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I Urban Design 1 Quarterly The Journal of the ' Urban Design Group Issue 63 July 1997 i Topic: Symposium on The New Urban Design Agenda i I I ' Practice Profile Civic Trust Regeneration Unit I ISSN 0266-6480 Urban Design Group Contributors Regular contributors Forum for: Robert Cowan Derek Abbott architects • town planners • Writer and Consultant on Urban Architect and Planner involved in engineers • landscape architects and affairs. Currently working with Urban consultancy, writing and teaching. Initiatives on Good Practice Guidance all those interested in the quality of Previously Conservation Officer for for Design in the Planning System. North Devon. the built environment Mike Galloway John Billingham The Urban Design Group, founded nineteen Town Planner and urban Designer. Architect and Planner, formerly years ago, has been established to provide Project Director of Crown Street Director of Design and Development high standards of performance and inter- Regeneration Scheme, Glasgow. Milton Keynes Development professional cooperation in planning, Member of Urban Villages Forum. Corporation. architecture, urban design, and other related disciplines; and to educate the relevant Angus Gavin Sebastian Loew professions and the public in matters relating to Planning Advisor for the Chairman of Architect and Planner, until recently urban design. Membership is made up of Solidere, the private sector Principal Lecturer at the School of architects, planners, landscape architects, corporation charged with the Urban Development at South Bank reconstruction of Beirut's war engineers, surveyors, historians, lawyers, University. damaged city centre. Formerly leader photographers, in fact anyone interested in the of the consultants' team that prepared Marion Roberts quality of our built environment. Local the Master Plan for the area. He is Architect, writer and Senior Lecturer authorities, practices, and universities are also also author, with Ramez Maluf, of in the School of Urban development at members. The U.D.G. runs a series of public Beirut Reborn: the restoration and the University of Westminster. lectures, workshops and other events which development of the Central District, are valid for C.P.D. The Kevin Lynch Memorial Academy Editions, London, 1996. Jon Rowland Lecture has attracted such speakers as Leon Architect and Urban Designer, Krier, Peter Hall, Sir Roy Strong, and Sir Philip Peter Howard previously technical Director of Dowson. Annual study tours are also Architect in private practice, Milton Llewelyn-Davies Planning. Past organised. The U.D.G. publishes a quarterly Keynes. Chairman of the Urban Design Group. magazine dealing with urban design issues and an Urban Design Source Book which Justyna Karakiewicz Architect and lecturer at University of identifies urban design practices, courses and Hong Kong. Previously Design Tutor members. The U.D.G. is working closely with at UCL and A A Schools of the R.T.P.I, to raise the profile of urban design. Architecture. It has reciprocal membership with a number of complementary organisations including Vision John Punter for London, and the British Urban Regeneration Professor of City and Regional Association (B.U.R.A.). The U.D.G. has set out Planning at University of Wales an agenda aimed at explaining urban design College at Cardiff. Major research and how, using urban design principles, the undertaken for DoE on Design quality of the environment can be raised. The Policies in the Planning System. Urban Design Group continues to grow. Giinter Schlusche Membership is national, and each region has Consultant Architect and Planner in its own convenor, who organises local events. Berlin. Coordinated architecture and urban development projects for the IBA 1981-87. Programme Coordinator Errata for Berlin Stadtforum 1991-96 with Administrator Susie Turnbull whom he is still involved. A few errors regrettably appeared Tel. 01235 851415 within the Source Book. One name that was incorrectly listed should Fax. 01235 851410 Les Sparks have been shown as follows: Architect and Planner and Director of Chairman Roger Evans Planning and Architecture for Community Design Service Tel. 01865 377030 Birmingham City Council. The Maltings East Tyndall Street Helena Webster Cardiff Architect and Lecturer in Architecture CF15EA at the University of Sheffield. The Principal of the Service is Gordon Gibson, MA, Dip (Urban Design), BA (Hons), ARICS. Contents Enquiries and change of address: Cover 6 Ash brook Courtyard, Westbrook Street Hilmer & Sattler's Potsdamer/Leipziger Platz Masterplan Blewbury, Oxon 0X11 9QH Tel: 01235-851415 Fax: 01235-851410 News & Events Leader 4 News Items Chairman Roger Evans 01865-377030 The New Urbanism 5 Public Participation Patrons Sittingbourne Settlement Competition 6 Alan Baxter Civic Trust Awards 7 Honor Chapman Australian Award 8 Sir Philip Dowson Student Exhibition Terry Farrell Urban Design Education Discussion 9 Peter Hall Good Practice Guidance for Design Simon Jenkins Space Syntax Conference Letter from Beirut 10 Jane Priestman Annual General Meeting 11 John Worthington Viewpoints UDG Regional Activities New Labour, New Beginnings? 