A presentation given by Ben Hamilton-Baillie at the 2011 Design Symposium which was held in Stirling and organised by Architecture + Design Scotland and Historic Scotland.

1. Ben Hamilton Baillie
Ben Hamilton Baillie Associates
Design Skills Symposium 2011, Tollbooth, Stirling
“Delivering Better Places”

2. Design Skills
Symposium Scotland
Streets, networks
& public space
Ben Hamilton-Baillie
www.hamilton-baillie.co.uk

3. Exhibition Road, London

16. O’Connell Street, Dublin

51. Siena, Italy

55. Traffic in Towns. The Buchanan Report 1963

57. Eugène Hénard Proposals for traffic circulation Paris 1905

58. “Traffic segregation
should be the keynote
of modern road design”
Ministry of Transport (1966)
“Roads in Urban Areas”
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61. Published Nov 2010

64. CABE
Better Streets Studies
Liverpool
Devizes Bristol
Manchester
Dublin Bideford
Newcastle
Harlow Kensington Nottingham

68. Birmingham New Street

71. No children
No swings
barriers
Rubberized matting
“The swings are packed away at night because kids might climb
the fence and use them unsupervised and hurt themselves.”

73. Kensington High Street - before

75. Kensington High Street Casualty Review
Drop in casualties from 1999 to 2004
Pedestrian Cyclists Motorcycles All
0
-10
-14
-20 -18 -18
-22
-25 -26
-26
-30
%
-35 -35
-40
-43 -44
-50
-60
London
-64 RBKC
-70 KHS
Before: average annual rate between March 98 and February 2001
After: average annual rate between September 2003 and March 2005

76. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL
ENGINEERS
Dispelling myths and
misunderstandings amongst
highway engineers
Stresses professional
judgement over convention
and simple application of
guidance
Reviews the realities of legal
liability and corporate risk

77. The Highway The Public Realm
•Regulated •Culturally defined
•Impersonal •Personal
•Linear •Spatial
•Single Purpose •Multi-purpose
•Consistent •Constantly changing
•Predictable •Unpredictable
•Systematic •Contextual
•State controlled •Cultural / social rules
•Signs and markings •Eye contact

79. System time Context time

81. Hans Monderman
1946-2008

82. Makkinga, Friesland

87. Noordlaren, Groningen

94. Petersfield, Hampshire

95. Shrewsbury High Street

96. St. Armel, Brittany

97. Drachten, Friesland

101. De Kaden, Drachten

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106. Poynton, Cheshire

107. Aachen, Germany

109. Norrkøpping, Sweden

110. Skvallertorget
before after

116. Portishead, Bristol
Traffic light switch-off

117. New Road, Brighton

124. Ashford Ring Road, Kent

136. Lost O

137. St. Gallen “Stadtlounge” Switzerland

148. Seven Dials, Covent Garden

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