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Urban Design Directory ― 2015/17 03 Contents

04 — Foreword, Louise Thomas

05 — The Value of Urban Design to House Builders, Nick Rogers

08 — Creating Pro-Social Places, Graham Marshall and Rhiannon Corcoran

11 — URBAN DESIGN PRACTICES

72 — Other UDG Practice Members

75 — URBAN DESIGN COURSES

102 — Uk MAP OF Featured URBAN DESIGN PRACTICES AND COURSES

103 — THE URBAN DESIGN GROUP and its Achievements

106 — The Health of Urban Design

108 — key UDG PEOPLE

Urban Design Directory ― 2015/17 The UDG Conference in Nottingham, September 2014 September Nottingham, in Conference UDG The ● We are delighted to feature the views of Nick Rogers, Head of of Nick Rogers, the views feature to delighted are We founders and Rhiannon Corcoran, Marshall By contrast, Graham the through rummage us of this, Sebastian Loew’s remind To and the three concern about both process That well-expressed future entirely. In this issue, we report on the first survey of urban of urban survey on the first In this issue, we report entirely. future to practices) of mixed (albeit with a small sample design practice ascertain the health urban design now and this will be followed of it could election, general the forthcoming issues. Given up in future much of 2015 for change well be a period of further uncertainty and we pose some questions from of the survey, at least. In the report responses. your and welcome the findings, between urban about the relationship Wimpey, Design at Taylor Nick’s evolve. and the need for it to and house-builders, designers the needs of the house-building together brings unique perspective academic and thoughtful urban design practice, good industry, through housing delivery the need for greater resolve to approaches the process into urban design built but with better standardisation, and places. provide and programme, Places social enterprise of the Pro-Social places. With 80% of the check about existing us with a reality they standing today, we will be using in 2050 already that buildings and in towns on people environments the impacts of harsh explain as a matter places better make that we need to cities, and argue series BBC television History of Our Streets Secret The of urgency. that urban examples, great many through highlight shows, that they sight of not lose should here) villains the real design (and planning, over and that we gloss and foremost, first as a civic role, its roots at our peril. serving other people our ideas are how well (or badly) which agenda, of the UDG’s drafts some early reveals archives UDG’s set manifesto to the current airing in 1987 since its first has evolved out on our website. good urban dimensional product, and the nurturing effect that at times in of being lost on all in society is in danger design can have trust that this Directory We forces. of market pushing and shoving find that continue to that urban designers enough is reassurance balance. /17 2015 journal and urban designer

This Directory has been designed alongside the new UDG has been designed alongside This Directory by not only search clients to potential now allows The new index was published, it is since the last Directory In the two years

Urban Design Louise Thomas, Editor, Joint Editor of Louise Thomas, Editor, Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory practice index website; the previous UDG’s index has been in index UDG’s the previous website; index practice 5 – for urban design – if not the top sites 10 favourite top Google’s and well-marketed for some of our most global even practices, members. practice and office and covered, sectors name, disciplines offered, practice of all opportunities for practices but also provides locations, project This library. a new project information to project contribute to sizes unfamiliar with people useful in attracting will prove online library to their recognise its benefits and more, find out urban design to Visit www.urbandesigndirectory.com. area. work or local Some urban design practice. has changed that the recession clear running at ride with projects had a roller-coaster have consultancies been working have others of direction, changes with many full pelt projects on international periods deployed long home for from away their rethink had to the UK has been dormant, have while and others As the Urban Design Group (UDG) prepares to bestow its 2015 bestow to (UDG) prepares As the Urban Design Group practices, for outstanding work by National Urban Design Awards see to be able to and students, it is good authors authorities, local and ideas in one publication. urban design projects current so many and of all that talent is a celebration This Urban Design Directory enduring brands, global whether in well-established knowledge, recently or practices, fledging specialist or niche consultancies, had a have We students and their academic mentors. graduated appearing for the practices this issue, with several to response great years. for many being UDG members time despite first Foreword

04 introduction introduction 05 /17 2015 here are house builders house builders are There as design’ who see ‘urban academic, and urban too who believe designers are that house builders in nothing but interested profit. Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory

urban design is better for the customer and the wider community the customer for urban design is better planning consents get it easier to urban design makes and reputation, build urban design helps to do. urban design is the right thing to

Nick Rogers, Head of Design at Taylor at Taylor Nick Rogers, Head of Design looks to the future for how this Wimpey, key relationship should develop

This all generates value in the long term, ensuring a sustainable ensuring a sustainable term, in the long value This all generates need for is a much greater there this, however, business. Beyond and House building and builders. working between designers closer and this rate in last 30 years radically has changed housing delivery us, house builders for continue. The challenge to is likely of change working and develop anticipate is to together, and designers at the same time as dealing with current those changes to solutions problems. Unintended consequences industry the where problems Looking back we can identify systemic • • • • House building is urban design. Some would say that not all of it is that not say is urban design. Some would House building don’t designers and urban design, and house builders urban good who see house builders are There speak the same language. always who believe academic, and urban designers as too design’ ‘urban may There in nothing but profit. interested are that house builders but both the designer and the of truth in these prejudices, be a grain planning than reciprocal and for far more on each other, rely builder the past decade studies over consents and fees. Despite several link between quality of urban design and show a direct failing to accruing once the only really with an upliftvalue profit, in developer can urban design that good we recognise is complete, development things: do several

ouse Builders ouse H to he Value of Urban Design Design Urban of Value The The UDG Conference in Nottingham, September 2014 September Nottingham, in Conference UDG The ver the past few years design design years few the past Over immeasurably; has improved quality from been released have designs the credit by constraints previous of 2007-8. crash and market crunch /17 2015 problems of relationships between different blocks and links and links blocks between different of relationships problems and between blocks, pattern. form and street in layout complexity excessive the translation of design from masterplan to development block development to masterplan of design from the translation Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory Future priorities and changes deal to have to going we can see that we are the future Looking to with together housing delivery, increased for with a continued drive topics such as social and specific focus on sustainability, a greater and a changing population will be high health, biodiversity inclusion, imposed solutions politically have will probably We on the agenda. and the time may SUDS, and larger cities, more – perhaps garden well see an increased We could manufacture. be right for offsite ‘build, of the traditional models – less development of diversity term and long interest retained and more approach, on’ sell, move build and custom rented private include management. These could between the public and models partnership homes, as well as more DIO such as the current scale and not just at a large sectors, private disposals, more but many Organisation) (Defence Infrastructure between partnering also see more may schemes. We scale smaller times, be exciting These could and SMEs. home builders the larger design risk with each of these trends brings of change but this rate demanding new design responses. • • • failed to respond appropriately to the changing development the changing development to appropriately respond to failed consequences with the unintended context, most noticeably Guidance Note of Planning Policy the implementation following often theory were 3 (2000). and design that time new rules At without a good alike, designer and builder planner, applied, by fashion; and in some cases as dogma or even understanding, up on parked with cars overrun just think of those developments parking courts unused, or dense urban rear leaving pavements, flats virtually bedroom houses and two storey with three villages that these design responses, argue could You in the countryside. fuel rising land prices and density helped to with increased together an unaffordable places and at homes, in the wrong the wrong to led design quality has improved cost. the past few years Over those constraints from been released designs have immeasurably; quality but design of 2007-8, crash crunch and market the credit by These are sites. multi-phase with larger most notably issues remain to: related often

