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It’s time to ‘Do the Shared Space’

Calling all urban realm designers! In the words of a legendary song (well, sort of): ‘It ain’t what you call it, it’s the fact that you did it – tell us what gets results’

John Dales
28 January 2011
The London Strand, around 20 years ago… (thanks to David Orr, I think)
The London Strand, around 20 years ago… (thanks to David Orr, I think)
…and just the other day. It’s safer, it’s easier for all to use, and it looks great. Just do it!
…and just the other day. It’s safer, it’s easier for all to use, and it looks great. Just do it!
Counter-terrorism bollards – acceptable, unacceptable, or just inevitable? (thanks to Stuart Croucher)
Counter-terrorism bollards – acceptable, unacceptable, or just inevitable? (thanks to Stuart Croucher)

 

The Older I get (50 this year!), the more I’m concerned that too many people are just too young to get the cultural references with which I liberally sprinkle my outpourings. So, just in case you think my title and subtitle this month are odder than usual, they hark back to ‘Do the Strand’ (a 1973 release by Roxy Music) and to ‘It Ain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It)’ (first sung by Ella Fitzgerald in 1939 and later ruined by the Fun Boy...

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John Dales

John Dales

John Dales MSC BSC MCIHT CMILT Director, Urban Mov

John Dales is a streets design adviser to local authorities around the UK, a member of several design review panels, and one of the London mayor’s design advocates. He is a past chair of the Transport Planning Society, a former trustee of Living Streets, and a committee member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. He is director of transport planning and street design consultancy Urban Movement. 

 

j.dales@urbanmovement.co.uk
+44 (0)7768 377 150
www.johndales.com

 

 
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