1960s planners hoped to bury Bristol's historic docklands under a motorway interchange. Thankfully that never happened, but unfortunately, 1980s plans to create a light-rail 'Avon Metro' scheme also went nowhere, and development on Spike Island was car-centrically suburban.
This video looks at the history of transport, architecture and urban planning of Spike Island from the 60s to the present day, to see how and why we avoided some of the more drastic proposals (for better or worse), and how the tide is (perhaps belatedly) turning away from sleepy village-style "cul-de-sac with lots of parking" developments towards mixed-use schemes which better integrate with their active city-centre location.
0:00 Intro
3:56 1960s: motorway-building mania
9:53 1980s: sleepy village cul-de-sac style residential schemes
13:38 Bristol Harbour Railway and the (failed) Avon Metro proposal
21:28 "Planning gain" transport economics
28:56 1990s-2000s: less villagey architecture - but still car-centric dormitories
32:36 Creative industries (obligatory Aardman + Banksy namedrops)
35:04 Wapping Wharf and the embrace of 'mixed-use'
38:28 Forthcoming: Macarthur's Yard and Baltic Wharf phase 2
41:31 Cumberland Basin road scheme, renewal and 'Western Harbour'
47:36 Climate change makes for a depressing outro
Sources, credits and transcript: pedestriandiversions.github.i...
9 июл 2024