EUROPEAN URBANISM IRELAND S CONTRIBUTION

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1 Urban Futures: Cities and Towns in Transition Dublin September EUROPEAN URBANISM IRELAND S CONTRIBUTION John Worthington MBE Co-Founder DEGW Past Director The Academy of Urbanism Commissioner Independent Transport Commission

2 The City A Product of Civil Society Text tbc Dubrovnik Dubrovnik The City State a Balance of the Establishment and Enterprise

3 Urbanism Designing With Time in Mind Incremental Comprehensive Overlapping Nolle Plan of Rome 1748 Le Corbusier St Dié 1946 DEGW 2010 Integrating Spatial Form and Organisational Innovation

4 The Dilemma We Face: Balancing Interests Mumford: The Culture of Cities 1938 Civility Shared Value Production Continuity Inclusive Authentic Risky Evokes the reader to dream of a better urban environment, integrated with the surrounding region and attuned to the essential rhythms of daily life Zukin: The Cultures of Cities 1998 Ethnicity Diverse Values Consumption Discontinuity Exclusive Branded Secure Cultures are constantly negotiated in the city s streets, parks, shops, museums and restaurants Planning for a Paradoxical World Recalibrating Urbanism

5 The City as a Dynamic, Organic Open System Diverse: Open dialogue Intense: Compact Connected: Accessible Ambiguous: Overlapping Private and Public Realm Place of Exchange: Opportunities for Chance Encounters Dynamic: Continuous Unstable Evolving Never complete, always adapting and self organising over time

6 Changing Cities from Centres to Networked Conurbations COPENHAGEN half million population Single focus ORESUND 3.5 million population multi-centred across political boundaries Cities of Imagination Cities of Convenience Cities of Place Low density city, high density landscape with accessible, distinctive places

7 Collaborative Urbanism: City the enabler Copenhagen: Structured public realm Malmö Creative Dialogue Copenhagen Urban Action Plan 2005 Western Harbour Malmö Support economic success ensure equitable outcomes

8 Rethinking the Urban Block: Spatial Form and Organisational Structure Open Blocks Helsinki The Building is the Block Norwegian Business School, Oslo Niels Torp Rive Gauche, Paris Massive, secure, uniform to human scale, open and differentiated

9 Blurring of Functions: Horizontally and vertically Kings Place Parabola / Dixon Jones Breaking down boundaries SA Water, Adelaide Hassell / DEGW Celebrate complexity, intensify use of space and time

10 Ireland A European Context Young and aspiring global neutral reflect two cultures Amsterdam Copenhagen Lyon London Dublin Continental Europe Prescriptive Collaborative Enhanced environment United Kingdom Discretionary Adversarial Focused on land values Open to change

11 Managing Intensification and Change DEGW: Managing Intensification & Change A study for building height Set piece and Conservation areas 2. Existing areas of a dominant character 3. Potential areas for gradual / considerable character change - medium to long term 4. Potential new character area with contextual constraints 5. Potential new character areas-possibility for developing new morphologies 6. Potential new character areas - possibility for developing new morphologies - long term Character areas: proposed zones of consolidation and change

12 Dublin Compared Lower Density More Dispersed Dublin Amsterdam Copenhagen City Core Urban Area Population: 482,000 Population: 730,000 Density: 4,175 per km² Density: 4,400 per km² Population: 490,000 Density: 5,400 per km² City of opportunities Under-developed and centralised infrastructure

13 Dublin: A Fragmented Core 1- Museum and culture 4- Media and recreation 2- Learning and innovation Consuming Financial services 6- Corporate business European city that reflects both European and North American practice

14 Dublin Region: reflecting a growing and changing vibrant economy Annual Conference, Irish Society of Chartered Surveyors 2005 Dublin Belfast Corridor Expanding Dublin Source: J Prunty Expanding urban region with the fastest growing economy in Europe More creative employees as a percentage of the workplace than any other top nation in the world Richard Florida

15 Creative Dublin Alliance: Creating a Civil Society To foster a creative engaged, questioning and confident citizen Innovation Dublin A network led by the Dublin City Manager, with members drawn from the most senior level in Local Government, Industry, Education, State Agencies and Not-for-Profit Sector Crossed boundaries outside the statutory system

16 People Make Memorable Places: Architects and Planners shape the spaces Zero Zero Research Balanced collaboration between state, business and social economy

17 Designing Dublin: Capturing the energy of a community Designing Dublin - Living Room on the Street 500 people contributing to defining the project 50 applied to join the team 17 Chosen 5 projects developed 300 residents engaged 20 became project champions Designing Dublin Finding the Human Potential of Place Designing Dublin Exciting Things About the City Centre Co-design prototyping solutions in-situ

18 op yr ig ht ed The Historic Core: Electricity Supply Board Ireland Grafton Architects / OMP Recreating the Grain Engaging the Community Establish Local Economy

19 Docklands Strategic Development Zone: The City as Enabler Integrating into existing and proposed city structure Responding to successes Building local community capacity

20 Dublin a Connected City Region Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy Integration of modes of travel Convenience of public services focus on Demand Management Continuous flow

21 Capturing the Benefits of Infrastructure Investment High Speed Rail & Connected Cities Capturing the Benefits 1. Collaborate to Succeed 2. Integrate 3. Position station where people wish to come and stay 4. Continuative flow Randstad Integrated Transport Bordeaux Intensification of City Region

22 NUI Maynooth: A university town in a learning landscape 1 NUI Maynooth 1 2 Maynooth 3 3 Intel & HP Innovation Campuses Celbridge 4 Leixlip 2 Carton Demesne 4 Castletown House Creating a Distinctive Destination Within the City Region

23 Swords Airport City: Global Gateway Schiphol - Multi modal transport hub with surrounding business districts Dublin - one of the fastest growing airport cities in Europe

24 Swords An opportunity for growth Intensify within existing footprint Diversify with the historical core Population , , ,000

25 An agenda for Ireland: Be innovative and ambitious Resilient: First in first out of 10 Credit Crunch 8 Realistic: Recognise secular consumerism eroded sense of community and social capital Innovative: 6 th in European Innovation scoreboard Global: 80 million claim Irish Ireland Netherlands Portugal descent, 45% American OECD Quarterly Real Growth Rates of GDP Dublin Global Gateway supporting & supported by well-connected city regions

26 The City as Master Developer From form maker to change shaper Embrace Paradox Share Resources Start with People Foster Collaboration Pilot - and then Plan Recognise the City as a Continuous Project Cities provide confidence, commitment and are enablers of change Hafen City, Hamburg

27 Players in an On-going Process of Collaboration With distinctive roles balanced by dialogue State Establish the infrastructure for cities and their citizens to thrive Give guidance to steer, enable and regulate Provide certainty Cities Provide long term vision and leadership Support the success of their Citizens Develop the vision which reflects a common ambition Civil Society Support and contribute to the ambitions of the city Be Pro-active and responsible "Planning is a permissive environment but many see its function to constrain" Professor Peter Bishop University College London

28 UniverCities A collaborative integrating structure Minimum 3 year programme to establish an attitude of mind Owned by the community, initiated by Academicians Continuous improvement through understanding AoU Dublin Congress 2007 Long-term programme committed to learning, feedback and improvement

29 Future Urbanism: Moderate change - Create desirable places Be ambitious: Understand and accept risk Be prepared to fail early to succeed sooner Share understanding Recognise the value of collaborative working Create a proactive and responsible culture Increase awareness by changing perceptions Stop procrastinating, just do it Plan and act with time in mind Pilot and then create