Planning and Urbanism. getting the buildings and places we want

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1 Planning and Urbanism getting the buildings and places we want

2 Key issues of urbanism and urban buildings What is the place we want, spatially? (can we draw it and if so how and what level of detail) What is location, sequence and quality of streets and public spaces? Is more connectivity with new streets, walkways, public spaces needed? What are the building typologies needed to frame and activate these streets and public spaces? Where are the building footprints located? Where are the front doors? What are the relationships (setbacks) to streets and public spaces, particularly (frontages) busier streets? What are the frontage types (detailed built form, land-uses and front doors)? Where does car parking and servicing go (behind something, if so what?) How much street activation is there to go around? What are visitor parking, service and rubbish removal access? What are the parking numbers needed to serve the development? Can we afford what we desire? (development intensity = car parking ratio / no of basements)

3 Some ities of Urbanism Walkability The first pre-requisite for urbanism Diversity A rich mix of activities Proximity The rich mix within easy distances 5min or 400m Connectivity Activities are connected to each other for walking, cycling, bus or train (and cars) Accessibility Something to walk on, choices of routes, permeability Legibility Easily finding your way around Urban fabric frames streets and public spaces of high quality Community Experiencing the life of the community on your journeys

4 New retail in Norway, mixed-use with an equal amount of housing and retail? Urban sensibility for retail requiring mixed-use

5 We need an urban sensibility for tall buildings design, Chicago, Tokyo, Malmo

6 We need an urban sensibility for tall buildings design, London

7 The automobile ought to stop right in front of any given door which means that the houses open out onto the traffic lane. And that is what we can no longer tolerate: TO LIVE! To breathe TO LIVE! Homes to inhabit. The present idea of the street must be abolished: DEATH OF THE STREET! DEATH OF THE STREET! The Radiant City, p. 124 Villa Radieuse LeCorbusier 1929

8 Urban sensibility to integrate car parking and how buildings meet the ground

9 More urban responses emerging, Southport, Qld

10 Is there a tension between performance based planning and getting the buildings and places we want?

11 Planning is performance based, focused on land use rights, quantums of development (ie FAR, FSR, GFA, Plot Ratio, height), although many of these are quite prescriptive and interpreted that way, and built form (more abstract notions of setbacks driven by impacts and amenity to neighbours and street, as much as desired built form, type or character) Planning documents are more thematic than typological, eg Levels of assessment, precinct by precinct Built Form Heights Footprint, Bulk Building Placement and Bulk Setbacks Precincts, precinct by precinct lists of requirements Maximum Building heights table Maximum site cover table

12 Setbacks driven by impacts (GCCC). Who would build to these envelopes?

13 a move to better urbanism Local Area Planning : Precincts within precincts and precinct wide principles

14 Performance Criteria and Acceptable Solutions, but what is it and what does it look like??

15 What it looks like in America a strong focus on building types and the STYLE, Style or Style of these buildings with the use of form-based codes and pattern books

16 One countries careful analysis of history is another s cringe and antagonism. I can t show this image in Australia without being asked to leave the podium

17 Are form based codes the best means to achieve the urban outcomes we want and deserve?

18 Are form based codes the best means to achieve the urban outcomes we want and deserve?

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20 Pick your style

21 Specific prescriptive urban design requirements, no performance criteria or acceptable solutions?

22 Pick your style

23 Pick your style

24 Pick your style

25 Form-based codes emerging in Qld planning documents for housing. (Next Generation Planning)

26 Next Generation Planning (CoMSEQ/DLGP), idealised neighbourhood with QPP zonings, housing types (NGP and MBRC)

27 Sub-Precinct Plans for the ULDA - almost a form-based code?

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29 A lot of work for just 4 Ha!

30 A (fairly detailed) visualisation of what we want

31 A (fairly detailed) plan illustration of what we want

32 Streets Blocks and Key vistas

33 A (fairly detailed) diagram of what how pedestrians and cycles will move through the site

34 A (fairly detailed) diagram of streets and public spaces, including street sections

35 A (fairly detailed) diagram of how buildings and frontage types define an activate streets and public spaces

36 A (fairly detailed) building typology sections

37 A (fairly detailed) diagram of tower locations

38 Suggestions for architectural character

39 Suggestions for architectural character

40 The task of urban design is to present a compelling vision for a place, something that we all may want, not have to have, to address issues such as population growth, climate change etc etc. An urban design sensibility is a focus on places (outcomes) as much as process, but we all need to be on the same page. There remains a lag between policy and urban aspirations and what the market is confident in delivering peter@deickerichards.com.au