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Spatial Design Support: GIS-based analysis tools for urban design and spatial planning

One day workshop Thursday 02 June 2011 - Cardiff University - City and Regional Planning - 10am - 16pm

Programme
The one day workshop will:

• Review the concept of spatial network analysis tools such as space syntax 
• Provide examples of use of such tools in spatial planning and urban design projects

a. Local development framework, Core strategy, Town Centre Spatial Strategy, neighbourhood planning perspective:
Presented case study: LB Tower Hamlets by Jamie Ounan (House, Public Policy
Design)

b. Masterplan, Local Authority: 
Presented case study: LB Tower Hamlets by Chris Sharpe (Holistic City)

c. GIS and Masterplan,
Presented case study Architecture and Planning design practice by Eva Friedrich, Design System Analyst, Foster and Partners

• Offer interactive demonstration
• Provide tips for using software with students and in projects 
• Reflect on the different issues when using tools for professional design and planning versus research 
• Initiate a network of university planning and urban design schools and end users using GIS-based analysis tools in planning and design education and practice


Fee
The participation fee for full time professionals, practitioners and academics is £ 75 (Lunch and refreshments will be provided).

A limited number of free places will be made available for master and doctoral level students in enrolled in Architecture, Urban planning and Urban design programmes at UK institutions. Students must apply to Dr.
Andrea Frank (mailto:[log in to unmask]) with a single A4 page statement and a CV outlining their interest in the workshop

Booking please email:
Hazel Palmer ([log in to unmask]) and D. Bowden
([log in to unmask])

Background

Over the past decade, a host of government reports and a government inquiry in 2008 have indicated that there is a shortage of spatial planning skills to deliver sustainable communities and regeneration (e.g. Leitch Review of Skills (2006) Prosperity for all in the global economy - world class skills.
HM Treasury, London; Barker, K (2006) Barker review of Land use planning.
HMSO, Norwich). Planning schools have started to respond to the need for developing advanced skills in spatial literacy for planning and design.

This one-day workshop is aimed at planning and design educators developing curricula to address this skills deficit in curricula as well as practitioners and students wanting to acquire a better understanding of cutting edge tools. This forthcoming workshop (following on from events 2007, 2009 and 2010) organised by the Centre for Education in the Built Environment will address the question:

How can urban design and spatial planning be better informed by spatial analysis using GIS and design-oriented network analysis in order to equip spatial planning and design students with competitive and useful skills for shaping places and configuring sustainable cities? What could be their contribution to Neighbourhood Planning?

Speakers
Prof. Chris Webster
Chris Webster is an urban planner by initial training. He is Head of the School of City and Regional Planning and Director of the Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE), which he founded in 2000. His current research involves a number of key projects investigating the evolution of property rights and urban poverty in six Chinese cities. He has been recently conferred as Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences for his outstanding contribution to the social sciences. 
  
Jamie Ounan was Strategic Planning Manager, Directorate of Development & Renewal, London Borough of Tower Hamlets. He is an adviser to CLG, and is currently Director of House, Public Policy Design 
  
Chris Sharpe, Director of City Design Software. He has worked as an urban designer and consultant for several organizations in the public and private sector. His experience includes design codes, conservation, movement engineering, and major retail and residential-led masterplanning projects in the UK and abroad. 
Chris founded the company with Svet Pelipenko in 2005, and leads the urban design software and consulting business of Holistic City Ltd. 

Eva Friedrich
Design Systems Analyst  at Foster + Partners 
  
Alain Chiaradia
Research associate at CPLAN and Professional Urban design tutor at WSA.
Alain worked at space syntax limited for 10 years. He was  a board and executive director and lead of operational research and public sector in the UK. Since three years he specialise in “design economics” and the combined use of design metrics both qualitative and quantitative and value approach in urban design and spatial planning. His current interest is Management of value in Neighbourhood Planning.


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Alain Chiaradia  
Dip Arch dplg  AA GDip  GC Econ  
CPLAN | Research Associate
WSA | MA UD Professional tutor

Cardiff University
School of City and Regional Planning (CPLAN)
Welsh School of Architecture
www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan

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