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Milton Promenade

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Milton Promenade

Prepared by Rafaella Moiseos, Tea Tvrdeic Urban Design Studies Unit, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, October - December 2016

Milton Promenade

Introduction Milton has been forgotten for too long, as many other places on the “edge�, but stay positive. Passing through previous steps, analysis and strategy, Milton shows incredible potential to become a better place in many aspects.

In this booklet, we sythnesis analysis done in the first phase of this project and strategy we formulate for addressing them in second phase. It consist a concept plan which maps in detail proposed changes to denisities, centres, streets and transport, zooming out to a wider study area and strategy plan we produce for Milton, but this time focused on our specific area, Milton Promenade. Finally, we present our masterplan together with description of building typology and our vision of the place, accompanied with a sections and renders.

Authors Tea Tvrdeic

Urban Design MSc, University of Strathclyde

Rafaella Moiseos

Urban Design MSc, University of Strathclyde

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Contents Introduction

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1.Site and vision Site

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Vision

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2. Analysis and Strategy Analysis

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Liddesdale Road - New Promenade

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Strategy Overview

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Existing vs Proposed

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3. Site challenges Diagrams

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Block structure challenge

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Traffic calming challenge

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4. Comparative Study Comparative study cased

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5. Foundation Masterplan Developing masterplan

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Transformation and confirmation areas

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Proposed uses

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Foundation masterplan

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Density calculation

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6. Building Typologies Single family

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Multi family

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7. Milton Promenade Masterplan Milton Promenade masterplan

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8. Expectations and phasing Approach to attractive promenade

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Phasing

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9. Streets and Squares Existing sections

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Proposed sections

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Landscape scenes

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Visualisations

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Conclusion

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Introduction

Project The background to the Milton Promenade Masterplan is to descover the potential of small forgotten neighborhood, to create pleasant settlement for mixed population, reorganize public and housing spaces, reconnecting streets and transform Milton into high quality living space.

Strategy Many of Milton’s issues can and should be partly addressed through social policy levers, but at the same time Milton’s disconnection and what this means for opportunity is felt in trying to reach it and in walk through it.

Sythesising analysis and strategys done in the first two phases of this project we identifyed some of Milton’s key physical, social and economic issues. In conceiving our strategy we had in mind the way in which these issues overlap, however that a huge amount of good is already being done and all our work seeks to empower the community to do even more.

Masterplan The Milton Promenade Masterplan came out from the number of Milton analyzes and strategies to explore the potential of small neighborhood in the northern Glasgow. Reusing and redesigning the existing housing system, public open spaces, services and vacant or derelict land to rebuild a new settlement. The masterplan site centres on the Liddesdale road as the main local street as we will present later on.

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Fig. 1 : Current situation on Milton’s streets

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Site and vision

1. Site and Vision The Milton Promenade Masterplan is located on the Liddesdale road, main local street which goes through Milton. Main idea of the masterplan is to redesign Liddesdale road as the main east - west link, passing through Liddesdale square with new open public spaces. It means brining new people from the surrounding area into Milton, better connection between industrial area, Milton and the whole northern part of Glasgow. In addition, araea suffers from lots of vacant space, derelict and abandoned open spaces, especially southern side of the Liddesdale road.

Generally, masterplan area stretches on 267 581 sqm, currently containing just 4 901 sqm of open public spaces without community garden. Taking into account current situation in built up area, terraced houses is the most common typology. However, we can also find flat buildings and one flat per storrey buildings.

Weaknesses - amount of neglected open space, roads are dominated by cars, lack quality public realm Oportunities - vacant and derelict land ready for new developments, community garden, proximity of the countryside, proximity of the suburban railway

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Fig. 3 : Milton Promenade Masterplan area

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Site and vision

Milton Promenade

Vision The vision is to create a new urban grain, transform car dominated streets into pedestrian priority shared spaces and vacant land into mixed use properties. Our proposal addresses the issues with the accessibility, connectivity, housing, employability and green spaces at Milton, with particular emphasis on the main linear node, as we mantion, Liddesdale Road. It is the main road with many prospects for mixed uses development since it has consisted by several open spaces, open public gym, library, educational garden and shops. As far as the connectivity is concerned, although, the vehicle street is considered wide, the connectivity is low.

