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Design for Urban Living:
Thinking beyond the ‘Red Line’
Sabine Coady Schäbitz Director Collaborative Centre for the Built Environment
R T P I E a s t M i d l a n d s S e m i n a r D E S I G N F O R L I F E 2 5 t h F e b r u a r y 2 0 1 6
Interactive Session
Introduction 5 min
Table Discussions 15 min
Reporting back 15 min
Summary/ Q&A 5 min
Design for Urban Living: Thinking beyond the ‘red line’
Planning for Life 12
Manual for Streets 1+2
Safer Places
Jan Gehl: Life between Buildings
Social Justice
Wellbeing
Suburbia
Civic Pride
Context: Northampton and Northamptonshire
Kings Heath Northampton Adrian Jones’ blog: Jones the Planner http://www.jonestheplanner.co.uk/
Dallington Grange Northampton http://www.dallingtongrange.com/
Dallington Grange + Kings Heath 2007 Vision
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Draft masterplan 2014
Dallington Grange + Kings Heath 2014 Vision http://www.dallingtongrange.com/proposal.html
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Quality of City life
“I want to explore the concept of ‘quality of life’ in cities. My own view can
be stated simply: the quality of life in a city is good when its inhabitants
are capable of dealing with complexity. Conversely, the quality of life in
cities is bad when its inhabitants are capable only of dealing with people
like themselves. Put another way, a healthy city can embrace and make
productive use of the differences of class, ethnicity, and lifestyles it
contains, while a sick city cannot; the sick city isolates and segregates
difference, drawing no collective strength from its mixture of different
people.”
Richard Sennett, from “Why Complexity Improves Quality of City Life,” “Hong Kong: Cities, Health and Well-Being," publication
of the Urban Age Conference, November 2011.
Reflections
How do you judge the shift between the 2007 and 2014 plans for
Dallington Grange with regard to community wellbeing and social
coherence?
Considering both urban extensions – from the 1940s/50s and the
2000s/2010s do you see a need for a different approach considering
neighbourhoods, urban extensions and the overall town? If so, why
and what?
Who do you think are the principle stakeholders to be approached for
any possible change?
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Thank you!
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