1990s Documentary: The Grainger Town Project (10 mins)
This documentary explains the origins of Newcastle city centre's Grainger Town and the plans to regenerate the area in the late 1990's.
The Grainger Town Project, was an SRB-funded regeneration partnership between Newcastle City Council, English Heritage and English Partnerships. The project worked for six years between 1997 and 2003 on the regeneration of the area, investing £40 million of public funds.
Reproduced with kind permission from www.jayvideo.com
1993 Action Report, Tyne and Wear Development Corporation (15 mins)
In this report from 1993, the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation list their achievements so far in respect of their major projects: Newcastle Business Park, Newcastle Quayside, Royal Quays in North Shields, Sunderland's North Dock and North Sands Business Centre.
Projects on Target (1992) Tyne and Wear Development Corporation (12 mins)
This video from 1992 reports on progress made to regenerate the Tyne and Wear region by the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation, and the amounts invested into areas including the Royal Quays, St Peters Riverside, Viking Industrial Park and the Sunderland Enterprise Park.
The Story of Newcastle's Silicon Alley (2003) (12 mins)
Project North East redeveloped a group of buildings in Newcastle's Pink Lane and Westgate Road. The once run-down area became home to numerous creative and multimedia firms, forming a thriving business community known as Silicon Alley.
Reproduced with kind permission from Project North East: http://www.pne.org/
1990s Documentary: Action on Estates, by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (35 mins)
A documentary by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Quest Trust from about 1995. It looks at case studies of housing estates in Britain and the partnerships established between developers, councils and residents. The series is called Action on Estates and this programme is titled Unleashing the Potential.
Reproduced with kind permission from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The accompanying policy report can be found at:
https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/unleashing-potential-bringing-residents-centre-regeneration-report
Short film: An introduction to BALTIC, by a19 Films for BALTIC (2000, 6 mins)
This short film introduces the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, with the founding director's vision for an art factory on the banks of the river Tyne.
The link will take you to the Baltic+ archive page:
http://balticplus.uk/an-introduction-to-baltic-subtitled-c32583/
Riverside regeneration: planned layouts for Lisbon's urban renewal project in the 1990s (6 mins)
Presentations from "Perspectives of Sustainability" a Northumbria University student conference, 2008
Professor Bob Evans - Taking Sustainability Seriously
Ben Elliot - The Importance of Design Quality
Dr Neveen Hamza - The Impact of Part L on the Design and Procurement of Sustainable Buildings
Dr Paul Chan - Four Capital Examples of Sustainable Development
Gordon Hudson - Abu Dhabi: Case Study of Green Building
Neil Hanney - Energy Performance Certificates
Daniel Cadman - From Silent Spring to Sustainability
Dr Paul Greenhalgh - Calculating your Carbon Footprint