06 introduction introduction 07 /17 2015 ypologies, based on on based ypologies, T of what a knowledge characteristics morphological design which urban deliver be developed qualities, could ‘tissues’ design into raise to simplifying and quality through layouts. improving Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory ● In a ‘business as usual’ meanwhile scenario, continual scenario, meanwhile In a ‘business as usual’ that the together of working it is in finding new ways However improvement is also possible through closer working and a better working and a better closer through is also possible improvement both to with gains and builders between designers understanding being but powerful example a simple business and design outcomes; the of open spaces or design and delivery and early how the careful and also improve support values, can help initial sales, public realm there Likewise and biodiversity. infrastructure of green the delivery to companies in house building is much that we can do internally of design skills, whether those skills the standard raise continue to or critique design. manage brief, design or to used to are and skill will be recognised of urban design practice value greatest changes for the emerging solutions and implementing – developing see an to I hope few years. in the next context in the development between urban design practice, amount of interaction increasing This is a road house builders. urban design theory and the volume and guidance producing Wimpey, on at Taylor started that we have by produced work already on the good build to training providing teams. and external our internal roaches to design Better to approaches take do two things: that we need to risk I believe this avoid To to done before a critical and informed view of what we have use and then to what didn’t, and why, what worked, understand As house builders of working. ways better develop this insight to these tend typologies; working with types and to used we are of the house, the apartment or the apartment be at the level to and block of urban we also use typologies block. Less consciously is both exciting a fundamentalist view of urban design While street. designing each scheme as a unique attractive, and intellectually and time-consuming, can be costly a unique context to response the other end of the spectrum At solutions. in untested and result understood but little empirically-tested building is repeatedly a position between for context. Taking with scant regard solutions a shorthand for develop to like I would these two extremes, based on a of layout – using typologies solutions developing and doesn’t. Typologies, of what works analysis morphological deliver characteristics of what morphological based on a knowledge ‘tissues’ into be developed which urban design qualities, could simplifying and improving design quality through raise that could be spent on other aspects time to more as well as allowing layouts, of design. Adaptive behaviour – play in the tenements in the 1980s The Whitevale and Bluevale high rise flats – unplaced through demolition of place and community John Butterly and John Dowson in 1976, who fought against the demolition of tenements in the Duke Street area An unimproved backcourt on Bluevale Street – a harsh low resource environment Bluevale, Whitevale and Bathgate Streets from a high rise block – the dense tenement grid preserved and renovated 1 2 3 4 5 2 1 ocial Places Social /17 2015

However, if we explore these issues through the lens of Life- the lens these issues through if we explore However, Dubbed ‘toxic assets’ by CABE, Britain’s poorly performing poorly CABE, assets’ by Britain’s Dubbed ‘toxic a long entered outstripping income, we have With expenditure but not through play, to an important role have Urban designers

Graham Marshall and Professor RhiannonGraham Marshall of the ProsocialCorcoran, Directors describe the impactPlaces Programme, on greater publicof harsh environments wellbeing Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory THE URBAN PENALTY have to urban areas found consistently Social scientists have of both diagnosed mental health conditions higher a prevalence Public as ‘languishing’. known of wellbeing, level and a reduced or ‘urban penalty’, as the identifies this failure health research poor social from results that it arguing effect’, the ‘urbanicity – things social isolation, discrimination and deprivation integration, as urban designers. grasp that we intuitively we can psychologists, evolutionary by theory developed History the adaptive to understand and differently a little see things to begin has found that in context. Research of human behaviour nature can people and predictable, reliable stable, are resources where and the capacity resilience enabling greater plan their futures, cooperate and to life stresses, inevitable to adapt in response to in their encounter that they people future-oriented with similarly be no surprise that public spending is lowest communities. It should and healthy. well-educated prosperous, are people in places where

We have entered a critical era where greater thought leadership in leadership thought greater where a critical era entered have We social support the collective is essential. To our placemaking culture Lives Healthy Society Fair wellbeing set out in The Marmot Review places and manages that regards (2010), a culture foster we need to as essential infrastructure. absorb much of our gross places and communities continue to are land, places and people (GDP), where domestic product continue this can choose to as commodities. We exploited to thin disease and pestilence war, allowing indefinitely, exploitation our rise and fall and, perhaps, for for nations to us out periodically, In his book Collapse: How of the world. in areas partial extinction discusses Diamond (2011), Jarred or Survive to Fail Choose Societies these choices. the continuing issues that face us in making costs signifying a of welfare with high levels period of austerity economic measures Whilst the government’s nation under stress. does nature their short-term paper, on budget the rebalance may the fundamental health and wellbeing issues that not address impact individuals, the wider stability of the communities and emphasises the impact of urban quality nation. The Marmot Review health and wellbeing. of equity, on these same matters So, to deliver. trained typically that we are fixes the technocratic between do we start when thinking about the relationship where the most fundamental health and wellbeing?placemaking, Probably Without Health No is embodied in the Government’s principle (2011) Health Mental policy. reating Pro- reating C

08 introduction introduction 09 /17 2015 e need to design, manage design, manage e need to Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory W and maintain psychologically that benign environments of threat feelings reduce optimise opportunities to and interact to for people This is prosociality. cooperate. 4 3 5 The time to address the weaknesses in our urban design address The time to and maintain psychologically design, manage need to We When we talk about resources we mean more than money – we than money we mean more When we talk about resources When we study low resource environments through this same through environments resource When we study low AN EXEMPLAR History of Our Streets Secret The BBC documentary series The of the issues that we face today. illustration a good provides and highways) planning (e.g. unaccountable Silo-thinking, that are environments harsh all create (remote), ‘starchitecture’ and interaction. for cooperation our intrinsic preference to barriers (2 in Glasgow Street of series 2),In the episode on Duke we can nothing from of a place that developed story an unfolding watch social policy failures during suffered the Industrial Revolution, planning and design policy by bit-by-bit and then was dismantled show a The scenes near the end of the programme failures. But the uplifting aspect of the ‘un-placed’. that has been townscape D? IS WELL DESIGNE WHAT In short, how the qualities of an theory shows Life-History and our our life strategies determine directly environment the utmost importance of it emphasises In so doing, wellbeing. policies demand that places urban design, but when government phrase? this nebulous from expect what do they ‘wellare designed’, urban interrogating In 2012, published a paper Marshall Dr Steven and consensus, design theory and found it based on assumption in the all players by interpretation wide and personal open to – assuming built at best and pseudo-scientific environment built at all. principles any apply practitioners environment widen our need to We is overdue. and prejudices practices understand base and work with social scientists to knowledge of its pattern and the predictability our intrinsic human ecology forage can successfully professionals secure many Whilst language. or regeneration environment niche that is the built in the ecological higher industries, embrace must we in the Urban Design Group in placemaking. leadership thought concerns that will advance optimise to of threat feelings that reduce benign environments This is and cooperate. interact to opportunities for people a common goal towards social behaviour co-operative prosociality: such as helping, or society as a whole, that benefits other people communities are Prosocial and volunteering. donating, sharing, future- encourage sustained wellbeing and themselves to central in the individuals in them. who live focussed perspectives refer to the whole resource of our human habitat and relationships. of our human habitat and relationships. resource the whole to refer low of promoting capable is just as estate well-heeled A gated, of wellbeing as public housing can. levels lens, we find that people live their lives and forage in a different a different in and forage their lives live we find that people lens, to professionals design for can be difficult This way. adaptive of being of this way the outcomes and, furthermore, understand The insecurity of resources society. of by disapproved typically are in ‘future-discounting’ termed strategy, an adaptive promotes in these In other words, environments. in harsh those who live wellbeing needs is an of gratification the immediate environments who people In general pursue. to strategy and sensible ingrained shun long-term thrill-seek, to will tend enviroments in harsh live etc. act impulsively younger, children have educational goals, that and the behaviours environments harsh together, However, impacts on sustainble significant negative prime will also have they to tend environments individual Harsh and community wellbeing. investments short-term defensive, only make as people harsher get actions of public authorities, the managerial in them. This includes upon these places. imposed which are Garfield Street with the Bluevale and Whitevale high rise blocks behind – renewal gives way to renovation Scenes from Reidvale Annual Housing Association’s Gala Days, in the 1990s – community life as cooperation, volunteering and sharing. All photographs courtesy of Reidvale Housing Association 6 7-8 Graham Marshall, founder of the social enterprise Prosocial Place, and Prosocial Place Programme with psychology Professors Rhiannon Corcoran and Tom Dickins in Liverpool and Middlesex Universities, contact: [email protected]. Prosocial communities communities Prosocial sustained to central are wellbeing and themselves future-focussed encourage in the perspectives in them. individuals live who 8 7 /17 2015

