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Sam BenningtonMax Downe

Signe PerkoneNicholas Nilsen

Aoli Feng

3.1.1 MMU ID: 11071133

PAMPHLET

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Contents

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Introduction

Current conditions

Mapping isolation

Crime

Islands

Island precedents

Community

Entropy

Cristiania analysis

Sustainable and Digital communities

Proposal for Collyhurst future

Group Supergraphic

Programme Statement

Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading

Safe boxes

Urban Garden

Programme Timeline

Programme: Youth Centre/Urban Farm

Spatial Arrangement

Location

Bibliography

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COLLYHURST IS AN ISLANDIn the 19th century, the industrial revolution transformed Manchester. It grew into one of the world’s most influential cities. Its cotton mills employed vast numbers of people and exported their produce across the globe. Collyhurst, with its dozens of machineries, mills and works sitting on the Irk’s powerful back, was a hive of industrial activity. Over time, the UK’s economy has changed: traditional industry still exists, but on a far smaller scale. Large scale employment here has shifted to digital industry. While many of the country’s cities and towns have developed and adapted to these changes, there still exist areas of post-industrial desolation.Collyhurst, despite its close proximity to Manchester’s centre, is one such area. It is stranded between the cosmopolitan city centre of Manchester, ethnically diverse Cheetham Hill and more respectable residential areas. The shift towards digital innovation has not taken place there and therefore the whole area has fallen into disrepair.

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1890 1960IndustryEducationReligionLeisure

Collyhurst at its peak: industrially powerful and home to thousands of workers. Machineries and mills line the Irk’s banks, while an abundance of churches, schools and places of leisure cater for the large population.

29 9 5 15Post-industrial peak, pre-digital boom. Collyhurst continues to rely on machineries and mills to generate jobs and money. As the outsourcing of labour begins, so does the decline in employment. Communities decrease.

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Mapping ISOLATION

In the 19th century, the industrial revolution transformed Manchester. It grew into one of the world’s most influential cities. Its cotton mills employed vast numbers of people and exported their produce across the globe. Collyhurst, with its dozens of machineries, mills and works became a hive of industrial activity.

Over time, the UK’s economy has changed: large scale employment has shifted from traditional industry to digital industry. While many of the country’s cities and towns have developed and adapted to these changes, there still exist areas of post-industrial desolation.

Collyhurst’s southern end is dominated by car parks that occupy post-industrial landscapes waiting to be put to more permanent use. Standing amongst these historically rich, yet currently insignificant spaces, a clear juxtaposition is visible: a look back to the city displays a rich, glass and steel skyline – the high rise markers of a digital age. They seem to sneer provocatively, laughing at Collyhurst’s unused spaces and uninhabited factories.

Plainly, Collyhurst has been left behind. What was once a strong limb, a crucial piece in the city’s great whole, has been wounded by the movements in industry. Collyhurst has dropped back from a pack striding on towards economic power, and now, showing its age, lies isolated.

This decline is very clear when the disappearance of community-associated buildings in the area is mapped over the course of a century.

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11 3 2 12UK economy now based more around digital rather than traditional industry. Collyhurst, still generating most of its money through traditional industry, has been left behind. The majority of the buildings are now residential; many of the area’s inhabitants work elsewhere in Manchester. Community-associated buildings are at an all-time low.

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Anti-social behaviour (54)Arson (2)

Bicyle theft (2)

Burglary (6)

Criminal damage (10)

Drugs (4)

Graffiti (1)

Possession of weapon (2)

Public order (2)

Robbery and other theft (9)

Sexual offence (4)

Shoplifting (8)

Theft from the person (1)

Vehiclecrimes (13)

Violence (8)

Month of August 2013Source: Greater Manchester Police

CRIME IN THE COLLYHURST AREA

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One result of Collyhurst’s continuing isolation is a rise in crime which, in turn, has led to a rise in negative attitudes – arguably in a somewhat prejudiced manner – towards the area. Collyhurst has experienced a spectacular fall from grace: having buzzed with activity at the centre of the Mancunian industrial revolution, having been a provider of employment, habitation and leisure for thousands, it has become one of the parts of Manchester people actively avoid.

