riba liverpool city tours 18_03_14

RIBA Liverpool City Tours

Richard Traceyrtracey@liverpoolvision.co.uk

18th March 2014

Game Changing INVESTMENT

RetailCommerce Creativity

CONNECTIONS

Next Generation RETAIL

Exhilarated VISITORS

The Smiths complete, 2011

Architrash:Buildings of absolutely no merit.

Big-bang architecture: Buildings that look as if they have appeared from nowhere, seemingly designed with no account for their surroundings. Example: ‘The dynamic of lottery funding creates big-bang architecture, buildings beamed down from nowhere’ (2004).

Plop art: A pejorative term for a work of public art placed with little consideration of its setting. The term recalls the more familiar ‘pop art’.

“I can see the Wirral like a

spatulate tongue licking the Irish Sea”

“Planning is not Rabies”

“We have a tradition of large scale planned development”

“We seem to have swallowed Rogers UTF for density, but forgotten to create the spaces we need between developments”

“… a hugely ambitious vision

that Liverpool could be dragged up from

its miserable position at the bottom of the

league of major European cities …

that it might be possible to change the fortunes of the City by reactivating

its centre”

Rod Holmes, Grosvenor Estates

Creative Concern

• Economically Distinctive• Build on Success• Capitalise on distinctive brand and quality of place

CORE PRINCIPLES

• 6 Major Transformational Actions• Expanding the population – Distinctive Neighbourhoods• Infrastructure• Strategic Initiatives

STRATEGIC ACTIONS

WATERFRONT

Filling in the gaps

Connecting the attractions and connecting the Waterfront with the City Centre

Enlivening the river, the water spaces and spaces around buildings

ST GEORGE’S

A new heart

Parades, celebrations, street carnivals trophy-raising

CENTRAL

KNOWLEDGE QUARTER

Ensure that Liverpool retains and attracts students, Research and high growth businesses

Development of key sites such as Copperas Hill and the Royal Liverpool Hospital

Improve gateways, routes and spaces

COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

Expanding east towards Pall Mall, west towards the Waterfront into Princes Dock, the first phases of Liverpool Waters

Investing in public realm and connecting routes

Provide new Grade A office space

GREAT STREETS

A transformational and distinctive programme of investment focusing on three important strategic corridors

GREAT STREETS – THE STRAND

GREAT STREETS –WATER STREET/DALE STREET/LIME STREET

GREAT STREETS – HOPE STREET

An expanding population growing from 32,000 to 42,000

Residential expansion – a place

that is good to live in is good to

invest in and visit

© 2013 MONOCLE

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A NEW RELATIONSHIP THE CITY CITY NORTH SUBURBS

A statement of ambition and intent, a framework for co-ordinating investment and actions…….. not a Masterplan

Personality _ a place of parks, streets and canals

In the beginning a big

blank Everton Park

Retained Park: c25 - 30ha

Potential Development sites: 12 – 17 ha c.450 homes?

EVERTON PARK STEERING GROUP OCT 2012

ITEM 2: Strategic Approaches

Prepared by James Corner Field Operations, 2012

Prepared by James Corner Field Operation, 2012

It all starts witha park, Everton Park..... a park which will use beauty as a competitive advantage to attract wealth, talent and investment.

from Bruce Mau, 2010

Image by Mark Loudon

www.markloudon.com

Everton Park – 800 years of

history in one view

Sky Pier, Liverpool

Image by Broadway Malyan

The 1:100 scale model of the Sky Pier

by Broadway Malyan, Liverpool 2013

£2,050,000

• A landmark steel building

of 1745m2

• 270o panorama of the City

and Mersey Estuary

• Unique ‘Sky-Walk’ open

roof deck experience

• Mersey Observatory /

exhibition space

• 150,000 none paying

viewing gallery visitors per

annum

• 85 catered for events &

conferences per annum

• Operational surplus for the

Park after 3 years

• Up to 30 direct jobs

• 174 gross additional jobs

for Liverpool City Region

• £13.3M gross additional

GVA over 3 years

• GVA to return on public

investment 1:6.5

• BREEAM ‘Outstanding’

environmental standard

• 100 year maintenance free

Corten 10 steel ‘hull’

• Constructed as a

monocoque hull to reflect

maritime heritage

• Designed by Liverpool

based Broadway Malyan

1.. Up, not outSustainability as well as success in the modern knowledge economy requires density, the clustering of people. Clearly, we need to reduce urban sprawl, but supply and demand has made living downtown in major cities unaffordable. We have to build more housing, a lot more, and the only way to go is up.

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

TRANSLATE:• Bigger cities in the north• More families in the cities

2. The right densityOf course, too much density can be as bad as too little. Like suburban sprawl, the skyscraper canyons isolate people and suppress the spontaneous social interaction that powers innovation and growth. Creativity thrives in .. a downtown mix. As Jane Jacobs famously said, density should stimulate diversity, not repress it.

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

TRANSLATE:• Baltic Quarter 2 – in North

Liverpool?• Green Print for Growth BID

3. Transit is the ticketJust as investment in rail and roads once spurred growth, a new round of spending on urban transit can spark denser development and greater human connectivity.

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

TRANSLATE:• Start HS2 in Liverpool• Open new / old stations on

Merseyrail lines

4. No free ridesWe buy tickets to travel by train, bus and plane, so why give car drivers a free pass, when it amounts to a giant subsidy for suburban development? It’s time for people to pay for the roads they use. This will reduce congestion and encourage development that goes up rather than out.

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

TRANSLATE:• Congestion charging for all cities• More carriageway for bikes and

people

5. Share the wealthTo make cities more affordable and equitable, urban growth must be more inclusive, and of benefit to all economic classes. This requires upgrading millions of jobs in the service sector. Higher pay makes employees more engaged and innovative, which improves customer service and promotes prosperity.

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

TRANSLATE:• Living Wage (not Minimum)• More education – skills for talent

attraction

6. Diversity = creativityDiversity can make a city a cauldron of creativity, but as musical innovators David Byrne and Moby have lamented, great cities are becoming so expensive that creative people are being edged out. To remain fertile, they must be affordable to all – artists as well as techies and professionals.

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

TRANSLATE:• Change of use• Blur the boundaries

7. Keep it greenLong at war with nature, many cities have improved their environmental records, but they can do better. They also must be more resilient, a requirement illustrated dramatically by recent natural disasters from ice storms to hurricanes.

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

TRANSLATE:• Atlantic Gateway Parklands for

Prosperity• Wildflowers & trees & country

gardens

8. Safety for allCanadians assume our cities to be safe, but elsewhere there remains great danger. From the slums of the global south to the “sacrifice zones” of such places as Newark, Detroit, Chicago’s South Side and Oakland, there are still killing fields, and not nearly enough is being done to halt the violence.

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

TRANSLATE:• Stay where you are!• Community empowerment

9. Design for healthCities are said to be the only organisms whose metabolic rate increases with size: They prosper because they speed goods, people and ideas around. But favouring the automobile also promotes obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes. We can design cities for better health, lowering the cost of care in the process.

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

TRANSLATE:• 2020 City of Health and Wellbeing • Natural Choices + ‘Boris’ bikes

10. Be family friendlyThe resurgence of cities is driven in part by their attractiveness to young singles as well as empty-nesters. But too many places are on their way to becoming childless. Great cities have decent schools, safe streets, good jobs and affordable housing, all of which should make them friendly to families, be they gay or straight, rich or poor, or from any ethnic or racial group.

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

TRANSLATE:• GreenPrint – city garden suburbs• Larger – affordable apartments