Visualising the City
From Wikicliki
Composing London Visually, Robert Tavernor
- "london, new york, paris and tokyo are the four alpha world cities, preeminent cities that draw workers, visitors and huge wealth from around the world" (beaverstock et al, 1999, table 7, 445-58)
- london wants to integrate both old and new, retain cultural and visual link with the past which it is identified internationally
- city of london sits alongside 32 london boroughs, so its governance is subject to the same planning controls and regulations - national regional local in england/wales
- based on EU requirement of control of environment - EIA or Environmental Impact Assessment - used to gauge probable impact of any large development on the setting of the exisiting cityscape of buildings and spaces
- method used: assessment of visual impact on photographically recorded images of london taken from selected fixed viewing prositions ina nd around the capital
- "ten principles strategic views" - establisehd in 1991
- local planners also invariably request incidental views to be assessed - so a large building might use up to 30-100+ views to be access.
- a specialist townscape consultant acts on behalf of the developers to selete the precise viewing positions