Most of the inhabitants are low income families and the council give them little attention. The area does actually feel quite dangerous when you experience it, with abandoned buildings and towering social housing blocks in poor condition. In 2010, the new government cancelled The Collyhurst scheme. The social housing development scheme was going to cost £252 million, making it one of the largest projects in the country. On the other hand, there are signs all over Collyhurst saying that they are “delivering on their promises” or “Winners of the Community Housing Award”. This is in strong contrast with the actual condition of Collyhurst and this is visible when walking around the area. The people of Collyhurst are not content with their living conditions and are aware that they are being neglected.

The most prominent form of crime along the Collyhurst area is anti-social behaviour. There is no evil intent, this is a petty form of crime, showing that people are not getting what they want from the current system so they resort to theft and violence.

Our group actually experienced this first hand on one of our site visits. We obviously looked like well-to-do students not from this area, so three locals addressed us in aggressive manner asking of our business there and even tried to rob us. Luckily we were able to get away relatively unscathed. In hindsight it seems that we were intruders in their desolate little island of Collyhurst, and these young men might have felt threatened on some level by our coming there to take pictures and analyse.

Hands-on

Experience

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Generally, global islands can be split into two groups; those geographically islandified and those whose political, or socio-economic choices have rendered them land-locked while still disconnected from their immediate neighbours.

Although it would seem that geographically-dislocated

islands have a greater level of independance, in many

examples the contrary is actually true. A history of

global empires and land battles has left a state of play

in which many ‘nations’ lack independance, or - as is the

case in Ireland - the country is split into those wishing to

self-govern and others who favour existance under the

unbrella of ‘united’ cluster of countries.

There are many reasons why the phenomenon of ‘country

with country’ may arise: religion (in the case of the

vatican), vice (as with monaco) or the abolishen of tax (the

major pull force behind the population boom of andorra).

There may also be a deeper, more firmly grounded, reason

for a border forming within a country. In the context of

Alaska the divide is not only between Alaska And the United

States but also in the land of natives and oil barons.

Alaska ireland isle of man

cuba tortola santa cruz monaco ibiza

andorra vatican guam

Islands

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Generally, global islands can be split into two groups; those geographically islandified and those whose political, or socio-economic choices have rendered them land-locked while still disconnected from their immediate neighbours.

Although it would seem that geographically-dislocated

islands have a greater level of independance, in many

examples the contrary is actually true. A history of

global empires and land battles has left a state of play

in which many ‘nations’ lack independance, or - as is the

case in Ireland - the country is split into those wishing to

self-govern and others who favour existance under the

unbrella of ‘united’ cluster of countries.

There are many reasons why the phenomenon of ‘country

with country’ may arise: religion (in the case of the

vatican), vice (as with monaco) or the abolishen of tax (the

major pull force behind the population boom of andorra).

There may also be a deeper, more firmly grounded, reason

for a border forming within a country. In the context of

Alaska the divide is not only between Alaska And the United

States but also in the land of natives and oil barons.

Alaska ireland isle of man

cuba tortola santa cruz monaco ibiza

andorra vatican guam

Islands

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1953-59 -Socialist revolution inCuba led by Fidel Castro.Cuba becomes ally of USSR.

1961 -Bay of Pigs Invasion:CIA backed operationto overthrow Castro’sleft wing government.

1972 -Cuba becomes a memberof COMECON, an economicorganisation of socialisteconomies run by USSR.

1962 -Cuban Missile Crisis.

1985 -Gorbachev comes to power inUSSR: Cuban/Soviet relationsdecline with Gorbachev’s market economy reforms.

1989 -Increasingly di�cult for USSRto sustain Cuba as the Sovieteconomy was failing: Cubanurban agricultural movement.

