Placemaking Workshop Presentation

PLACE MAKING Changing Patterns of Land TOM MANLEY REGENERATION & PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERT WITNESS SOMETHING IS MISSING JULY 2013

CASE INVESTIGATION FILE !

PENDING OPERATION UNDERWAY !

EXPERT WITNESS REPORT /TOM MANLEY

CONTEXT

PLACE MAKING What is meeant by CONTEXT

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CONTEXT

is the character and Setting of an area

- It is the natural as well as human history; the forms of the settlements, buildings and spaces.

- It’s ecology and archaeology; It’s Location and the routes that pass through it.

-CONTEXT also includes people, the individuals living in or near an area and how communities are organised so that citizens become real participants in place.

-High Quality places will only emerge if an approach is cohesive and inclusive -Understanding the unique social / cultural and ecological and economic value of a place

PEOPLE & PLACE / COMMUNITY / CONSERVATION

PLACE MAKING Story of a Place over time

How does the history and development of a place define its future?

What clues can be found from uncovering the layers of a site?

EVERYWHERE IS SOMEWHERE - - - Why is this place unique?

PLACE MAKING Everywhere Is Somewhere

ASSEMBLY artworks, Matt Baker ‘whereever I stand is the birthplace of my nation’ The shaft of CELTIC CROSS

PLACE MAKING What type of City Do we want?

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PLACE MAKING Changing Patterns of Land WHAT IS RIGHT FOR A PLACE? SHOULD WE START OVER OR LOOK AT WHAT IS ALREADY THERE? WHAT IS THE IDENTITY OF AN AREA?

IDENTIFY areas of site for both positive and negative responses. Collect objects from the site - do they tell a story?

HOW DOES A PLACE MAKE US FEEL? WHAT ARE ITS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IS IT ISOLATED OR CONNECTED? WHAT IMPACT CAN WE HAVE IN A SHORT TIME

PLACE MAKING Changing Patterns of Land

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PLACE MAKING Attachment to Place

PLACE MAKING The End of The Red Road

PLACE MAKING Changing Patterns of Land WHO DECIDES THE FUTURE FOR A COMMUNITY ?

WHO HAS CONTROL ?

WHO OWNS THE LAND ?

WHO BENEFITS FROM THIS ?

HOW IS POWER RECLAIMED ?

HOW CAN SOMETHING BE IMPROVED ?

WHAT REALLY MATTERS . . .?

OR DEVELOPMENT? WHO DECIDES THE FUTURE ?

FOR A COMMUNITY?

PLACE MAKING reinventing what’s there

WHO IS REGENERATION FOR? HOW DO YOU BRING PEOPLE TO AN AREA? WHAT MAKES A COMMUNITY? HOW TO MAKE CREATIVE & IMAGINATIVE PLACES

Park Hill Sheffield, URBAN SPLASH, photo by SHANE ROUNCE

PLACE MAKING Democratic Space / Assembly •NAVIGATION •ORIENTATION •ENVIRONMENT •HEALTH •WELLBEING •CONNECTIONS

•PUBLIC SPACE •LANDSCAPE •DEMOCRATIC SPACE •OPPORTUNITY •INCLUSIVE •SAFE •FUN

•CREATIVE •UNIQUE STORY •WELCOMING •UNMET NEEDS •EMPOWERING

PLACE MAKING Democratic Space / Assembly •NAVIGATION •ORIENTATION •ENVIRONMENT •HEALTH •WELLBEING •CONNECTIONS

MOVEMENT

PERFORMANCE

•PUBLIC SPACE •LANDSCAPE •DEMOCRATIC SPACE •OPPORTUNITY •INCLUSIVE •SAFE •FUN

•CREATIVE •UNIQUE STORY •WELCOMING •UNMET NEEDS •EMPOWERING

PLACE MAKING HERITAGE LED REGENERATION

VISIONING sketch by Edo Architecture

REIMAGINING

REMEMBERING

PLACE MAKING HERITAGE LED REGENERATION

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS IMPORTANT FOR GOVANS NEXT ERA OF GREATNESS? HOW TO RESPOND TO MEDIEVAL SITE IN A WAY THAT IS RELEVANT TODAY? HOW CAN HERITAGE BRING PEOPLE TO THE AREA, AND HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF THIS AREA? WHAT CLUES CAN BE FOUND IN OLD FOOTAGE, ARCHIVE MATERIALS MAPS etc...

CELEBRATE STORIES OF THE ‘4 P’s’ PLACE, PEOPLE, POLITICS & POWER REINVENT ... RECREATE ... REGENERATE

MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER

PLACE MAKING Changing Patterns of Land •1857-58 overlayed on existing

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PLACE MAKING Changing Patterns of Land •1893-94 overlayed on existing

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PLACE MAKING Changing Patterns of Land •1913 overlayed on existing

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OS 3rd Edition, 1 to 2500, (Surveyed 1913)

PLACE MAKING Changing Patterns of Land •1933 overlayed on existing

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CULTURAL PLANNING & SHARED VISIONS

PLACE MAKING cultural planning approach - CULTURE as ‘Social Glue’ Importance of creative and inclusive processes - Cities as an event, theatre and performace - where decisions and processes, of wealth and power, are not played out at the expense of local people and aspirations for an area. For whom is our Urban Space for?

- PARTICIPATORY APPROACH

‘Glorious Govan is a vision for a community developed through collaboration between people & organisations working in diverse sectors. The working process was conceived & is being driven in the first instance by locally rooted community regeneration initiatives which all employ an artistic medium to engage participation & inform the content of their process & output.

