Ben Hamilton-Baillie - Streets, Networks and Public Space

Ben Hamilton BaillieBen Hamilton Baillie Associates

“Delivering Better Places”

Design Skills Symposium 2011, Tollbooth, Stirling

Streets, networks & public space

Ben Hamilton-Baillie www.hamilton-baillie.co.uk

Design Skills Symposium Scotland

Exhibition Road, London

O’Connell Street, Dublin

Siena, Italy

Traffic in Towns. The Buchanan Report 1963

Eugène Hénard Proposals for traffic circulation Paris 1905

“Traffic segregation should be the keynote of modern road design”

Ministry of Transport (1966)“Roads in Urban Areas”

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Published Nov 2010

CABE Better Streets Studies

Liverpool

Manchester

Newcastle

Nottingham

Bristol

Bideford

Kensington

Devizes

Dublin

Harlow

Birmingham New Street

“The swings are packed away at night because kids might climb the fence and use them unsupervised and hurt themselves.”

Rubberized mattingbarriers

No swings

No children

Kensington High Street - before

Before: average annual rate between March 98 and February 2001

After: average annual rate between September 2003 and March 2005

Drop in casualties from 1999 to 2004

-22

-26

-14

-18

-43

-25 -26

-35

-64

-18

-35

-44

-70

-60

-50

-40

-30

-20

-10

0

Pedestrian Cyclists Motorcycles All%

London

RBKC

KHS

Kensington High Street Casualty Review

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

Dispelling myths and misunderstandings amongst highway engineers

Stresses professional judgement over convention and simple application of guidance

Reviews the realities of legal liability and corporate risk

The Highway• Regulated

• Impersonal

• Linear

• Single Purpose

• Consistent

• Predictable

• Systematic

• State controlled

• Signs and markings

The Public Realm• Culturally defined

• Personal

• Spatial

• Multi-purpose

• Constantly changing

• Unpredictable

• Contextual

• Cultural / social rules

• Eye contact

Context timeSystem time

Hans Monderman1946-2008

Makkinga, Friesland

Noordlaren, Groningen

Petersfield, Hampshire

Shrewsbury High Street

St. Armel, Brittany

Drachten, Friesland

De Kaden, Drachten

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Poynton, Cheshire

Aachen, Germany

Norrkøpping, Sweden

Skvallertorget

before after

Portishead, BristolTraffic light switch-off

New Road, Brighton

Ashford Ring Road, Kent

Lost O

St. Gallen “Stadtlounge” Switzerland

Seven Dials, Covent Garden

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