1991 -Fall of the USSR: Cuba losestheir major trading partner.Cuba hits “peak oil” - crisis.

1999 -Agricultural workforcein Havana: 9000.

2001 -Agricultural workforcein Havana: 23000.

2006-Agricultural workforcein Havana: 44000.

1998-2001 - Chemicals used in the production of potatoes,tomatoes, onions and tobacco reduced by:

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Cuba’s initiative has been an inspiration for our vision of Collyhurst early on. In looking at islands, self-sufficiency was a prominent theme. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba lost its major trading partner and hit “peak oil”, meaning that oil and food supplies became scarce - urban agricultural movement sprung from a need to survive. The socialist regime brought people together, preaching togetherness. We propose to bring people of Collyhurst together through digital revolution. We want to bring in technological industry to create employment and boost education. Here, urban agriculture will encourage community interaction and take Collyhurst one step further to being self-sufficient.

CUBA No chemicals used in:

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The Vatican sits in the heart of the Italian capital, Rome. It sits in the

global religious capital for the catholic faith and acts a major pilgrimage site for believers. It is completely independent of Rome and Italy in terms of governance, law and

economy despite being completely surrounded by Rome.

Vatican Monaco Andorra

Religion Vice Tax Free

The combination of high-velocity, gambling and abolished income tax

makes the area a haven for those looking to make and maintain a quick

buck; creating a city of vice.

Due to the law permitting no payment of tax for citizens, Andorra has developed into a global site for

conserving one’s assets. Many people declare as citizens of Andorra but do not actually live there therefore

creating estrangement.

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In 2010, prior to the fateful elections that put an end to the long-expected housing scheme, Mary Armstrong, chairman of the Irk Valley Residents’ Association, claimed that the community is strong and that 80% of residents would stay in the area if their homes were replaced. Indeed, it is evident that there is a feeling of belonging and of togetherness in the area. And yet, even if the existing community is strong, it does not make it a successful one. From the high crime rates and the distinct lack of facilities and opportunities for the residents, it is clear that something needs to be done to turn these conditions around and make the area liveable and welcoming.

SUCCESSFUL

VOLUNTARY

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ARTIFICIALLYCREATED/FORCED

After asking ourselves “what makes a community?” and “what is the difference between a successful and dysfunctional communities?”, we concluded that at the heart of a good community, there is always an idea i.e. sustainable living, interest in literature or local films, passion for graphic design etc. These communities are always formed willingly, purely out of the interest of the people involved.

In contrast, communities that are formed because of social conditions, like in social housing estates, or even prisons, can never be a functioning part of the larger society even if they are strong within themselves. These communities unite not around a single purpose but rather their separation from the rest of the world.

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Wilhelm Rophe uses the global economy as an examplar phenomenon to signify that, if left to its own devices a community does not fall into chaotic disrepair, but rather develops an unconcious system

whereby all of the elements mesh and form cohesion.

from Einsteins second law of thermodynamics it is proven that a particle system,

however closely bonded, will undergo the process of entropy - BUT only up to the point where

thermodynamic equilibrium is reached.

bonded system Entropy underway eQUILIBRIUM REACHED

‘Ordered anarchy’ pertains to the image of a society that has been left to the people. It shows a clear

distinction between the political anarchic regime of the new leaders, and the view that chaos has ensued. As

rophe states; it is merely the description of a state which has opted for “spontaneous over commanded

order”

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Wilhelm Rophe uses the global economy as an examplar phenomenon to signify that, if left to its own devices a community does not fall into chaotic disrepair, but rather develops an unconcious system

whereby all of the elements mesh and form cohesion.

from Einsteins second law of thermodynamics it is proven that a particle system,

however closely bonded, will undergo the process of entropy - BUT only up to the point where

thermodynamic equilibrium is reached.

bonded system Entropy underway eQUILIBRIUM REACHED

‘Ordered anarchy’ pertains to the image of a society that has been left to the people. It shows a clear

distinction between the political anarchic regime of the new leaders, and the view that chaos has ensued. As

rophe states; it is merely the description of a state which has opted for “spontaneous over commanded

order”

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Christiania, Copenhagen: an Economic Case Study

“The aim of Christiania is to create a self-governing society whereby each and every individual holds themselves responsible for the well-being of the entire community. Our society is to be economically self-sustaining and, as such, our aspiration is to be steadfast in our conviction that psychological and physical pollution can be averted.”