● In conclusion, it is important to note that at least 80% of the that at least note to it is important In conclusion, Instigate a ‘Well-Design’ process for placemaking, rather than an rather for placemaking, process a ‘Well-Design’ Instigate output. indefinable ‘well-designed’ Create outcome-oriented policies to deliver objective and objective deliver policies to outcome-oriented Create that embed community principles placemaking evidence-based and wellbeing, Remove barriers to prosociality caused by short-sighted renewal renewal short-sighted by caused prosociality to barriers Remove programmes and management on focus co-design leadership the social sciences to Embrace places, within an accountable existing regenerating urgently agenda people-focussed Stop un-placing townscapes un-placing townscapes Stop Instead of being distracted by utopian (no–place) dreams on (no–place) dreams utopian by of being distracted Instead (well-place) ‘eutopian’ the to pursue we need fields, green thinking, inter-disciplinary through which is achievable dream, of our existing mobilisation management and sensitive knowledge townscapes. 6 Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory • • • • • We therefore need to: need to: therefore We buildings that we will inhabit in 2050 have already been built. already we will inhabit in 2050 have that buildings between now and then erected of the new buildings many Moreover, and fabrics and infrastructures, existing within will be constructed the and subject to too, become existing to assimilated so be quickly regime. same management programme is the positive response from the community against the community against from response positive is the programme where of prosociality the powerful force this threat, demonstrating it prevails.

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The following practices are Albonico Sack Metacity Carter Jonas Fletcher Priest also Urban Design Group Architects & Urban Berger House Architects Practice Members, and provide Designers 36-38 Berkeley Square Middlesex House urban design services. A fuller PO Box 95387 London W1J 5AE 34/42 Cleveland Street description of these practices Grant Park London W1T 4JE and their specialisms is available Johannesburg CH2M Hill in each copy of the Urban Design 02051 South Africa Elms House FPCR Environment & Group's quarterly journal Urban 43 Brook Green Hammersmith Design Ltd Design, and on the UDG website Allen Pyke Associates London W6 7EF Lockington Hall www.udg.org.uk The Factory, 2 Acre Road Lockington Kingston-upon-Thames Chapman Taylor LLP Derby DE74 2RH Surrey KT2 6EF 10 Eastbourne Terrace London W2 6LG Framework Architecture Applied and Urban Design 26-27 Great Sutton Street City ID Ltd 3 Marine Studios London EC1V 0DS 23 Trenchard Street Burton Lane End, Burton Waters Bristol BS1 5AN Lincoln LN1 2WN Arnold Linden Architects Clarke Klein & Chaudhuri Globe Consultants Ltd 31 Waterlow Court Architects 26 Westgate Heath Close, Hampstead Way 22 Bloomsbury Street Lincoln LN1 3BD London NW11 7DT London WC1B 3QJ GM Design Associates Ltd Assael Architecture Colour: Urban Design 22 Lodge Road Limited Limited Coleraine Studio 13 50 Carnwath Rd Milburn House, Floor A Co. Londonderry London SW6 3EG Dean Street BT52 1NB Newcastle upon Tyne Barton Willmore NE1 1LE Hankinson Duckett Partnership Associates Beansheaf Farmhouse Conroy Crowe Kelly The Stables, Howbery Park Bourne Close, Calcot Architects & Urban Benson Lane Reading RG31 7BW Designers Wallingford 65 Merrion Square Oxfordshire OX10 8BA Bell Cornwell Dublin 2, Ireland Partnership Hawkins\ Brown Oakview House David Huskisson 60 Bastwick Street Station Road Associates London EC1V 3TN Hook 17 Upper Grosvenor Road Hants RG27 9TP Tunbridge Wells HOK International Ltd Kent TN1 2DU Qube 90 Whitfield Street Bidwells London W1T 4EZ Bidwell House Doyle Town Planning & Trumpington Road Urban Design HTA Design LLP Cambridge CB2 9LD Doyle Design LLP 106-110 Kentish Town Road 86-90 Paul Street London NW1 9PX Boyer Planning London EC2A 4NE Crowthorne House Hyland Edgar Driver Nine Mile Ride Farrells (London) LLP One Wessex Way Wokingham RG40 3GZ 7 Hatton Street Colden Common London NW8 8PL Winchester Brock Carmichael Hants S021 1WG Architects FaulknerBrowns 19 Old Hall Street Dobson House IBI Taylor Young Liverpool L3 9JQ Northumbrian Way Chadsworth House Newcastle upon Tyne Wilmslow Road Building Design NE12 6QW Handforth Partnership Ltd Cheshire SK9 3HP 16 Brewhouse Yard London EC1V 4LJ

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Landscape Projects Ltd Paul Drew Design Ltd RPS Planning Terra Firma Consultancy 31 Blackfriars Road 23-25 Great Sutton Street 2420 The Quadrant Aztec West Cedar Court Salford London EC1V 0DN Almondsbury 5 College Street Manchester M3 7AQ Bristol BS32 4AQ Petersfield GU31 4AE Philip Cave Associates Lanpro Services 70 Cowcross Street Scott Tallon Walker TP Bennett LLP 4 St Mary's House London EC1M 6EJ Architects One America Street Duke Street 19 Merrion Square London SE1 0NE Norwich NR3 1QA Plainview Planning Dublin 2 5 Strand Court Ireland Urban Design Futures Levitt Bernstein Bath Road 34/1 Henderson Row Associates Ltd Cheltenham GL53 7LW Shaffrey Associates Edinburgh EH3 5DN 1 Kingsland Passage 29 Lower Ormond Quay London E8 2BB PM Devereux Dublin 1 URBEN Zeeta House Ireland 33A Wadeson Street Liz Lake Associates 200 Upper Richmond Road London E2 9DR Western House Putney Sheils Flynn Ltd Chapel Hill London SW15 2SH Bank House Vincent & Gorbing Ltd Stansted Mountfitchet High Street Sterling Court Essex CM24 8AG +Plus Urban Design Ltd Docking Norton Road Spaceworks Kings Lynn PE31 8NH Stevenage LSI Architects Benton Park Road Herts SG1 2JY The Old Drill Hall Newcastle upon Tyne Shepheard Epstein 23A Cattle Market Street NE7 7LX Hunter White Consultants Norwich NR1 3DY Phoenix Yard Landscape Architects Project Centre Ltd 65 Kings Cross Road Enterprise House Malcolm Moor Urban Level 4, Westgate House London WC1X 9LW 127-129 Bute Street Design Westgate Cardiff CF10 5LE 27 Ock Mill Close London W5 1YY Smeeden Foreman Ltd Abingdon Somerset House, Low Moor Lane Yellow Book Ltd Oxfordshire OX14 1SP PRP Architects LLP Scotton 39/2 Gardner's Crescent 10 Lindsey Street Knaresborough HG5 9JB Edinburgh EH3 8DG Melville Dunbar Smithfield Associates Ltd London EC1A 9HP Soltys Brewster Studio 2, Griggs Business Centre Consulting Ltd West Street Randall Thorp 4 Stangate House Coggeshall Canada House Stanwell Road Essex CO6 1NT 3 Chepstow Street Penarth Manchester M1 5FW Vale of Glamorgan CF64 2AA Mouchel 209-215 Blackfriars Road Random Greenway spacehub London SE1 8NL Architects Grimsby Street Studio Soper Hall 20A Grimsby Street NJBA Archtecture + Harestone Valley Road London E2 6ES Urbanism Surrey CR3 6HY 34 Upper Baggot Street Spawforths Dublin 4 Richard Coleman City Junction 41 Business Court Ireland Designer East Ardsley 14 Lower Grosvenor Place Leeds WF3 2AB NODE Urban Design London SW1W 0EX 33 Holmfield Road Stride Treglown Stoneygate Richard Reid & Associates Promenade House Leicester LE2 1SE Whitley Farm, Ide Hill The Promenade Clifton Down Sevenoaks TN14 6BS Bristol BS8 3NE Novell Tullett The Old Mess Room Richards Partington Stuart Turner Associates Home Farm Architects 12 Ledbury Barrow Gurney Unit G, Reliance Wharf Great Linford BS48 3RW Hertford Road Milton Keynes MK14 5DS London N1 5EW

