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RUDI is creating a series of urban design and placemaking multimedia resources. In this section we also provide a gateway to other related multimedia resources available on the web.The videos are supported by drawings, images, text and graphics – just like you are used to seeing in conference presentations or on TV documentaries. They are best viewed using broadband, but several viewing options are available to suit your PC and internet set-up. A range of multimedia resources, including interviews, profiles and interactive presentations, will be available online via RUDI's multimedia section. Over the next year we will be building up our library and we welcome your input and suggestions. If you know of a project that you think would make an interesting multimedia subject please contact RUDI. If the video content does not display immediately, please check your software requirements. |
Long-term management of public places: keeping a place functioning over time
Cathy Parker, Development Director, institute of Place Management
Increasingly, place management is being recognised as a solution to improving specific locations. Place management is a coordinated, area-based, multi-stakeholder approach, harnessing the skills, experience and resources of those in the public, private and voluntary sectors
Alternative uses for spaces and streets: Changing function and appearance
Councillor Daniel Moylan, Deputy Leader, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Cllr Moylan discusses examples from High Street Kensington; focusing on issues of policy, design, leadership and vision
Which places work and why?
Sarah Gaventa, Director, CABE Space, discusses the real value of good street design and how to handle risk.
There is a direct link between street quality and property prices. Local authorities are already taking the initiative in realising the latent value in their high streets
Creating effective public spaces
Henry Shaftoe, Senior Lecturer in Planning and Architecture, Cities Research Centre, University of the West of England & author of the new book Convivial urban spaces: creating effective public places
Henry discusses the key characteristics of inclusive and democratic public spaces, with examples and illustration
Making space for play: Wayne Hemingway on safer space for young people
The design and use of public space to enable greater access by children and young people is now under unprecedented scrutiny. In the first half of 2008, a national play strategy will set out work across government to provide children with ‘better physical environments and to create more child-friendly public space’. Part of the challenge will be renewing play space, but also identifying and overcoming barriers to children and young people’s access to the public realm and their independent mobility.
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The privilege of the outsider: reconciling public art and planning
David Cotterrell explores the changing relationship between artists and planners working on public relam projects.
David received an MA in Fine Art: Combined Media from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1997. He is an installation artist working across varied media including video, audio, interactive media, artificial intelligence, device control and hybrid technology.
Recent work has involved research into computational models of conversational speech, an artificially intelligent pedestrian urban population and a self-sustaining gridlock generator.
Mark Luck and Wolfgang Buttress: Finding common ground
The regeneration of Britain’s urban areas raise questions about the quality and function of the public realm. Publicly funded improvements to streets and open spaces are considered essential to attract inward investment, and there is a need to plan for this at a strategic level as well as deliver on the ground
Rob Aspland, Director, LDA Design and Chris Levine, artist: Creating magic, myth and spectacle
The 'People’s Playground', an artist/urban design collaboration, will transform Blackpool’s central seafront into a year-round urban park that harnesses the town’s unique relationship with light and illumination
Anna Minton: public and private spaces
One of the consequences of the growing privatisation of public space is a more controlled and restricted environment where risk is minimised, creating sterile and monocultural environments. Designers and artists need to ask is, what is the space for?
