{"id":8165,"date":"2012-03-11T06:41:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T06:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2012-03-11T06:41:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T06:41:59","slug":"parliament-square-urban-landscape-redesign-lcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/parliament-square-urban-landscape-redesign-lcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament square urban landscape redesign LCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120210_lcc_parliament_square_design_5602.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8189\" title=\"20120210_lcc_parliament_square_design_560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120210_lcc_parliament_square_design_5602.jpg\" alt=\"London Cycling Campaign re-design of Parliament Square landscape\" width=\"775\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120210_lcc_parliament_square_design_5602.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120210_lcc_parliament_square_design_5602-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120210_lcc_parliament_square_design_5602-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120210_lcc_parliament_square_design_5602-624x498.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) for publishing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishcycling.org.uk\/travel\/article\/trav20120210-London-Cycling-Campaign-launches-petition-for-radical-new-Dutch-style-cycle-routes-0\">re-design of Parliament Square&#8217;s urban landscape<\/a>, also discussed on this blog this last year (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/the-landscape-architecture-of-parliament-square-westminster-london-uk\/\">The landscape architecture of Parliament Square, Westminster, London UK<\/a>). My comments on the LCC design are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it concentrates on traffic at the expense of other considerations<\/li>\n<li>the urban design history of the space is crucial: it began as New Palace Yard. The Square was a nineteenth century addition<\/li>\n<li>the future use of the space is also crucial: just creating a patch of grass is insufficiently ambitious<\/li>\n<li>the LCC design proposals also lack ambition:\u00a0the fountain is perfunctory and the roadworks are ugly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The LCC&#8217;s scheme opts for a &#8216;Trafalgar Square&#8217; solution on the north and west sides of the square. It would be better to revert to the historic idea of a &#8216;palace yard&#8217; in which paved space was shared between vehicles and pedestrians. This is now known as a &#8216;shared space&#8217; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden\/exhibition_road_south_kensington\">Exhibition Road<\/a> is a good recent example. With regard to the future use of Parliament Square, it should be a place for the elected representatives of the people (MPs) to meet the people they represent and the people who are affected by their decisions (you, me, cyclists, drivers, visitors to London). The below maps show the evolution of New Palace Yard into the Parliament Square Traffic Gyratory<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/historic-parliament-square3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8173\" title=\"historic-parliament-square3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/historic-parliament-square3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/historic-parliament-square3.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/historic-parliament-square3-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/historic-parliament-square3-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/historic-parliament-square3-624x479.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) for publishing a re-design of Parliament Square&#8217;s urban landscape, also discussed on this blog this last year (see The landscape architecture of Parliament Square, Westminster, London UK). My comments on the LCC design are: it concentrates on traffic at the expense of other considerations the urban design history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}