Therefore, the main objective and vision of the project is to link the area with the surrounding neighborhoods via clear and direct roads since the current structure lacks considerably. In addition to this, we imagine to create a comprehensive green network of linear parks and cycle paths.

Thereafter, new house blocks have been introduced since the house density is noticeably low at the area without compromising the green spaces. Moreover, a new square has been designed at the Liddesdale Road, bringing refreshment to the old, empty current open spaces. Finally, a new train station close to the aforementioned square and new bus stops have been created which will essentially help with the connectivity issues that Milton faces. In our vision, these proposals will help Milton take advantage of its potential as an integrated, successful and desirable place to live and work. The idea is to link up Liddesdale to Ashgill street in the vehicle network, allowing people to flow through.

Fig. 4 : Vision for Liddesdale road

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Fig. 5 : Vision for transforming car dominated streets

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Fig. 6 : Vision for Liddesdale road as a new easr-west link

Fig. 7 : Names linked to a site vision

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Analysis and strategy

2. Analysis and Strategy This analysis and strategy part of the booklet contains an overview of previous two steps of the project. Considering that we strive for the best possible masterplan, we have to be careful while choosing previousli done analysis. As we decide to work on Liddesdale road and its surrounding blocks and square, in this step we highlight important areas. What you will see on the following pages are analysis related to our masterplan area, concept and strategy plans. Ultimately the idea of this step is to understand how analysis will have an influence on shaping and designing Milton Promenade masterplan.

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Analysis We have made a selection of the key findings of the analysis. Presented maps show different types of problems, current situations or possible scenarios.

First map on our list is overlaped fear map which is showing resident’s feeling about the place together with professional opinion because the relationship between people and space they occupy is quiet important.

Accoring to fear map, Liddesdale road is marked as danger zone with insufficient light, no escape routes and no activities on the streets what is unacceptable considering that it is becoming main local street.

Following that, we select the maintenance map which demonstrated that high levels of personalization can be both signal of poor acceptance of the place or the differing that the management of space, including the service of maintenance, friendly environemnt and safety. As presented on the map majority of our masterplan area is higher ranked on the scale of maintenance, however, a great part of area is vacant (empty). In regard to Liddesdale road better maintenance has southern blocks.

As we mantion before, derelict land is plentiful in whole Milton. Our masterplan area, the old main street, is now for the most part derelict and empty what strongly affect the density. These sites arount the street must be changed and developed.

Since Liddesdale road is our main objective, we point out one part of network analysis as very important, especially scenario on reconnecting Liddesdale road east to west. This will create a routhe through Milton linking the A803 to the A879 (Balmore road) and make it an important street which might support more activity and urban life. This scenario and our vision links up Liddesdale to Ashgill in the vehicle network, allowing people to flow through.

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Analysis and strategy Safety zones Danger zones

Fig. 8 : Fear map

Scale of maintenance

Fig. 9 : Maintenance map Derelict land Vacant land

Fig. 10 : Vacant and derelict land analysis

Fig. 11 : Current network

Fig. 12 : Proposed network (reconnecting Liddesdale road)

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Liddesdale Road New Promenade The traditional city has always organised itself along its main axes of travel, with street crossings the most desirable places for businesses. Residential streets then spanned in between this criss crossing of social, cultural, economical and educational activity to allow a more peaceful environment for residents, while modernist principles make the streets were dirty and dangerous places which should exclusively belong to the car what we do not want applay on Milton.

This transformation has been illustrated through the two following diagrams.

The neighbourhood (pink), the urban node (red), the environmental area (dashed green), the main street (thick solid black) and local streets network (thin dashed black).

As we conclude in analysis part, the transformation of Milton should aspire to return towards a traditional layout that made the historical main street, in fact, main street and the creation of new clusters of shops and services.

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Fig. 13 : Traditional road and nodes layout with places of life placed along the main axes of travel

Fig. 14 : Modernist road layout with places of life removed from main axes of travel

Fig. 15 : Milton’s existing roads and nodes

Fig. 16 : Proposal for strenghtening Milton’s roads and nodes

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Strategy Overview Our vision in this strategy focuses on feeling about the place, on walking and cycling. This approach has been applied to Milton, but it can also be applied to other similar peripherial spaces.

