2011 Quality of Space – Quality of Life Planning for Urban Needs of diverse timeframes

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    EUSS11 Student projects summaries Projects: Arroja-Odivelas and Sintra – Praia das Maçãs
    (AESOP, 2011) Ryser, Judith
    For their practical work, the summer school students were allocated wo sites, in need of urban transformation in the context of declining local authority funding. The purpose of the design projects was to generate creative solutions to revitalise a commuter suburb of Lisbon (Arroya-Odivelas) and a coastal village (Sintra – Praia das Macas) with summer tourism. The background to these projects was the acknowledgement that the public sector was no longer in a position to fund urban regeneration. The students were expected to produce alternative planning approaches with new stakeholders and funding opportunities. Analysis of traditional high street and proposals for transformation within contemporary constraints. One background study towards the summer school design tasks consisted of an analysis of the decline of traditional high streets. It was expected to assist students in rethinking the declining public realm in their study areas which amounts to a generic planning problem in many parts of the world, and in particular in Europe.
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    Towards understanding quality of urban space
    (AESOP, 2011) Franchini, Teresa; Ryser, Judith
    The humble London bus shelter illustrates connections between quality of space and quality of life, the theme of EUSS 2011. London bus shelters are designed by architects. Their brief emanates from the planning system. The bus stop area and spaces linking it to its surroundings fall into the realm of urban design. Their wider context depends on a multitude of values influenced by diverse protagonists. The planned objective of a bus shelter is to accommodate persons who are using buses. Its function is to provide shelter, a roof, somewhere to sit, a view to see the bus arriving. The functional requirements devised by the bus company and its controlling transport department are for people to get on a bus and alight as fast and as economically as possible. When bus conductors were withdrawn to save a second salary, machines were installed for passengers to buy tickets in advance, thereby accelerating the process of entering and stepping off the bus. Another economic criterion is to produce the bus stop as cheaply as possible. It has to be vandal proof to prevent expensive maintenance and repairs. Moreover, it has to generate income. For this reason it offers space for advertisements. A prototype applied London-wide generates economies of scale, although it may not satisfy local conditions.