-
ments and road surfaces into one shared space, creating the impression of a yard. Trees, planting and street
furniture such as benches further enhanced the space.
The Delft scheme proved a great success and with the development of guidelines by the Ministry of Transport and
Public Works in the form of a set of minimum design standards and traffic regulations for the Woonerf, legislation by
the Dutch government in 1976 resulted in the idea spreading throughout the Netherlands.
These guidelines were subsequently adopted and legalised in the creation of shared street spaces in Germany of the
same year, Sweden and Denmark 1977, France 1979 and Switzerland in 1982. All of these countries used different
terminology to describe their own particular form of Woonerf, in Germany its called Verkehrsberuhigung, Ggade in
Denmark and of course a HZ in the U.K.
Woonerf streetscapes below.
Delft, Holland. Rijswijk, Holland. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ref from left: Woonerf: A Dutch residential landscape, Colin Hand. 2 x images Reconciling people, places & transport, Ben Hamilton-Baillie.
10. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 9
Development of Home zones in the U.K.
Innovative schemes existed in the U.K which adopted the principles of the shared space during the 1970’s such
as Worthington St in Leicester funded by an urban renewal programme for inner city sites and Brow in Runcorn,
Cheshire where grant monies from Cheshire Design Aid installed a shared surface scheme to replicate the aesthetic
of a country lane.
However from these initial pioneering projects, many local authorities were unwilling to proceed with such develop-
ments due to the lack of legislation and uncertainty over the legal liability in cases of accidents involving pedestrians
and motorists, who were unsure how to use the spaces.
Mike Biddulph in Homezones: A planning and design handbook 2003 describes the work of Barbara Preston, an
academic and road safety campaigner as the person to first use the phrase HZ in her 1992 article ‘Cutting
pedestrian casualties: Cost effective ways to make walking safer’.
In the report Preston attempted to readdress the high level of accidents and fatalities of pedestrians, especially
children in the close vicinity of their homes and establish safer play areas for them, advocating the introduction of
legislation, which made accidents involving pedestrians the liability of drivers in designated HZ streets.
The Brow, Runcorn
(1969)
Worthington Street,
Leicester (1986)
Ref: For both images Home zones: A planning and design handbook, Mike Biddulph.
11. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 10
The increase in car ownership was creating conditions within
residential streets that were becoming dominated by passing traffic
and parked cars. The principles of HZ’s were seen as a method of
reducing this dominance and improving the quality of life of residents
within their streets.
Pressure for legislation came from a variety of voluntary organisations
and resident groups who sought a common cause concerning the
condition of residential streets, traffic priority, quality of design, the
environment and safer places for children’s outdoor play.
Prime supporters and lobbyists of the HZ concept were the Children’s
Play Council who recognised the potential to improve safer streets
for children’s play, resident groups such as Methleys Neighbourhood
Action supported by Transport 2000 and Sutrans, both independent
national bodies concerned with sustainable transport.
In the example of Methleys, Leeds 1996 the neighbourhood action
group with the aid of a local arts grant purchased rolls of turf and laid it
out on their street over a weekend inviting local media, councillors and
residents to experience an environment that illustrated the effects of a
street with reduced traffic priority.
Two images of Methleys, Leeds where
residents turfed their street to
promote the wish to improve their
environment (1996).
Ref: Home zones: A planning and design handbook.
12. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 11
In an action proposed to reduce the severity of accidents involving pedestrians and motorists, legislation was
introduced in June 1999 providing local councils with the ability to introduce 20mph speed limits within areas of their
authority without requiring government approval from the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the
Regions.
“The creation of sensible, self enforcing 20mph speed limits and 20 mph zones has been highly successful in
lowering traffic speeds and reducing the number of road accident casualties. This latest move will free up
bureaucracy surrounding 20mph speed limits and will mean safer streets for our children”
Lord Witty, the then Transport Minister.
