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Market Towns URBAN DESIGN GROUP URBAN Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design 19 Maltings Place 169 Tower Bridge Road Winter 2014 London SE1 3JB Urban Design Group Journal Telephone 129 IssN 1750 712x 0207 089 2121 URBAN [email protected] www.tibbalds.co.uk DESIGN MARKET TOWNS Bringing Planning and Design together to make good places happen URBAN DESIGN GROUP URBAN DESIGN GROUP NewsUDG Update To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform to standards that are suburban at best, and VIEW FROM THE was first published, somewhat unremark- at worst positively rural in their aspiration, ably. However, by the time is was reprinted certainly not a sustainable model for devel- CHAIR three years later, it had been re-titled Garden opment. At the same time, outside London Cities of To-Morrow and the term Garden City they are often the only show in town: public had been born. transport is too poor to support high density In the century since, two Garden Cities car-free development, and the roads can’t One of the things that I love most about the were built – first Letchworth, then Welwyn cope with the quantity of cars that would be UDG is the broad spectrum of ideas and opin- - and although they did not completely meas- needed to support anything approaching the ions amongst our members, and the resulting ure up to the ideal, they did provide a model densities that we expect in larger city centre debate that we have within the group. As the for controlling urban sprawl. However, by the sites. Therefore do we have to accept such success of design review demonstrates, de- time the New Towns came along, the philoso- schemes and make them the best they can bate and discussion is vital to the delivery of phy behind them had fallen out of favour, and be? high quality design. One topic that has reap- the world had moved on; the car was becom- The letter was made more interesting by peared in the past few months and stirs just ing king. In the past few years Garden Cities the announcement that the Wolfson Econom- this debate is the notion of the Garden City. I have seen something of a resurgence, with ics Prize for 2014 would go to an exemplar was reminded of this on the day I sat down to bodies such as the TCPA (which began life as idea for a visionary new Garden City, or more write this article, as I received a letter from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities Associa- specifically the mechanism for delivering a member regarding one of the shortlisted tion) actively promoting them as the answer one. How should the UDG react? Should it schemes that was included in the last edition to the housing crisis. take a corporate line on the idea of Garden of the journal; at the same time, the subject However, the notion of a Garden City Cities, for or against? I would welcome your of the Wolfson Economics Prize for 2014 was is something that divides modern day thoughts … let the debate begin! announced. It is strange to think that an urbanists. Many would agree with my let- Paul Reynolds idea originally set out in a book 115 years ago ter’s author and say that the model is the • can still stir such debate. In 1898 the book antithesis of urban design, instead working insight for anyone considering a career in urban life and urban design; we have learned DIRECTOR’S urban design. that they are being used to plan bus routes, The participants were then led through to aid public consultation on new develop- REPORT the EC1 public realm and parks regeneration ment, and this is only the beginning. Urban schemes by UDG member Liz Kessler, before designers must be aware that these exciting heading on to King’s Cross for a spectacular new technologies will not only provide pow- tour of the new station redevelopment and erful new tools for design but will also have a Over 60 students from London and the South extension by McAslan & Partners. profound effect on the lifestyle of the people East gathered for the UDG’s student welcome Much activity has been taking place for whom they design. day in October. Presentations on working outside London in recent months. In South On a somewhat less optimistic note, a in urban design were given by Katy Neaves Wales, UDG Executive Committee member number of UDG members recently attended (Turley Associates), Katja Stille (Tibbalds), Andrew Dakin has been working to raise the an external conference on the future of cities, Peter Kelly (LB Camden) and Leo Hammond profile of urban design and arranged an inter- and were baffled by a barrage of expressions (Cabe @ Design Council); there was also an esting site visit to Coed Darcy near Swan- such as epistemological and ontological introduction to The Bartlett’s Urban Design sea which, it is hoped, will become a new flexibility, paradigmatic theorisation, and Skills Portal. Recordings