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The following UK universities also offer postgraduate urban design related courses:

Brighton University MA Architectural and Urban Design www.brighton.ac.uk Cardiff University MA Urban Design www.cardiff.ac.uk Dundee University MSc Advanced Sustainable Urban Design www.dundee.ac.uk Queens University Belfast MSc Urban and Rural Design www.qub.ac.uk Leeds Beckett University MA Urban Design www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk Lincoln University MA Urban Design www.lincoln.ac.uk Liverpool John Moores University MA Urban Design www.ljmu.ac.uk Liverpool University MA Civic Design MA Urban Design and Property Development www.liv.ac.uk London Metropolitan University MA Spatial Planning and Urban Design www.londonmet.ac.uk London School of Economics MSc City Design and Social Science www2.lse.ac.uk London South Bank University MA Urban Planning Design www.lsbu.ac.uk Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester MA Architecture and Urbanism www.msa.ac.uk University of Central Lancashire MSc Urban Design www.uclan.ac.uk University College Dublin MSc Urban Design www.ucd.ie University of East London MA Urban Design www.uel.ac.uk University of Edinburgh/ Edinburgh College of Art/ Heriot-Watt University MSc Urban Strategies and Design www.hw.ac.uk University of Edinburgh/ Edinburgh College of Art MSc Architectural and Urban Design www.edinburgh.ac.uk University of Kent MA Architecture and Urban Design www.kent.ac.uk

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The following UK universities offer postgraduate courses in Urban Design, and are the UDG’s leading education members:

76 — Anglia Ruskin University 78 — University College London, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit 80 — University College London, The Bartlett School of Planning 82 — The University of Huddersfield 84 — Newcastle University 86 — The University of Northampton 88 — The University of Nottingham 90 — Nottingham Trent University 92 — Oxford Brookes University 94 — The University of Portsmouth 96 — University of Sheffield 98 — University of Strathclyde 100 — University of Westminster

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The MSc Building and Urban Design in Development (BUDD) is an Design and Urban in Development The MSc Building of urban design the understanding that promotes course innovative socio-spatial we develop BUDD, tool. At as a powerful political as the the community scale, to the policy sphere from strategies, equal and just society. a more promote to way skills and practical students with the analytical provide aims to of participation, the paradigms existing necessary challenge to Along of architecture. potential of design and the political agency urban theories with contemporary with a critical engagement formulation of BUDD students work on the concrete and debates, studio and in in the practice-based urban strategies experimental projects. action-learning trip part of the field destinations of the international most recent its cost). This is a real-life (the tuition fees cover programme core in community- immersion and emotional simulation, a physical negotiation requiring urban settings in contested based practice among which our partner organisations, stakeholders with real alike. and governments of communities, universities networks spatial experience developing hand first gain Students here urban issues in context. existing for strategies which so far has the DpuSummerLab, summer workshop, itinerant and London. Beirut, Zurich, in Rome, place Medellin, Santiago, taken a DPU/ACHR in launching In 2012, role a leading the MSc BUDD took with the Asian Coalition for Housing Programme Junior Professionals This Network (CAN). and the Community Architects Rights (ACHR) and offering the unique alumni open to programme is an internship network. work with the DPU Asian partners opportunity to the classical notions of urban we recalibrate where environment urban practitioner. of the of the role design and the understanding lanning Unit Planning CL Development U

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DESIGN (IDUD) URBAN -DISCIPLINARY This Faculty-wide degree offers an inter-disciplinary space in space an inter-disciplinary offers degree This Faculty-wide Urban design fundamentals: research exploring the value and the value exploring Urban design fundamentals: research of urban design as a place- urban design, the nature of processes the for research, shaping continuum, urban design as an arena dimension of and spaces, and the temporal of streets nature urban design. that established the fundamental precepts space: research Public and which provides public space management of effective and mainstream to increasingly challenge systematic the first public space. critiques of contemporary polemical empirical a robust establishing research Design governance: design including tools of design governance basis for a range And new and design coding. policies, planning indicators and impact of CABE and the future the history exploring research of design. governance

THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF PLANNING MSC URBAN DESIGN AND CITYCP) PLANNING (UD MRES INTER 5 years 2 to over 12 months, or part-time full-time • • • IN URBAN DESIGN MRES IDUD: EXPLORATIONS the degree research-led flexible a more in interested students For research year a one Urban Design offers Inter-disciplinary MRes part-time). (also available degree of urban design from the challenges which students can examine to shaping their own degree disciplinary perspectives, comparative exposes It aspirations. and future interests their background, reflect the from design research urban cutting-edge the latest students to the in the UK; offers urban researchers of concentration largest conduct to opportunity for students substantial piece of individual a students in methodologies trains design; research-led research/ and gives the conduct to investigation; of urban scale appropriate the across modules from of taught range an extensive access to and beyond. Faculty RECENT RESEARCH School of Planning has made the case at The Bartlett Research for drive the national (and international) for and supported helping in the process environment, design in the built better ideasimportance of urban design in about the mainstream to process. the development policy and across local and government covered: are areas key Three /17 oburn Place 2015 artlett School of Planning The Bartlett London College University House Central 14 Upper W 1H 0NN London WC www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/ planning/programmes/ postgraduate/mscdiploma- planning-development-design underlich

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City Planning, with a focus on spatial planning and strategic plan- on spatial planning and strategic with a focus City Planning, planning); master making (large-scale place-making (neighbourhood thinking with a focus on Integrative space design), offering planning and public master scale and theories of the forms, practices students a deeper knowledge of a wide range and exploring with urban design associated in the discipline; critical debates understanding by bringing a focus on delivery Delivering Quality, the one hand, urban design and real between, on the interface urban design and sustainability; and on the other, estate, urban design key focusing on understanding Planning for Quality, density and layout, as well typology, urban concepts, including of guidance, the tools design through of urban process as indirect and control. incentive 1 Dr Filipa W rther information Further (MSc UDCP) Director Programme 020 3108 9533 [email protected] Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory The programme integrates three streams of work: streams three integrates The programme 1) 2) 3) 4) Planning Town both the Royal by accredited The MSc UDCP is fully Surveyors Institution of Chartered and the Royal (RTPI) Institute (RICS). DESIGN PRACTICE URBAN FOR MSC UDCP: PREPARING with a unique focus on the programme The MSc UDCP is a master’s Students gain between urban design and city planning. interface the ability to and develop of this interface understanding a better the different across ways and analytical think in critical, creative design, urban and from local, to strategic from of the city, scales relates so the course In doing sustainability. to estate real planning, urban design research upon the long-term and builds to closely School of Planning. specialisations of The Bartlett or other allied disciplines, who wish to architecture in planning, education whilst specialising their professional or expand complete of this the purpose and potential in urban design, and exploring depth. subject in greater

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92 courses courses 93 /17 2015 Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory 6 5 3 Urban Design: Product, Process and Critique, 2012, Project 2: The study and evaluation of a masterplan, student group presentation: Gioia Lok Chan, Alison Cirillo, Key Sakamura, Tsun Brown Urban Design Place-making, 2010, Urban Embankment, Design Project at Victoria steps”, “Embankment Esplanade – Temple Emma Sofia Anapliotis, Lu Fan, Simon Thurley, Vandore Urban Design Place-making, 2010, Urban Embankment, Design Project at Victoria Living Room – The Thames balcony”, “London’s Ni Lu Zhao, Tianlu Fiona Sibley, Emma O’Reilly, Urban Design: Product, Process and Critique, 2012, Project 1: Principles of Urban Design: Literature Review and Learning through Experience; “Quality of public realm; design, health and well-being in the city: walkability and playability of urban public spaces”, Kato Allaert, Alison Brown, Stephanie Schemel Urban Design Place-making, 2011, Urban Embankment, “The Design Project at Victoria Northbank Destination”, Harriet Beattie, Joaquin Guitart, Charlotte Mitchell, Manmohan Sidhu, Bingting Xu Jonathan Sidhu, Jonathan Webb, Urban Design: Product, Process and Critique, 2012, Project 1: Principles of Urban Design: Literature Review and Learning through Experience; “Character and sense of place; design and experience: the senses in the design of urban places”, Joan Caba, Alexander Marsh, Kei Sakamura, Aditya Shah 2 3 4 5 6 1 4 2 Students working in studio 1 2 Collaborative work art time 24 months time 24 art ure uth School of Architect Portsmo MA in Urban Design Full time 12 months P 2 1 ortsmouth venue J /17 2015 ortsmouth School of ortsmouth PO1 2D P Architecture Building Eldon A Churchill Winston P www.port.ac.uk/courses/ architecture-property-and- surveying/ma-urban-design/

abiano Lemes Our course offers students a series of opportunities to engage to engage opportunities students a series of offers Our course

