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The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
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Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
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They are not. Liverpool is far from NY. There is only one modern building that could be said to be tall at the waterfront.
The city needs more and more more height to get the density up, to get the centre more vibrant. Then work out into the inner-city districts. Merseyrail will need extending with tunnels recommissioned to encourage investment - as they did in London's Docklands. The elevated Light-Railway was built first to encourage investment. I doubt Merseyrail will be extended with this bunch of amateurs running the economy.
The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
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Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
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Not in my book. Its an eyesore now. I dont want any more of this rubbish.
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The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
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Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
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Of course I love those views, and our gorgeous old buildings are beautiful and make you feel all cosy and at home I love them and never get tired of seeing them.
.. but the vibrancy of the new buildings are exciting. I like 'bling' as much as I like old.
You can have both. I love old Victorian houses (I live in one), but I love snazzy new apartments too. it's nice to have a mixture and a choice.
I dont mind NEW Lindy. Its these joke buildings that I object too.
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I dont mind new mixing in with Old. Its when you build massive towers that do not fir in. Its stupid and looks stupid.
The new Museum fits in well.
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What is traditional? The four buildings at the Pier Head. Two are Americanesque, one Italianesque and one Art Deco (which is modern) At Lime St one is classical Greek (3,000 year old design) and the other French Renaissance (looks like a Chattauex)which is 300 year old design. These buildings are heavy and expensive to construct
Modern materials make it easier and cheaper to construct buildings more on a human scale. The interiors are far superior given large open rooms. Far more flexibility is given when the architect has the right vision. Unfortunately many modern buildings lack attention to street level, which is a human failure, not one of the construction techniques or style.
The Atlantic Tower, the Capital Building and others were designed for the elevated roadway Shankland plan - which thank God, never came. That is why at street level they are geared for cars. That can be rectified giving vibrancy and animation, but we need the population density in the centre and attractions in to draw people in from all Merseyside. Height gives that.
We also need Merseyrail extending to cope and enhance the vibrancy. Make it easier for people to get to places of interest and vibrancy in comfort and they will go. I know of people on the Wirral who spend their evenings in Liverpool city centre. They live near Merseyrail stations and it is minutes into the centre.
It is not modern buildings that was the problem in Liverpool, it was the planning. St. John's market is/was an absolute failure in planning. Another is the Liverpool One complex,which should have had the historical dock under it partial excavated to add value and attraction - water attracts and the historical angle adds much value. Boats cannot enter as the main sewage pipes run down the Dock Rd.
When Clayton Square was built, the Albert Dock was well under way. Common sense said put it near the water, near a Merseyrail station.
The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
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Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
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The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
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This could be the impetus to remove the Dock Rd highway from running through Liverpool's city centre and make the city more people friendly.
The New York Times. Special Report: Business of Green. June 24, 2010
Watery Future for the City of Light
By LOUISE LOFTUS -
NY Times
PARIS — Murky with pollution after decades of industrial and agricultural dumping, the River Seine, flowing through Paris, was nearly dead in the 1970s.
Jacques Chirac, then mayor of Paris, started a cleanup campaign in the early 1990s, and by last year Atlantic salmon were reported to have returned to the river — though just this month eating fish from the river was banned because of dangerously high residual levels of polychlorinated biphenyl, a toxic chemical outlawed from industrial use in Europe more than 20 years ago.
The French environment minister, Jean-Louis Borloo, has set in motion a project to eradicate PCBs from Paris’s waters. Meanwhile, a plan to extend the cleanup from the river to its banks is being pushed by City Hall — part of an ambitious project to lure Parisians back to the river.
Every Sunday for the past few years, the expressways that border the Seine in central Paris have been closed to cars and opened, instead, to strollers, roller skaters and cyclists.
In April, the Socialist mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, announced plans to go a step further by permanently closing a 2-kilometer, or 1.2-mile, stretch of the Left Bank and slowing traffic on the Right Bank. The whole area would be transformed into a “pretty urban boulevard,” Mr. Delanoë said, with cars and pedestrians coexisting among cafes, flowers and floating islands.
