Diarmaid Lawlor Head of Urbanism, A+DS

Architecture+DesignScotland Steve Tiesdell lecture

How do good places come about? Responses to factors of change and process

How do good places come about? Responses to factors of change and process

Ibjurg, Netherlands Complete neighbourhood of 20,000 homes, with everything library, parks, activities, sports activities/centres, schools , built on artificial islands in east Amsterdam

PLACE PROMOTER Vision and support coalition

Placemaking Culture

Drive and delivery

An actor based view of change From ‘command and control’ to ‘bargaining and negotiation’

An actor based view of change Cultivating leadership behaviours in a networked world

Leadership capacity

[social /institutional qualities]

Power

Leadership ability [individual personal

qualities] Skill

Vision What kind of place do we want….and how do we get it?

Spatial imagination

“Places need Leaders” Invitation to discuss the why and how of ‘anticipation’ and ‘stewardship’…..

Scottish Block Finance & Demand 2009/10 – 2017/18 (% real terms)

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POLICY TENSIONS People? Place?

PLACE CAPITAL MARKET MAKING MOTIVATIONS

Capacities Abilities vision

The place dimension

• Spatial imagination • Un-evenness • Levels of control: government and governance • Relationships: negotiated, partnership • Formal/ordered v spontaneous • Risk, addressing market failure, fairness

“NEW PARADIGM FOR THE DECADE OF SCRATCHY RECOVERY”

HOPS Conference: the public sector view Rethinking the place story?

DNA/Building blocks Credibility Influence Creativity Responsiveness Humility Consistency

Value based ‘ a set of behaviours-a template to guide

Distributed Leaders at all levels of all relationships Step in/step back

“We trust you and feel trusted” Framework for complex decisions:

Communication and feedback: stories

The power of stories………. Leadership and stewardship

“Space to allow the Scots pine to grow in a forest of giant redwoods”

Capacities Abilities vision

inexperienced

mature

Early adopter

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Tackling leadership abilities………. Understanding people and motivations

Central-local govt eg

regulatory power

Culture eg risk, knowledge,

innovation

Powers eg finance

Governance eg silos, approvals, hollowing

out

Capacities Abilities vision

Use existing powers to shape the market

Make plans and policies sooner and better

Make plans and policies longer term, firmer, more ambitious

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secure new instruments and institutions to shape the market

To provide collective goods in advance

- infrastructure, public, space, transport.

To obtain development site ownership

- powers to obtain ownership and assemble sites

To create spatial frameworks

- more time and resource on upfront thinking and planning

To reduce risk, increase certainty and enhance value

- new institutions to balance the volatile private market

Tackling leadership capacities………. Understanding governance and state-market relations

“we are not creatures of circumstance,

we are the creators of circumstance”