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Liveability –the Regeneration Challenge
Ciarán Cuffe , Planning Lecturer and City Councillor
Queens University Belfast, 19th May 2015
Liveability
The ability of places to provide
for the needs of all generations
to learn from, benefit and help
each other throughout their lives
In an age of limits our inner cities can
continue to act as role models of low-carbon
walkeable, cycleable and vibrant
communities
Role of the Inner City
Development
• Focus on regeneration and refurbishment
• Importance of area based planning schemes
• Mixed use
• Near zero energy
• Walkability
Community
• Potential for community gain
• Places for inter-cultural gathering
• Involvement of residents
• Importance of festivals, pop-up events
• Mixed-income neighbourhoods
Place-making
• Antithesis of Corbusian Ideal
• Need to reclaim the Street
• Importance of temporary uses
• Place as a social construct
• Potential of city-owned small sites
• Redesign balance between hard and soft modes of travel
Conclusions
• Cities must constantly reinvent themselves
• Empowering communities crucial to success
• Place-making must be inclusive
• Mobility is too important to be left to engineers
• Heritage can be a springboard for regeneration
ciaran.cuffe@dit.ie
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