Urban morphology and heat energy demand and heat energy Urban morphology Sub-Urban land(E)scapes Urban space and neuroscience Green wedge urbanism wedge Green design Eco-city Integration or Work-Based Learning or Work-Based Integration Thesis Urban Design: Theories Urban Design and Practice Methods Research INFORMATION FURTHER FOR Dr F eader L Course 023 9284 2090 [email protected] [email protected] For more details of our research projects see: projects details of our research more For www.port.ac.uk/portsmouth-school-of-architecture/research/ The course units cover history and theory of urban design, urban history units cover The course sustainability in urban methodologies, research design studio, thesis and investigation, design, public space design, urban analysis development, among other topics. and project Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory • • • CURRENT RESEARCH • • ENTRY in Architecture, degree A minimum of a second-class honours subject, Design, or equivalent Interior Planning, or a related Town of qualifications. A portfolio and/or experience professional at a proficiency language English work is required. professional 6.0. below band 6.5 with no component score minimum of IELTS • • • • • The course is structured as follows: is structured The course This course provides opportunities for participants to engage in engage to opportunities for participants provides This course in the of urban designers role about the potential debates current an Urban Design cities. Our MA in fosters of sustainable generation of skills and the development enquiring spirit, curiosity, intellectual our contemporary of designing for the challenges tackle needed to cities. work interdisciplinary. and to learning work-based projects, in live small-group lectures, involve strategies and teaching The learning Students tutorials. and one-to-one and studio-based group debates field UK-based and to join international opportunities offered are programmes postgraduate with other links strong are trips. There of School School. in the Portsmouth projects and with research and international with local connections has many Architecture our students with providing academic institutions and practices, work. rich possibilities for collaborative University of P of University

94 courses courses 95 /17 2015 Welborne plan, developmental Welborne model Analysis of immediate project surroundings, Tipner project Group masterplan, Tipner Developmental drawings, Tipner project 3 4 5 6 Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory 4 5 6 3 Study trip to London (Facilitating Resilience studio, 2013/2014) Participatory design activities in Zanzibar (Support Systems studio, 2013/2014) Exhibiting MAUD work at Sharrow Community Forum (2010) 1 2 3 art time 24 months time 24 art 3 2 1 ure School of Architect MA in Urban Design Full time 12 months P /17 TN 2015 ower estern Bank estern School of Architecture of Sheffield University Arts T W S10 2 Sheffield www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture

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Dr B MA Urban Design Programme Leader 0114 2220359 [email protected] ontact details Contact Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory Programme Leader: Beatrice De Carli Programme Cristina Cerulli, Florian Leo Care, staff: Bauman, MAUD Irena Core Kossak Teresa Evans, Howard Simon Baker, 2014/2015: Studio Tutors Thompson Rob Stratford, Hoskyns, John Sampson, Helen Staff research within the School d research Relate a strong have design studios and thesis projects projects, All MAUD staff members by research ongoing to aspect and relate research governance, include: areas Research centres. and research cities; the social production and public space; self-made democracy radical practice; of architecture modes alternative of architecture; a through is supported programme teaching urbanism. The MAUD including: centres research number of SSoA and cross-departmental and Praxis Architectural into research – Transformative AGENCY Education; bdr – bureau GaSP and Spatial Practice; – Globalisation Building platform interdisciplinary and the School’s design+research, Local Resilience. As part of its Graduate School, the University of Sheffield, School of of Sheffield, School,As part of its Graduate the University Masters taught of postgraduate range a (SSoA) offers Architecture the MA in Urban Design including (MAUD). programmes, As such the MAUD society. and between architecture relationship and spatial design that links approach in an integrated is grounded the spatial morphology understand as a means to urban processes underpinning urbanisation, and the social forces of contemporary urban of uneven lies in the processes urban form. Our interest in their who, and actors agents and in the many development the meaning and transforming are citizens, capacity of engaged inhabit. seeks forms of the places they this in mind, the course With and agency involving modes of practice establish innovative to and which approaches investigate community participation, and to of both designers the role for rethinking might allow methodologies of city-making. in the processes and citizens that cities challenges urban development the key examine critically whose To In which ways? them? Who is addressing facing today. are as are taken in Sheffield Local urban areas and exclusion? inclusion, contexts for comparison with other UK and international a reference as well as in Asia, Africa, and Latina America. The main in Europe supported consists of a design studio, programme of the core participatory urban design theory, modules exploring core by These on urban design practice. and reflections methodologies modules, of optional study-trips, a range by complemented are series. and lecture thematic workshops,

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96 courses courses 97 /17 2015 Collaborative final model (MAUD Project 4, Designing Post-carbon Neighbourhoods workshop, 2012) Alternative mobility systems – Ziwen Sun strategies (Thesis: The future of Yuncheng: 09 2014) for a walkable city, Sensory explorations and design strategies – Zhao (Thesis: Sensory exploration, 09 Wanlu 2014) Mapping Al Zaatari Camp – Mhd Aghiad Baranbo (Thesis: Syrians in displaced communities, 09 2014) Anqi Liu, Heeley VEGE-Network (Facilitating Resilience studio, 2013/2014) Livelihoods strategies for Ng’amboo – Yiwen Chen (Support Systems studio, 2013/2014) 4 5 6+7 8 9 10 Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory 9 8 10 6 5 4 7 pon u ing d al needs ate certificate in Urban Design, Depen in Urban Design, certificate ate ate Diploma in Urban Design, Full time 9 months, Diploma ate 3 ure of Architect Department months time 24 MSc in Urban Design, Full time 12 months, part du Postgra time 18 months part du Postgra of modules selected and individu portfolio 2 1 /17 XJ 2015 eir Building Department of Architecture of Strathclyde University 3 Level James W Street Montrose 75 G1 1 Glasgow www.udsu-strath.com ostgraduate ostgraduate UCTURE omice

The research element is the opportunity to investigate an issue an issue investigate opportunity to is the element The research and students from is ideal for both practitioners This course Cities hold tremendous potential, but at the same time are at the same potential, but time are tremendous Cities hold and premises, these fully in urban design embraces Our course

Time, adaptability, local relevance, and efficiency within limited and efficiency within limited relevance, local Time, adaptability, of intervention. drivers are resources The nature of the professions engaged in shaping future cities in shaping future engaged the professions of The nature with observation, ones is changing, existing and reshaping more to next the fore coming to management, negotiation design-based skills. traditional The responsibility for developing and managing cities is becoming for developing The responsibility and their people. between governments, shared increasingly mbretta R Ombretta rther information Further of MSc in Urban Design Director 548 4219 0141 [email protected] Information on P Studies [email protected] Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory The MSc in Urban Design has the Royal Town Planning Institute Institute Planning Town The MSc in Urban Design has the Royal as a Specialist Course. accreditation COURSE STR combination of a through Our MSc in Urban Design is delivered principles The key classes and seminars. taught studio teaching, local adaptability in time, efficiency and in studio are we pursue clients, students live commissioned by On projects appropriateness. deliver to scales and detailed strategic shape cities joining to learn and aesthetic aspects of social, typological economic, ecological, theory, urban design history, include elements Taught sustainability. policy and transport, representation, landscape architecture, estate. and real practice work has been published, exhibited recent of particular interest; commissions for the Unit. further research and generated related environment planning and other built architecture, Unit which is well research active a very by disciplines. It is delivered community engagement, known for its work in urban modelling, design; as such, and detailed assessment, strategic environmental in urbanism, and advancements the latest to candidates it exposes regularly. tested new ideas are • • • Our course is shaped around these principles: is shaped around Our course Recent data and predictions on urbanization make cities the most on urbanization make data and predictions Recent with the current far, by of the future common living environment 2050. by two thirds by increase to billion urbanities set seven Urban development inequalities and pollution. of stress, sources cost of and the future challenges, unprecedented is faced by is increasingly – social, economic and environmental, remediation unaffordable. to respond to and tools principles innovative equips students with approach. same but at the time responsive, them with a visionary, trathclyde S of University