With continued lobbying, increased awareness and government support, the Transport White paper ‘A New Deal for
Transport (1998) proposed new initiatives which enabled the government to liaise with local authorities throughout the
U.K to proceed with the construction of 14 HZ pilot schemes, nine in England and Wales, four in Scotland and one
in Northern Ireland in August 1999. No statutory funding was provided, but as the schemes progressed they were
monitored and evaluated to produce the first guidance reports on the planning and processes involved in adapting
the principles of the HZ concept in new and existing streets. The inception of the pilot schemes resulted in the
legislation allowing local authorities additional power to designate streets within their areas as HZ and was passed in
the Transport Act 2000.
The publications included from the Department of Transport the Traffic Advisory leaflets 10/01 Home zones – planning
and Design (Dec 2001) and 8/02 Home zones – Public participation (Dec 2002) which were produced to provide
guidance to the professions involved in the planning and progression of HZ’s and a campaign video aimed at both
professionals and residents to explain the essence of the concept using case studies from the Netherlands.
A HZ is a residential area where the street is designed to change the way the street is used to improve the quality of
life of residents so they can talk to their neighbours, play, walk, and cycle safely in the streets. The aim is to change
the balance between car dominance of streets and the use for streets for living.
Department for Transport, 2001.
13. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 12
Through a study conducted by the Commission for
Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) it became
clear there existed deep-rooted institutional and cultural
obstructions to developing high quality residential street
environments as outlined in ‘Paving the Way – how to
achieve clean, safe and attractive Streets’ (CABE 2002).
These included:
• The prevailing bias in favour of motorist’s interests in
government highway and design guidance,
• The consequent exclusion of other street users interest in
government guidance and the way streets are
managed,
• A shortage of design expertise in the various professions
who have responsibility for streets, and
• The failure of the utility companies to acknowledge their
responsibility in maintaining quality streetscapes.
Ref: Cover of CABE’s Paving the way - how to achieve clead, safe and attractive streets, authors own edition.
14. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 13
The new legal status of HZ’s led to highway engineers demanding guidance notes. Home zone Design Guidelines
(2002) by the Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers. This publication was oriented towards the engineering
concerns in developing HZ’s rather than the planning processes and relied heavily on the Dutch
Woonerf’s.
This proved a defining moment as highway engineers realised that past methods had helped to stifle innovation,
prevent the discovery of safe solutions and encouraged the dominance of the car. It also exposed the irrelevance
of a previous dimension rationale relating to safer roads such as liberal corner radii.
On the work of the guidelines and the original pilot schemes, 2002 saw the creation of the Home zone Challenge
Fund set up by the government, which proposed to inject a further £30 million of investment to HZ projects with the
aim of advancing on previous schemes as a means of:
• Producing a greater depth of knowledge in the implementation of HZ’s than from the first pilot schemes, which
instructed “how best to actively involve
• local community interests” (DfT, 2001)
• And to assess the viability of the concept when applied to other regions throughout the country.
This resulted in 110 authorities submitting for a total of 237 schemes for a final 61 successful applications to be
announced in and around the United Kingdom.
15. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 14
This resulted in 110 authorities submitting for a total of 237 schemes for a final 61 successful applications to be
announced in and around the United Kingdom.
With concern that the concept was not being fully applied within the U.K as in Holland with designated 10mp
speed limits, Mark Lararowicz proposed the Safety Bill in June of 2003 permitting local authorities to establish
10mph speed limits, which resulted in the first and only 10mph speed limit at Morice Town, Plymouth.
The monitoring and evaluation of the new schemes produced the 2005 document Home Zones – Challenging the
future of our streets (Department of Transport).
This report illustrated that the concept could adapt and work in various locations around the country and wasn’t
applicable to mainland Europe only. This point was reinforced with the video Homezones: The U.K Experience,
which displayed the evolution of the concept within the U.K.
Images of Pentamar St Community space and
Charlotte St gateway of Morice Town HZ.
Ref: Images, Home Zone Design Guidlines, Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers.
16. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS 15
Principles and Design considerations of Home zones.
Introducing a HZ requires a distinct approach to street design. Mentioned below are factors used to assist the
design process to create a HZ scheme. These elements have been obtained from the works conducted on
completed U.K pilot and Challenge projects and the experience gained from the Dutch Woonerf streetscapes. They
are intentionally minimal to avoid becoming prescriptive and cover the essential topics that need to be addressed.
