| CroSs Town: |
Already well connected both nationally and internationally, minor interventions offer opportunities to harness these connections and improve social mobility on a local level. |
| Working TOwn : |
Complimentary land uses could help stitch the area back into the surrounding city fabric. The introduction of such uses can offer a transition between school, third level, research and employment: like dominos, one land use connects to the next. |
| CaMpus Town : |
A science based academy could encourage social mobility by providing the missing link between UCL, The Welcome Trust and existing secondary schools. |
| HomE Town : |
In an area where 75% of homes are rented from the local authority or housing associations, mixing tenures is seen as essential. The existence of very few vacant development sites means that this housing puzzle must respond incrementally as opportunities arise. |
| MaRket Town: |
Encouraging footfall from the stations; A book market along Ossulston street enlivens the existing blank goods yard arches and British Library facade while celebrating former Somers Town residents, Charles Dickens and Mary Shelly. |
| SeaSide Town: |
Of the 50 lidos built between 1920-30 in London only 10% remain. The Somers Town Lido improves recreational facilities and offers a holiday experience in the centre of London. |
| HeriTage Town : |
An open air museum of mobility celebrating Somers Towns’s railway heritage and could be served by the new cross river tram. |
| BloOm town: |
Courtyard planting on a massive scale to create an urban arboretum. |
| Small ToWn: |
Corners (of which Somers Town has 315) should be used for shops, not CCTV cameras. Incentives would encourage independent retailing and passive surveillance. |
| TraNsit Town : |
The stations and buildings along Euston Road say little about the destinations and origins of their users. Using ticketing data, a constantly changing light installation along the Euston Road displays the numbers of people entering London from various cities. Over 120 million people pass through Euston, Kings cross and St. Pancras each year and this movement offers opportunities that Somers Town needs to understand and capture. |
 |
 |
 |