98 courses courses 99 /17 2015 8 Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory 6 Students working in a Drawing event by the Scottish Government at Dumfries House Stakeholder event, Cumnock Prize and Students receiving the 2014 RTPI Commendations (S Chen, A Siti, O Osman, C Vesey) Detailed masterplan – Dibble, A Feliciotti Study of degrees of privacy for different typologies – J Dibble, A Feliciotti resilience over economic A study of a block’s recessions – Alessandra Feliciotti and Jacob Dibble Intentions and design proposals for the North Quarter in Glasgow – A Siti, O Osman, S Chen Detailed representations of special places in final masterplan – F Whyte, C Condy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 5 4

IN URBAN DESIGN DIPLOMA ATE ESIGN IN URBAN D CERTIFICATE ATE 3 environment ure and the built school of architect MA IN URBAN DESIGN months TIME 24 Full Time 12 PART DU POSTGRA TIME 21 MONTHS FULL TIME 9 MONTHS PART DU POSTGRA TIME MONTHS 12 MONTHS PART 2 1 estminster /17 oad estminster 1 5LS 2015 rchitecture and the School of Architecture Environment Built of W University R 35 Marylebone London NW www.westminster.ac.uk/ courses/subjects/ architecture-and-interiors/ postgraduate-courses/full-time/ p09fpubd-ma-urban-design

The Postgraduate Certificate in Urban Certificate Design (part time only) The Postgraduate with the urban environment in the practitioners provides It is with urban design effectively. interface essential skills to the full commit to students who do not wish to to attractive students this as an entry point and later some MA programme; the MA. to transfer The Postgraduate Diploma in Urban Design (part Diploma or full time) The Postgraduate the components of the MA but excludes all the taught includes for a bridging students looking to dissertation. It is attractive a hold those who already in urban design, especially course degree. master’s The MA in Urban Design (part or full time) attracts highly The MA in Urban Design highly (part or full time) attracts a solid basis for urban design and students seeking motivated wishing to professionals mid-career It attracts practice. graduates as well as recent or specialise, experience consolidate and abroad. home from rther information Further Bill Erickson x66553 020 79115000 [email protected] The urban design academic staff undertakes related research research related The urban design academic staff undertakes crime and sustainable city, the night-time including on topics such as the major charities from range development. Funders and other bodies. authorities local to Foundation, Joseph Rowntree PhD research and part-time is also a number of full-time There on urban design topics. students engaged We also provide short courses, CPD and in-house training for private for private CPD and in-house training courses, short also provide We single can take and independent students and public organisations, modules. Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory • • • We offer three courses: three offer We The MA in Urban Design programme provides preparation for preparation provides The MA in Urban Design programme format. in a flexible urban design practice entering professionals experience combine practical is designed to This programme a structured by supported training, professional with advanced is project and method. Much of the teaching theory to approach at differing and design solutions the urban context based, exploring work collaboratively an opportunity to provide The courses scales. architecture, including differing backgrounds, from with people and planning transport landscape architecture, urban planning, design. environmental University of W of University

100 courses courses 101 /17 2015 Urban Design Directory ― Urban Design Directory 5 7 9 MA students sketching on field trip Students presenting a street improvement project to local councillors Public Realm Plan for Ealing, Amando DelGado Chatsworth Road Creativity and Play, Neighbourhood Plan, Diana Fjodorova, Chloë Clay and Blerta Dino Olympic Legacy Stratford, Emmet O’Sullivan History of Primrose Hill, Steve McCoy, Michael Mulhern, Ranjit Sagoo, Andrea Perdoni Master plan Northolt, London – detailed area, Mark Hanton Master plan for Rochester Riverside, Kent, Robert Hagan 8 6 4 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 Tutorial discussion 2 102 ma p Featured UK Practices and Courses Europe BERGEN DAvid lock associates NORTH EAST zagreb NEWCASTLE Scott brownrigg NATHANIEL LICHFIELD AND lisbon PARTNERS broadway Malyan ✱ UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE ● PRACTICES UPON TYNE ✱ COURSES barnard Castle rest of the world Pod urban Design this map shows the moscow approximate locations Scott Brownrigg YORKSHIRE & HUMER LEEDS singapore GILLESPIES Broadway Malyan NATHANIEL LICHFIELD AND Scott Brownrigg PARTNERS shanghai PEGASUS GROUP John Thompson & Partners Turley melbourne, australia WYG urban + Landscape Design sydney, Australia Huddersfield david lock associates ✱ UNIVERSITY OF huddersfield abu dhabi, UAE SHEFFIELD Gillespies ✱ UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Broadway Malyan SCOTLAND EDINBURGH EAST MIDLANDS AECOM NOTTINGHAM EAST OF ENGLAND JOHN THOMPSON & PARTNERS PEGASUS GROUP CAMBRIDGE LUC ✱ Nottingham trent PEGASUS GROUP Turley Associates university SAVILLS WYG urban + Landscape Design ✱ university of Nottingham Scott Brownrigg chelmsford NOrthampton Turley ✱ ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY ✱ university of Northampton Linlithgow Peterborough LEICESTER Area LDA Design North Urbanism idp GLASGOW Atkins WEST MIDLANDS AMEC foster wheeler BIRMINGHAM GILLESPIES ATKINS LDA Design Linlithgow ● Broadway Malyan LUC ● DEFINE SHEPPARD ROBSON ● ✱ Edinburgh PEGASUS GROUP Glasgow Turley phil jones associates ✱ UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE NORTH WEST Turley SEDBERGH Joe Holyoak GARSDALE DESIGN coventry chester IDP LONDON NORTHERN IRELAND tweed nuttal warburton LEAMINGTON SPA adam architecture AMEC foster wheeler aecom BELFAST LIVERPOOL ● ✱ Newcastle ALAN BAXTER aecom ALLIES AND MORRISON URBAN SMETHWICK ALLIES AND MORRISON URBAN Turley PRACTITIONERS TOWNSCAPE SOLUTIONS PRACTITIONERS URBAN INNOVATIONS Altrincham AMEC foster wheeler WYG urban + Landscape Design ● PLANIT I.E. 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PARTNERS ● ✱ POLLARD THOMAS EDWARDS ARCHITECTS PEGASUS GROUP Nottingham SAVILLS WALES scott brownrigg Smethwick CARDIFF SHEPPARD ROBSON ● ● scott brownrigg ● Peterborough SHEPPARD ROBSON NATHANIEL LICHFIELD Turley ● Leicester Birmingham ● Coventry TIBBALDS PLANNING AND URBAN AND PARTNERS urbed ✱ ● Cambridge DESIGN scott brownrigg URS Northampton Leamington ● TURLEY Turley WYG urban + Landscape Spa URBAN INITIATIVES STUDIO WYG urban + Design ● URBED Landscape Design Milton Keynes Chelmsford WYG urban + Landscape Design Oxford ✱ ● ✱ WEI YANG + PARTNERS ✱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Swansea Reading SOUTH WEST Cardiff ● ✱ UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER Cirencester ● ● ✱ CIRENCESTER ● ● ● AR Urbanism Bracknell London PEGASUS GROUP ● Bristol Basingstoke Berntsen d'andrade ● ● BRISTOL ● Maidstone Holistic City ● Weybridge atkins Bath Romsey ● Winchester ● mapping futures LUC ● Guildford Place-make ● ● PEGASUS GROUP Ferndown thrive architects Wellington Southampton ● ✱ turley Portsmouth ● ● BATH Exeter ● Bournemouth LAVIGNE LONSDALE Poole nicholas pearson Associates ● ● winchester Torquay Ferndown ● Plymouth adam architecture SOUTH EAST scott worsfold Truro space logic ROMSEY BOURNEMOUTH thrive architecture weybridge FERIA URBANISM broadway malyan SOUTHAMPTON POOLE boyle + Summers guildford NEW MASTERPLANNING LTD LHC ARCHITECTURE & scott brownrigg WELLINGTON URBANISM MILTON KEYNES WYG urban + Landscape Design SAVILLS DAVID LOCK ASSOCIATES Turley WYG urban + Landscape EXETER WYG urban + Landscape Design LDA Design Design LHC ARCHITECTURE + URBANISM OXFORD portsmouth GILLESPIES Torquay ✱ university of JON ROWLAND URBAN DESIGN kay elliott Portsmouth LDA Design PLYMOUTH BASINGSTOKE SAVILLS aecom aecom studio REAL LHC ARCHITECTURE + URBANISM ✱ OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY reading TRURO Built Form Resources broadway malyan LAVIGNE LONSDALE Thomas Design (TDRC) nathaniel lichfield and partners abingdon (nr Oxford) phil jones associates west waddy BRACKNELL maidstone PEGASUS GROUP DHA planning group Urban Design Directory ― 2015/17 103 The Urban Design Group UD G and its achievements

