Not seeing the wood for the security trees

Measures to keep us safe from crime risk encouraging us to stay indoors

John Dales
01 November 2013
Gaaah! Those buildings spoil my visual enjoyment of the bollards
Gaaah! Those buildings spoil my visual enjoyment of the bollards
It’s not like King’s Cross gets busy, or anything
It’s not like King’s Cross gets busy, or anything
Another victim of CCTV zeal (OK, it was “The Storm of ‘13”, but…)
Another victim of CCTV zeal (OK, it was “The Storm of ‘13”, but…)

 

Manifestations of the ‘one-track-mind’ approach to street design may be as comprehensive as entire philosophies, like: “segregation should be the keynote of modern road design”, which was enshrined in UK highway design policy from 1946. Or they may be a fixation with just one mode of transport, like: “we need more/free parking”; pedestrianisation that makes whole streets (even whole centres) dead after the shops shut; excessive bus priority zeal; or an...

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John Dales

John Dales

John Dales MSC BSC MCIHT CMILT Director, Urban Mov

John Dales is a streets design adviser to local authorities around the UK, a member of several design review panels, and one of the London mayor’s design advocates. He is a past chair of the Transport Planning Society, a former trustee of Living Streets, and a committee member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. He is director of transport planning and street design consultancy Urban Movement. 

 

j.dales@urbanmovement.co.uk
+44 (0)7768 377 150
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