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Anne
R. Beer Professor
Emeritus, University of Sheffield email Webpages Nationality British
- born 15 Dec 1941 - Inverness, Scotland Academic
and Professional Qualifications BA
(Geography), M.Civic Design (Town Planning), Dip.LA
(Landscape Arch.), MRTPI Occupation Employment
History: Academic
Posts Professor
Emeritus, University of Sheffield (1997 -) Professional
practice - Town and Environmental planner Environmental
Consultancy University of Sheffield (a founder and Director
- 1984 - 1998) Research:
greenspace and environmental planning Past
research related to Urban Greenspace Planning
for Children's Play with special reference to Housing Areas
(1976-78) and (1989-90) New
edition of planning for play -
online
(2003) Present
research *
Urban Greenspace Regeneration - a Case study to
develop an
Internet based information
system
for managing the greenspaces of Stocksbridge District
Sheffield - working for the Steel Valley Project (project completed 2006) -
aiding in the preparation of a report for Utrecht Cirty
Council on questions of "liveability" as they realte to open
and greespaces in a regeneration scheme for part of the city
centre (published July 2003) *
Planning Urban Greenspaces - working since 1987 as
part of a european network of researchers on the
identification of effective planning tools to support
ecologically sound urban development. ARB is a member of the
european research team on Green Structure and Urban Design.
Research group drawn from 13 countries and funded by the EU
(2000 - 2004) European Cooperation in the field of
Scientific and Technical Research - (COST) Action
C11. This group has met in nine differnt countries over
the past 5 years. ARB makes and runs the website
for the group and has written the Sheffield
Case Study
for the UK element of this research project. The COST
C11 project is directly linked to another EU funded research
group which is investigating : the communication
of ideas about Greenspace between the users and the
various professions involved. This
ongoing long term research has involved developing and
testing a methodology which uses Urban Structure Zones as
the local level units for a GIS - recording social, economic
as well as environmental and greenspace data for each Zone .
This approach allows an analysis of the wide range of
environmental attributes involved in forming and supporting
our urban greenspaces. Research
Grants and Commissions In the
past research funding came from: the SSRC (1978-80), the
Leverhulme Trust (1984), The Gulbenkian Foundation (1991)
and the Countryside Commission (1994) as well as various
University Funds. Some
publications related to green space planning and other urban
greenspace issues A.Manneke, A.R.Beer
and A. Jorgensen 2004 New
approaches in Europe, Decent Homes, Decent Places,
Improving the greenspaces for social housing,
Peobody trust, 2004 (in press), p14-16 A.R.Beer
and A. Jorgensen 2003 Greening
Social Housing - the European prespective,Green
Places, No.1, Dec. 2003, p19 A.R.Beer,
T. Delshammar, P.Schildwacht A
changing understanding of the role of greenspace in
high density housing and the need for urban
greenstructure planning - a european perspective,
Built Environment Vol 29 No 2 p132-143 A.van
den Berg, A.R.Beer, R.Hammel, A.Manneke,
P.Schildwacht Leefkwaliteit
- Stationsgebied Utrecht,Dienstdt
Statsontwikkeling, Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, 2003,
97pp. A.R.Beer 2002 The
decline of the urban park in Britain: the impact of
over twenty years of neglect on the quality of
parks and greenspaces - in Danish journal -Stads
& Havne ingenioeren May 2002
See web based version in english A.R.Beer
and P.A. Draper 2001 Innovative
solutions from Denmark and Sweden to the design,
management and maintenance of urban greenspace
&endash; with particular reference to high density
housing areas and local public greenspace (working
paper Dept. of Landscape, University of Sheffield
background data for: DTLR project : Improving
Parks, Play Areas and Greenspace, 2002)
See web-based version) Anne.R.
Beer 2001 Greenstructure
Planning in Europe - aspects of developing an
effective mechanism for the planning of urban
greenspace, (working paper Dept. of Landscape,
University of Sheffield background data for: DTLR
project : Improving Parks, Play Areas and
Greenspace, 2002) A.
R. Beer second
edition with Catherine Higgins 2000 Environmental
Planning for Site
Development
- a manual for sustainable local planning and
design (Second edition), E&FN Spon - Taylor
& Francis, London, 352pp. This
book deals extensively with issues relating to
greenspaces in urban areas -and in particular
people's involvement with their local greenspaces (
see pages 141 to 211). Translated into Chinese
2002 Anne
R. Beer 2000 Aspects
of the link between urban nature and city planning
in northern European Countries with
Attwell K. 1999 Ecological
Sustainability and Urban Greenspace, Danish
Building Research Institute, Hoersholm, Denmark,
98pp. 1995
to 1998 no
paper publications relating to greenspace but - see
section on CD Roms and Internet below A.R.
