URSULA has three

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URSULA has three Is Developing Integrated
and Innovative Interventions for Urban River
Corridors

• David Lerner Tom Wild

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Acknowledgements

• Funding
• EPSRC
• Images
• Simon Ogden/SCC, Tom Wild, Mott Macdonald, Stadt
  Dortmund
• Research team
• Tom Wild
• Abigail Hathaway
• Sarah Moore
• Peter Moug
• Ed Morgan
• Ed Shaw
• Mel Burton

• Partners
• Arup
• Corus
• Environment Agency
• H2OPE
• RCIS
• RTPI
• Scott Wilson
• Sheffield City Council
• SNIFFER
• South Yorkshire Forest
• Yorkshire Forward
• York. Humber Regional Environ. Forum
• Yorkshire Water
• And more, we hope

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Taming rivers the Danube at Vienna
Slide from Klement TOckner, EAWAGMohilla
Michlmayr (1996). Donauatlas Wien vier
Jahrhunderte Kartenbild
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Where we were
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Where we are
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Is this the best we can do?

• Narrow corridor
• Access
• Recreation
• Ecological value
• Flooding
• Land value
• Economic contribution

• Weve turned round and stopped removing the trees

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Sustainable design

• Maximises
• Environmental
• Biodiversity
• Pollutant processing
• Flood management
• Social
• Health and well being
• Community
• Landscape
• Economic
• Productivity
• Land values
• Flood damage
• values

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Sustainable design

• Maximises
• Environmental
• Biodiversity
• Pollutant processing
• Flood management
• Social
• Health and well-being
• Community
• Landscape
• Economic
• Productivity
• Land values
• Flood damage
• values

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What is URSULA?

• Urban River Corridors and Sustainable Living
  Agendas
• EPSRC funded research project
• A consortium of researchers and stakeholders
• Support for the Waterways Strategy Group and
  partners

• 2.5M over 4 years from January 2008
• 310 man-months of researcher time
• An opportunity!

EPSRC Engineering Physical Sciences Research
Council
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URSULA Hypothesis

• There are significant social, economic and
  environmental gains to be made by integrated and
  innovative interventions in urban river corridors.

• Can the river improve the city,and the city
  improve the river,and both improve life for all?

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URSULA aim methodology
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Integrated and Innovative Interventions

• To be determined in alliance with stakeholders
• What is happening?
• What are they interested in testing
• What can we do?
• What novel ideas do we have?
• Some possibilities

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Sheffields Rivers
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3 scales 3 case studies

• Site (building) scale
• Vulcan House / Kelham Island Goyt
• Reach (street) scale
• Nursery Street
• Corridor (strategic planning) scale
• Upper Lower Don valley regeneration corridors

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3. Blue-green spaces (corridor)
1. Vulcan House (site)
2. Nursery Street (reach)
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Site scale Vulcan House
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Vulcan House (Home Office)

• Exceeds BREEAM excellent rating
• Carbon neutral in use
• water use 20 lt than government target
• BUT how does building design make use of river
  setting?

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The river as an asset

• Vulcan House could be anywhere
• Some interventions to study
• River as heat source or sink
• Flood-proofing
• Microhydro
• Once again harness Sheffields rivers?
• Modern day water wheels?

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Kelham Island Goyt
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Reach scale Nursery Street
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Nursery St - June 2007
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A vision of Nursery St
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Multi-functional design of spaces

• Could Nursery Street provide
• Flood storage capacity
• A high quality setting for investment
• An image changing landmark
• An event space
• Improved local quality of life
• Reconnection to the core of the city?

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Corridor scale
Dortmunds green radial plan
The redevelopment of urban river corridors
provides us with a once in a lifetime opportunity
to recreate open space networks penetrating the
heart of the city, and sustainable transport
links joining communities with key economic
centres (TW)
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Sustainable design

• Maximises
• Environmental
• Biodiversity
• Pollutant processing
• Flood management
• Social
• Health and well-being
• Community
• Landscape
• Economic
• Productivity
• Land values
• Flood damage
• values

• What is the appropriate ratio of Blue Green
  Grey
• How do land values respond to more blue-green
  space?
• Can flood capacity be built in without losing
  other values?
• How do we negotiate these trade-offs?

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New Hall - before after
1975
1996
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An opportunity
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Minimum blue-green
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Maximum blue-green
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Compromise?
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Summary

• The opportunity of urban river corridors
• Sustainable design for social environmental
  economic values
• Investigate interventions at all scales
• Working with stakeholders
• d.n.lerner_at_shef.ac.uk or t.wild_at_shef.ac.uk

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Salmon Pastures