Seminar notes from Dr. Natasha Vall. 19-11-2008

Source: Stanley Miller – designer of waterfront regeneration

What makes a town/city?
• The Boston model
-Preservation
-Tourism
-Retail
-Residential boom
- Financial services

• Atlantic Influences in Britain
-London Docklands
-Rising property values
-Art/cultural installations

• Atlantic Influences in Scandinavia
-Waterfront developments
-Property lead regeneration
The Turning Torso (Malmo 2005)

• Cultural regeneration in northern cities
-Dispelling the industrial stigma with art literature and music
-A history of importing middle class cultural institutes

• Newcastle and Gateshead quayside – cultural regeneration in post industrial north-east England.
- Waterfront development
- Residential apartments
- Urban middle class culture
- The Sage/The Baltic tourism


Property Development
• 1970’s Byker Wall
• Slum Clearance “Broken Window Effect”
Marina Case studies build upon culture to eradicate northern working class stigma
Hartlepool
• Was a dockland and ship building industry
• Now tourist attraction
• With yacht basin, residential, museums, coffee bars, restaurants etc...
Middlesbrough
• Shopping centres
• University campus
• MIMA
• Middlehaven project
• Brings higher population, multicultural society and effects on politics – such as zero tolerance and ASBO’s
• Leisure and tourism
• Money and skilled trade to the area
Key points of interest
• Construction is the biggest user of materials and landfill
How can this change
• Increase recycling
• Use local resources and services (amenities)
• Revamp DON’T rebuild
• Create multipurpose buildings
• Open spaces
• Public seating
• Plant and trees
• Installation pieces
• Nature reserves
• Wildlife/Gardens and parks
• Alternative public transports