Beer 1994 Urban
greenspace and sustainability, in Sustainable Urban
Development: Research and experiments, ed H.van der
Vecht et al, Delft University Press, p
69-88. 1993 Landscape
Planning and environmental sustainability, Town
Planning Review, 64,4. v-xi. 1993 Amenity
Trees, a european comparison, Environmental
Consultancy University of Sheffield,
21pp 1992 Urban
Design: the growing influence of environmental
psychology, Journal of Environmental Psychology,
11, 359-371 1991 Landscape
planning for environmental protection in Kiemstedt
H. ed., Beiträge zur räumlichen Planung,
"The contribution of Landscape Planning to
Environmental Protection" , Hannover University,
94-102. with
Gulinck H. 1991 Bijdrage
van de Universiteiten to de Groenvoorziening in
Steden en Gemeenten, Groenkontakt 91/2 ,
Bruges. A.R.Beer 1990 Environmental
Planning for Site Development, Spons - Chapman
Hall, London, 304pp. 1987 Per
un nuova approccio alla pianificazione del verde in
Gran Bretagna, Urbanistica N. 86, Marzo 87, Milan,
49-57. 1987 Landscape
Planning in Britain, Landscape Architecture and
Landuse Planning 1987, American Society of
Landscape Architects, Washington, 6-7. 1986 Landscape
Planning as an aid to Land Use Planning, recent
developments in the Netherlands. in Willis K.G. ed
, Contemporary Issues in Town Planning, Gower,
112-129 Some
Webpage and CD Rom based publications related to sustainable
urban greenspaces written
and designed in digital formats by Beer Anne R. (1995 to
present) see: i)
Making-places
in the urban environment,
MAP21 Ltd (2003) Websites
designed and managed by Map21 Ltd for community
groups
updated: 11 Dec 2003
Town and Environmental Planner
Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield
(retired 1996)
Head of Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield,
1981-84 and 1985-1994.
Initially appointed as Lecturer specialising in
Environmental Planning in the Dept. of Landscape- 1974
Guest Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1984
to 1996.
Weddle Landscape Research - Associate, 1973 - 1980 (Research
into children's play in housing areas)
Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall, Consultant Architects and
Planners, 1972-1974. (New Town Landscape Planning).
Craigavon New Town Development Corporation, 1969-1972
(Landscape Planning).
Redditch New Town Corporation, 1965-1969 (District
Planning).
Director
- MAP21 Ltd.
MAP21 Ltd was a small environmental planning consultancy - specialising in greenspace planning and place
making projects at the local community level, 1998 - to
Aug 2006
Designing the External areas of Housing estates to support
user needs (1979-1985)
Environmental planning and design as a means of ensuring
effective environmental protection and sustainability in
urban areas (1986-present)
Greenspace planning as a means of improving environmental
quality of urban areas (1981-1986)
Planning external environments for children within
residential environments (1972- 1992)
Design quality in residential areas (1976-1982)
A Case Study of Overvecht ( a District of Utrecht, NL)- an
area of 680 hectares housing 30,000 people. Built 1965-1970
this area of mixed mainly high-rise slab blocks needs
massive investment in its greenspace to bring them up to
present day standards. ARB outlined effective approaches to
the re-design and management of local greenspaces over the
coming decade with regard to user needs (40% immigrant
popn.), the need to enhance biodiversity and financial
limiations (study period 2000-2002)
* More recently work has been undertaken with local
community groups (voluntary sector) to develop techniques
appropriate to the encouragement of Local Agenda 21
initiatives - mainly using Stocksbridge as a case study
(ongoing). This includes the use of IT to facilitate user
participation in community level regeneration initiatives in
the voluntary sector- including the development of Local
Agenda 21 initiatives (1998 - present)
MAP21 Ltd has undertaken urban environmental planning based
research commissioned by: Sheffield Hallam University
(1997-1999), Stocksbridge Training and Enterprise
Partnership (1999), Development Trusts Association - Yorks
& Humberside (2000-present), Sheffield University (2001)
, Utrecht City Council (2001 and 2003), Steel Valley Project
(2003-5).
R.Hammel,
A.R.Beer,
A.van
den Berg, P.Schildwach2006
Leefkwaliteit voor het stationsgebied in Utrecht, Groen, Juni 2006, p24-29 (Summary of the study of livability undertaken for the area around the Station in Utrecht)
(Quality of life study for the redevelopment of the
Station Area of Utrecht City Centre)
( Workshop on the Flemish Long-Term Vision of
Nature Conservation in Urban and Suburban areas -
Brussels 7 Nov 2000) english
version
incorporating the earlier - Social Aspects of Housing Area
Design, MAP21 Ltd (2000)
ii)
Planning
for Children's Play in Housing
Areas,
MAP21 Ltd (online version of earlier reports-2003)
iii) Sheffield's
greenspaces,
MAP21 Ltd prepared for COSTC11 (2003)
iv) Overvecht
District -
an approach tosutainable greenspace planning (2000-2002)
v) Contemporary Housing Design (with Prof. I.Colquhoun
-University of Humberside) (CDRom based - 1995).
vi) Sheffield
Greenspace Atlas,
2002
vii) Planning Sustainable Urban Environments, MAP21 Ltd (CD
Rom based - 1998)
viii) A neighbourhood atlas for Netherthorpe - Sheffield,
for Sheffield Hallam University (CD Rom based - 1997)
ix) Ecological Sustainability and Urban Green Space
Ringkøping Seminar 1998, Danish Building Research
Institute - SBI (2000- http://www.arbeer.demon.co.uk/MAPweb/en_menu.htm
)
x) Communication in Urban Planning Gothenburg Conference
1999, Chalmers University, Gothenburg (2000
-
http://www.arbeer.demon.co.uk/MAPweb/Goteb/index.htm
xii) Connecticut
Riverscape
- the landscapes of a river a photographic essay prepared by
Barrie Greenbie and presented here in his memory