Design for Urban Living: Thinking beyond the ‘Red Line · Design for Urban Living: Thinking beyond the ‘Red Line’ Sabine Coady Schäbitz Director Collaborative Centre for the

Design for Urban Living:

Thinking beyond the ‘Red Line’

Sabine Coady Schäbitz Director Collaborative Centre for the Built Environment

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Interactive Session

Introduction 5 min

Table Discussions 15 min

Reporting back 15 min

Summary/ Q&A 5 min

Design for Urban Living: Thinking beyond the ‘red line’

Planning for Life 12

Manual for Streets 1+2

Safer Places

Jan Gehl: Life between Buildings

Social Justice

Wellbeing

Suburbia

Civic Pride

Context: Northampton and Northamptonshire

Kings Heath Northampton Adrian Jones’ blog: Jones the Planner http://www.jonestheplanner.co.uk/

Dallington Grange Northampton http://www.dallingtongrange.com/

Dallington Grange + Kings Heath 2007 Vision

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Draft masterplan 2014

Dallington Grange + Kings Heath 2014 Vision http://www.dallingtongrange.com/proposal.html

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Quality of City life

“I want to explore the concept of ‘quality of life’ in cities. My own view can

be stated simply: the quality of life in a city is good when its inhabitants

are capable of dealing with complexity. Conversely, the quality of life in

cities is bad when its inhabitants are capable only of dealing with people

like themselves. Put another way, a healthy city can embrace and make

productive use of the differences of class, ethnicity, and lifestyles it

contains, while a sick city cannot; the sick city isolates and segregates

difference, drawing no collective strength from its mixture of different

people.”

Richard Sennett, from “Why Complexity Improves Quality of City Life,” “Hong Kong: Cities, Health and Well-Being," publication

of the Urban Age Conference, November 2011.

Reflections

How do you judge the shift between the 2007 and 2014 plans for

Dallington Grange with regard to community wellbeing and social

coherence?

Considering both urban extensions – from the 1940s/50s and the

2000s/2010s do you see a need for a different approach considering

neighbourhoods, urban extensions and the overall town? If so, why

and what?

Who do you think are the principle stakeholders to be approached for

any possible change?

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Thank you!

sabine.coadyschaebitz@northampton.ac.uk

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