The aim is to solve economic inwqualities and physical isolation and make better relationship with the countryside. The overall strategy map is subdivided into three parts: green urban edge (recast Milton as a way toward countryside), cradle to cradle industry (relate to industry area) and make it urban (reintegrate Milton into urban surrounding). All of these will imapct our masterplan decision later on.

In terms of Milton Promenade, our vision is to make Liddesdale road become a district link at the same time green network and strong pedestrian and cyclist path connecting east and west with new Milton gateways. For choosen area, the main goal is to address poor walkability, accessibility and health, lack of employment opportunities and movement prevented to and from Milton. In addition to reconnecting the Liddesdale road, access routes to the main street must be created to reduce the block sizes what will influence walkability and accessibility. Liddesdale road shuld act as a clear centre for Milton, with higher densities along the road supporting mixed use ground floor.

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Existing green routes New urban green routes Routes permeating city edge Canal freight route District links Denser street network

Canalside regeneration SUDs walkway Existing industry Potential forests Stronger district centres

Gateway to Milton

Fig. 17 : Overall strategy map

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Existing vs Proposed Nodes, densities and road hierarchy In this stage we present our strategy and explored inspirations. Here you can find existing situations in term of nodes and densities, streets, transport and ecological networks and our vision, proposed changes.

First of all we will mantion the importance of supporting centres of shops and services with density, what in Milton is not the case. There are no clear district nodes and also absence of neighbourhood nodes. On existing situation we can notice where clusters of shops exist, density does not follow. That makes the challenge for our masterplan which with some help needs to strive towards bustling main street. Our vision includes plenty of development space on the both side of the Liddesdale road, where new high density and ground floor shop typologies may replace existing ones accordingly to demand. Newly reconnected Liddesdale road becomes a neighbourhood node for the area, with or without two branches heading to the north according to densities in next steps.

In terms of road hierarchy, currently Milton stands as an island between two key arterial routes (A803 and A879) with no route across what we found really important since Liddesdale road is the main part of the masterplan.

Milton has a physical barrier (Ashgill road) an environment hostile to everyone but car users. In addition, there is lack of routes heading to the north from the Liddesdale road. What we would try to make is reconnect Liddesdale road at the eastern edge together with pedestrian paths creating a ner urban main street and an environemnt prioritising public and actve transport.

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Existing strong nodes Existing clusters of shops Proposed district nodes Proposed neighbourhood nodes 400m radius from existing nodes Low density Medium density High density Fig. 18 : Existing densities, centres of activity, and indicative areas served

Fig. 19 : Proposed structure of nodes and corresponding densities

Existing strong nodes Existing clusters of shops Proposed district nodes Proposed neighbourhood nodes Arterial routes Urban main streets Local main streets

Fig. 20 : Existing Road Hierarchy

Fig. 21 : Proposed Road Hierarchy

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Green corridors and public transport

Current ecological network is a fragmanted and not used to their potential, also the cycle netowrk is diconnected or lack of it and distract people from using bike as a mode of transport.

Speaking about Milton Promenade area we recast Liddesdale road and some other streets as greenways, with a focus on pedestrian and cyclists connecting up disparate parks, services, creating routes more safe and attractive. To encourage people to cycle more we create segregated cycle paths and painted cycle lines to make cycling more safe. Overall plan is to make people use streets and open spaces and strenghten the relationship between the urban and the rural.

Move on to public transport which is inadequate and expensive, Milton is not well served by any existing suburban rail stations. This step is strongly connected with new street network and density as a support.

In our proposal, everyone is within a 5 minute walk of a stop in the citywide transport system. We are going to introduce some new stops. An important public transport change withing our area is a new train station on the existing rail line at the east end of Liddesdale road. This will improve accessibility to the whole Milton, bring new people to walk and enjoy the shops and services and contributing to the local economy.

