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Transforming Sheffield: Enhancing Public Spaces for Economic Regeneration

This article explores how Sheffield revitalized its city center by investing in public realm improvements, including street design, materials, and cultural initiatives. It highlights the multidisciplinary approach, lessons learned, and the positive outcomes of this transformation, such as job growth and increased civic pride.

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Transforming Sheffield: Enhancing Public Spaces for Economic Regeneration

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  1. Tudor Square and the Crucible:Completing the Cultural Core: Place for people

  2. Architecture and Public RealmGetting the relationships Right

  3. Leopold Square

  4. Devonshire Green City Centre Park

  5. Extending the Gold Route West : Devonshire GreenPublic Realm / Private Sector Opportunity

  6. After improvements

  7. Devonshire Green:Horticultural Diversity

  8. Devonshire Green:Design Language and Social Context

  9. Lessons Learned over the Past 15 years • All our city centre streets are public realm • Street Design is a multidisciplinary function • Quality materials and correct specification • Developing a culture of ‘Learning Lessons’ • city branding • The importance a masterplan – building the connections • Public Realm investment as a catalyst for economic regeneration

  10. Key Outcomes

  11. Some Key findings on Public Realm

  12. Benefits-Recovery to Take-off • £210m public investment over 10 yrs • £1bn private investment levered • City Centre turned around • 73,000 new jobs 1995-2005 • Knowledge economy grew 27% in 7 years • Business & Financial 57% in 10 years • Creative & Digital grew 32% in 5 years • City Centre Office rents up 40% in 4 years • CC population 2 - 15,000 in just over ten years • Optimism and Civic Pride

  13. Sheffield’s Approach • Vision & Leadership • Public spaces reshape the City • Roads back to streets • Complementary partners – Council / Creative Sheffield, YF • Dedicated in-house design teams • Long-term commitment to management

  14. Some key ingredients • Good all round multi-disciplinary team • Holistic approach • Embedded into a Masterplan • Quality materials and correct specification • culture of Learning Lessons • More than making an area look pretty • Looking after the area after work completed

  15. All Our Roads in the City Centre are Public Realm - And not just outside the Railway Station

  16. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Street Design • Highway Engineers • Landscape Architects - Public Realm Design • Artists • Lighting Designers • Planners and Urban Designers – Architectural relationships • Economic Regeneration Professionals

  17. City Centre Shopping: Streets for People

  18. Ambassadors and the Rest

  19. Creating the Steel Route:Pedestrian Shopping SpineThe Moor – Peace Garden – Victoria Quays

  20. Art, Materials and Local DistinctivenessMade in Sheffield

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