The Charter of Christiania

Christiania is a small neighbourhood in central Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital city. The area was originally a military barracks, before becoming abandoned in the late 1960s. O cially described by Danish authorities as a hippy commune, Christiania is now home to a large community that has continued to grow since the Free Town’s founders squatted on the land in 1971.

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Christiania has to generate money which it can reinvest in itself. The money is collected in a global budget; from there it is spent on a number of projects to improve the Free Town.

Local businesses must pay an annual rent into the global budget. Due to the small number of businesses running in Christiania – the majority of the commu-nity continue to work outside the neighbourhood in Copenhagen – this rent provides only 30% of the global budget each year; the other 70% is funded by residents.

Although Christiania has no police-like authority, its inhabitants have a strong sense of community and are, in the most part, happy to contribute to the global budget. Those who do not are listed in the local newspaper and encouraged to either pay or move out. Those who have never missed a payment are proudly labelled ‘model residents.’

Our manifesto must learn from the example set by Christiania. Although many of the Free Town’s principles di�er vastly from those we plan to implement in Collyhurst, it does show that financial stability can be achieved with a strong sense of community. The people of Christiania know that the global budget will be spent on improving their neigh-bourhood, and so it is in their own interest to donate part of their income.

This is an idea which is fundamental to the success of our vision for Collyhurst.

Christiania Global Budget

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Sustainable communities

Bed zed

Objective: High-tech Location: London, UKSize: 82 residences

Findhorn Poundbury

Objective: Traditional town from scratchLocation: outskirts of Dorchester, EnglandSize: 1500 residents

Objective: Eco-social rural developmentLocation: Pineridge, ScotlandSize: 61 buildings

Bed Zed is a brownfield development that has achieved energy and water efficiency by using sustainable and local materials as well as cutting edge technologies. It attracts young professionals that want both lifestyle and sustainable living. Green transport plan promotes walking and cycling, reducing resident’s reliance on cars.

Findhorn Eco village is an experimental architectural community project, and the main aim is to demonstrate a sustainable development in environmental, social, and economic terms. Democracy is a shared value. Findhorn has a community owned wind farm, organic food production and its own currency named Eko.

Poundbury is synthesis of traditional architecture and modern town planning, where people can live and work in close proximity. It aims to provide high-quality environment, from the architecture to the selection of materials, to the signposts, and the landscaping. Intended to be walkable but still has high car usage.

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People use digital means of communication to form social circles that often have very little to do with their actual physical realities. Social media enables them to maintain fairly close relationships with people on the other side of the globe if need be.

Communities are formed around computer-based entertainment such as gaming. These have a strict set of rules and a strong ideological core - the game itself. Virtual realities play major roles in lives of people involved.

At the moment not only are computers and internet used for entertainment but also to produce work and maintain networks of professional contacts. People can produce, buy, and sell on an international level ever easier and ever faster.

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Mixed use residential, business and leisure areas

Urban gardens and open green space

Moat and river Irk

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Group supergraphicPast, present and future timeline of irk valley

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PROGRAMME STATEMENT

A place in Collyhurst where any-one who feels threatened can go to to feel safe. A place to produce organic food for the community. A place where you can connect with the rest of the world. A place where troubled youths can be taken off the streets. A place where people can meet and ex-change ideas. Someone’s home.

The strive towards a crime free and oil free society.

A safehouse, a growhouse, a family house.

