Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
The authors
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword to the third edition
Forewords to previous editions
Preface
How to use this guide
Chapter 1 Orientation and Principles
	Introduction
		1.1 Local global planning
		1.2 Neighbourhoods for real
		1.3 Powers, professions and processes
	Policies and agendas
		1.4 Sustainable development
		1.5 Health and wellbeing
		1.6 Health and place equity
		1.7 Climate emergency
		1.8 Ecological crisis
		1.9 Spatial planning at the crossroads
	The neighbourhood as habitat
		1.10 The ecosystem approach
		1.11 The Settlement Health Map
		1.12 The natural human habitat
	The neighbourhood in focus
		1.13 Defining neighbourhoods
		1.14 Town, neighbourhood, homezone
		1.15 Neighbourhood design principles
	Case studies
		1.a Three neighbourhoods in Algiers, Algeria
		1.b Polimipara project, Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
		1.c Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm, Sweden
		1.d Utrecht, The Netherlands
Chapter 2 A Neighbourhood Planning Process
	Overview
		2.1 Purpose and scope
		2.2 The seven-stage process
		2.3 Collaborative communities
	Getting going
		2.4 Stage 1 – Taking the initiative
		2.5 Stage 2 – Defining a shared vision
	Creating a strategy
		2.6 Stage 3 – Understanding the locality
		2.7 Stage 4 – Developing ideas
		2.8 Stage 5 – Agreeing a co-ordinated programme
	Making it happen
		2.9 Stage 6 – Taking action
		2.10 Stage 7 – Learning lessons
	Case studies
		2.a Sweet Home Farm, Cape Town, South Africa
		2.b The Spectrum approach, Houndwood, Street, England
		2.c Stroud Neighbourhood Plan, Gloucestershire, England
	The neighbourhood checklist
Chapter 3 Providing for Local Need
	People and community
		3.1 Putting people first
		3.2 A diverse population
		3.3 Housing for all
		3.4 Strong communities
		3.5 Neighbourhood identity
	Local enterprise
		3.6 Access to jobs
		3.7 Resilient local economies
		3.8 Town and local centre vitality
	Access to local facilities
		3.9 Planning local accessibility
		3.10 Accessibility criteria
		3.11 Educational facilities
		3.12 Community health
		3.13 Recreational space
	Planning for travel
		3.14 Neighbourhood travel strategy
		3.15 Pedestrians first!
		3.16 Planning for the cyclist
		3.17 Public transport
		3.18 Taming cars and vans
	Case studies
		3.a UN Rapid Planning Studio, Kenya, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia
		3.b Vauban, Freiburg, Germany
		3.c Mandela Gateway and Mandela Market Place, Oakland, USA
		3.d Mulberry Park, Bath, England
Chapter 4 Working with Natural Systems
	Overview
		4.1 The local global system
		4.2 Implementing an integrated strategy
	Energy
		4.3 Neighbourhood energy planning
		4.4 Energy-efficient layout and landscape
		4.5 Sourcing, distributing and storing energy
	Water
		4.6 Neighbourhood water planning
		4.7 Local supply and treatment
		4.8 Flooding, drainage and run-off
	Food and soils
		4.9 Neighbourhood planning for food and soils
		4.10 Soil care and food growing
		4.11 Food retail access
	Waste and materials
		4.12 Local waste and materials planning
		4.13 Domestic resource recovery
	Biodiversity
		4.14 Neighbourhood biodiversity planning
		4.15 Biodiversity framework
		4.16 Urban trees
	Case studies
		4.a GWL Terrein, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
		4.b Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark
		4.c Honkasuo residential extension, Helsinki, Finland
Chapter 5 Neighbourhood Strategy
	Overview
		5.1 Orientation
		5.2 Land governance
	Understanding the locality
		5.3 Location, location, location
		5.4 Neighbourhood appraisal
		5.5 Understanding local urban form
		5.6 Change and renewal
	Key spatial elements
		5.7 Land use and activities
		5.8 Graded density
		5.9 Street networks
		5.10 Green infrastructure
	Developing ideas
		5.11 Local assets and potential
		5.12 Land needs
		5.13 Devising the spatial framework
	Integrated spatial strategies
		5.14 Linear principles
		5.15 Planning compact neighbourhoods
		5.16 Studies of intensification
	Healthy places: making it all happen
		5.17 Working together
		5.18 Integrated assessment
	Case studies
		5.a Freiburg, Germany
		5.b Nesselande, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
		5.c The Pearl District, Portland, Oregon USA
Chapter 6 Neighbourhood Design and Placemaking
	Overview
		6.1 Placemaking and design for health
	Placemaking principles
		6.2 The structure of space and place
		6.3 Walkability, conviviality and community hubs
		6.4 Built form and plot structure
		6.5 Shaping the homezone
		6.6 Character and coherence
	The design process
		6.7 The development process and design
		6.8 Appraising the site and its context
		6.9 Appraisal methods
		6.10 Developing design concepts
		6.11 The scheme and its implementation
		6.12 Tactical change and adaptation
		6.13 Post-occupancy: closing the circle
	Case studies
		6.a Arabianranta, Helsinki, Finland
		6.b Marmalade Lane, Cambridge, England
		6.c Point Chevalier, Auckland, New Zealand
	The development project checklist
Bibliography
Index and key terms