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Public amenity Private amenity Cementeries Formal cycle routes

Fig. 22 : Existing green corridors and biking

Fig. 23 : Proposed green corridor and biking

Existing strong nodes Existing clusters of shops Proposed district nodes Proposed neighbourhood nodes Bus routes Suburban railways New train station

Fig. 24 : Existing public transport infrastructure

Fig. 25 : proposed public transport infrastructure

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Concept plans

After discusing and maping streets, public transport, green corridors and densities separately, on those two maps we present existing and proposed concept plan. We will use this as a guide and background for our next phases all the way to the masterplan. We will try to realize proposed changes.

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Fig. 26 : Existing nodes, densities, transport and ecological networks

Low density Medium density High density Urban main streets Local main streets

Existing strong nodes Existing clusters of shops Public amenity Private amenity

400m radius from existing nodes

bus routes Suburban railways New train station

Fig. 27 : Proposed nodes, densities, transport and ecological networks

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Site challenges

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3. Site Challenges While thinking about all proposal and vision we mention above we need to take into account that Milton already exists. This stage shows diagrams we made while were discussing about the place.

Site analysis diagram In this step we recognize main site defect what makes our task more challenging. After we are aware of the problems, we can make a good strategy diagram for future steps. According to the site analysis we conclude that poor urban design planning in the past causes residential superblocks with low density housing and inefficient usage of land (1).

Our main objective, Liddesdale road is currently on the list of the fear zones having insufficient lighting and no escape routes (2). People are complaining about the daytime activities on the main square together with quiet and empty Liddesdale road (3).

Physical issues diagram To continue with the weaknesses of the place, we notice poor and inconsistent spatial quality and a lot of vacant land, esspecialy on the southern side of the Liddesdale road (1). Liddesdale square is currently in the middle of the east end of Liddesdale road what makes all circulation stop in the Milton without connection to the east part of the northern Glasgow (2) . Moreover after we pass through Liddesdale square, another barrier is railway which is causing bad connectivity and permeability (3).

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Fig. 28 : Site analysis diagram (description in the text)

Fig. 29 : Existing situation on Liddesdale road (left) and Liddesdale square (right)

Fig. 30 : Physical issues diagram (description in the text)

Fig. 31 : Existing situations: end of the Liddesdale road (left) and vacant land (right)

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Proposed uses diagram First diagram illustrated our vision of uses. As we present, we imagine Liddesdale square as the open community space, for all residents and other people passing through our new Milton. In this more abstract step, we imagine extension of Liddesdale square as a mixed use developments in Liddesdale street, slowing down services and shops and heading to the west, more residential part. Under the diagram we show some imagination about the mixed use, active groundfloor, image of the street and open space.

Strategic diagram Moving on to strategic diagram, here we illustrated our discussion about the place. We want to remove all physical barriers which make Milton stand as an island in the surrounding so we are planning to introduce new platworm to improve the connection (1). Milton has an opportunity because of sitting just on a suburban railway what can bring new people to the neighbourhood and countryside, so we are going to introduce new train staton (2). Lack of public spaces, caffes and services where families can spend theor free time all together is commont problem in whole Milton so we are going to look at that problem, esspetialy in Liddesdale square area (3). Connected to the new open public spaces we thought about extension of services and introducing active frontages along the Liddesdale road to make people walk through the Milton (4). As we mentioned before, existing superblocks are reducing accessibility and walkabilty of the neighboorhood, so the plan is to break down the sizes of the block and improve the density (5), at the same time think about redeveloping vacant land along our main street (6),

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Fig. 32 : Proposed uses diagram

Fig. 33 : Vision of the mix-use development, active groundfloor and open community spaces

Fig. 34 : Strategic diagram (description in the text)

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Site challenges

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Block structure challenge Previous analysis shows that Milton’s raod layout is not enough legible so the aim of this challenge is clear, we need to reduce block size and simplify the street network. Milton, as a whole, has problems in terms of accessibility and connectivity. In this step we illustrate the existing situation in compare to our proposal. For example, if we had 6 blocks in our masterplan area, now we have 17, so we almost tripled the number of the blocks, reducing their sizes and increasing the number of the streets.

The average size of the existing block in our masterplan area in square metres is 29 182, while averege of proposed block size is 11 600 square metres. As a consequence, we get more fluent area which offering more options to users. Moreover, we improve Milton’s grid, increase number of 4-way intersections, what makes the area more legible. Our proposal support legibility, connectivity and accessibility with aim to increase cyclist, pedestrian and better life on the streets.

