Tuesday 14 October 2008

Unblocking the blockages - Thoughts from the Urban Design Compendium

places for people - continuity and enclosure
enrich the existing - character
make connections - legibility
work with the landscape -
mix uses and from - diversity
design for change - adaptability

context, vision, social dynamics, trade space for place, recycle,vistas, focal points,texture,flooring as public art, loose the seating down the edge create 'gossip groups' at nodes

is it important that we strengthen the active frontages of Briggate? frequent doors, window and opening help to animate the public realm but how can we 'deconsumerise' this?

Leeds a city with one/two/three
Leeds a city of . . . .

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