Social Sustainability in Urban Areas: Communities, Connectivity and the Urban Fabric

257 Pages·2010·2.526 MB·English

by  Tony Manzi (Ed.), Karen Lucas (Ed.), Tony Lloyd Jones (Ed.), Judith Allen (Ed.)

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Social Sustainability in Urban Areas
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Social Sustainability in
Urban Areas
Communities, Connectivity
and the Urban Fabric
Edited by
Tony Manzi, Karen Lucas,
Tony Lloyd-Jones and Judith Allen
London • Washington, DC
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Contents
List of Figures, Tables and Box vii
List of Contributors ix
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii
Introduction xv
1 Understanding Social Sustainability: Key Concepts and
Developments in Theory and Practice 1
Tony Manzi, Karen Lucas, Tony Lloyd-Jones and Judith Allen
Section 1: Communities, Neighbourhoods and the Creation of
Locality-based Social Capital
2 Creating Sustainable Neighbourhoods? The Development and
Management of Mixed-Income Communities 35
Tony Manzi
3 Building Sustainable Communities from the Grassroots: How
Community Land Trusts Can Create Social Sustainability 49
Nick Bailey
4 Neighbourhood Asset Management: Life Cycles and Learning for
Social Sustainability 65
Judith Allen and Tony Lloyd-Jones
5 Women’s Social Networks and Their Importance in Promoting
Sustainable Communities 83
Catalina Gandelsonas
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Section 2: The Role of Place and Connectivity in the Urban
Socio-Physical Environment
6 Residential Intensification, Family Housing and Educational
Provision 105
Suzy Nelson
7 Transport Planning for Sustainable Communities 121
Karen Lucas, Derek Halden and Sarah Wixey
8 The Impacts of Teleworking on Sustainability and Travel 141
Peter White, Georgina Christodoulou, Roger Mackett,
Helena Titheridge, Roselle Thoreau and John Polak
Section 3: Regeneration and Economic Development
9 Planning Obligations and Social Sustainability 161
Chris Marsh
10 The Urban Renaissance and the Night-Time Economy: Who
Belongs in the City at Night? 183
Adam Eldridge
11 The Relationship Between Major Events, the Urban Fabric and
Social Sustainability 199
Adam Smith
12 Conclusions and Observations for Future Practice 221
Index 229
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List of Figures, Tables and Box
Figures
Figure 1.1 The dimensions and interactive process in sustainable
development 3
Figure 1.2 The Russian Doll explanation of sustainable development 4
Figure 1.3 A multi-dimensional understanding of sustainable
development 5
Figure 1.4 The Egan Wheel 17
Figure 4.1 Integrated neighbourhood-governance model 73
Figure 4.2 The actors who may have a presence in neighbourhood
spaces 79
Figure 5.1 Conceptual model 96
Figure 7.1 Location of key transport routes in the east London
region of the Thames Gateway 128
Figure 7.2 Main stages of the recommended accessibility planning
process 133
Figure 7.3 Map showing accessibility to rugby club site for
Appleton patients 137
Figure 7.4 Map showing accessibility to Stretton Barns site for
Appleton patients 138
Figure 8.1 Distance travelled per year by frequency of working at
home 145
Figure 9.1 Planning obligations ‘pecking order’ 2002 167
Figure 11.1 Greenwich Millennium Village: green spaces, high density,
education/health provision, good transport links... and a
23,000-capacity events arena 214
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Tables
Table 1.1 Dimensions of sustainability 19
Table 4.1 Physical life-cycle of buildings and key social questions 70
Table 4.2 Timescales in Soho 76
Table 4.3 As-yet-unfinished stories in the neighbourhood space 78
Table 7.1 The five development scenarios for Edinburgh, with a
summary of their likely impacts on accessibility 135
Table 7.2 Comparison of overall changes in accessibility 135
Table 8.1 Total distance travelled by frequency the respondents
work at home 145
Table 8.2 Total trips per year made by frequency the respondents
work at home 146
Table 9.1 Affordable housing delivery 169
Table 9.2 Total Section 106 financial contributions across London 171
Table 9.3 Section 106 financial contributions by type and by
borough 172
Table 11.1 The sustainable urban regeneration performance of
Barcelona’s Vila Olimpica 211
Box
Box 11.1 The seven projects that formed the Legacy Programme
for the 2002 Commonwealth Games 203
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List of Contributors
Judith Allen is Principal Lecturer in Neighbourhood Management. She is a
member of the Max Lock Centre and is also the programme leader for
undergraduateurbanstudiesandpostgraduateneighbourhoodstudies.Shehas
been the scientific manager for three major cross-European studies in neigh-
bourhoods: focusing on social exclusion, neighbourhood management and
governance. Her current research on small areas focuses on migrancy and set-
tlement(BritishinBulgaria,BraziliansinPortugal),aswellasconsultanciesfor
neighbourhood projects in London, for the Housing Observatory in Madrid,
and for UN-Habitat.
Nick Bailey is Professor of Urban Regeneration. He originally qualified as a
townplanner,hasworkedinanumberofplanningandhousingposts,andhas
many years of teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
He has carried out extensive research on the role of third-sector organizations
in urban regeneration in the UK and was the co-author of a study of commu-
nity development trusts for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He has also
carried out a study of community involvement in local strategic partnerships
and led a team investigating mixed tenure housing developments in England
andScotlandfortheJosephRowntreeFoundation.Heisaboardmemberofa
community development trust in central London.
Adam Eldridge is Research Fellow with the Central Cities Institute at the
UniversityofWestminster.HisrecentlycompletedPhDexaminedthearticula-
tion of history, identity and geography within a themed environment. His
current research continues to examine the relationship between consumption,
communityandpublicspace,withaparticularemphasisontownandcitycen-
tres after dark. Dr Eldridge is currently investigating how the Licensing Act
(2003)hasimpactedupontheeveningeconomyintermsofresidentsandtown
centre decentralisation. He also teaches in the Department of Urban Planning