Sebastian Loew visits the UDG’s virtual archives

The Urban Design Group (UDG) was founded in 1978: that is 36 years ago, before a whole generation of our members was born. Therefore many members have little knowledge of the role that the group played in the early days in important debates concerning the built environment, how it influenced some of the changes that took place, 1 and to what extent key players were involved with the UDG. The founder members defined it as a Forum for Architects, Landscape Architects and Designers in Planning and aimed to include anyone acting in the environment.1 A whole book could be written recounting the history of the UDG, but here I want to describe some of its achievements more randomly. More information about these can be found in past issues of the group’s journal Urban Design, (formerly Urban Design Quarterly) which is also my source. In 2014, the Kevin Lynch Memorial Lecture was given by Professor John Punter. This annual event started shortly after Kevin Lynch’s death in 1984, only a few months after he had addressed the UDG, as he had also been an early overseas member. Over the years, many distinguished figures have given these lectures; to name a few, Leon Krier (1986), Sir Roy Strong (1988), Sir Peter Hall (1992), Cedric Price (1996), Rem Koolhaas (1999) and more recently Christopher Alexander (2011). For a number of years, the Group also ran a series of Annual UDG Lectures, and a few members may remember that Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid were the first two lecturers. It is 2 worth reflecting that these highly regarded professionals addressed the group because they thought it was important to do so (and there was no fee then either). From the start the group, with fewer than 300 members and only a skeleton administration, organised evening lectures, seminars and conferences and not just in London. The topics chosen were of relevance to the day and give an indication of how forward- thinking the group was: Life and Death of the High Street was the title of a one-day conference in 1984 – many years before Mary Portas broached the subject. Other early conference subjects confirmed the pioneering character of the group: Post-war Housing Estates – Humanising the Legacy, Mending the City, Masterplan or Misconception, Community Design, Enterprise and Development (where Lawrence Revill advocated that cities should be given more control of their affairs), and in 1988, during the dark years post- abolition of the GLC, A Vision for London. Participants in these events often included politicians, chief officers and leading members of the professions, and so it can be reasonably assumed that these debates had some influence on practice. Right from the beginning, members debated the meaning of 3 urban design. First called Architects in Planning (a disappearing species), the group soon took its current name, reflecting a search for identity. In an early editorial piece in the journal, Bob Jarvis asked What do Urban Designers Do? and similar questions were asked during a weekend at the University of York on Crisis in Urban 1 The UDG at the Russian Union of Architects, St. Petersburg Design: Education and Practice. The UDG, which by now had 2-3 The UDG study visit to about 500 members, considered these questions and decided to Bordeaux

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promote an Agenda for Urban Design which was presented at the International Union of Architects (UIA) congress in Brighton in 1987.

‘Urban Design has emerged as a discipline, primarily because it is able to consider the relationship between the physical form and function of adjacent sites… Urban design occupies the central ground between the recognised environmental professions and operates in the interstices between institutions. Urban Design is concerned with the careful stewardship of the resources of the built environment in the creation and maintenance of those parts of the public realm that are new or have become cherished’.

There was much more, but these few sentences give an idea of how farsighted the members of the group were.

The debate about the role of urban designers did not end there; the 4 agenda was revised in 1995 starting with:

‘Successful urban design nurtures the essence of the places where people live and work and it creates places that people can enjoy and which refresh the spirit. Urban design is concerned both with processes and the three-dimensional products of change, at scales from a group of buildings to a city centre or a metropolitan area’.

Later the agenda became a manifesto, which also evolved with the times; its latest version can be found on the UDG website, but the general spirit was established from the first agenda. It is worth remembering that much of the debate took place before the publication of Towards an Urban Renaissance (1999), the report of the Urban Task Force chaired by Lord Rogers, and well before 5 CABE had been invented that same year. Indeed these early years were when the government rejected anything that seemed to slow down development, however mediocre, and considered design an irrelevance. Soon, group members were attempting to widen its influence and to improve the situation in a wider context, starting with taking the lead in the establishment of the Urban Design Alliance (UDAL) in 1997 and the launch of the first Urban Design Week the next year. The objective was to try to break professional barriers and have all institutions involved in the creation and management of the built environment collaborating for the benefit of quality. The UDG was increasingly involved in a variety of governmental and non-governmental initiatives. It was influential in the naming of Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) – to 6 include the built environment and not just architecture – and later, members actively participated in the Urban Design Skills Working Group. Whilst the group did not have a direct role in education, it encouraged and influenced the development of urban design education, partly through having a number of academics amongst its members. In 1990 it ran an Urban Design Education Symposium in the Isle of Dogs sponsored by the LDDC; someone must have been listening! For a decade, an exhibition of student work was held every other year and an award given to the best schemes, sponsored by the Francis Tibbalds Trust. Later, under the direction of John Billingham, this evolved into the UDG’s larger awards scheme, the first to be dedicated specifically to urban design. Other 4 The UDG Conference at the organisations have followed but the UDG was first. Laban Centre, London 5 The UDG Conference in Oxford A large number of our members know the UDG mostly through 6 A panel discussion during the the journal, first called Urban Design Quarterly and since 2004 UDG Conference in Cambridge

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simply Urban Design. It started as a hand-produced newsletter at the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) and gradually developed under the aegis of Mike Galloway and John Billingham. By issue 20 it had a glossy cover and from issue 53 (January 1995) onwards it was designed by an art director and professionally produced. Regular re-designs or updates have followed and today it is a full-colour professional journal. Few if any voluntary organisations have managed to sustain such a publication for so many years with almost no resources, while increasing the quality and scope. Urban Design is unique in being a non-academic professional journal that covers a wide range of subjects related to urban design, not just in Britain but the rest of the world. Each issue has a special topic considered relevant to the profession or covering a geographical area from where lessons can be learned. The journal is now also available online and is an invaluable resource for students, researchers and professionals. There is not the space here to allow for an elaborate description of the UDG’s other achievements that may not be widely recognised: 7 the many other publications, study tours, informed responses to government publications, involvement and assistance to community groups (including the planning of Pereslav-Zalesski in 1991), and numerous evening lectures, conferences and seminars in London and the regions. Finally, this Directory, increasingly professional in each of its editions, is a useful snapshot of practice and student work, and of which the UDG and its members can be proud. All of this has been achieved with infinitesimal financial resources, but the voluntary efforts of many. To be able to continue being a pioneering organisation, the UDG needs more members to join and be willing to get involved, bringing new ideas, organising events, and spreading the word to the regions and internationally. ●

Sebastian Loew, Joint Editor of Urban Design journal 8

7 A workshop at the UDG Conference in Oxford 8 The UDG dinner during the study visit to Ljubljana 9 Sampling Plecnik’s civic designs in Ljubljana

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Louise Thomas reviews the recent survey of Urban Design Group practices

Given the state of economy in recent years, the Urban Design Group is keen to understand its membership better and to assess the health of urban design in the UK, starting with a survey of some of the practices featured in this Directory. With subsequent annual or bi-annual surveys, it will be interesting to see how urban design practice might change as the economy grows, or with the effect of neighbourhood planning, more challenges to greenfield areas, and the absence of a particularly strong design agenda from central government. Seven questions about urban design practice in 2013-4 were answered by 22 consultancies, ranging from practices with 500 or more employees (of all backgrounds) through to micro practices with just 1-2 urban designers.

