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1 Place Review Sir Terry Farrell Partner, Farrells 5 th February 2015

2 Global changes

3 Let me tell you one thing. In this world we are living in, 98% of everything that is built and designed today is pure shit. Frank Gehry Frank Gehry Gives Middle Finger to Journalist

4 The themes of the Review

5 Place as client 1995 Royal Parks Central London s unappreciated world-class public realm 2001 Buckingham Palace The Nation s unrealised great square 1990 The Thames Study London s lost public realm 2002 Euston Road/ Marylebone Road Study - It s a major place not a through road Place as Client

6 Euston Circus Euston Road Euston Road

7 Park Lane pedestrian plan is a step nearer 31 July 2014 Park Lane and Hyde Park Pedestrian Crossings

8 THAMES ESTUARY PARKLANDS Planner As Design Champion 8 July 2014 Jeskyns Farm, Cobham RSPB Rainham Marshes Barnes Wetlands Greenwich Ecology Park Thames Estuary Parklands

9 the current Vision for Old Oak Common An engineered arrangement of platforms and sheds constitutes the existing vision Vision for Old Oak Common

10 Farrells vision for Park Royal City International and for Old Oak Central, the UK s transport Super Hub Park Royal Old Oak Central Kensal Old Oak Vision

11 Farrells Vision for New Queens Park

enabling the regions and Heathrow to grow Gatwick would drive

12 Gatwick for Growth: driving balanced growth throughout Britain Gatwick would strengthen the UK s aviation network, enabling the regions and Heathrow to grow Gatwick would drive the most widely spread growth across the South East Gatwick for Growth

13 Integrated Connectivity Designed Around The Passenger London Gatwick 2025

14 Farrell Review Champions Lead Implementation! School Education & Teacher Training Championed by: Victoria Thornton, Founding Director, Open-City and FAR Panel Member & Charlie Peel, FAR Project Co-ordinator The Place Alliance Championed by: Professor Matthew Carmona, UCL Urban Rooms Urban Room Blackburn Case Study Championed by: Claire Tymon and Ian Banks, Blackburn is Open Virtual Urban Rooms Championed by: Simon Mabey, Arup and Richard Conner, Assembly Studios Proactive Planning and Plan First Championed by: Finn Williams, Novus and GLA PLACE Review Championed by: David Tittle, Chair, Design Network The Role of Artists and the Arts Championed by: Robert Powell, Director of Beam and FAR Panel Member Valuing Design Quality Championed by: Alison Brooks, Founding Director, Alison Brooks Architects and FAR Panel Member London International Festival of Architecture Championed by: Patricia Brown, Chair, London Festival of Architecture Improving the Quality of Local Decision- Making & Design Literacy Championed by: Cllr Sue Vincent, Urban Design London & Camden Borough Council Heritage & Future Cities Championed by: Hank Dittmar, Special Advisor, The Prince s Foundation and FAR Panel Member Civic Champions Championed by: Lucy Musgrave, Publica and FAR Panel Member Champions and Position Papers

15 Place Alliance

16 Urban Room Blackburn Outreach and skills

17 Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall RIBA Architruck Cork Vision Centre Urban Room Precedents

18 Planning for the future

Showcase Day. Tuesday 19th October InItIatIve. Part of. London s Great Outdoors. InItIatIve

Showcase Day. Tuesday 19th October InItIatIve. Part of. London s Great Outdoors. InItIatIve Showcase Day Tuesday 19th October 2010 Part of London s Great Outdoors The Mayor s Great Spaces Initiative has been set up to ensure that public space projects are excellently designed and that the right