TRANSPORT + PUBLIC REALM STRATEGY |
Glasgow District Regeneration Frameworks | Glasgow City Council
Firstly as part of a team including Gehl Architects, and currently as part of a team with Studio for New Realities and Austin Smith Lord, Urban Movement has led the development of a Glasgow Public Realm, Streetscape and Transport Regeneration Framework + Action Plan. This 10-year regeneration strategy involved the development of 15-minute city principles for Glasgow, packaging these into easily actionable projects at a variety of scales and levels of complexity. Urban Movement developed a proprietary mapping technique to analyse a large amount of data to assess how Glasgow was performing against a number of 15-minute city datasets, mapping these against inequity, health and transport datasets in order to highlight proposals aimed at delivering 15-minute city principles and tackling social inequity, transport poverty and the climate crisis.
Designs were developed to demonstrate the potential of future interventions and raise excitement, with several having been delivered. Feasibility designs were packaged into S, M, L, XL project scales alongside Quick Wins and ’No Regrets Optimism Bomb’ proposals that aimed to mark a shift in approach for the city - placing transport as a servant to quality of life - and highlighting the need for change following the coronavirus crisis. These projects were then packaged into an Action Plan for Change, rather than just listing projects, we set out the immediate next steps for every project - detailing who to meet with tomorrow to get the project started, and who the working group should be, alongside a timeline for delivery. Through detailed analysis and a truly enormous co-design approach we worked with people across the city and those that use the city to establish what they think of the place, and what they see as priorities. Initially this was undertaken through on street engagement, focus sessions and workshops, but more recently we have had to move co-design sessions online using interactive online workshops, Miro board sessions, live sketching sessions and one-to-one conversations to make meaningful connections with local people and ensure their ambitions for the city are embedded in the 10-year plan.
Designs were developed to demonstrate the potential of future interventions and raise excitement, with several having been delivered. Feasibility designs were packaged into S, M, L, XL project scales alongside Quick Wins and ’No Regrets Optimism Bomb’ proposals that aimed to mark a shift in approach for the city - placing transport as a servant to quality of life - and highlighting the need for change following the coronavirus crisis. These projects were then packaged into an Action Plan for Change, rather than just listing projects, we set out the immediate next steps for every project - detailing who to meet with tomorrow to get the project started, and who the working group should be, alongside a timeline for delivery. Through detailed analysis and a truly enormous co-design approach we worked with people across the city and those that use the city to establish what they think of the place, and what they see as priorities. Initially this was undertaken through on street engagement, focus sessions and workshops, but more recently we have had to move co-design sessions online using interactive online workshops, Miro board sessions, live sketching sessions and one-to-one conversations to make meaningful connections with local people and ensure their ambitions for the city are embedded in the 10-year plan.
