Design for London was a unique experiment in urban planning, design and strategic thinking. Set up in 2006 by Mayor Ken Livingstone and his Architectural Advisor, Richard Rogers, the brief for the team was ‘to think about London, what made London unique and how it could be made better’. Sitting within London government but outside its formal statutory responsibilities, it was given freedom to question and challenge. The team had no power or money, but it did have the licence to operate without the usual constraints of government.
With introductions from Ken Livingstone and Richard Rogers, Design for London covers the tumultuous and heady period of the first decade of this century when London was a test bed for new ideas. It outlines how key projects such as the London Olympics, public space programmes, high street regeneration and greening programmes were managed, critically examines the lessons that might be learnt in strategic urban design and considers how a design agenda for London could be developed in the future.
By providing an engaging account of the strategic approaches and work of Design for London, and documenting the particular methodology and approach to urban theory it developed, Design for London will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of planning, urban design and architecture, and to current practitioners from the public, private and community sectors who are struggling to achieve regeneration through poorly understood ‘placemaking’ concepts.
Innehållsförteckning
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Foreword: strategies for a global city
Ken LivingstoneForeword: London, a city of beauty, a city for its citizens
Richard Rogers Acknowledgements
Introduction: urban interventions in a time of rapid global change
Peter Bishop
1. London, the unique city: the establishment of the Architecture and Urbanism Unit Peter Bishop, Lara Kinneir and Mark Brearley
2. Design for London: an interesting but short life Peter Bishop, Lara Kinneir and Mark Brearley
3. High street places: doing a lot with a little Tobi Goevert and Adam Towle
4. Better housing for London: how on earth did we pull that off? Richa Mukhtia
5. Peopled landscapes Peter Bishop
6. Opportunism on a grand scale: using the Olympics as a catalyst for change. Peter Bishop, Eleanor Fawcett and Esther Everett
7. Selling the story: promotion, publicity and procurement Peter Bishop, Eva Herr and Isabel Allen
8. Conclusions Peter Bishop
Index
Om författaren
Peter Bishop is Professor of Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Architecture and the founding partner of Bishop & Williams Ltd. Between 2006 and 2011 he was Director of Design for London, the Mayor’s architecture think-tank and design studio. He is a fellow of University College London and the RIBA, and an adviser to the city of Goyang in Korea and on major regeneration projects in London, Sydney and Riyadh.
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