“The design of a HZ is crucial to achieving the low speeds that are necessary for the scheme to be successful
and for the activities to take place safely”
Homezones, Challenging the future of our streets, 2005.
Attractive and clear landscapes.
In the construction of a HZ, street clutter of signs and
unnecessary street furniture should be kept to a
minimum.
Any feature proposed for traffic calming or
landscaping should become part of a unified street,
which is considered in relation to the street scene as a
whole.
Project in Rijswijk, Holland demonstrates a simple
uncluttered streetscape.
Ref: Image courtesy of Graham Smith.
17. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS 16
GATEWAYS.
A key component in the success of a HZ is the reduction in speed limits of vehicles. In mainland Europe the HZ
principle has progressed to the extent that the majority of the urban population takes for granted the existence of
reduced speed limits in residential streets, removing the need for a formalised gateway and standardised signage.
In the U.K the concept originally proposed that speed limits follow a hierarchal structure of gradual reduction from
30mph on main roads, 20mph on roads surrounding homezones and 10mph within it.
However the inability to replicate this model, through a lack of formalized legislation to provide consistency of
these speed limits makes the gateway an integral element of HZ success.
By establishing recognized gateways at entry and exit points you are defining a different environment and making
motorists aware that greater caution and a reduction in speed is required.
Gateway to one of
Five Roads HZ,
West Ealing,
London.
Gateway to
Southville, Bristol.
Ref: Southville HZ image from Bristol University indepenent evaluation.
18. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS 17
MOVEMENT.
An element in the philosophy of the HZ is providing space where pedestrians, cyclists and drivers occupy a space
at a relatively similar speed. The introduction of a shared surface between property boundaries and removing the
definitions of the pavement and highway forces the motorists to negotiate the space with greater caution.
The balancing of speeds between street users allows for safer and improved movement for pedestrians. This
enables space to be reclaimed not just for enhanced movement, but also for other uses such as child’s play.
The vertical surfaces of the vehicle path have been reduced except at selected points where cars have to pass each
other to the width of a single car, restricting the flow of traffic. Different textures and colours have been applied to
the vertical surface to denote passages intended for vehicle use.
More frequently used are horizontal structures of trees, planters, bollards and street furniture to break the drivers
line of vision through the street and create deflections in the linear surface to force the motorist to consider their
movements and speed more carefully, leading to an overall reduction in traffic speeds. It is essential when
designing these interventions to consider and consult with local utility service providers such as waste removal
trucks and emergency services to ensure access and movement is not inhibited.
Traffic calming measures in streetscape. A
A. Horizontal deflections in highway (example chicanes).
B. Vertical shift in highway such as humps, cushions, ramps etc. B C
C. Highway restrictions which restrict traffic flow.
D. Small Corner radii.
D E
E. Unclear junction priorities which rely on driver eye contact.
F. Changes in colour and texture of highway surfaces.
Ref: Sketches authors own applied from Home zones: A planning and design handbook.
19. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS 18
PARKING.
Parking is a major concern to residents of potential HZ
projects. Parking spaces may already be at a premium and
concept relating to reduce car reliance by reducing parking
bays may be keenly contested.
Approaches to resolve the issue have been to efficiently
manage the allocation of spaces by implementing methods
such as echelon parking, with its reduced or variable
parking bay widths, it allows for larger numbers of vehicles to
be parked.
A positive consequence of creating high quality street
environments is the uncertainty it generates to motorists
living outside the scheme, who being unsure whether the site
is public or private space and therefore less likely to use it for
all day parking.
LIGHTING
The level and quality of lighting is important to providing
feelings of safety and security. Lighting should be located to
illuminate speed-reducing features at night, while care should
be taken to reduce intrusive light and avoid light
pollution.
Plan view displaying selection of configurations in the arrangement of parking spaces.
Ref: Sketches authors own applied from Home zone: Design Guidelines, IHIE.
20. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS 19
FACILITATING PLAY
A major aim in establishing HZ’s is providing areas for children to play safely. These could be introduced with formal
or informal play areas. Formal arrangements could be set within a defined space containing a variety of play
equipment located with good natural surveillance and not posing a nuisance to neighbouring residents. The
inclusion of formal play has in some schemes generated a negative response from residents concerned about the
gathering of older children. To counter this, informal play areas can be created through the use of street furniture
or unusually shaped bollards that allow the children to use their own imagination together with the increased social
domain of the shared street space.
BLIND & DISABLED
With the momentum gained from the development of pilot and challenge schemes, the removal of the traditional
street setting of a defined pavement and highway in favour of a shared surface has resulted in a conflict from
parties supporting the partially sighted and the blind members of the community. With the shared surface they have
lost tools aiding their safe movement and have confused guide dogs trained to recognise the defined setting.
Several groups have called for the removal of the shared surface principle and in some case this has been required,
but hasn’t distracted from the concept of the shared space. In the development at Ashford in Surrey of the Public
Realm Shared Space Project, a strategy of incorporating textured corduroy paving units with informal pedestrian
pathways within the shared surface environment has enabled partially sighted and blind people to efficiently walk
from one destination to the next.
Ben Hamiliton-Baillie in his recent talk on shared spaces at the London branch of the Landscape Institute
suggested that although many groups had become entrenched in the public view on their objection, identifying and
closely liaising with individuals and groups through the implementing stages of schemes can result in a
compromise to satisfy both parties and continue the progression of the scheme.
The same level of communication is required when approaching the needs of people with other disabilities. The
Department of Transport has funded research into making the schemes fully accessible and safe for disabled
residents while retaining the concept of the shared space.
21. IMPLEMENTATION 20
Implementation of Home zones.
“Community involvement and participation are essential within the design process if results are to be valued by
residents. Create pride and ownership”
Home zone: Planning and Design Handbook (2002), Mike Biddulph.
HZ’s are being used to improve community cohesion by bringing residents together to increase the quality of the
environment within their residential streets.
Resident involvement is primary to the success any proposed HZ, as expressed by Ben Hamilton-Baillie when
describing his observations studying the concept of HZ’s in mainland Europe.
In his study report Home zones: Reconciling people, places and transport, he recognised that no one HZ street
resembled the other, all had common features such as shared surfaces, the use of trees, planting and street fur-
niture to define and screen street parking, the use of bollards and street lighting to define a space, and the use of
simple gateways at entry points. But the use of these features was different in every case due to involvement of
the local residents in the design process.
The most successful HZ within the U.K have occurred from following the Dutch approach to involving local
residents with the various stages of project implementation.
Resident commitment, consultation and involvement are vital aspects; the full support of the local community is
fundamental to the development of a proposed scheme within any existing residential street. The consultation of
residents will allow the project to contain realistic desires and requirements of the community for their potential
streetscape.
22. IMPLEMENTATION 21
Allowing for continual and transparent dialogue with residents from the start of a project will reduce any potential
misunderstandings and objections between professionals and local authorities with the local community, which
may later delay project progression.
Outside facilitators can aid the planning process for a HZ by understanding and reassuring residents about
development issues, community planning techniques and providing expertise concerning highway, landscape and
urban design. This will help overcome any fears residents have about the scheme being forced upon them by local
authorities and sustain their commitment as well as promoting an inspired and responsive project.
The planning process should seek to consult, provide support and encourage the contribution of positive feedback
from minority members of the community who are unsure or doubtful of the benefits from environmental
improvements to their neighbourhood, on the grounds of social exclusion or immobility. These include children and
young adults, socially disadvantaged people, the elderly, ethnic minorities and disabled residents.
Very few residents will possess the ability to decipher two-dimensional plans and drawing details illustrating their
environment. Proposed HZ schemes should be presented using methods and tools easily related to the
community.
These can involve models to illustrate the concept, interactive computer simulations, which provide human-scale
walk through perspectives or full scale mock-ups, set up in the street on organised fun days to offer a tangible idea
of the benefits from the proposal. All these methods help with raising the awareness of utilising the streets space,
while unconsciously enhancing community spirit.
