Number of books to note that can be useful
- Courtyard and Alleways of Leeds by Stuart Fell
- Navigation of Cities by Kevin Lynch
- Lamberts Courtyard by Stuart Fell.
- The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch- grain, landmarks and nodes, how they work in cities.
-Creating a narrative to tell the story of project. Idea of making story/character to talk in to Presentation.
-How Briggate used to be the traffic interchange. Relation to old maps and how the main street used to be. Split into Burgage Plots originally creating more ginals and arcades which have slowly been built up over years.
-IDEA that Briggate is a main river flowing down with tributaries flowing off and into the other streets. Linking to the bottom to the existing river at the bottom of Briggate.
NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE - NATO Organisation
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Burgage plots: In medieval England and Scotland, and some parts of the Welsh Marches, burgage plots or burgage tenements were inclosed fields extending the confines of a medieval town, established by the lord of the manor, as divisions of the 'open' manorial fields. The burgesses (equivalents of "burghers") to whom these tracts were allotted, as tenants of the enclosed lands, paid a cash rent instead of, as previously, occupying land by virtue of having given feudal service. In 1207, for instance, Maurice Paynell, the Lord of the Manor of Leeds, granted a charter to 'his burgesses of Leeds' to build a 'new town', and so created the first borough of Leeds, Briggate, a street running north from the River Aire.
These burgesses had to be freemen: those who were entitled to practise a trade within the town and to participate in electing members of the town’s ruling council.
The basic unit of measurement was the perch which was 5.5 yards (5 m).
I'll start a reading list for the books gents.
Some other points that arose in that meeting were:
Does our definition of Briggate depend on the approach taken onto the street?
How has the grain of Briggate evolved?
Why was the 1970s scheme to demolish the buildings south of Bore Lane so controversial?
Is the architecture of Briggate a Fashion Parade?
Which route would win in a race from the train/bus station?
Airport links?
When are we visiting Whitelocks for a beer?
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