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Fig. 35 : Existing block structure (measure in square meters)

Fig. 37 : Existing intersections

Fig. 36 : Proposed block structure (measure in square meters)

4-way intersections 3-way intersections cul-de-sacs Fig. 38 :Proposed intersections

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Traffic calming challenge Traffic calming, problem of the majority of the cities and neighborhood today s a system of designing and management strategies that aim to balance traffic on streets with other uses. Considering that our masterplan area is based and focused on Liddesdale road which, in our vision, is becoming main urban street, traffic calming is something we need to take into consideration. It is founded on the idea that streets should help create and preserve a sense of place, that their purpose is for people to walk, stroll, look, meet, shop and work alongside cars, but not dominated by them. Besides its power and impact on livability of a place, the beauty of slowing traffic down is that it can be applied inexpensively what we are certainly looking for.

64.1% of the households in Milton and Lambhill do not have access to car or van but there is still high level of road accident casualties. Current vehicle speed in Milton depend on a number of speed pumps. According to the previous analysis, on the Liddesdale road as the straight and main road, the median speed reaches 32 mph what means that some drivers are going much faster than the speed limit. Currently, all problems are solved with speed bumps. It can be successful, but not for too long and not it every street. Speed bummps are cheap solution which do nothing for the pleasantness of a street. In addition, Milton does not have anything you can call a ‘main street’. We make proposal in way to design streets which encourage slow traffic in areas of community activities and make streets more friendlier.

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1 Liddesdale road passing through Liddesdale square This part of the Milton is currently a Liddesdale square. according to our analysis we propose exstension of the Liddesdale road passing through square ehat means that new part of the road will go through open public space with high level of pedestrian. Being the new local main street, pedestrian will have difficulty crossing the road. Instead of traffic light, the proposed traffic calming measure for the area is the change of direction and level to indicate drivers that they are entering a pedestrian priority road as well as change of materials.

2 Liddesdale road passing through strong pedestrian spot Located close to an open public space along the Liddesdale road make us introduce traffic calming measure. Changing the level of the road and material we are raising attentivenes to the drivers. Zebra crossing is also introduced to make crossing easier for pedestrian.

3. Along the Liddesdale road As the solution to slow down the traffic along the whole Liddesadle road we found the side parking. Drivers are not feeling comfortable when they have parked cars around them. This solution is simple and inexpensive and changes the perception of the street. In addition it shortens the “peering distance� for people crossing the street and oncoming drivers must me alert to the cars pulling out. All of these added driver awareness and creates more awarness of pedestrians.

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Fig. 39 : Choosen parts of the road

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1 This road currently does not exist. It is Liddesdale square.

Fig. 40 : Liddesdale road passing through Liddesdale square

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Fig. 41 : Liddesdale road passing through strong pedestrian spots

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Fig. 42 : Along the Liddesdale road

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4. Comparative Study Placa del Doctor Letamendi, Barcelona Placa del Doctor LetamendiIt is located at the intersection between the streets of Aragon and Enric Granados in Barcelona. The square is rhombic form because of the block shapes around it. Although, square is located in a much hectic part of the city in compare to Milton, but we found it interesting that road is passing trough the middle of the open public space where the concentration of the pedestrians is high. As a traffic calming solution they choose traffic light, zebra crossing, side parkings and additional paintings on the road.

The Green Bridge, London The Green Bridge is located in Mile End Park in the eastern London. The bridge is invented to overcome the conflict between the park and the road.

As the idea of this bridge is to join two halves of the park, we connect it two our barrier of the railway between two neighbourhoods. This park was the key elemnt of the regenration proposal for the park. The bridge has been designed as a curved surface sloping up towards the edges to lighten and reduce the impact of the width of the bridge over the space underneath.

The Howard County roundabout, Lisbon The roundabout is located in the rural area in Lisbon. Prior to solution of the roundabout there was 4-way intersection, as we would have on the intersection of the Ashgill and Liddesdale road between two neighbourhoods.

The roundabout is constructed with circulatory roadway 18ft wide and the landscaped central island. This roundabout resulted in a crash reduction of 84%, reduced injury crashes by 92.2% per year and no fatal crashes have occurred.

