22 september manual for streets martin stockley

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers

Manual for Streets Workshop!

Martin Stockley, !Martin Stockley Associates !

The Orangery, Wakefield!22 September 2010!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers The solution is worse than the problem!


Life, the universe and everything…!


It is about !

Life!

Not!

Lucre!


“…does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country;

it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile”.!

Bobby Kennedy on the gross national product, !


It’s about the Cultural and Social aspects of our lives and the Environment in which we live – !

supported by an Economy!


Towns and cities are the key drivers of our social, cultural and economic life!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers The public realm is the circulatory system !

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers It is where we commune…!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers It is where we can play…!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers A place to meet people…!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers A place for love… !

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers …and self expression!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers A place to celebrate…!


It’s our place!


It is about !

Movement !

Not !

A Movement!

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• Shared Space – Originated in the Netherlands from Highways Engineers trying alternative methods to reduce collisions and improve movement.!

• MfS approach developed by a number of separate practitioners.!

• General aim is to bring greater civility to streets using behavioural psychology tools. !


It is about !

Civility!

Not!

Civil Engineering!


Civility:!

• Politeness: the act of showing regard for others !

• Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the community.!


Banksy…!

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Don’t walk on the grass No Ball Games No Skateboarding No cycling…

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers I just want to walk around your town!


It is about!

Collaboration!

Not!

Competition!


Competition!

• No agreement!• Uses compete for the available space!• No resolution to sharing of space!• Everybody gets what nobody wants…!

Compromise!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers Competitive Space – can lead to madness…!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers Poor allocation of space through competition!


Collaboration!

• Agree to share the space!• Agree the importance and priority of different uses!• Design a solution which matches the agreed aims!• Everybody gets what everybody wants…!

Design!


Controlling Regulations!

Vs!

Allowing Regulations!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers The regulatory approach!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers A product of regulations…!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers Regulation compliant but nothing quite works…!


Controlling Regulations!

• Good for maintaining fair market conditions e.g. insulation standards, energy use standards etc!

• Clumsy and less effective for controlling human behaviour!


Controlling Regulations (when applied to human behaviour)!

• Require learning and memorising!• Often counter-intuitive (that’s why you have a rule)!• Require enforcement by third parties!• Offer no reward for compliance (just avoid penalty)!• Make poor use of the brain’s remarkable abilities!• Usually inefficient in terms of movement capacity (but sometimes more predictable)!• Undermine community interaction and often result in negative social behaviour!


Allowing Regulations!

• Less effective for maintaining fair market conditions i.e. lack of viability unless all comply!

• Subtle and very effective for generating positive human behaviour!


Allowing Regulations (when applied to human behaviour)!

• Require learning but follow normal behaviour rules!• Generally intuitive !• Do not require enforcement by third parties(they work by negotiation on the spot)!• Offer a reward for compliance (if only just a smile)!• Make use of the brain’s remarkable abilities!• Efficient in terms of movement capacity!• Reinforce community interaction and positive social behaviour!


We are different.!

We want - !

• fairness not necessarily equality!

• sharing not exclusion!

• joy as well as function!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers We come in different sizes...!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers and move in different ways!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers We are very adaptable...!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers Very little is beyond us...!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers when we put our minds to it...!


Sign Singing: Love Will Tear Us Apart, !Joy Division, 1979, Deaf Choir, 2009!and work together!


What if we allowed people to behave normally?!


1950’s Harlow New Town – where pedestrian and cyclist rule!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers An act of civility with no special regulations!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers An act of civility with normal behavioural rules!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers An act of regulation!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers A new park where all things are allowed…!


Site Visits!


A word about hazard...!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers Speed is critical!


Ancoats, Manchester!


New Road, Brighton – a case study!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers New Road, Brighton!

MARTIN STOCKLEY ASSOCIATES Consulting Engineers New Road, Brighton - function dominates!


People staying!People passing through !175 % more pedestrian traffic!


A place where all are welcome – but where civility guides behaviour!


62 CABE Conference - London March 2008

“It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated;”!

John Ruskin !

22 september manual for streets martin stockley

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