Our investigation into Liverpool's existing street plan, and the wider context of the city, has shown us that the existing road pattern has a dramatic, currently negative, impact on accessibility.

A simplified, more coherent approach should be adopted to enable visitors access to all parts of the city.  In this case, though, the principal focus is to address the issue of cross city access routes between Islington and the university campuses of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores.

Louis Kahn once described the organisation of architectural zones as "serving spaces" and "served spaces".  The successful interpretation of this idea is paramount to the potential success of our 'vision' for Islington.

Two clear sight-lines (or even site-lines?) have emerged through our design development and those will act as the 'spine', or structure, of our resulting scheme.  It will hopefully become the main focus, into which we can knit public spaces and the buildings which serve them.