23. APPRAISAL OF COMPLETED HOME ZONE PROJECTS 22
Appraisal of completed Home zone projects.
One of the primary aims of the 2002 Home Zone Challenge scheme was to monitor and evaluate the various factors
that contributed to the successful implementation and establishment of a project, to learn lessons and help ensure
a smoother trajectory through the different phases by minimising previous errors. The 2005 document Home zones:
Challenging our street (DfT) was marketed as supplying the evidence and evaluations of the 61 approved schemes
around the U.K to assess HZ implementation and level of success in applying the concept from mainland Europe.
Unfortunately the monitoring of schemes proved irregular due to the lack of funds made available for their collation
and naivety from highway engineers who underestimated how long it would take for schemes to progress. Of the 61
projects only 39 were able to provide responses.
The Home zone challenge scheme identified from the outset a defined variety of objectives that would be used to
assess the impact of the HZ concept on their prescribed streetscapes and residing community. The objectives
identified were:
• Reduced vehicle speeds.
• Reduced real/perceived crime.
• Safer play for children
• Improvement in environmental quality.
• Enhanced community cohesion.
These objectives were quantified by conducting before and after surveys of traffic speeds/volumes, frequency of
accidents and questionnaires from residents to seek opinions on the general consensus concerning HZ intervention.
By illustrating several case studies of completed projects I hope to expose the levels of success or failure generated
within schemes that monitored the objectives described.
24. APPRAISAL OF COMPLETED HOME ZONE PROJECTS 23
Reduced vehicle speeds.
Of the responding completed schemes from the Home Zone Challenge, over 50% noted a fall in traffic speeds of
between 10 and 15 mph. The lowest mean speed of 6mph being recorded in the Northam HZ in Southampton. The
table below compiled by Tim Gill in his 2005 paper The Home zones movement in the U.K: history, progress and
prospects compiled figures from 41 schemes before and after the implementation of a home zone and supports
previous evidence of reduced speeds. Although success can be claimed in lowering the speed limits of the greater
percentage the vehicles moving through designated 20mph HZ areas and reducing a correlating number of accidents
involving pedestrians and cyclists, the majority of vehicles still travel over the initial target speed of 10mph,
weakening the claim of imposing safer streets for children as expressed in Woonerf interventions.
Reduced real/perceived crime.
Evidence from crime statistics indicates that there are reductions in crime
levels following the intervention of a HZ. The turn around in some schemes
has been dramatic, with Morice Town in Plymouth reporting 92 crimes
between 2001-02 and in the following year after completion of their project,
just nine crimes were registered, a drop of 90%.
At Ashston West End, Tameside, Manchester, it was disclosed that domestic
burglary was down 80% and car crime reduced by 50%. A key element in the
improvements was not only to reduce crimes, but also the perception of crime
through improved lighting and security provision, so creating an environment
less attractive to potential criminals.
Mean speed mph <10 10-15 15-20 20+ Don’t know
Mean speed kmh <17 17-25 25-34 34+
Ashton West End, Tameside,
No of Schemes (41) 4 15 15 2 5 Manchester HZ.
Ref: Image fron The home zones movement in the U.K: History, progress and prospects.
25. APPRAISAL OF COMPLETED HOME ZONE PROJECTS 24
Safer play for children.
As previously stated, the intended reduction of car speeds to 10mph has
been very rarely achieved.
This appears to express itself in the varied response received in the desired
goal of improving safety of children’s play and extending the social domain
to encourage greater diversity of activities.
In cases such as Camden in London, 82% of residents said that more
children were playing in the street as a result of their home zone and in the
Southville HZ scheme, Bristol, when residents replied to the question ‘Are
streets safer for children’s play?’ in an independent survey conducted by
Bristol University on the behalf of the local authority, 88% of residents who
replied said yes.
But again using the research of Tim Gill, a study into the impact on children’s
outdoor play delivers a mixed message. Of the 41 projects evaluated, 21
believed the level of outdoor play had increased, while 9 said it was about
the same and 11 didn’t know.
There could be numerous reasons behind these discrepancies such as loca-
tion of projects, introductions of barriers to prevent rat running, but it is still
recognised that over half of evaluated projects produced positive results and
may suggest more work is required during the planning process of proposed
schemes.
