CSMP - Eddington CS Flashcards
What is place inequality like within Eddington?
Low
What was the demographic of Eddington in the past?
Settlers included solider from the Roman Empire -> Roman period
What was the socio-economic characteristics in the past?
- Forest cover cleared for rectangular paddocks to pen cattle - seasonal migration inwards
- Agriculture based
- Roundhouse, pit-wells, granary setting -> occupied by mixed farming communities
What is evidence of wealthy individual living in Eddington in the Roman times?
- Roman Villa -> mediterranian oak furnishing -> flow of resources
What are the cultural characteristics in the past?
Roman influence (major settlement)
What are the features of the natural environment?
- Flat land
- Veteran Oak Tree boundary between Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire -> 400 yrs
What does the Oak Tree represent on a cultural and national scale?
- Honoured in the late Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee as a national network of 70 Ancient Trees
- Planted around the time of Queen Elizabeth I’d reign
What is the demographic of Eddington like presently?
- Working age: 85%
- Age<15: 7%
- 48% white, 33% Asian
What is the population of Eddington made up of?
- University keyworkers
- Postgraduates
- Eventually 8500 residents
What are the socio-economic characteristic presently?
- Affordable housing for key workers to rent -> reduce housing shortage
- High-end private housing -> 5 bedroom terraced housing
- Knowledge based economy -> 100,000 sq/m of academic and commercial research space -> research hub of Cambridge
- Postdoc Centre -> prof. and social interactive hub at Uni -> funded by research grants
How much could terraced housing go for?
£1.4 million
How much could a 2 bedroom apartment go for?
£600k
How many postdocs will the Postdoc Centre accommodate?
> 4000
What will the Postdoc Centre enable?
- Hot-desking
- Entrepreneurship
- Establishment in careers
What are the cultural characteristic of Eddington presently?
- Storey’s Field Centre -> space for community groups to open to general public + Eddington resident
- Postdoc Centre -> sense of community between researchers
- Market square & public art -> community events + shops + social spaces -> artworks, poems, patterns inspired by Cambridge
- Roman festival day
How is there a positive sense of place and strong sense of community?
- Excellent planning & architectural design
- Culture linked to built environment
What are the political characteristics?
- Eddington Residents’ Association -> volunteer run neighbourhood organisation planning events for diverse pop
- North West & West Community Forum, run by Cambridge City Council -> discuss with resident, councils and developers how developments are moving forward
How was Eddington developed?
Through Cambridge investment
What are characteristics of the built environment?
- Close to M11 a former Roman Road -> 10 min drive from Cambridge Science Park
- Storey.s Field Centre ->bring community together -> concerts, weddings, Zumba classes
- Primary School - OFSTED outstanding rating -> outdoor space to promote outdoor learning
What is phase 1 of the built environment?
- 700 homes for University staff
-250 postgraduate student rooms - 700 market homes
- Health centres
- Hotel
- Sports pitches
- Water recycling system
What is phase 2 of the built environment?
- 1500 homes for Uni staff
- 1500 private houses
- Accommodation for 2000 postgrads
What is the later phase of the built environment?
- Mixed use development -> spaces for commercial and academic research
- Care village
How will sustainability of the built environment be achieved?
- All homes to be built to Code for Sustainable Homes Level 5
- Solar panneling
- Centralised energy centre
- District heating network for water
What are characteristic of the natural environment?
- 1/3 of the site as a public open space for sports, informal recreation and ecological use
- Stormwater recycling schemes -> water from roofs collected + stored
- Brook Leys Lagoon attenuates surface runoff -> sustainable urban drainage system - 6 million litres of water
What are some of the present flow of ideas inward?
- Development won the Masterplanning - Future Projects Award at Work Architecture Festival 2014 - global scale
- Key worker housing designs shortlisted for prestigious Stirling Prize - global scale
What are some of the present flow of people inward?
- Storey’s Field Centre draws general public to gather for events - regional scale
- Affordable housing for keyworkers attract talents from across the world to work - global scale
What are some of the present flow of money & investment inward?
- Phase 1: £350 million investment by Cambridge University - regional scale
- High-end private housing: paying service charge and estate charge - national scale