Conceptual Diagram: Matt Baker

PLACE MAKING A Shared Vision

PLACE MAKING A Shared Vision

PLACE MAKING Culture and Creativity

PLACE MAKING Culture and Creativity

PLACE MAKING Culture and Creativity

PLACE MAKING Culture and Creativity

PLACE MAKING Changing Patterns of Land WHAT DO YOU THINK IS IMPORTANT FOR GOVANS NEXT ERA OF GREATNESS?

HOW CAN IMPROVEMENTS BE MADE TO EXISTING AREA? WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?

HOW TO RESPOND TO MEDIEVAL SITE IN A WAY THAT IS RELEVANT TODAY?

WHAT GROUPS OF PEOPLE NEED TO BE CONSIDERED?

WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT THE CURRENT NATURE OF WATER ROW?

WHO DOES THIS SITE BELONG TO?

WHAT ARE ITS STRONGEST ASSETS?

HOW CAN WE INFLUENCE DECISION MAKING FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS AREA?

WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DOES THE AREA PRESENT?

HOW CAN WE IMPROVE THE HEALTH & WELLBEING OF PEOPLE IN GOVAN

IDENTIFY AREAS THAT HAVE A STRONG PERSONAL RESPONSE - POSITIVE & NEGATIVE ASPECTS. WHAT VALUES ARE IMPORTANT?

WHAT IS THE LEGACY OF THE RIVERSIDE MUSEUM IN STRENGTHENING REGENERATION IN GOVAN?

eg..TRAFFIC, POLLUTION, LACK, OF PUBLIC SPACE, etc...NEGATIVE ATTRIBUTES

HOW CAN HISTORY BE BROUGHT ALIVE AGAIN?

CONNECTION TO RIVER, LOCAL CULTURE, HEART OF GOVAN ... POSITIVE ATTRIBUTES

WHY GOVAN? CAN WE BUILD STRONGER LINKS WITH GLASGOW CITY ? WHAT TYPE OF CITY DO WE WANT?

PLACE MAKING

Govan Today

PLACE MAKING

Govan Today

PLACE MAKING Changing Patterns of Land

MENTAL MAPPING PERSONAL OPINIONS ON SPACE, INDIVIDUAL ASSESMENT SHOW ATTACHMENT TO SPACE, FAMILIARITY, SAFETY, etc IDENTIFY ASPECTS/ AREAS FOR FURTHER INSPECTION

PLACE MAKING For The People

PLACE MAKING A Time For Change

GOVAN THROUGH A LENS

PLACE MAKING - Govan Through A Lens

SOMETHING IS MISSING

PLACE MAKING - Govan Through A Lens

GOVAN’S EVERYDAY SPECTACLE

PLACE MAKING Things Are Happening OPENING OF THE GOVAN FREE FERRY

A SILENT ANCHOR

FOR WHO DOES THIS LAND BELONG?

PHOTOGRAPHY

VISIONING

PLACE MAKING

NEW YORK HIGH LINE JOEL STERNFIELD PHOTOS ENABLED VISION OF HIGH LINE TO BECOME A REALITY

PLACE MAKING GLASGOW The Wider Picture •1560

KELVIN MEADOW

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KELVIN MEADOW

- Contested Site in West End. PLANNING REF: 12/00924/DC

The North Kelvin Meadow Campaign is a community group set up on 13 October 2008 to campaign for the green space between Clouston Street , Sanda Street and Kelbourne Street (G20 – North Kelvin Ward) – the area of the former Clouston Street playing fields – to be kept as a multi-use community green space for the people of Maryhill and others in the West End. -Land Never Built On - Semi Natural Greenspace - Community Growing Space ENV1 Protected Open Space -Original Aspiration for site to be ‘rooted in local aspirations’ - Soft Sell PR - CONSULTATION -Conservation Area

PEOPLE & PLACE/COMMUNITY/LANDSCAPE/DEVELOPMENT

KELVIN MEADOW

SIGHTHILL STONES SIGHTHILL STONE CIRCLE

PLANNING REF: 13/01625/DC

- Contested Site in Sighthill Park.

Stone circle designed & built 1979 . Contemporary response to Stonehenge etc.

First of its kind for 3000 years. Astronomical alignment on ‘Broomhill’ The athlete’s village for Youth Olympics had been earmarked for Sighthill but Glasgow City Council has said it is committed to pressing ahead with a £250m regeneration of the area regardless. Again building on large area of open space.

This will ultimately provide some 830 new homes centred on a community campus and public square, all connected to the city centre via new public realm works - including a pedestrian bridge over the M8.

More recently it has been proposed to develop a cycling strategy for the area by discouraging car use in the area and building a network of cycle paths.

Wasteland or sacred ground? Cultural treasure or forgotten folly? Why build on parkland?

Public Consultation underway until 6th August !

SIGHTHILL STONES WHAT ARE SIMILARTIES WITH GOVAN ?

WHO DECIDES THE FUTURE FOR A COMMUNITY ?

WHO HAS CONTROL ?

WHO OWNS THE LAND ?

WHO BENEFITS FROM THIS ?

HOW IS POWER RECLAIMED ?

HOW CAN SOMETHING BE IMPROVED ?

WHAT REALLY MATTERS . . .?

OR DEVELOPMENT? WHO DECIDES THE FUTURE ?

FOR A COMMUNITY?

THE GORBALS / LITTLE GOVAN •1644 overlayed on existing

PLACES OF POWER GOVAN / THE GORBALS / RUTHERGLEN