Children enjoying safe play in the
street. Lumpton Street, Camden,
London.
Ref: Images authors own and from report Reviewing home U.K home zone initiatives, Mike Biddulph.
26. APPRAISAL OF COMPLETED HOME ZONE PROJECTS 25
Improvement in environmental quality.
When evaluating the enhancement of the residential streetscape within a HZ, every project reported positively to
the change of their environment. This was partly due to the sympathetic design, high quality use of materials, the
softening of the streets with the establishment of trees and planters and the considered placement of street
furniture to create an inviting and attractive space in which to reside.
This change in ambiance has helped form the notion that the improvement of the environment has a direct effect
on generating a positive effect on residents health and well being, adding to a raised morale and community spirit.
The HZ also provides a safe location for walkers and cyclists who can take advantage of the improved links to go
about their daily routine.
From left to right. Bespoke mobile planters/bench in Suothville, Bristol. Mosaic bench in Lupton St, Camden.
Raised timber planters in Porchester, Hampshire. Cycling bays/planters in Cavendish Rd, Kingston.
Ref: Images authors own bar Southville and Porchester from Home zones: Challenging our Streets, Department for Transport.
27. APPRAISAL OF COMPLETED HOME ZONE PROJECTS 26
Enhanced Community cohesion.
In the majority of HZ developments there has been the reawakening of community spirit, the whole implementation
process from the initial design to the final handover had generated communication that bound the community
together, as in the example of the Five Roads Forum, a resident group from West Ealing home zone in London.
“It was the initial common cause of improving our streets that revealed the more important aspect of regaining
neighbourliness”
Five Roads Forum resident.
In a few instances, members of the same community contested decisions on particular elements of a proposed
scheme. This resulted in frictions, which remained after the completion of the project, tainting the notion of creating
an enhanced community.
These instances were partly due to the break down of communication during the consultation stage and a poor
delivery of information to residents, highlighting the need for professionals maintain clear concise dialogue and
realistic ambitions to residents.
However in the main, the reclaiming of the streets for child’s play and other activities has raised the frequency of
encounters between residents, contributing with a sense of ownership and pride from defining their own
neighbourhood and generating a real sense of community.
28. FUTURE OF HOME ZONES 27
Future of Home zones.
Momentum behind the advancement of HZ’s is rising continually, along with a number of organisations advocating
the development of projects. The points outlined below highlight the areas which need to be considered if HZ’s
are to be more widely accepted within the U.K.
Funding
For retrofit schemes, there needs to be a greater understanding of the planning processes involved in their
development. The huge disparity in final costs per street metre in the completed Challenge scheme projects
highlights the varied interpretation made of the concept by the various local authorities around the country and
their application of it.
Since the completion of the Challenge scheme projects there have been no additional statutory investment. With
the high cost of retrofit schemes, government and local authourity assistance would be vital, but in the current
economic climate this aid will be hard to find.
The completed projects have provided a demonstration of the benefits of adapting the urban environment to the
principles of the Woonerf ideal and the attractive lifestyle it generates for its community. These advancements
in improving the quality of life for residents are evident visually and through evaluated research, which has been
recognised by private sector and developers. It is the private sector, whose investment will now govern the
continuation of the HZ concept in future developments.
29. FUTURE OF HOME ZONES 28
STRATEGY
The inclusion of a HZ to an urban environment can contribute to its overall transport strategy and begin to
enable residents to reconsider their approach to the ways in which they travel. The ideology focused on
improving the quality of life of the community within its residential streets, encourages residents to redefine the
previously ingrained notion through post war planning that streets are the priority of the motorcar and other uses
are secondary.
Through studying the progression of the Woonerf, its home zone cousin can become part of a broader strategy,
which leads residents to enrich their environments and move towards more sustainable forms of transport away
from the dependency of the car.
The home zone can act as a node in a series of links that creates a safe infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians
to move within the urban environment and provide a secure point from which young children can learn the skills to
benefit from such networks. Bike pools, health walks, community bike rides and maintenance-training workshops
all help to promote healthy, sustainable transport.