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Fig. 43 : Placa del doctor Letamendi, Barcelona, Spain

Fig. 44 : The Green Bridge, Mile End, East London

8 vehicle to vehicle conflicts 8 vehicle to pedestrian conflicts

32 vehicle to vehicle conflicts 24 vehicle to vehicle conflicts

Fig. 45 : The Howard County roundabout, Lisbon, Portugal

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Foundation Masterplan

5. Foundation Masterplan Developing the masterplan The core Masterplan area is the linear shape of the Liddesdale road with proposed intervetions in the surrounding area with focus on improvements to existing blocks sizes, vacant land and existing street layout. To achieve the masterplan aims and bring out the potentials this site offer, challenges we mentioned befor must be overcome. Density have to be sufficient to sustain demand but at the same time follow the street hierarchy. Network is not well connected with surrounding area due to previous planning, vacant land and physical barriers discourage walking and make visual interruptions.

Fig. 46 : Hand sketch (developing thoughts)

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Transformation and confirmation areas This step inproducing the Foundation masterplan identified which part of our design area will undergo major changes in density, land-use and street layout. Discussing about the map we take into account previously selected strategy. We can say less important area is confirmation area and is not supposed to change significantly in lan-use, density and street hierarchy in next 25 years, but we do not have those area withing our final design area.

Specialist area area those with the special functions and are not normally divided in plots. In our case specialist areas are major public facilities as primary school with gym and library or space of community garden.

Specialist area

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Transformation area Confirmation area

Fig. 47 : Confirmation / transformation areas map

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Proposed uses Looking at Milton as existing neghbourhood there is already a lot of good what we want to preserve. Moreover, people are living there, have their habits and way of living so we do not want to replace something they use and like. We imagine west part of the road more residential with just few smaller shops or services and eastern part as a focal point of services and public spaces, inviting new people from surrounding to Milton.

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Specialist - public, community Specialist - retail, leasure Residental Mixed-use Fig. 48 : Proposed uses 3D visualisation

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Medium density (45-75 unit/ha) Services Public green Confirmation area Landmark building New public space Masterplan area Railway line Main urban street Local main street Local street Bus route Cycle path Bus station Train station

Local node (200m, 400m)

Medium density (65-75 unit/ha)

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Medium density (55-64 unit/ha)

M=

Medium density (45-54 unit/ha)

M-

Low density (36-44 unit/ha)

L+

Low density (28-35 unit/ha)

L=

Low density (20-27 unit/ha)

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Mixed-use front

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Fig. 49 : Foundation masterplan

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Density calculations This part is focused on the transformatian area we decide before. Taking into account densities proposed in concept plan, now we link specific density to every street edge accoring to street hierarchy. Here we present actual zones for development, with different densities on every street edge.

Usually there is three level of density: high, medium and low, but since our are is in the northern Glasgow and it is not a strong urban node, our density starts with medium.

Firstly, we calculate existing densities around our masterplan area. The important step was to bring new density to the neighbourhood, connect it with new street hierarchy but not make a huge step between old and new calculation and surrounding area. It has to be smooth step between to types od densities. As we show on foundation masterplan we have medium type of density, subdividen into 3 categories: top, mid and bottom (+, =, -).

Medium density top (M+) 65-75 un/ha Medium density mid (M=) 55-64 un/ha Medium density bottom (M-) 45-54 un/ha

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Fig. 50 : Masterplan area with block numbers

Fig. 51 : Density table

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Building Typologies

6. Building Typologies Milton acts as Glasgow’s edge to the countryside. It need to be visible in our masterplan and we need to carefully choose building types to preserve identity of the place. We are looking for smooth change between higher density on the Liddesdale road and “quiet vein” behind the first block with slightly lower density. Our vision of the place are multy family houses, aggregated in lines along the Liddesdale road, sometimes with active frontage with miwed-use ground floor and single family houses, in allotment or in a row located on our secondary and tertiay streets.