13 Regional convenors: Marion Roberts Scotland Mike Galloway 0141-429 8956 International North Alan Simpson 0191-281 6981 Reclaiming Hong Kong 14 Yorks/Humber David Black 01482-612352 Justyna Karakiewicz North West Andy Farrall 01244-402213 East Midlands Steve Tiesdell 0115-951 4874 Topic West Midlands Peter Larkham 0121-331 5152 The New Urban Design Agenda 18 Summary of Symposium 19 South Wales Sam Romaya 01222-874000 Robert Cowan South West Andy Gibbins 01179-222964 Birmingham - Regional Capital 24 East Anglia Alan Stones 01245-437642 Les Sparks South East Roger Evans 01865-377030 Crown Street Regeneration Glasgow 27 Mike Galloway Editorial Board Berlin - Strategies for a Changing City 30 Derek Abbott GunterSchlusche John Billingham West Coast Cities of the USA 34 Tim Catchpole John Punter Roger Evans Bob Jarvis Reviews Sebastian Loew Visit to Lille 38 Joe Holyoak Tony Lloyd-Jones 39 Book Reviews Francesca Morrison tian Loew Marion Roberts Derek Abbott, Peter Howard and Helena Webster, Sebasl Judith Ryser Alan Simpson PracticCivie Profilc Truset Regeneration Unit 42 Editors John Billingham Practice and Education Index 44 Sebastian Loew Endpiece 47 Editor for this issue John Billingham Planning Change in London Sebastian Loew Book reviews Tim Catchpole Back Cover 56 Gilpin Ave, London SW14 8QY UDG Events Future Issues 64 Art direction Simon Head Selected papers from Education Conference held in April at Oxford Brookes University Print production Constable Printing ©Urban Design Group ISSN 02666480 Material for publication: This should be addressed to The Editor, 26 Park Road, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 1DS Subscriptions: The Quarterly is free to Urban Design group Members who also receive newsletters and the biennial Source Book at the time of printing. Annual rates: Individuals £30 Students £14. Corporate rates: Practices £40 Libraries £40 The subscription charge for Practice and Education Index entries is £80 per year Local Authorities £75 (2 copies of UDQ) covering an inclusion in four issues if paid within one month of the renewal date. Overseas members pay a supplement of £3 for Europe and £8 for other locations. Neither the Urban Design Group nor the editor is responsible for views expressed or Individual issues of the journal cost £4. statements made by individuals writing in this journal. News and Events These are exciting times for urban design. After Practice Profiles years of seeking to put urban design on the It has been the custom of the <D agenda, the Group suddenly finds itself pushing UDQ to normally include two practice profiles in each issue D at an open door. Urban design issues are to which practices make a s small financial contribution. discussed in the broadsheet newspapers, the Perhaps because of this interest shown by the DoE in the subject is practices have tended to see o them as a marketing device evidenced in the research work undertaken in •o and members have been recent times and former head John Gummer's critical of their use in this way. •o New Chairman personal interest and drive which culminated in The Editorial Board has o Roger Evans has been elected therefore decided to change 1 the 'Quality in Town and Country initiative. The Chairman of the UDG in the nature of such submissions work now being undertaken by Urban Initiatives succession to Jon Rowland. and to make them case Roger is a chartered town studies. The emphasis will be and Rob Cowan in analysing the DoE sponsored planner and architect. He holds on describing the background, an MA in urban design from the the process and the solution to studies together with a wealth of urban design Joint Centre for Urban Design, a scheme or at the most two guidance from around the country looks set to Oxford Brookes University, schemes which will be where he taught before setting described and illustrated in be a seminal publication. up in practice. He has worked detail. Practices will be invited in both public and private to contribute material on the (D A new government brings fresh opportunities to sectors in the UK and abroad. basis of significant schemes 0) look ahead at the future for our towns and cities. Roger is a long standing which will either be picked up member of the Urban Design from press releases or by Marion Roberts reviews the Labour Group and in recent years has practices contacting the editors been active in widening the on the basis of the new government's policies, and the topic in this issue Group's regional structure. approach. We await your covers the recent symposium on the new submissions! agenda for urban design. Some clues here, Membership Drive surely, for new ministers seeking to sharpen Good Place Guide The UDG needs more their focus. members. Most of the UDG Some progress is being made income is derived from on the GPG as Richard Cole For the Urban Design Group there is now a subscriptions and more has agreed to act as overall co- unique opportunity to move forward.