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Urban Design Issues
Milton Keynes, Thomas Smith-Keary, 14045700
"How can retrofitted transport infrastructre create innovative & vibrant social spaces for people that impacts positevley on local identity?"
Overarching Aim
This project is based on the initial findings of Issues I, where in groups we set out to try and answer the following question:
How do we safeguard and deliver high environmental standards and sustainable lifestyles in the context of increasing intensification of land use?
The premise behind the question being that, the world is increasingly becoming urbanised, in 2012 the number of people lving in urban settlements compared to rural ones surpassed 50% for the first time in known history, with the figure predicted to continually rise. To avoid the rapid expansion of suburbia and urban sprawl, cities must be built a higher densities with more intensification of land use and become more comact.
This has several negative connotations involving overcrowding and a degradation of green space and the public realm which we had to overcome with a conceptual design and a generic model (this will be explained in more detail later on).
From this a number of sub issues were extracted which form the initial basis of Issues II, which were then refined and molded to a particular place following a visit to our test site, Midsummer East Boulevard in Milton Keynes.
Introduction
Case studies
Literature Review
Analysis
Application
Summary of Issues I
Define Issues II
Site Testing
Design Principles
Methodology
The methodology for Issues II is a three point investigation of Inquiry by Design; Introduction, Analysis and Application
The introduction is the findings and a brief summary of the principles from from Issues I, from this the aim of Issues II is explored and defined.
The Analysis section takes the form of a small literature review, setting out the key generic principles from which to base the subsequent deisgn issues on. From this several case studies will be reviewed following these principles and other criteria establishing best practice examples, following both of these the projects design objectives, and then the design principles will emerge.
The application section takes the design objectives and explains how these have been applied using the design principles to the site in question, at 1:500 and 1:200 scales.
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