THE MAKE-UP OF THE RESPONDING CONSULTANCIES From the small sample of 22 consultancies, four types of company were in evidence: URBAN DESIGN SERVICES • micro companies with 1-10 full time employees FTE – 12 respondents Masterplanning and designing schemes 50% • small companies with 11-50 FTE – 4 respondents Policy, guidance, statements, management and advice 29% • medium sized 50-250 FTE – 5 respondents, and Promoting place-making 15% • large enterprises 250+ FTE – 1 respondent. Infrastructure design 6% Whether in multi-disciplinary teams or smaller specialist firms also providing architecture, town planning, and landscape architecture services, most of the practices employed fewer than six urban on either the percentage of their total fees earned (%) on urban designers each. Other team specialisms included transport design commissions, or the annual total (£), for the period April planning, property surveying, ecology, landscape management, 2013-4. While some consultancies did not provide figures for their economic development, and project management. fee income from urban design activity alone, the majority did. The proportion of those employed as urban designers and In summary, the annual fee income generated per urban holding a formal qualification in urban design was noticeably designer (with qualifications or not) was generally higher in smaller in the larger consultancies, where 20% of staff members consultancies of 8 employees or more at typically £65,000-85,000 were employed as urban designers, but only half had a relevant per annum, potentially reflecting the greater overheads involved in qualification. (This was more pronounced in practices where larger practices, the types of commissions secured, and the range of architecture is the core business). Smaller companies presented a senior staff available. This was especially noticeable where 70% or different picture with 50% of urban designers employed also having more of a practice’s annual fees were earned from work for house- a formal qualification, rising to 100% in the micro consultancies. builders and developers. Half of the responding practices have UDG Recognised Where employee numbers were smaller, the average annual fee Practitioners in their teams. However obtaining this title seemed generated per urban designer reduced to £50,000-60,000 for those to reflect individuals’ interests rather than a company policy, as with a strong private sector portfolio. Below that, there was another the number of Recognised Practitioners employed did not equate annual fee threshold of £40,000 per urban designer for more public to the total urban design staff number or those with urban design sector, charitable or academic related work, and so the fee income qualifications, in any organisation. per head was less. Other factors likely to be influencing these figures More than half of the consultancies offered student placements are practices’ willingness to undertake pro bono work to open up or internships, ranging from 1 to 6 places, and with the company new fields of expertise (e.g. neighbourhood planning), or their size threshold for engaging a student lying at around 4 full time long-term retention on a project which may range from a conceptual employees. There were some exceptions where micro consultancies stage through to detailed technical design work, with varying skills had direct links with universities and as a result, offered a and fee levels involved. Clearly given the small sample size, these placement. Administrative and non-fee earning staff typically made conclusions can only be tentative. up 10% of staff in practices with at least 10 employees, and were It is interesting to reflect on the role that house builders and therefore less common in micro companies. developers play in underpinning urban design practice today, and The survey invited responses to the following questions based how these figures might have looked historically.

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IN WHICH SECTORS ARE URBAN DESIGNERS PROSPECTS AND FORECASTS FOR THE NEXT 3 YEARS WORKING? A very large proportion of the responding consultancies are involved Fewer projects or reduced range of work 0% in designing and promoting residential schemes, with more than More international public sector work 12% 40% of the fees earned by this sample group, rising to 75% of fees for some companies. More international private sector work 12% Retail and town centre commissions, and public realm design More UK public sector work 24% and transport planning feature as strong sectors (averaging 26% of urban design income), more so than commercial office and More UK private sector work 31% employment space schemes, (11%). Mixed use brownfield land Broadly similar 21% regeneration equates to around 25% of fee income, against 18% greenfield development in any sector. Other less dominant but consistent urban design sectors included coastal areas, tourism 0 10 20 30 40 and leisure, and health and social care, which generated 10-20% of fees for a third of the responding consultancies. For just five of the 22 consultancies, specialist knowledge in educational facilities or utilities provided around a quarter of their fee income. great optimism about work levels emerging in the UK for the private sector in particular, and slightly less for the UK public sector. Those WHAT MIX OF SERVICES ARE BEING PROVIDED? with existing international connections forecast more opportunities Fifty per cent of fees were earned on master planning, designing abroad for both public and private sector client bodies. smaller sites and schemes, and undertaking urban design studies and appraisals – the core activity of urban design. Around a third WHAT IS THE HEALTH OF URBAN DESIGN? of fees were earned preparing urban design policy, guidance and As this small, but possibly quite representative, survey of practices statements, managing urban design processes, and providing urban has revealed, urban design is alive and well. We are grateful to design advice (29%). Communicating design ideas in 2D or 3D, and all who took part in this first survey, and look forward to hearing promoting place-making in a range of contexts (e.g. consultation) from more practices in future editions. There are some interesting was a consistent theme for many (15%). Designing infrastructure points to consider looking at the information gathered so far – however, despite the strength of the public realm design market, about the client-consultant relationship, the future of public sector was not a key focus at just 6% on average. resources, whether future practice will be characterised by small scale collaborations or large agglomerations, and the profession’s WHO ARE THE CLIENTS? interests and priorities: House-builders and developers were the source of at least 50% of • Does urban design consultancy, by its business nature today, all fees earned by 75% of the practices which responded. This rose focus on more prosperous clients rather serving civic interests as to 75% of all fees for a small number of consultancies most directly it once might have done? Has urban design become a corporate involved in the private sector. For almost all, local authorities and target area rather than public issue? Is this the product of public other public sector bodies were the source of around 20% of their sector spending cuts and reduced planning policies? annual urban design fee income, with a few smaller practices almost • Given house builders’ and residential developers’ dominance in entirely focused on public sector work, while others undertook none urban design practice, to what degree is the profession leading at all. or following these clients? Should the UDG campaign to change Housing associations and trusts were clients for far fewer of the developers’ attitudes to urban design further and consequently consultancies; less than half of the practices worked for them, and shift the power of urban design? earned around 20% of their urban design fees from that source. • Should the Urban Design Group also campaign more actively for Similarly less than half of the responding practices were involved in greater resources and in-house expertise for local authorities to projects for universities, hospitals and other public sector charitable support better urban design? organisations, and this income for some represented a significant • Given the balance of fees earned from master planning in 40-50% of their urban design fees. comparison to infrastructure design (as represented here at least), does urban design sufficiently engage with civil WHERE IS THIS HAPPENING? engineering strategically and in the detail? Almost 75% of the responding practices earned their urban design • Will post-recession urban design practice be characterised by fees exclusively in the UK (95-100% here). China and the Far East this sample mix of large, medium, small and micro practices, represented a significant source of work for a very small number or as the development industry accelerates will practices of practices (50-70% of fees for two practices), but by contrast agglomerate further? Europe was valuable for smaller levels of involvement (a quarter of • Is there a difference in the professional interests and priorities the practices derived between 5-25% of their fees there). The Middle of the major multi-disciplinary consultancies, and the small to East, Africa, India and Australia represented 20% of fees in 2014 for micro practices? Will this become more evident as the economy four practices – ranging from micro to large in scale. grows?

WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS FOR THE NEXT 3 YEARS? Watch this space… ● On prospects for the coming three years, 2014-17, none of the consultancies forecast a reduced range of projects either in terms 1 The survey did not specify the role of the urban designer in practice, leaving it of the sources or the types of work, and in fact most anticipated open to practices to interpret the skills and knowledge involved. business to be broadly similar or better than in 2013-4. There was

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