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Urban Design Principles

A cool wall : We can all urban design ● What is quality? From Vitruvius to the present day ● Urban design principles ● Character and distinctiveness ● Continuity and enclosure ● Quality of public spaces ● Ease of movement ● Legibility ● Adaptability ● Inclusivity, diversity and sustainability ● Conclusion ● Passive or proactive planning ● Good practice publications ● Urban Form ● Urban structure ● Urban grain ● Streetscape and landscape ● Density and mix ● Height and massing ● Building types ● Facade and interface ● Details and Materials ●

Masterplanning
Demystified

Perspectives on the development process ● Design beyond style ● Successful places ● Lost in translation ● Current Issues ● Briefing ● Key elements of a masterplan : Strategic Frameworks ● The spatial masterplan ● An implementation plan ● A spatial masterplan example ● Movement frameworks ● Urban structure ● Land use and landscape ● Urban grain and detail ● Streets, building types and the end product ● The preparation stage ● The design stage ● The implementation stage end product ●

Policies

PPS1 and design guidance ● Best practice policy framework ● Regional policy ● Statutory and non-statutory tools ● Local Development Frameworks ● From national policy to site specific guidance ●

Controlling Design

The role of central and local government in the control of design ● Freiburg: A journey from a nuclear to a solar city ● Space shared versus space as commodity ● Freiburg: An intricacy of procurement and design ● Comparable small scale uk examples ● Comparable larger uk examples ● Values, planning and design ● Design leadership: Where control ends and living begins ●

Stewardship and Governance of Urban Space

Stewardship and governance of space

Holly street Hackney ● Management of space: Accordia Cambridge ● Accordia: Overall and detailed layout ● Accordia: The development process ● Accordia: A community website ● Accordia: Section 106 uses ● Accordia: The importance of secured management plans and structures ● Management structures: Argyle Street Cambridge ● Poor quality design and management discussed ●

Urban Development Process Roles and Responsibilities

Development Process:
Roles & Responsibilities

Ten steps to an excellent project: i: Strong client leadership. ● ii: Successful programming ● iii: Learning from other projects ● iv: Producing a clear brief ● v: Realistic financing ● vi: Integrated processes ● vii: Appropriate skills ● viii: The context ● ix: Sustainable development ● x: Signing off key stages ●

Development Process:
An Integrated Team

Moving away from box ticking ● Looking at the process in addition to the product ● Establishing core values ● An integrated team ● A masterplanning team ● An integrated design solution ● Benefits of integration ●

Development Process:
Project Management.

Introduction i ● Introduction ii ● Defining a project ● Mapping a project life cycle from concept to closure ● What good project managers do ● Project life cycle achievements ● The concept stage ● What is a stakeholder? ● Project indicators and targets ● Feasibility ● The primary players in the development process ● Typical project organisation ●

Urban Development Project Management and Design Quality

Development Process:
Project Management and Design Quality

Managing and influencing design quality ● What is quality? ● Objectivity and subjectivity in establishing quality standards ● Project quality planning, assurance and control ● Controlling design quality ● Stages of project quality influence ● Efficiently influencing design quality ●

Development Process:
Procurement Routes. Distributing risks between the parties

Procurement and procurement routes ● Design Risks ● Main procurement routes ● Main contract types ● Traditional contracts and client risk exposure ● Design and build contracts and contract coverage ● Design and Build contracts and client risk exposure ● Design and Build: Risk transfer ● Partnering and contract coverage ● Partnering : A discussion of risk ● Supplier selection and probity ● Supplier selection criteria ● Potential pitfalls ● Working at risk ● Selection processes : The EU Procurement Directive ●

Development Process:
The RIBA work stages and the Planning process

Thinking beyond Planning ● Stages A-B: Appraisal & Design ● Opportunities and constraints analysis ● Broad design options ● Stage C: Pursuing a preferred development option ● Progressing Stage C detail ● Stage D: Design development ● Detailed layout drawing proposals and 3D modelling ● Design and Access Statements and additional planning documentation ● Stage E: Technical design ● Stage F: Production information ● Stage G-H: Tendering ● Stage J-K: From construction to completion ● Stage L: Post completion ●

Sustainable Development:
Renewable Energy

Reducing fossil fuel consumption: Energy assessments ● Renewable technologies ● Energy and carbon emission factors ● Analysing a development proposal ● Domestic energy demands ● Renewable energy ● Energy demand ● Combined heat and power ● CHP energy flow diagram ● Diagrammatic energy flow diagrams ●Renewable technology: wind ● Wind projects ● Renewable technology: Solar ● Renewable technology: Biomass ● Renewable technology: Heat pumps ● Summary of energy assessments

Sustainable Development:
Delivery

The evolving built environment ● 'Drivers' in 2010 ●'Drivers' by 2020? ● Using less to do more ● One World Community: 10 principles ● Carbon reduction (i) ● Carbon reduction (ii) ● Carbon emissions case study: Sheffield ● A carbon strategy applied through time ● Integrated design: Climate change ● Sustainable urban systems: passive ● Active ● District heating ● Green buildings ● Inertia: Breaking the 'cycle of blame' ●

The Code for
Sustainable Homes

The Code for Sustainable Homes ● Code levels and mandatory requirements ● Mandatory requirements (ii) ● Mandatory requirements (iii) ● What is zero carbon? ● Fabric and Energy Efficiency Standard and Code Compliance ● Carbon compliance and complexity of 'Allowable Solutions' ● Proposed energy changes and Code levels

A Live Site Exercise: Drawing ideas on paper

Putting marks on paper ● An introduction to a live site project ● How to deal with a live site ● Pre-design assessment criteria ● Pre-design assessment criteria ● Drawing : The basics ● Drawing : Character analysis ● Drawing: Site analysis ● Drawing: Green corridors ● Drawing: Character & function ● Summary drawings ●

What makes a good brief?

From a good quality brief to a good quality place ● The necessity for a clear Project Brief ● Good practice brief writing ● The management of the commission ● Scope of contents i ● Scope of contents ii ● Scope of contents iii ● Scope of contents iv ● A reality check: Is the brief realistic? ● The tender process ●

Approaching a Masterplan

Preparing a site brief ● From policies to a design concept diagram ● From a sketchy outline idea to a detailed plan ● Establishing a movement framework ● Define streets and block structures ● The size of blocks ● Integrating diverse land uses ● Character and hierarchy of public spaces ●

Five Exemplary
Housing Projects

Allerton Bywater : A site visit ● Vauban district, Freiburg ● Newhall, Harlow ● Bourbon Lane, White City ● Accordia, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge ●

A Planning Perspective

A discussion between local government town planning staff offering an insight into some of the issues that might typically be considered during an assessment of a site and its prospects for development.

An HCA and TSY
Perspective

Joining up investment ● Preparing a context for living ● Creating affordable homes ● Funding source examples ● Layers of business planning ● Rethinking investment in a post-recession market ● Integrating an array of diverse planning objectives ● The complex strands of planning ● Reconciling potentially conflicting priorities ● Sustainability ● Attaining high quality housing standards ●

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