Looking at garden cities and their relation to the importance of green spaces and conservation in today's city. This ties in well with our unit work as its focus is on conservation in the tottenham area and spaces near the sea/lake in odessa. There was also a big emphasis on the 'Health Walk' along the coast of Odessa, which was scattered with outdoor gyms, pavilions and people cycling/walking. This conservation in Tottenham and Odessa could be promoted by better connectivity to, and use of, the spaces in terms of health and leisure, linking in with the green grid plan and the olympic park further down the valley. For this reason I am interested in the lecture given by Will Steadman on the philanthropic planners and current collaborations with organisations such as tesco in Bromley by Bow, (inclusion of frontage to canal, improvement of transport links, and catering for needs ie primary school relevant.)
I was also very interested in Monday's lecture on the Olympic park and its fringes, and its relevance to the develpoment of green healthy sports spaces in Tottenham - would like to look at 5th studio fat walk with this. On a side line to both of these lectures, the talk on urban markers may be useful as I would like to explore how these markers can be used effectively to create a 'destination' quality to both Tottenham and Odessa, especially when going from the dense infrastructure of Tottenham Hhale to the canal, similar to connections to the olympic park from Stratford.
No comments:
Post a Comment