As Manchester Metropolitan University has grown so has its income and subsequent funding. As a result this money has now been made available to invest in new buildings so that the University can continue to grow. The new Birley Fields Campus has been built slightly away from the main University Campus and as a result sits within a residential area and neighbours many others, including Hulme, Moss Side and Chorlton-on-Medlock. With the addition of the new campus there has and evidently will be further impact on the social and cultural lives of local residents. I propose to investigate any constraints that had to be met for the proposal to go ahead and whether there were any obligations raised by the local community and how significantly these were overlooked when the political entities were concentrating solely on the corporate expansion of the MMU site. I will explore other proposals in Manchester to see whether they differ to Birley Fields, and whether Moss Side’s tarnished reputation played any aspect in the choice of the resultant location. I aim to gain a first hand account of whether residents feel injustice in the process of redevelopment, how subtle/sudden the change is between the two areas, and to what extent has Moss Side been segregated. Also whether the resultant architecture makes any provision for members of the residential community.
The 40-acre site, which sits in a dense community of people, will attract 7000 people to use its facilities whilst also having an immediate effect on 5000 of Hulme’s current population. Although due to the scale of the proposal Moss Side’s social and economic values are also at risk. When plans arose, many in Hulme opposed the Birley Fields Campus and throughout the on going planning s...
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...rderland, which has been created south of the site, via the B5219, which splits Hulme and Moss Side is even more significant. The B5219 creates another dramatic cut in the form of housing and quality of living of Moss Side, compared to that of the neighbouring housing around the Birley Fields site and even more so the £350m modern investment. As a result the space in between these two borderlands and intersecting areas is the resultant space left over as the ‘Hulme” Community, completely wiping away any sense of the word. Not only physical borderlands but also a socio borderland between the Council, MMU, Students and Community has been created due to the abysmal communication between the people receiving the largest effect, the community. Thus creating animosity in the area, contradicting the main theme of the proposals “Community Strategy Spine” (MCC, 2009).
Suttles, Gerald D. Review of The Classic Slum: Salford Life in the First Quarter of the Century, by Robert Roberts. Contemporary Sociology. Vol. 4, No.1. (Jan., 1975). Pp. 33-34.
In the 1950s Newcastle was known as a sleep city, Dan described it as “moribund” (1) decades had past and very little economic development had taken place between that time frame and families were left to suffer. In 1959, T. Dan Smith became Leader of Newcastle City Council, he set up his own independent planning department in the council and appointed Wilfred Burns as chief officer in 1960. They both wanted to re-modernise Newcastle for the better by undertaking new road plans to resolve the traffic congestion that plagued the city and breath new life into the city by clearing out the slum areas and rebuilding new homes to help improve peoples living conditions. One way Smith helped promote his grand scheme was through a series of models and held public gatherings to help fuel his passion to help change Newcastle, a method used by Richard Grainger who greatly strengthened Newcastle’s status as a regional capital. In order to achieve Grainger’s equivalent he set out to get renowned architects to develop the city, like Le Corbusier , Basil Spence, Leslie Martin, Robert Matthew and even Picasso to help reinforce his vision for the future “Brasilia of the North” (2). In this essay I will closely examine T. Dan Smith’s proposed plans for the new urban motorway system, that would help solve the traffic problem. Also the redevelopment of Eldon Sqaure that would come under scrutiny, but would later become a commercial success. I will also investigate the new Civic Centre that replaced the Old Town Hall and the intention from the local authorities to demolish the Royal Arcade and replace it with a roundabout.
Sitting within the UNESCO World Heritage site, the new home to the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood from its outset has proven to be controversial. Opening in 2004, politicians, the media and the Scottish public have criticized many aspects of the build. Aside from cost controversy surrounded the decision to construct a new building, the choice of site, the selection of a non-Scottish architect and the selection of Bovis as a construction Manager after being earlier excluded from the shortlist.
Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned that
It has been given due priority in urban design and planning for promoting social cohesion as a constituent concept of the sense of belonging and community values through ethnic mixing to deal with challenges of multiculturalism in the West especially in England and Canada. The limitation of social cohesion to deal with multicultural challenges has led to contemporary planning imaginations that emphasize the meaningful engagements among different cultures. In the multicultural context, although contemporary planning imaginations do not directly refer to the role of public space at the level of local living per se, it nevertheless consider the significance of socio-physical setting public space provides for 'meaningful intercultural interactions' (Sennet, 1994), ‘openness to unassimilated otherness’ (Donald, 1999) and, as settings for ‘active civic engagements with clearly defined goal’ (Sandercock 2003). Trying to deal with the problematic of contested nature of public space in multicultural context, these imaginations in a way argue for the active civil engagements in public space through broad social participation with clearly defined goal for promoting social and civic solidarity by maintaining the meaningful distance or unassimilated otherness to live together
‘The Redfern Address’ is a text that explores the development of belonging through connections to people and communities.
Wilson and Kelling argued that if behaviour such as graffiti, rowdy behaviour, drunkenness and vandalism is un-tackled this can turn stable neighbourhoods into broken down neighbourhoods with fears of crime. They further argued that behaviour that is left unchecked likewise properties can lead to a breakdown of community control. This is because bad manners causes fear which leads to avoidance and some residence moving away, this promotes informal social control that paves the way for more extreme types of violent behaviour and crime. To stop the breakdown of community control, Wilson and Kelling proposed that any unfavourable act should be tackled immediate. If not, this leads the way for individuals to push the boundary and attempt more serious crimes. They believed that through policing of incivilities this was possible. (Maguire, Morgan and Reiner, 2012)
The Open University, (2008), AA100 Illustration Book (Plates for Books 3 and 4), Milton Keynes, The Open University.
Wales have challenges that they need to beat in usage in their country that is they want to develop property by enhancing the economic, social and environmental well being of individuals and communities. (Letsrecycle, 2010).
Issue: Implications for sustainability, social justice and equality associated with the urban consolidation in Pyrmont (i.e. How economically and environmentally sustainable are the impacts of the issue and who are the winners and losers)
PAT 10 (1999) National strategy for neighbourhood renewal: Policy Action Team Audit: Report of the Policy Action Team 10: The contribution of Sport and the Arts. DCMS. London
Hearne, R. Regeneration and Public Private Partnerships in Social Housing in Ireland: Regeneration Worker Dolphin, Department of Geography TC
Since 2011, the predominant discussions on the HUL Approach have involved different countries such as Australia, Brazil, China and the United Kingdom (Pereira Roders & van Oers, 2014). Pioneer cities have also taken steps in studying its possible implementation such as Rio de Janeiro, Ballarat, Beirut and Zanzibar (Pereira Roders & van Oers, 2014), while case studies in Edinburgh (Bennick et al., 2014), Amsterdam (Bruin et al., 2013), Liverpool (Rodwell, 2008) and Naples (De Rosa and Di Palma, 2013) have also taken place. As a broader view, projects funded by the European Union such as Heritage as Opportunity – HerO (URBACT, 2011) and the Management of Cultural Heritage in the Central European Ar...
Curtis, W J. "12. The Ideal Community: Alternatives to the Industrial City." In Modern architecture since 1900, 159-173. London: Phaidon, 1996.
Community engagement will be made through a variety of different formats to ensure that each social, religious, sex and age group is engaged in the process. Traditional methods of engagement such as leaflets and mind mapping sessions will feature as part of this process where residents and local business can suggest new ideas and give us feedback on the neighbourhood plans findings. Information boards will be erected along the main route in Rusholme to inform passers-by as well as residents in order to engage the widest possible audience that has a relationship with the area. Finally, social media will play a crucial role in informing residents on sites such as Twitter and Facebook where it can access Rusholme community groups, Greater Manchester special interest groups and create an early online presence for the Rusholme Neighbourhood Plan.