CIHT ran an evening lecture & discussion session in London on 10th October.
The aim of the lecture was to take the philosophy developed within Manual for Streets 1 and 2 for creating quality public realm on our streets and considering how it should apply at junctions.
As Manual for Streets 2 says:
'In place terms... junctions can be seen as an opportunity. By definition they are accessible places from several directions, and so tend to be a good location for buildings that attract significant numbers of people, such as shops and public buildings. Junctions are also the most natural way for people to find their way around an area, whether on foot or in a vehicle, and so are a good place for landmark buildings and other distinctive features, such as public art.'
Sometimes these aims can be in conflict with other aims, such as increasing vehicular capacity or addressing road safety concerns.
The session considered the competing objectives of junction design and looked at how they can be reconciled.
Those who attended:
The seminar was also ran as a webinar.
The lecture was held at:
Venue:
Space@119
The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation
119 Britannia Walk
London
N1 7JE
For venue direction, please click here & refer to the ‘Map and Direction to CIHT’ map - please note the Google location map is not clear.
Speakers:
Phil Jones, Managing Director, Phil Jones Associates
Phil Jones is a Chartered Engineer with extensive experience in the planning and design of highway and other infrastructure, with particular expertise in traffic analysis and transport planning associated with new developments. He is the Principal of a UK consultancy, Phil Jones Associates, which combines transport planning, design and research activities. Phil is part of the team that produced Manual for Streets for the DfT, a comprehensive guide to the design of urban and residential streets published in 2007. More recently he worked on national policy/guidance on street design for the Scottish Government, published in 2010 as Designing Streets and was a lead writer on Manual for Streets 2 for CIHT/DfT/CABE. This document extended the principles of MfS to busier urban streets and was published in 2010. Phil specialises in achieving synergy between transport planning and urban design, with the aim of creating places and spaces that meet aesthetic, social and functional aims.
Peter Jones, Professor of Transport & Sustainable Development, Centre for Transport Studies, UCL
Peter Jones is Professor of Transport and Sustainable Development in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London (UCL). He is a member of the UK Independent Transport Commission, the CIHT Urban Design Group and Chair of the UK Sharing the Streets Network; and a member of the newly created London Roads Task Force. He co-authored the publication ‘Link and Place: A guide to Street Planning and Design’, and has been involved in applications of the principles in several towns and cities in the UK and overseas. He is co-editing, with Phil Jones, a major new resource for the CIHT on ‘Streets and Transport in the Urban Environment.
Lucy Godfrey, Project Officer, Cycle Hire Team, Transport for London
Lucy Godfrey joined Transport for London’s transport planning graduate scheme in 2009 where she gained experience working on several different walking and cycling projects as well using modelling programmes such as LinSig to aid junction design. She undertook an external placement in the London Borough of Camden where she was involved in evaluating public realm schemes and redesigning a number of street markets. She is currently working in the Cycle Hire team at TfL, project managing the scheme expansion into Wandsworth and Lambeth.
She has just completed an MSc in Transport Planning and Sustainable Development at Imperial College London and UCL. Her MSc Thesis was awarded a distinction and was entitled “Examining Place Activity in Streets and its Relationship to Place Design”. She focused on place activity in two case study streets and looked at how long people spent in the space and where they were located in relation to frontages. Findings from this study are being incorporated into “Streets and Planning in the Urban Environment”, an existing CIHT guidance document which is currently being updated. Lucy is a member of Urban Design Group and CIHT which enables her to maintain her interest in urban realm schemes and designing for place.
Timings:
Registration & Tea/Coffee: 17.30
Presentations: 18.00
A discussion/debate followed and the opportunity to network with colleagues.
Close: 19.30 - 19.45
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