City Hall planners estimate construction costs at €40 million, or $48.8 million, and maintenance costs at €2 million a year, and say the project could be completed in two years.
That, however, may depend on the readiness of the center-right French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and his government to support the plan, since the riverside roads belong to the autonomous Paris Ports Authority, not to City Hall, and traffic management on them is the responsibility of the prefect of Paris, an official appointed by Mr. Sarkozy.
Mr. Sarkozy himself has other visions for Paris, expressed by the creation in March 2008 of a new government post, secretary of state for the development of the Capital Region, and the announcement last year of a €35 billion metropolitan redevelopment plan covering Paris and the Seine Valley.
With presidential elections due in 2012 — in which Mr. Delanoë may be a Socialist contender — the Seine is on the front line both in the political war and in Mr. Delanoë’s battle against what he calls the “unacceptable hegemony” of cars in the capital. Since 2001 he has introduced new trams, bike and bus lanes and the popular Vélib’ bicycle rental scheme. He is also responsible for the Paris-Plage program, which transforms a section of the riverbank into an urban beach every summer.
But some Parisians are not convinced. The Seine expressways were built in the 1970s as the linchpin of a program by President Georges Pompidou to turn Paris into “a city for the automobile.” On the Right Bank, the expressway carries 40,000 vehicles per day and 4,000 an hour at peak times, according to City Hall figures. On the Left Bank, the traffic is lighter but still reaches 2,000 vehicles per hour at rush hour.
According to Mr. Delanoë’s office, rerouting traffic away from the riverbanks would increase commute times across the city by only six minutes. But some commuters and taxi drivers warn that congestion in the city, already scarcely tolerable, would be made far worse.
“This will degrade the quality of life of French workers,” said one message on the mayor’s public consultation Web site. “The lives of people who work during the week will be even more complicated and stressful, and you degrade the working conditions of the inhabitants of Île de France in favor of the ‘idle’ and tourists.”
Supporters of Mr. Delanoë turn that argument on its head. “This is an initiative for all Parisians, and it’s part of a pattern of a larger translation. We are in the midst of a shifting paradigm,” said Eric Britton, an American economist in Paris and founder of NewMobility, a sustainable transport advocacy organization.
Amenities like rivers and green space must be allowed to once again become the “lungs of the city,” Mr. Britton said. “Cities must plan this way to be global competitors now,” he said. “The time of the car is over, and symbols, like the river, are the new metrics of civilization.”
The benefits can be not just environmental, but economic too, he said.
A 2009 study by Walkscore, a Web site that rates neighborhoods in terms of pedestrian access, evaluated the effect of “walkability” on U.S. housing prices, using 95,000 real estate transactions. The study found that making it easier for people to get around on foot raised housing values in 13 out of 15 markets. In some areas, increasing walkability by 25 percent raised house values by as much as $34,000 — with potential spinoff benefits to the public through higher property tax revenues.
“What we have to make sure of,” Mr. Britton said, “is that there is a proper system of land value capture in place.”
Todd Litman, a transportation economist and executive director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, an independent research organization based in Canada, puts the lesson this way: “Some of the money cities currently spend to increase travel speeds could be spent more efficiently improving the comfort, convenience and security of walking, cycling and public transport.”
The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
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Liverpool should adopt this Mew Mobility Agenda.
New Mobility's aims can be described as:
- Providing equity of mobility between those with and without cars, and throughout the urban area
- Reducing the carbon intensity of urban transport (as a whole)
- Making use of all the modes of transport at our disposal (including foot, cycle and all means of motorised transport), as well as technological solutions such as teleworking and passenger information
- Improving the quality of urban life, particularly in terms of the effects of road traffic
The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
Giving Liverpool a full Metro - CLICK
Rapid-transit rail: Everton, Liverpool & Arena - CLICK
Save Royal Iris - Sign Petition
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