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Spring 2015 Urban Design Group Journal 4 134 URBAN ISSN 1750 712x 1976—2015 DESIGN GARDEN CITIES FROM INNER CITIES TO URBAN RENAISSANCE 28 / 04 In 2015 URBED celebrates 40 years of practice through a series of events THE FIRST that explore key projects, key cities and key changes in the United Kingdom’s REGENERATION urban renaissance journey. AREA? Moving from innovative early work in Covent Garden or Bradford’s Little Germany to larger schemes in Manchester, Brighton and beyond, the seven Covent Garden, London events will reflect on what was, assess what is and dream of what could be. Venue: Wallacespace – Covent Garden Date: 17.30 - 28th April 2015 All the events are free to attend, however booking is necessary. Chair: John Worthington Please visit www.urbed.coop/events to book your place. Key: Charles Landry 20 / 05 05 / 06 14 / 07 RESCUING HOW TO LOSE YOUR RETHINKING THE INDUSTRIAL RING ROAD AND FIND MASTERPLAN? QUARTERS? YOUR CITY CENTRE? Little Germany, Bradford Highbury Initiative, Birmingham New England Quarter, Brighton Venue: Bradford Design Exchange Venue: AoU Congress* - Birmingham Venue: Jurys Inn - Brighton Date: 17.30 - 20th May 2015 Date: 5th June 2015 Date: 17.30 - 14th July 2015 Chair: David Rudlin Chair: Nicholas Falk Chair: David Rudlin Key: Marc Cole Key: Sir Albert Bore Key: Pam Alexander 16 / 09 12 / 10 11 / 11 A SUSTAINABLE HOW TO PROMOTE WHATEVER HAPPENED URBAN NEIGHBOUR- QUALITY HOUSING? TO ENTERPRISE HOOD? DEVELOPMENT? Hulme, Manchester Cambridge Bankside BID, London Venue: Z-Arts Centre - Hulme Venue: Trumpington Meadows School Venue: 15Hatfields - Southwark Date: 17.30 - 16th September 2015 Date: 16.00 - 12th October 2015 Date: 17.30 - 11th November 2015 Chair: David Rudlin Chair: Nicholas Falk Chair: Nicholas Falk URBAN Key: Anne Power Key: Dame Kate Barker Key: John Burton, USM DESIGN GROUP * This event is open to Academy of Urbanism Congress attendees only. URBAN DESIGN 20150316_UDG_Advert.indd 1 3/23/2015 1:32:27 PM GROUP NewsUDG Update Housing plays an important role in seen as the party that solved the housing cri- VIEW FROM THE shaping our urban environment, as explored sis. They acknowledged in their January 2015 within this issue, and John Punter, Emeritus report Until there’s a home for everyone that CHAIR: KATY Professor of Urban Design at Cardiff Uni- there is a change in homeowners’ attitudes versity, gave the 2014 Kevin Lynch Memo- to building more homes in their area. The NEAVES rial Lecture on ‘Unaffordable housing and report identifies that NIMBYism has declined socially exclusive urban design’ (see p.6). He sharply with spiralling house prices and acknowledged Kevin Lynch’s comments on rent increases. It goes on to stress that the At the beginning of the year I attended a talk social justice and how this might be achieved infrastructure, whom the homes are for, and given by Ben Page, Chief Executive of Ipsos through sustainable development. His con- what employment opportunities the homes MORI, at which he looked at predictions for clusions included the following: the need to might bring, must all be addressed in order the UK in 2015. The key point of discussion reduce raw land prices to pay for infrastruc- to neutralise doubts or opposition within the was the uncertainty about the outcome of the ture and affordable housing, to approve Local local community. UK’s general election in May. This ambiguity, Plans and promote collaboration between The other topic, health, is being explored he explained, has never been seen before adjacent local authorities on housing growth by Barry Sellers who has been leading on the in the UK’s political affairs and he predicted areas, and for more funding for housing as- UDG Designing Healthy Cities initiative. This the possibility of further coalition and inertia sociations and for the creation of genuine will be discussed at our London event in April regarding planning policy. affordable housing. All of these principles, if and will cover such topics as: are our towns Over the last couple of months the UDG adopted by the political parties, would help and cities making us sad, sick and lonely?, has been exploring two of the top current to solve the housing crisis and aid the crea- and what design and management options issues for voters as identified by YouGov, tion of sustainable developments. encourage people to be sociable, active, and housing and health, and the role that urban Shelter have identified that the political eat a better diet? design has within these arenas. parties could win voter loyalty through being • Katy Neaves of