Public Space: What is the Future with Limited Funding?
23 May 2012 | Branch: Southern, South Eastern, Thames & Chilterns, Greater London, East Anglia
A Greater London Branch SEMINAR
From 1.30 pm (Seminar 2.00 – 5.00 pm)
Venue: Imperial College Lecture Theatre 201 or 207/208 combined; Centre for Transport Studies;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Skempton Building, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ
As public space and better streets are increasingly the focus of the public and designers, we ask the question “what is the future of remaking of the public space with limited funding and budgets?” Public spaces and better streets have complex spatial, environmental and social dynamics, yet in attempting to reduce car dominance and enhance public realm traffic engineers and urban designers are moving away from highly engineered, tightly regulated and expensively controlled streets that separate different classes of users.
Speakers: Mahmood Siddiqi, David Ubaka,(Head of Design (Urban Realm) at TfL.),Stuart Reid (MVA),
Luke Barber (Suffolk CC), Finlay McNab (SUSTRANS)
Mahmood Siddiqi
Mahmood is the Bi-Borough Director for Transportation and Highways for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. He was responsible for delivering the Exhibition Road project and has been instrumntal in developing the streetscape policies for the Royal Borough.
Luke Barber is a Senior Road Safety Engineer working for Suffolk County Council.
His early professional life was spent in process design and engineering sales in the oil industry. In 2004 he decided on a change of career direction and joined the Highways team at Suffolk County Council. He also added a BSc in Technology Management and a Foundation Degree in Civil Engineering to his CV during this period. At Suffolk County Council Luke has led a team of designers implementing road safety and improvement schemes throughout the county.
Of these schemes, the Hamilton Road Shared Space project has been the most interesting and rewarding to date. He managed the project from inception, through design and construction to the completion of the final scheme.
Finlay McNab
The presentation will introduce and detail the Sustrans’ ‘DIY streets’ initiative. It will provide a short background and inspiration for the project, showcase a number of case studies and present some evaluation undertaken. It will also discuss the future direction of the project and it relevance within the current policy context.
Finlay holds a Masters qualification in Urban Design and is a UDG Recognised Practitioner. He has over a decade of relevant experience from the public, private and the voluntary sectors spanning master planning, regeneration, and public realm design. In his current role, Finlay leads on Urban Design for Sustrans’ ‘DIY streets’, a project which facilitates communities to re-design their streets and public spaces. He is responsible for preparing designs and taking them from first concepts to detailed design through a collaborative process with the community and partner organisations.
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Six months after the completion of the refurbished Exhibition Road, Mahmood Siddiqi will recap on the obstacles that were overcome to deliver this project and share some of the initial findings from the post-construction monitoring.
This seminar will cover:
Overcoming obstacles in delivering shared public space
Valuing public realm and the future for the design of public spaces
Helping communities to redesign their streets?
Developing shared space with constrained funding