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Shaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of the
spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising
positive outcomes for people's health and global sustainability.
This new edition retains the combination of radicalism,
evidence-based advice and pragmatism that made earlier editions so
popular. This updated edition strengthens guidance in relation to
climate change and biodiversity, tackling crises of population
health that are pushing up health-care budgets, but have elements
of their origins in poor place spatial planning - such as
isolation, lack of everyday physical activity, and respiratory
problems. It is underpinned by new research into how people use
their localities, and the best way to achieve inclusive, healthy,
low-carbon settlements. The guide can assist with: * Understanding
the principles for planning healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods
and towns * Planning collaborative and inclusive processes for
multi-sectoral working * Developing know-how and skills in matching
local need with urban form * Discovering new ways to integrate
development with natural systems * Designing places with character
and recognising good urban form Whether you are a student faced
with a local planning project; a public health professional,
planner, urban designer or developer involved in new development or
regeneration; a council concerned with promoting healthy and
sustainable environments; or a community group wanting to improve
your neighbourhood - you will find help here.
It is increasingly important to define what constitutes the unique
character of our neighbourhoods, in order to identify what we value
and should protect, to pinpoint areas for improvement and places
which could be enhanced through sensitive change. But how do we
define 'character' or a 'sense of place'? How do we appraise the
setting and site of a development area, in order that the essential
character is retained and reflected in the design of new
development? How can these qualities be communicated to decision
makers and involve communities? Characterising Neighbourhoods
provides an accessible and richly illustrated guide to the
practical methods of appraising neighbourhoods which are precise,
well informed and engaging. It demonstrates how characterisation is
used as an evidence base for the planning and management of
neighbourhoods and urban areas. The core focus is on a proven
characterisation method developed and used by the authors and used
by community groups, schools, planning and urban design students
and professionals. It creates a common language used by these
groups in evaluating places. This guide provides a wealth of
supporting information, including; briefing on the recognition of
local architectural styles, periods and materials, detecting the
influence of historic street layouts and property boundaries,
townscape concepts such as scale and enclosure, and topographical
characteristics. Characterising Neighbourhoods is a valuable
resource for practicing planners, urban designers and environmental
professionals as well as students in these subjects.
It is increasingly important to define what constitutes the unique
character of our neighbourhoods, in order to identify what we value
and should protect, to pinpoint areas for improvement and places
which could be enhanced through sensitive change. But how do we
define 'character' or a 'sense of place'? How do we appraise the
setting and site of a development area, in order that the essential
character is retained and reflected in the design of new
development? How can these qualities be communicated to decision
makers and involve communities? Characterising Neighbourhoods
provides an accessible and richly illustrated guide to the
practical methods of appraising neighbourhoods which are precise,
well informed and engaging. It demonstrates how characterisation is
used as an evidence base for the planning and management of
neighbourhoods and urban areas. The core focus is on a proven
characterisation method developed and used by the authors and used
by community groups, schools, planning and urban design students
and professionals. It creates a common language used by these
groups in evaluating places. This guide provides a wealth of
supporting information, including; briefing on the recognition of
local architectural styles, periods and materials, detecting the
influence of historic street layouts and property boundaries,
townscape concepts such as scale and enclosure, and topographical
characteristics. Characterising Neighbourhoods is a valuable
resource for practicing planners, urban designers and environmental
professionals as well as students in these subjects.
Shaping Neighbourhoods is unique in combining all aspects of the
spatial planning of neighbourhoods and towns whilst emphasising
positive outcomes for people's health and global sustainability.
This new edition retains the combination of radicalism,
evidence-based advice and pragmatism that made earlier editions so
popular. This updated edition strengthens guidance in relation to
climate change and biodiversity, tackling crises of population
health that are pushing up health-care budgets, but have elements
of their origins in poor place spatial planning - such as
isolation, lack of everyday physical activity, and respiratory
problems. It is underpinned by new research into how people use
their localities, and the best way to achieve inclusive, healthy,
low-carbon settlements. The guide can assist with: * Understanding
the principles for planning healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods
and towns * Planning collaborative and inclusive processes for
multi-sectoral working * Developing know-how and skills in matching
local need with urban form * Discovering new ways to integrate
development with natural systems * Designing places with character
and recognising good urban form Whether you are a student faced
with a local planning project; a public health professional,
planner, urban designer or developer involved in new development or
regeneration; a council concerned with promoting healthy and
sustainable environments; or a community group wanting to improve
your neighbourhood - you will find help here.
All day, every day we're surrounded by things that annoy us. So
it's surprising we've had to wait until now for a reasonable list.
Speaking up for irritated people all over Britain, the Old Geezer's
Dictionary of Irritants points a decisive finger at offenders, with
both gusto and humour.
For many Britons France has provided their first taste of that
alien world called 'abroad' - and sometimes their last. Richard
Guise has tracked down ten travellers' tales from three centuries,
before venturing forth himself to follow some of their wanderings
across the country. He finds out what's left from the sights they
saw and how dramatically the country and its people changed over
these turbulent times - taking in the years of the Grand Tour, the
Revolution and the Napoleonic era; the coming of the railways,
holidays and guide books; two world wars, recovery and prosperity;
and the twenty-first-century threat of terrorism. His virtual
companions include two Grand Tourers (Philip Thicknesse and Tobias
Smollett - nicknamed Smelfungus), the man rumoured to have inspired
Karl Baedeker, a future chairman of London County Council and
Richard's own father, a D-Day survivor. They're not all
complimentary about France and the French...
Four English blokes of a certain age strike out from their
Leicestershire local and head for the hills of the Dingle
Peninsula. This laugh-out-loud tale of their short amble on the
wild west coast of Ireland is packed with character and characters,
beer and banter, daftness and a dolphin.
'The reason the wind is so cold is that there's nothing between
here and the Urals'. A casual remark by his father, to which no one
else seems to have paid the slightest attention, sets Richard Guise
off on an unlikely adventure. Fifty years after standing on that
chilly Leicestershire hilltop, he aims to prove his father wrong. A
quest for truth, beer and jokes through England, the Netherlands,
Germany, Poland, Belarus and Russia.
'Lead Us Not Into Trent Station' is Richard Guise's popular memoir
of childhood in a Derbyshire town of the 1950s and '60s. Mr
Handlebar in the Market Place, sneezing thurifer's at St Laurence's
church, 'Mad Ron' at the local grammar school...real-life
characters pack these pages. We're soon taken beyond the Midlands
to the hazards of university life, epic battles with French red
tape, complete confusion in Spain, sartorial problems in China --
and finally back again to a Long Eaton that poses its own problems
in the form of Bazzaranshaz.
The Derbyshire villages of Draycott and Church Wilne have dozed
quietly beside the left bank of the Derwent for more than a
thousand years, barely registering a mention even in the history of
the area. But have things really been as quiet as that? What about
the case of the dodgy 18th-century vicar? The flying corpse? The
combustible cricketer? And more disastrous, but unexplained, fires
than you could shake a stick at. No, things are definitely not as
quiet as they seem down by the Derwent. And anyway, why are the
local inhabitants known as 'Neddies'?
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