Hello and welcome. This is the first edition of a publication examining the two professions of urban design and transport planning and looking at how they can better work together to improve the urban realm. It comes from the LTT stable, where we have noticed over the past few years that there are... continue
We have almost gone full circle. Streets were originally places in which people did stuff. Met each other. Bought and sold things. Drank beer. Enjoyed life. There was some... continue
It is nowadays widely recognised that successful placemaking requires input from a range of design skillsets and effective team working is a management priority. And, at the level of Regional Spatial Strategies, which... continue
In place of our normal feature, this issue of LTT sees the publication of our first transport and the urban environment supplement. Collaboration between the transport... continue
At the street scale, design professionals are more successful at seeking a common language to facilitate the creation of... continue
At a strategic level, planning and design consultancy Space Syntax is at the forefront of a drive to integrate spatial... continue
Many of London’s most famous public spaces have been revamped over the past decade or so and consultant Atkins has had a hand in a number of key projects.... continue
MVA has been appointed to lead a team of consultants in a study of shared space and shared surface schemes for... continue
Ashford in Kent is home to the largest shared space scheme in Europe and is currently engaged in its implementation phase. According to Richard Stubbings, regeneration &... continue
According to Tony Cross, director and global head of transport consultancy at Scott Wilson, “The ‘silo’ mentality is not a problem these days because more and more projects are coming along that require both sets of skills… It is actually increasingly unusual for our... continue
Put simply, placemaking is an exercise in land use and optimising property value, says Savills, that aims to reproduce, at one stroke, the characteristics of market towns and street scenes that have evolved over... continue
In response to concerns that Manual for Streets, published two years ago, focuses almost exclusively on residential... continue
Transport for London has appointed consultant Steer Davies Gleave to help update the 2001 guidelines on the design of public transport interchanges and the new version of the guidance is due to be formally... continue
“Policy and practice have been re-examining past performance and promoting new initiatives in the field of public realm design, specifically the role of streets in our perception of... continue
“As transport planners, we are used to thinking of our streets in terms of hierarchies of movement,”?Richarrd lewis, managing consultant at Urban Initiatives. “The first written... continue
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