Holistic City Software, using Rob Cowan’s bedded-in, and for everything to be double- URBAN DESIGN time tested technique. About 30 of us set out checked. So if you think there is an error with GROUP into the chilly streets of Bulwell to try out the your subscription, please let us know. If you prototype. After logging in, users can add can see any other ways in which the UDG flags on to a map, and explanatory text on could provide a better service to members the things they like about the place, things or one that is easier to use, we would love to PLACECHECK FOR SMARTPHONES they don’t like, and things that need to be hear from you. STREET-TEST worked on. One of the people who attended the 2014 We found it possible to rapidly populate A WELCOME TO KATHLEEN LuCEY National Urban Design Conference in Not- the map with comments; and the plus point We welcome Kathleen Lucey to the UDG, as tingham was Graham Allen, MP for Notting- was that, unlike paper notes that have to be office manager. Kathleen has had a varied ham North. He told of a community beset by deciphered later when the energy is often at career which has included time in Europe problems of declining industry and employ- a low ebb, the smartphone enabled note- where she worked with an MEP, in energy ment, and asked whether the urban design taking to keep pace with the enthusiasm. with Lord Ezra and his company Micropower, community could help. One of the efforts The results provided a clear analysis of the and at Veolia where she worked in the field of so far has been to run a Placecheck event strengths and weaknesses of the area, and corporate social responsibility. on 20th February in the old market town suggestions for specific sites. On the basis of Bulwell and the outlying Crabtree Farm of the test, we came to the conclusion that URBANNOUs – caTALOGUE Estate. This was a Placecheck for the 21st it would be easy for anyone to use. The next AVAILABLE century, backed by a special smartphone- test will be to run a Smartphone Placecheck Over 200 videos are now easily accessible on friendly website, developed by Chris Sharpe that involves the whole community. Accord- the UrbanNous website, thanks to the on-line ing to UDG East Midlands convenor, Laura catalogue developed by Fergus Carnegie. Alvarez, it is young and middle aged adults View www.urbannous.org.uk – and follow the who are least likely to get involved in the fu- yellow text Hover here to bring ideas to life. ture of places, and this is the very group that Robert Huxford has the highest ownership of smartphones. • NEW MEMBERSHIP SYSTEM FOR UDG The UDG has moved to a new integrated membership and accounts system, which will in the long-term substantially improve efficiency and reduce costs. It will take around six months for the system to be fully 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 Garden Suburb? Mette Mclarney 42 URBED Greening the City 3 Capturing the Value of the Garden City, Neighbourhood Planning 3 Colin Pullan and Elli Thomas 45 COVER Urban Design Library #15 4 Letchworth, Image courtesy of Letchworth Urban Design Interview: Dan Black 5 BOOK REVIEWS Garden City Heritage Foundation Kevin Lynch Memorial Lecture: The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Unaffordable Housing in England, Neighbourhoods, Harrison Fraker 46 FUTURE ISSUES Professor John Punter 6 URBAN VOICES : Celebrating urban UD135 The City as Master Developer design in Australia, John Byrne, UD136 Designing Housing INTERNATIONAL Bill Chandler, Bruce Echberg (eds) 46 UD137 Latin America Building Momentum in Detroit, Interconnect: Improving the Journey Nicolo Cammelli 10 Experience, Centro and City ID 47 Dynamic Skyline, Anika Mittal Dhawan 12 Saverio Muratori: A Legacy in Urban Design, Marco Maretto 47 Spring 2015 TOPIC: GARDEN CITIES Explorations in Urban Design. Urban Design Group Journal 134 ISSN 1750 712x The Relevance of the Garden City for the An Urban Design Research Primer, URBAN 4 21st Century, Colin Pullan and Elli Thomas 15 Matthew Carmona (ed) 48 1976—2015 DESIGN GARDEN CITIES The Garden City Resurgence, David Lock 16 Garden Cities of Tomorrow? A New Future FROM INNER CITIES TO Fantasy or Opportunity?, Miles Gibson for the Cottage Estates, Martin Crookston 48 URBAN RENAISSANCE and Liz Mason 17 Site Design for Multifamily Housing: 28 / 04 Dealing with the Housing Shortage, Creating Livable, Connected In 2015 URBED celebrates 40 years of practice through a series of events THE FIRST that explore key projects, key cities and key changes in the United Kingdom’s REGENERATION urban renaissance journey.
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