Initiatives such as Travelsmart provide advice and support to households to change personal travel behaviour and
in Southville, Bristol there was a 7% increase in walking journeys, 22% increase in cycling trips and 18% rise in
residents using public transport.
30. FUTURE OF HOMEZONES 29
PROMOTION
Promotion is integral to development of the HZ concept in the U.K. In Holland the principal is widely taken for
granted in residential areas and the community understands how to use the spaces correctly.
In the U.K however the concept is relatively new and only a minority of people are aware of its availability, the ma-
jority having experience of just the highway and pavement for their streets.
National government and local authorities need to support the HZ concept in key policy statements, in revisions to
the Highway Code and Driving test and through concise research, which illustrates the benefits from introducing
home zone schemes.
Local authorities could train officers to become dedicated in promoting and developing schemes, whilst
having the knowledge and tools to assist interested groups.
31. FUTURE OF HOMEZONES 30
NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND THE PLANNING SYSTEM
The principles that make a HZ should be adopted by the development of new residential or mixed used schemes.
The economics involving the inception of a project are lower within a new build than with retrofit schemes and even
though the consultation process is removed from new developments, there exist successful examples from the
pilot and challenge schemes that provide sufficient precedent.
Foreword thinking developers are already incorporating the ethos in the knowledge of how it appeals to the general
public in prioritising the values of the community and the commercial advantage it entails. For developers to be
able to progress with projects the planning system needs to be formulated to aid their quicker facilitation, by
removing bureaucratic barriers.
Local authority departments of highway engineers, planners and legislation involved in the planning and design of
HZ’s need to fully comprehend the principles and amend polices in their development plans to help deliver
successful schemes.
This includes amending previous residential design guidance and highway standards to include the HZ ideal and
be prepared to provide planning permission to innovative proposals rather then forcing developers to fall back to
traditional street settings.
32. CONCLUSION 31
With regard to the retrofit HZ schemes involving existing residential streets, the achille’s heel lies in the expense of
Implementation of schemes. The last Governmental investment was for the Challenge scheme nine years ago at a
transition of party power and a current time of recession additional assistance looks slim. At an average of £1000 per
square metre to install a retrofit project, the financial costs when compared to the supposed benefits are unfortunately
questioned. As rewards of rediscovering and enhancing local communities are long term qualitative benefits, rather
than short term quantitative results, the aim of delivering the HZ concept is often blurred between the total embracing
of the principles and the addition of traffic calming measures such as a few speed bumps, which provide a cheaper
option and return quick responses in lower traffic speeds and accidents. A possible solution devised by Sustrans is
DIY Streets, where a shopping basket of measures delivering the ethos of a HZ is provided to individual residential
streets, which depending on budget can select options to transform their environments. This is still a relatively new
approach and could be the answer to continue the momentum of the good work already achieved, so its progress will
have to be monitored.
What the initiatives of the pilot and Challenge schemes have achieved is to prove that the ideas adopted from the
Dutch Woonerf model are applicable within the U.K. and that the concept does what it tenders, by reducing traffic
speeds, lowering accidents involving pedestrians, creating safer play for children and improving the cohesion of com-
munities. Both of which are possible parts of the solution to tackle child obesity and broach the tensions that occur in
a Multi-cultural society living on top of one another.
Where the HZ application of the U.K may have its biggest affect is focusing the answer for providing sustainable
transport solutions. The HZ by principle reduces the dependency of the car by improving opportunities for walking
and cycling. It then becomes a hub providing a safe point where tomorrows generation can develop the skills to ben-
efit and hopefully take for granted an infrastructure of link to other reclaimed sections of the social domain.
The main barrier to the success of the HZ concept is the inability to install a hierarchy of speed limits around and up to
designated areas. This is a failure on the part, or lack of stringent legislation, however with the increasing number of
Prestigious new developments adopting the HZ principles and the guidance taken from the innovative transport
Policies in countries like Holland, Denmark and Germany, the home zone is a demonstration set to become part of
broader policy of expanding the social domain to the boundary of urban areas by reducing overall traffic speeds,
volumes and dominance of the vehicle within our towns and making spaces increasingly permeable and safer for the
pedestrian and cyclists alike.
