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ABSTRACT
This article is concerned with masterplan implementation and with exploring, via recourse to case studies, slippages between masterplanning principles, policies, and practices. Framed by a growing body of sustainable urbanism literature we analyse evidence from five masterplanned communities in the UK and Australia to comparatively explore how some key theoretical principles are translated into placemaking in inner urban, suburban, outer urban and semi-rural contexts. We observe varying degrees of disjuncture between masterplanning principles and the urban form envisioned by, and realized through, actual masterplanning proposals and implementation. We postulate that various degrees of slippage at each stage from proposals to practices have occurred which can affect capacity to meet principles of sustainable urbanism. Analysis of the five cases demonstrates where some potential “tripping-up” points lie in the masterplanning process, hinting at broader impediments to delivering masterplanning that is more closely aligned to sustainable urbanism principles in future.
Acknowledgement
The research into sustainable masterplanning in planned communities from which this article draws its data was undertaken through a Sustainable Living Partnership between the University of Hertfordshire and Tarmac established in 2011. As industry partner Tarmac funded the research and the authors would like to express their appreciation of the financial support which allowed this research to be undertaken. The authors also wish to acknowledge the contribution to the research project of Dr John McCormack who undertook research into the three United Kingdom based case studies from which data is drawn for part of this analysis.
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Susan Parham
Associate Professor Susan Parham is Head of Urbanism and Planning at the University of Hertfordshire where she is Director of the University of Hertfordshire Urbanism Unit (UHUU) and Academic Director of the International Garden Cities Institute (IGCI). She researches and teaches on placemaking, planned settlements, sustainable materials, and food and urban design. Susan’s most recent book is Food and Urbanism (Bloomsbury, 2015) and her latest book chapters are in Agrourbanism (2018), the Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food (2018), and in Future Directions for the European Shrinking City (RTPI Library Series, 2016). Susan is Chair of the Editorial Board for Urban Design and Planning and a member of the Royal Society for the Arts and the Royal Town Planning Institute. Susan holds visiting fellowships at the Laboratory for Building Cultures at the Grenoble School of Architecture and at the Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Adelaide.
Alasdair Jones
Dr Alasdair Jones is an Associate Professor in Qualitative Research Methodology at the London School of Economics and an Associate at LSE Cities. He is an urban sociologist by training, and has conducted research in a number of thematic areas, including experiences of living in planned developments, urban public space and the transport-health nexus. These studies have been based on data collected primarily through interviewing, focus groups and ethnographic research methods. Prior to working at the LSE, Alasdair held research positions at the University of Hertfordshire and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Center for Ethnographic Research (UC Berkeley), a Visiting Fellow at the City Futures Research Centre (UNSW) and, most recently, a Visiting Academic at the Public Policy Institute (University of Auckland).