urban design Urban Design Quarterly The Journal of the Urban Design Group Spring 2003 / Issue 86 Topic: Suburbia Viewpoints: Holistic Housing Re:Urbanism Research: Movement Corridors Case Study: Yorkshire Forward ISSN 0266-6480 2 Urban Design Quarterly / Spring 2003 / Issue 86 MAIN CONTRIBUTORS REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS UDAL Urban Design School Christine Carr Derek Abbott UDAL This event planned to be held in Urban morphologist and Lecturer in Architect and Planner involved in Birmingham over a three day the Department of Planning and consultancy, writing and teaching. period in April has been Landscape, University of NEWS postponed. It is now hoped to Manchester John Billingham organise it for the Autumn this year. Architect and Planner, formerly David Chapman, I Dickins, A Director of Design and Urban Design Week 2003 A Letchworth Centenary Dixon, Peter Larkham and Development at Milton Keynes This will be held from September Conference will be held on the Dick Pratt Development Corporation. 15th to 21st. The theme for the 24th and 25th October 2003 At the University of Central UDAL Conference has been with UDAL involvement. One England, Professor David Tim Catchpole proposed as the next generation possibility is to hold Placechecks Chapman is an architect, planner Associate Director of Halcrow in its of urban designers – Tomorrows on different types of space within and landscape architect,Ian Development Planning International People – a focus on people Letchworth. Dickins is a Principal Lecturer team. rather than places. sponsored by CENTRO, Andrew Prescott’s Programme Dixon is a Senior Lecturer in Richard Cole Newcastle/Gateshead could be a UDAL has welcomed the deputy Housing, Peter Larkham is an urban Architect and Planner, formerly possible location working in prime minister’s action programme geographer and Reader in Director of Planning and conjunction with the University. Sustainable Communities: Building Planning and Dick Pratt is a Senior Architecture at The Commission for for the Future because of the Lecturer with a background in New Towns. Government’s commitment to geography and sociology. Design Champions linking housing with regeneration, Rob Cowan Each RDA has been asked to transport and public services, and Martin Crookston Director of the Urban Design nominate Design Champions for to its recognition that good urban Urban economist and planner, and Group, head of the UDAL their area by April 2003. UDAL design is a key to making a director of Llewelyn-Davies, Secretariat and joint project will be investigating how successful places. responsible for the economic, manager of the Placechecks professional bodies can support environment, transport, tourism and Initiative. these champions and what UDAL’s UDAL welcomed the £41 million planning policy fields. role can be. The UDAL objective promised to drive up the quality of Peter Eley of setting up interdisciplinary skills and urban design as it has Roger Evans Architect in private practice events in the regions could consistently made the case for Architect, chartered town planner specialising in the re-use of dovetail with this initiative. urban design to be an essential and urban designer. buildings. element in the training of a wide Micro Initiatives range of professionals. Too many Wayne and Gerardine Bob Jarvis UDAL projects on micro decisions shaping the urban Hemingway Course Director for the initiatives carried out by small environment are made by people Fashion designers of the chain Red postgraduate planning programme self supporting groups such as working in isolation, who is Dead, following which their at South Bank University, London. Designing Streets for People understand little beyond their criticism of the volume housing can have a major impact in narrow specialisms about how to scene led to their being employed Sebastian Loew catalysing other actions. A make villages, towns and cities by Wimpey on a riverside site in Architect and Planner, writer and design manual on urban streets work for people. Gateshead. consultant, teaching at the may follow. The street Universities of Westminster and excellence model seems to be UDAL will work with the government Terry Schwarz Reading. gathering momentum as a in promoting collaboration between Senior Planner at the Kent State means of coordinating street professions, and in making the work University’s Urban Design Center of Jon Rowland management. of the specialists directly relevant to Northeast Ohio. Architect and Urban Designer, runs the lives of the people whose Jon Rowland Urban Design. Research Project environments they are shaping. Alan Simpson UDAL is examining possible topics Architect