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There is a definite need to rev-olutionise how the people of Collyhurst live. Our manifesto addresses the issue quite broad-ly. What is needed is to change their way of life and bring them into the 21st century with infor-mation based employment.

To do so, one must start with the youth, notably those who are troubled and heading for a life of crime.

The programme for this build-ing will be a youth centre where youth can go and be shielded from crime. Also, the area can achieve a certain degree of inde-pendence by growing their own.

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INDEPENDENCE SUSTAINABLE

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PROGRAMME DIAGRAM

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Khayelitsha was founded in 1986 as a way for the local authority to concen-trate the black population at the pe-riphery of Cape Town. No industry, no economy in the area means poor health conditions and high violent crime rates.

It is in this context that the Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading project began, using social engage-ment and town planning to fight crime. Their aim is to achieve an integrated society by implementing situational, social and institutional crime preven-tion measures.

A series of “active boxes” are placed along main pedestrian routes, open 24 hours a day to allow unquestioned access. Community “sub-centres” are being planned and built, including businesses that create employment opportunities, and open, public places and schools for sports and recreation. Residents are involved in upgrading their areas.

Collyhurst suffers from high crime rates so a similar method can be ap-plied. What Collyhurst needs is build-ing that anyone who feels threatened can access with facilities for youth to seek help, to practice sport and to play safely. A series of these buildings spread over Collyhurst, reducing crime throughout the area.

VIOLENCE PREVENTION THROUGH URBAN UPGRADING

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1. Community Hall: renovated into loveLife Youth Centre and offices for organisations

2. Live-Work Units: 8 units with groundfloor workshop and first floor flat so user can protect workplace and square

3. Business Hub: 15 shops for local businesses, bakery/cafe, boxing gym

4. Active Box: Three storey building containing offices, a caretaker’s flat and a patrol room

5. Multi-purpose building: Library, Ear-ly Childhood Resource Development Centre, experimental learning facility, caretaker’s flat and offices

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SAFE BOXES

In response to the Greater Manchester Police’s crime maps and unfortunate events on site, it seems necessary to create a safe environment for Colly-hurst and come up with a solution to reduce the crime rate.

This building will be designed with this in mind, a place people can freely ac-cess if they ever feel threatened, similar to what was implemented in Khayelit-sha.

In order to create a safe environment, a system needs to be put in place so that when a person in danger enters the building, they can isolate themselves temporarily if need be. This can be for psychological reasons or because of an iminent threat.

It is in this mindset that the idea of “safe boxes” arose. Indeed, at the en-trance of the building will be a series of “safe boxes” where a person in dan-ger can go into and lock themselves in before entering the communal space of the building. Within these “safe boxes”, one can talk to someone on an inter-phone with a direct line to the police if need be. They can then enter the com-munal space whenever they feel ready.

Combined with the youth counselling scheme, this will have reduced the crime rate of Collyhurst dramatically. Therefore, it will no longer be needed which calls for a temporal building, evolving over time.

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SAFE BOXCOLLYHURST COMMUNAL SPACE

SAFE BOXCOLLYHURST COMMUNAL SPACE

SAFE BOXCOLLYHURST COMMUNAL SPACE

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URBAN GARDEN

After the Soviet Union col-lapsed, Cuba lost its main trad-ing partner and went through great hardships as a conse-quence. Most capitalist coun-tries aligned with the United States refused to trade with Cuba. This meant that Cuba suffered from oil and food shortages, being the first coun-try in the world to experience a phenomenon called “peak oil”.

To fight starvation, the Cuban people started growing their own food in the city. This was the start of the urban agricul-tural movement called “Organ-opónicos” in Cuba. Soon, there were urban farms all over Cu-ba’s major cities, blurring the lines between urban and rural. Any unused spaces would be put to use as agricultural set-tlements. Feelings of together-ness arose from co-operation in this desperate time.