of the presenta- exemplar for sustainable development. In constitutive binarism. Of course anyone with tions are available on Urbannous and a great Kent, Mark Chaplin has established KUDOS, a smartphone at hand can decipher these the Kent Urban Design Officers Society, and in terms (eventually) but this misses the es- the East Midlands, the Urban Design Evenings sential point. Urban problems are practical, series is underway at Nottingham Trent Uni- pressing and pernicious; they range from versity, leading up to the 2014 International poverty and death due to epidemic diseases Conference on Urban Design. These are the in developing countries, to fossil fuel de- latest developments in a vibrant growing pendency, mental stress and obesity in devel- network of local urban design groups such as oped countries. These problems warrant ap- those in Scotland and the Solent. plied research and urgent action, rather than And further reflections on the passing being reduced to an abstract word-game. We year of 2013? That it has been year in which are all responsible for the future of our cities, we have been increasingly struck by the towns and villages – and should never lose power of smartphones. Throughout the year sight of this. the UDG has worked to promote awareness Robert Huxford of the potential impact of smartphones on • Current subscriptions Individual (UK and international) £50 UK Library £80 Urban Design is free to Urban Design Group UK student / concession £30 International Library £100 members who also receive newsletters and Recognised Practitioner in Urban Design the directory at the time of printing £80 Check the website for full details of benefits Small practice (<5 professional staff) £250 plus corporate and partnership packages UDG Office Large practice (>5 professional staff) £450 www.udg.org.uk/join Tel 020 7250 0892 Education £250 Email [email protected] Local Authority £100 Individual issues of Urban Design cost £10 Contents CONTENTS This issue has been generously sponsored by UPDATE FRANCIS TIBBALDS AWARD PUBLIC Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design Events 3 SECTOR SHORTLISTED PROJECTS Urban Design Interview: Eithne Moran 4 Short Blue Place, Barking Borough Council 38 COVER The Urban Design Library # 10 5 Know Your Place, Bristol City Council’s City Rochester High Street, photo by Robert Huxford The Pursuit of Growth: The Role of Urban Design Group (CDG) 40 Design, National Conference on A Joint Approach to Residential Design FUTURE ISSUES Urban Design 6 Guidelines, Four North Midlands Councils 42 Issue 130 Central and Eastern Europe Porth Eirias, Conwy County Borough Issue 131 Waterfronts VIEWPOINT Council 44 Better streets for walking are better for businesses, Tim Long 8 BOOK REVIEWS Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design 19 Maltings Place Changing places, changing spaces, Courtyard Housing and Cultural 169 Tower Bridge Road Winter 2014 London SE1 3JB Urban Design Group Journal Telephone 129 IssN 1750 712x Katja Stille 10 Sustainability, Donia Zhang 46 0207 089 2121 Urban [email protected] www.tibbalds.co.uk Walking around Britain, Tim Hagyard 12 Good Urbanism, Six Steps to Creating DesiGn marKet towns Prosperous Places, Nan Ellin 46 TOPIC: MARKET TOWNS Designing to Heal, Jenny Donovan 46 Introduction, Jane Manning 14 The Agile City – Building Well-Being and Market Towns Moving to the Future, Wealth in an Era of Climate Change, Jamie Veitch 15 James S Russell 47 Innovation and Inspiration, Jamie Veitch 18 Green Cities of Europe – Global Lessons The First Cittaslow in Wales, Niall Waller 21 on Green Urbanism, Timothy Beatley (ed) 48 Transforming Markets into Market Places, Cities are Good for you – The Genius of David K. O’Neil 25 the Metropolis, Leo Hollis 48 Casablanca – A New Sustainable Market Urban Ecological Design, Danilo Palazzo Square, Tom Van Odijk 28 and Frederick Steiner 49 Slow Towns and Smarter Growth, The Radicals’ City: Urban Environment, Nicholas Falk 31 Polarisation, Cohesion, Ralf Brand and Bringing Planning and New Market Towns, James Gross Sara Fregonese 49 Design together to make and Dominic Scott 34 good places happen URBAN PRACTICE INDEX 50 DESIGN GROUP EDUCATION INDEX 56 URBAN DESIGN ENDPIECE Velocity*, Joe Holyoak 57 GROUP for the future of towns and cities, the way we seeking to bridge the gap between researcher DIARY OF fund and plan development, or wider issues and practitioner. about urban life? This is your opportunity EVENTS to win over others. Please contact robert. MONday 10 MarcH [email protected] if you would like to take UDG & Urbanista: Rebooting the Unless otherwise indicated, all LONDON part. Masterplan events are held at The Gallery, 70 Cowcross UDG and Urbanista, partner for this event at Street, London EC1M 6EJ at 6.30 pm. MONday 3 February Lime Wharf (Regents Canal, Hackney).
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