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in the Netherlands, Built Environment, 1986. WEBSITES.
13. Royal Dutch Touring Club, The Hague, 1977. 1. www.homezones.org.uk.
14. Traffic calming through intregrated traffic
calming, H.G.Vahl, 1990. VIDEO.
15. The child in the city, C.Ward, 1978. 1. Homezones: The U.K Experiance (policy press 2003).
16. Landscapes fpr learning: Creating outdoor
environments for children and Youth, S.Stine, Talks.
1997. 1. Ben Hamilton-Baillie and Lindsey Whitelaw
on Shared Spaces at London Branch of
Landscape Institute, May, 2009.
34. APPENDIX 33
Home zone Pilot projects in the U.K. 12
The Fourteen Pilot Schemes.
13
1. Cavell Way, Swale, Kent.
2. Nobel Road, Clifton, Nottingham. 11
3. Magnor Vllage, Monmouthshire.
4. Morice Town, Plymouth.
5. New England, Peterborough. 10
6. Northmoor, Manchester.
7. The Methleys, Leeds.
8. Five Roads, West Ealing, London
9. Holmewood, Lambeth, London.
10. The Caleys, Edingborough. 14
11. Former Dundee Royal Infirmary, 7
Constitution Road, Dundee.
6
12. Ormlie, Caithness and sutherland.
13. Tillydrone, Aberdeen.
2
14. Long Streets, Belfast.
5
3
8 9
1
4
35. APPENDIX 34
Challenge home zone projects in the U.K.
The Sixty one Challenge Schemes.
1. Albany St, Hull. 22. Lupton St, Camden. 43. Addison Cresent, Trafford.
2. Morrside Estate, Kirklees. 23. Deptford Green, Greenwich. 44. Ashton West End, Tameside.
3. Crosby, Scunthorpe. 24. Cavendish Rd, Kingston, London. 45. Wardleworth, Rochdale.
4. Littlemoor, Leeds. 25. Cranberry Estate, Newham. 46. Victoria Lane Estate, Bury.
5. Castle Gove, Porchester. 26. Sutherland Sq, Southwark. 47. Bidston Avenue, St Helens.
6. Radcliffe Rd, Southampton. 27. Cowpen Quay, Northumberland. 48. Browning St, Wigan.
7. Town Farm Estate, East Hailsham. 28. Pately Moor, Darlington. 49. Pitts Farm, Erdington.
8. Heathfield Avenue, Dover 29. Tyne Park, Gateshead. 50. Lower Mileshouse, Staffs.
(ABANDONED) 30. Gresham, Middlesborough. 51. Wilmot Drive, Newcastle.
9. Northcourt Estate, Denton. 31. The Triangle, North Shields. 52. West Woodside, Telford.
10. North-West Bognor Regis 32. Cleadon Park, North Shields. 53. Three Tuns, Woolverhampton.
11. Kingsbridge Rd, Reading. 33. Talboert & Brunswick, 54. Duke of Edingborough Way,
12. Saxton Rd, Abingdon Blackpool. Malvern.
Oxfordshire. 35. Oldham Estate, Oldham. 55. Albert Avenue, Peasdon.
13. Haymarket Green, Luton. 36. Egerton St, Chester. 56. St John Malvern, Bath.
14. New England, Peterborough. 37. Burnley, Lancashire. (CANCELLED)
15. Cambridge Rd, Suffolk. 38. Poulton, Morcombe. 57. Southville, Bristol.
16. Cavell Rd, Norwich. 39. Dundonald & Methusen St, 58. North Close Estate, Redruth.
17. Kennington Rd, Nottingham. Wirrel. 59. Wonford, Exeter.
18. Normanton, Derby. 40. Grafton St, Liverpool. 60. Morice Town, Plymouth.
20. Linden Rd, Haringey. 41. Whitecross, Warrington. 61. Westliegh, Warminister.
21. Rookery Gardens, Bromley. 42. Whitecross, Warrington.