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Similar initiatives can be seen all over the world, in this time when “peak oil” is quickly becoming a reality and our way of living is becoming increasingly unsustainable. For example, in Detroit, Mark Covington began the Georgia Street Community Gardens project as an individual ini-tiative. Detroit is 370km2 and used to serve two million people when the automobile industry was thriving in the area. Since industry relocated to countries where labour is cheapest, Detroit’s population has shrunk back to 700 thousand in this enormous city. Mark Covington noticed that people were leaving, going out of business and the ones left behind were choosing medicine over food or vice versa. This is why he started the Georgia Street project, to bring food to the community.

It is this type of initiative that Collyhurst needs to be a part of in order to achieve independence and sustainable, com-fortable living. This can be achieved if the people of Col-lyhurst have Mark Covington’s attitude. An urban farm will be a major part of the building’s programme as a commu-nity effort. Two caretakers with a similar attitude as Mark Covington will be in charge of the farm, and most of the work will be undertaken by volunteering members of the community. There is possibility for this farm to expand as-well when the safe house function is no longer needed.

Mark Covington at Georgia Street Community Gardens

“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation,

but the only riches she can call her own”-Samuel Johnson

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PROGRAMME TIMELINE

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PROGRAMME: YOUTH CENTRE/URBAN FARM

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Sports fields

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Considering the programme’s tempo-ral nature, the building has to be able to adapt to changing circumstances with the lives of its users once differ-ent goals have been reached. The main outputs are:- Oil free zone- Organic food - Good health- Crime free zoneThese outputs are achieved at differ-ent stages of the buildings life. Hope-fully, a relatively crime free zone can be achieved within 10 years and the safe house function will no longer be needed. The materials that were used to reinforce the building can be used to extend the agricultural farm into an animal farm with the construction of barns.

There is a need for two caretakers to maintain the building and occupy it 24 hours a day so that it is always acces-sible. They will live within the building and occupy the public space whilst having sufficient private space that can adapt to a changing lifestyle.

The urban farm will be worked on by voluntary members of the communau-ty. They will be trained on site and ca-tered to by the building itself. Part of the food produced will go to the caf-eteria whilst most of it will go back to the communauty for free, which is the incentive for people to volunteer.

Youth counselling will get troubled youths off the streets and will give them an opportunity to succeed. The sports centre will allow the whole com-munity to come together.

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For the safe house to work in reducing crime in Collyhurst, they need to be spread accross Collyhurst so that one is accessible at all times. This design will be the model for others to come all over Collyhurst.

Here, we have mapped where crime has been reported in the past two months, where the existing schools are and where the main routes are and how busy they are. From this, areas of interest have been extrapolated where a safe house youth centre could be.

All of these sites have the potential to have a safe house youth centre. In fact, an interconnected network of safe houses can be built if there is one on each site. This network has been graph-ically represented above.

The next step is to go on each site and see which one is the optimal one for this project. The only difference is one.

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PROS:LARGE WORKABLE SITEELEVATED & NOTICEABLEWORKING COMMUNITY

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PROS:RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITYNEAR RIVERNEAR ROAD

CONS:LONG AND NARROW SITEUNFAVOURABLE TERRAIN

PROS:LARGE WORKABLE SITEELEVATED & NOTICEABLEWORKING COMMUNITY

CONS:EXISTING PUBLIC GREENINDUSTRIAL POLLUTION

PROS:LARGE WORKABLE SITEMIXED COMMUNITY

CONS:EXISTING PUBLIC GREENREGENERATION GREENHIDDEN

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Of all the sites selected, this site is the most eligible for this particular project because it is the most accessible and noticeable one, being on Rochdale Road, a major circulation vein within Collyhurst. The large surface area of ..... is ample for the programme’s needs and vegeta-tion is already growing there so the land is fertile.

There is a vibrant community around the site, with busy residential areas, a nearby religious community and places of work and leisure all along Rochdale Road. This is a strong site for this specific programme and it will thrive best on this site.

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