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Single family Single family houses/ Isolated in lot

Single family houses/ Aggregated in row

Twin family houses

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Fig. 52 : Single family houses in a lot vision

Fig. 53 : Single family houses in a row vision

Fig. 54 : Single family houses in a row vision (type2)

Fig. 55 : Twin family houses

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Multi family Multi family houses/ Line double/ Aggregated in row

Multi family houses/ Line double coupled/ Aggregated in row

Multi family houses/ Line/ Deck

Multy family houses/ Tower

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Fig. 56 : Multi houses in a row vision

Fig. 57 : Multy family houses vision

Fig. 58 : Multi family houses with the deck vision

Fig. 59 : Multi family tower vision

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Single family house, isolated in lot

Multii family house, deck

Multi family houses, aggregated in row

Multi family house, tower

Multi family house, agreggated in row

Comercial buildings/ mixed-use

Single family house, aggregated in row

Public facilities Cycle line Fig. 60 : Milton Promenade Masterplan

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Expectations and phasing

8. Expectations and phasing After analysing and working on Milton we set out some vision in next 20 to 30 years. In Milton case we need to stay realistic, areas on the city periphery share plenty in common like low density, car-dominated and illegible streets.

One of the thing we want to change as fast as it is possible is to to the neighbourhood. To support that idea we need stronger node with which we expact in first 5 to 6 years. The vision is to double the population in our masterplan area. In addition, in terms of we want to offer a few different types as we show above, some with groundwork retail with stories of housing above should be able to create density and work well. In next 10 years we want Liddesdale road to become heading to the other parts of the northern Glasgow, also to act as a clear centre of Milton, with higher densities along the road supporting ground floor services. As we illustarate, there will be shift towards introducing cycle paths, new bus and train station. Pavements will become wide with pocket parks and small squares to and relations between people. We see Milton Promenade as a street especially Liddesdale square part with new services, activities and .

bring

more people everyday services typology

main east-west route

cyclists and public transport

pedestrian,

encourage social life ttractive

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Approach to attractive promenade Temporary urbanism? It is a slight change for people and easier to accept when they know that it is just for few days or months, nevertheless, maybe they will like it. Furthermore, this approach can involve residents and respect their thoughts about the place, what they want it to be, what they need, in the end, they will live there and we do not want to produce uninhabitable spaces. As we conclude in analysis part of our project, people in Milton want to be involved, they want to help and they are interested in better life there, that is why we think temporary urbanism technique will work there, to make them come out on the streets. Parallel with all other changes we are proposing for Milton, we will be happy to implement this technique in some open spaces we create (new Liddesdale square and Scalpay square) as workshops, exhibitions, children animations, recycling and similar. It is clear that it is not a big change for the whole city but it supporting and supplementing the vision of the neighborhood and introducing a positive change in the space as well as in the people that are using it.

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- construction of roundabout at the east part of Liddesdale road - reconnecting liddesdale road throught Liddesdale square - building new housing block typologies instead of vacant land - reconnecting Scalpay road - developing new services at the Liddesdale square

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- construction of new train station and green park - creation of new urban gym and sport terrain in Milton Club - improving the density with new blocks - improving landscape design of the Liddesdale road

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- introducing new square (Scalpay) - developing new blocks near the train station - bringing new services at tge square - creation of the linear park near the train station

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- completing the rest of the blocks accoring to demand

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10. Conclusion Milton has been an isolated, disconnected and neglected area of Glasgow., with Liddesdale road and square acting as a main part of the neighbourhood, althought without identity. On the northern edge of the city, for many it doesn’t register as anything more than an end of line bus terminus.

Milton Promenade is an area located in the middle of Milton, focused on linear node around Liddesdale road includind eastern connection to the rest of the northern Glasgow. There is a huge amount of work to be done, but there is also much in Milton which is already good.

After the strategy phase of the project, we identified the key issues affecting Milton and laid out masterplan which hope will help reduce physical, social and economic isolation, and push Milton little further over the next 20 to 30 years.

Our proposal is to reconnect Liddesdale road at the east, making the road a key local centre and node what will make Milton more destination than dead end. Moreover developing new blocks, services, squares and other pleasant public spaces we are going to increase the density and hopefully bring new people. By developing much of the derelict land lining the road into a mixed use, attractive high street, we hope to to make the whole area more attractive and alluring for people to come out on the streets and squares, enjoying their neighbourhood.

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Fig. 64 : Liddesdale road in the future

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