and Urbanist and Head Judith Ryser for a research study which could UDAL supports the Government’s of Urban Renaissance at Yorkshire Researcher, journalist and writer on look at a one stop shop for people intention to deliver its programme Forward. environmental and design issues. who commission urban design or at a regional level. It offers to help could examine the business case promote the essential collaboration John Worthington for urban design. between different professionals Founder of DEGW, an regionally to target action international design and planning Errata Skills effectively where it is most needed. consultancy concerned with the The review of the Liverpool Ideas being considered include: workplace and its urban context. Conference - Creating Successful 21st Century Cities which • Commissioning CPD courses appeared in UDQ 85 pages 6-7 across the professions was credited to Dr Rob UDAL web site: MacDonald. However the original • Foundation Courses in Urban www.udal.org.uk Websites text was prepared by Dr Rob Design for all environmental The Urban Design Group provides Urban Design Group Website: MacDonald, Dr Athanassiose courses the secretariat for UDAL. It can be www.udg.org.uk Migos and Professor Mads contacted by fax and phone on The Resource for Urban Design Gaardboe. The photos are the • Core resources in urban design 020 7251 5529 and by email on Information (RUDI): www.rudi.net copyright of Dr Athanassiose teaching [email protected] UDAL website: www.udal.org.uk Migos. Urban Design Quarterly / Spring 2003 / Issue 86 3 CONTENTS Enquiries and change of address: Cover Email [email protected] Newhall neighbourhood, Harlow, looking towards UDG Administrator: Grace Wheatley the neighbourhood centre. By Roger Evans Associates 70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ News and events Tel: 020 7250 0892/Fax: 020 7250 0872 Leader 4 Director’s Column UDG Director: Robert Cowan Tall Buildings Conference 5 Tel: 020 7250 0872 Urban Design and Regeneration in Hastings 6 Email: [email protected] Centralisation versus Dispersal 7 Re:Urbanism Chairman Alan Stones Walking Plan for London 8 Patrons Letters Alan Baxter Ann Petherick 9 Tom Bloxham Simon Rix Sir Terry Farrell Philip Stringer Nicky Gavron Dickon Robinson Viewpoints Les Sparks Holistic Housing, Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway 10 John Worthington Re:Urbanism, Part 2 13 UDG Regional Activities Topic Suburbia: A Challenge to Prejudice Regional convenors: Introduction, Richard Cole 15 16 Scotland Leslie Forsyth 0131 221 6175 Processes and Issues, Christine Carr 20 Northern Ireland Barrie Todd 01232 245587 Richard Rogers has a Plan for You, Martin Crookston 24 North Bill Tavernor 0191 222 6015 A View from the USA, Terry Schwarz 27 Yorks/Humber Lindsay Smales 0113 283 2600 Urbanism on the Edge, John Worthington 31 North West Chris Standish 01254 587272 Newhall, Harlow, Roger Evans West Midlands Peter Larkham 0121 331 5145 Research East Midlands Nigel Wakefield 0116 252 7262 Movement Corridors, Urban Form and Urban Design, South Richard Crutchley 01793 466 476 D Chapman, I Dickins, A Dixon, P Larkham and D Pratt 36 South Wales Sam Romaya 02920 701150 East Anglia Elizabeth Moon 01245 437646 Case Study Towards Urban Renaissance, Alan Simpson 38 Editorial Board Book Reviews Derek Abbott Reinventing the Skyscraper, Ken Yeang 40 John Billingham Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment, LI & IEMA Matthew Carmona Planning for a Sustainable Future, A Layard, S Davoudi & S Batty 41 Tim Catchpole After the World Trade Center, M Sorkin & S Zukin Richard Cole Great City Parks, Alan Tate 42 Peter Eley Greyfields into Goldfields, S Sobel, E Greenberg & S Bodzin Bob Jarvis Working Capital, Life and Labour in Contemporary London, 43 Sebastian Loew N Buck, I Gordon, P Hall, M Harloe and M Kleinman Tony Lloyd-Jones Judith Ryser Practice Index 44 Education Index 51 Editors: John Billingham and Sebastian Loew Endpiece Wandering, Bob Jarvis 51 Editor for this issue: John Billingham Back cover Diary Topic Editor: Richard Cole Future issues Book reviews Tim Catchpole 87 Healthy Cities 56 Gilpin Ave, London SW14 8QY 88 25th Anniversary Issue Design consultant Simon Head Current subscriptions: The Quarterly is free to Urban Design Group members who also receive newsletters and the biennial Source Book at the time of printing. 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Urban designers have never been in greater demand, yet many The answer is that it depends on Communities? young professionals are finding it the person and the circumstances. difficult to get the sort of job they There are roles for every sort of The government’s “Sustainable Communities” want.