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URSULA has three ‘I’s – Developing Integrated and Innovative Interventions for Urban River Corridors

URSULA has three ‘I’s – Developing Integrated and Innovative Interventions for Urban River Corridors. David Lerner & Tom Wild. Funding EPSRC Images Simon Ogden/SCC, Tom Wild, Mott Macdonald, Stadt Dortmund Research team Tom Wild Abigail Hathaway Sarah Moore Peter Moug Ed Morgan

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URSULA has three ‘I’s – Developing Integrated and Innovative Interventions for Urban River Corridors

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  1. URSULA has three ‘I’s – Developing Integrated and Innovative Interventions for Urban River Corridors David Lerner & Tom Wild

  2. 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 Acknowledgements

  3. 1848 1888 1989 Taming rivers: the Danube at Vienna Slide from Klement TOckner, EAWAGMohilla & Michlmayr (1996). Donauatlas – Wien vier Jahrhunderte Kartenbild

  4. Where we were

  5. Where we are

  6. Is this the best we can do? • Narrow corridor • Access • Recreation • Ecological value • Flooding • Land value • Economic contribution • We’ve turned round and stopped removing the trees

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

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

  9. 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! What is URSULA? *EPSRC = Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council

  10. 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? URSULA Hypothesis

  11. Indicators Stakeholders Interventions,innovations Assessment of interventions New tools Recommendations Data & models URSULA aim & methodology

  12. 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 …

  13. Sheffield’s Rivers

  14. 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

  15. 3. Blue-green spaces (corridor) 1. Vulcan House (site) 2. Nursery Street (reach)

  16. Site scale – Vulcan House

  17. Vulcan House (Home Office) • Exceeds BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating • Carbon neutral in use • water use 20% < than government target • BUT – how does building design make use of river setting?

  18. 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 Sheffield’s rivers? • Modern day water wheels?

  19. Kelham Island Goyt

  20. Reach scale – Nursery Street

  21. Nursery St - June 2007

  22. A vision of Nursery St

  23. 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?

  24. Corridor scale Dortmund’s 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)

  25. 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? Sustainable design

  26. New Hall - before & after 1975 1996

  27. An opportunity

  28. Minimum blue-green

  29. Maximum blue-green

  30. Compromise?

  31. 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@shef.ac.uk or t.wild@shef.ac.uk

  32. Salmon Pastures

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