1. STREET IDEAS Esther Kurland, Urban Design London

2. Public Realm Urban Design Place Status Level Surface Shared Space Delineation Shared Surface Civilised SPACE Naked Street Balanced streets Mixed Priority Routes De-cluttering Safe Zones Movement Status

3. It’s all about BETTER BALANCED STREETS

4. THE LINK/PLACE THEORY

5. GUIDING PRINCIPLES Understand function Reflect character Decide the degree of separation Imagine a blank canvas Avoid over-elaboration Go for quality Work with users

6. Understand Function

7. What are streets for? Movement Pedestrians Cyclists Buses Cars Deliveries Parking Place Shopping Playing Socialising Eating/drinking Sitting Events

8. What are streets for? Movement Pedestrians Cyclists Buses Cars Deliveries Parking Place Shopping Playing Socialising Eating/drinking Sitting Events

9. What are streets for? Movement Pedestrians Cyclists Buses Cars Deliveries Parking Place Shopping Playing Socialising Eating/drinking Sitting Events

10. Reflect Character

12. Strand Almost always, the street should be the stage – not the star

13. Decide the degree of separation

14. Formal separation Still segregation but rebalanced spaces No formal segregation, everyone uses all the space

15. There are many other traditional forms of segregation AND: they don’t necessarily achieve their intended consequences!

16. There are many other traditional forms of segregation

18. Britannia Junction,Camden Town

20. Avoid over- elaboration

21. Carnaby Street in the 60s

22. Ashford, Kent

23. Go for quality

24. Cannon Street

26. Strand

27. 27 Work with Users

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30. Types of changes that can rebalance streets

31. Narrower lanes, wider footways Bernard Street, Camden

33. Cannon Street/Queen Street, The City Change ped/veh priority - Cannon Street/Queen Street, The City

35. Improving Crossings - High Street Kensington

37. Subways replaced by surface crossings - Marble Arch

39. Comprehensive change – bus lanes - Walworth Road

40. Comprehensive change - no bus lane - Walworth Road

41. Comprehensive change - flat island - Walworth Road

42. A new market - Whitecross Street

44. - A new theatre quarter - Brighton, New Road

46. One Way System- Piccadilly

47. A New Boulevard- Piccadilly

48. New Experience – Exhibition Road

50. Coulsdon Town Centre

52. Woolwich Town Centre – Plumstead Road

53. Woolwich Town Centre – General Gordon Square

54. Greenford Town Centre

55. Camden High Street

56. Herne Hill

58. Clapham Town Centre – Lavender Hill

60. Clapham Town Centre – Venn Street (Before)

61. Clapham Town Centre – Venn Street (Now)