Transcript Town Planning and Urban Design As If Public Transport Matters

Town Planning and Urban Design
As If Public Transport Matters?
Presented to:
MWH Auckland
Presented by:
Poul Tvermoes
Date:
August 2007
Its not business as usual anymore given
climate change as one driver, it is
changing the way be think of things and
do them
The chicken or the egg : choosing the
principal model of public transport for an
area will determine what is planned,
designed and built
What’s the aim of public transport: to
move people from point a to point b with
ease and in comfort?
How: Mode of transport chosen and
urban form which supports it?
What’s the aim of town planning and urban
design: to create places to live and work which
meet the needs of people to day and in such a
way that does not reduce the ability of future
generations to do the same?
Planning as if we intended to stay
might also be the aim or definition.
Objectives to deliver in town planning:
• Improving the quality of life for people : Defining this
• Reducing land consumption and energy consumption
• Sustainability : social, cultural, economic and ecological
• Climate change / Green house Gas Emission Reduction
• Risk management and low energy use– post oil peak
• People moving with ease
• Clear vision for an urban area or region i.e. what you want in 2
yrs, 5 yrs and 50 years
• Desired transit service levels i.e. a tram every 15 minutes
• Integration
Transit Oriented Development/Design (TOD)
Compact development / urban form focused
on public transport, particularly train and tram,
coupled with density of activity (Calthorpe,
1993).
In other words the characteristics of
older European cities
• Stockholm
• Copenhagen
Stockholm
Copenhagen
• Paris
• Freiberg
Paris
• Berlin
Freigburg
• London
Skarpnack
Paris
The Approaches/ Tools
• Master Planning / Place Making / Relocalisation
• Urban Design / Urban Design Frameworks/transit
oriented design (development)
• Local Area Plans / Structure Planning
• Strategic Planning
Examples of Development Across the ditch
• Western Australia Subiaco Central - Before & After,
Urban Village/ TOD & the legislative framework
(liveable neighbourhoods / new urbanism)
• The Mandurah - Dream Strategic Planning / TOD
• Queensland - What the Gold Coast is doing TOD
(activity centres') & proposed light rail development,
the cost too?
• Brisbane rail stations under review; what might their
role be?
Coming Back to Densities & Integration
• Desired Built Form : Density, Height limits, site coverage,
urban form to support public transport ?
• 200 people per hectares, 20 000 per kilometres around
transport hubs (the catchments) to support movement of
around 5000 people per hour determines an overall type of
urban form
• Distance between activity centres or hubs
• Changing the conception of high and medium densities from
50 people per hectares to 100 as medium density, high
densities are 200 persons per hectare and above.
• Moving people in such a way that does not use a great deal of
energy nor create significant amounts of emission per kilo of
persons moved.
Further a Field
• The Bahrain National Planning and Development
Strategic Planning Activity Centres, intersection of
light and heavy rail, economic opportunities,
linkages to other transport forms such as planes
and water taxis
• The North Bahrain New Town 14 islands and 100
000 people Master Planning/Urban Design – Light
Rail System as core of urban transport
Further a Field
• The North Bahrain New Town 14 islands and 100
000 people Master Planning/Urban Design – Light
Rail System as core of urban transport