Towards an Urban Renaissance
Towards an Urban Renaissance was a report written by the United Kingdom's Urban Task Force chaired by Lord Rogers of Riverside[1] and published on 29 June 1999. It examined the question of how 4 million projected new homes over 25 years, might be accommodated in the UK without further encroachment into the green belt or other areas of countryside.[2]
The review leading to the published report was commissioned by the then Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott in 1998, to identify the causes of urban decline and establish a vision for Britain's cities based on the principles of design excellence, social well-being and environmental responsibility.[3] Participants included Peter Hall.
Towards an Urban Renaissance resulted in the Our Towns and Cities – the Future – The Urban White Paper published in 2000, and was influential in the revised Planning policy guidance note 3: Housing (PPG 3) which was also published in 2000.
Rogers published an independent update titled Towards a Strong Urban Renaissance in 2005.[3] The report is seen as a milestone in the development of New London Vernacular, an responsive architectural style observed in London from about 2010 onwards.[4][5]
Key recommendations[edit]
- Design-led urban regeneration process and the designation of special urban policy areas.
- Reform of the planning system and involvement of local people in decision making and neighbourhood level.
- The building of 60% of new housing as schemes on brownfield land.
- Better use of existing housing stock.
- The relaxation of Local Planning Authority's standards relating to density and separation distances between dwellings
- The better integration of housing with highways (relaxation of parking standards and designing the roads around the housing rather than the housing around the roads).
- Improve non-car transport.
- Better quality design.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Delivering the urban renaissance". The Guardian. 21 July 2002. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Urban Task Force - ^ a b "Towards a Strong Urban Renaissance: Launch of the Urban Task Force Report". IPPR. 22 November 2005. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ^ Birkbeck, David; Hart, Julian (2012). A New London Housing Vernacular (PDF) (Report). Urban Design London.
- ^ Smallman, Etan (4 May 2016). "Boris Johnson's Most Important Legacy May Be a Particular New Housing Style". Bloomberg UK.
External links[edit]
- Towards an Urban Renaissance (1999)
- Towards a Strong Urban Renaissance: The Urban Renaissance six years on (2005)
- Our Towns and Cities (2000)
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