Urban Design Quarterly The Journal of the Urban Design Group ** Issue 59 July 1996 Topic: Books on Urban Design Practice Profiles: David Lock Associates Urban Design Futures ISSN 0266-6480 HOMELESS POLICIES, STRATEGIES AND LIVES STRANGELY FAMILIAR NARRATIVES OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE CITY ON THE STREETS THE CITY READER Gerald Daly Edited by lain Borden, Joe Kerr; Alicia Pivaro and Jane Rendell Edited by Richard LeGates 'Homelessness reflects a failed housing and Frederic Stout system. This book makes historical and Urban living - the ways we use and 'This is the definitively complete reader international comparisons of responses inhabit places and the way our lives are on urban problems and policies, to homelessness, while their crisis is shaped by those places - is illuminated spanning urban development from the considered short-term. Britain's more in the series of provocative views ancient Greeks to the Internet, ranging refined set of housing presented here. Strangely Familiar is a across the contributory rights is under threat, book about the unexpected, about the disciplines and comparing as New Right ideology vitality and complexity of the everyday. experiences in different increasingly defines From the curious to the popular, from continents and countries. It social policy. Daly the virtuous to the terrifying, the will immediately become a concludes that architectures of modern life are here basic text for any course in permanent, affordable laid bare. Urban Studies and Urban housing must be 1995:96pp every page fully illustrated Planning. Both teachers and building block of any Pb: 0-415-14418-3: £10.99 students will celebrate its solution to publication.' - Peter Hall, homelessness. Shelter URBAN PLANNING University College, London agrees.' - Hannah IN EUROPE March 1996: 544pp Moore, Shelter INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, NATIONAL Hb: 0-415-11900-6: £50.00 August 1996:312pp SYSTEMS AND PLANNING PROJECTS Pb: 0-415-11901-4: £16.99 Hb: 0-415-12028-4: £45.00 Pb: 0-415-12029-2: £14.99 Peter Newman and Andy Thornley Urban Planning in Europe is the first CONSERVATION AND book to analyse comprehensively the THE CITY THE NEW URBAN FRONTIER influences on urban planning in Europe. Peter Larkham GENTRIFICATION AND THE REVANCHIST CITY Urban Planning is undergoing a period Conservation and the City is a study of Neil Smith of transformation across Europe and the conservation and change throughout New Urban Frontier challenges book identifies the international, the built environment - city centres, conventional wisdom - which holds national and local forces causing this suburbs and even tiny villages - and gentrification to be the simple outcome change. It encompasses all countries in how the activities of conservation of the new middle class tastes and a western and eastern Europe, providing interact with the planning system. Using demand for urban living - to reveal a comprehensive guide to the planning detailed case studies from Britain and gentrification as part of a much larger systems of each country. in the Westernised world, the author shift in the political economy and culture August 1996:304pp examines some of the key social, of the late twentieth century. 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A full listing of Hb: 0-415-13769-1: £47.50 Pb: 0-415-13770-5: £15.99 Routledge titles is available on the Internet by accessing http://www.routledge.com/routledge/html Urban Design Group Contents Enquiries and change of address: Cover 6 Ashbrook Courtyard, Westbrook Street, Blewbury, Nolli's Plan of Rome used extensively in Urban Design texts Oxon 0X11 9QH News & Events Tel: 01235-851415 Fax: 01235-851410 Millennium Strategies 4 Regional News City Lights Chairman Jon Rowland Safe but Civilised 5 Landscape and Urban Quality Patrons Strangely Familiar Conference 6 Alan Baxter The Integrated Metropolis Symposium 7 Honor Chapman Huddersfield Competition 8 Sir Philip Dowson South Bank Workshop 9 Terry Farrell Annual General Meeting 10 Peter Hall Viewpoints Simon Jenkins The New Village 12 Jane Priestman John Brouwer John Worthington Rural Settlements: A Scottish Perspective UDG Regional Activities John Moir and David Rice 15 Regional convenors: Scotland Mike Galloway 0141-429 8956 Topic / Books on Urban Design North Alan Simpson 0191-281 6981 Yorks/Humber David Black 01482-612352 Introduction 18 North West Andy Farrall 01244-402213 Bob Jarvis East Midlands Steve Tiesdell 0115-951 4874 American Neo-Traditionalism and Suburban Design 19 John Punter West Midlands John Peverley 0121-354 4081 • Roger Evans-A City is Not a Tree 22 South Wales Sam Romaya 01222-874000 An Urban Design Canon 23 South West Andy Gibbins 01179-222964 Tony Lloyd-Jones and Marion Roberts East Anglia Alan Stones 01245-437642 • Derek Abbott - Cities in Evolution 25 South East Roger Evans 01869-350096 Must Objectivity be Dull 25 Chris Smith Editorial Board • Tim Catchpole - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 27 Derek Abbott Ian Nairn: The Missing Art of Townscape 27 John Billingham Graham King Kelvin Campbell • Sebastian Loew - The Planning of a New Town 29 Architecture on the Bookstalls 29 Tim Catchpole Giles Worsley Roger Evans • Marion Roberts-The Country and the City 31 Bob Jarvis The Comix World of Mister X 31 Tony Lloyd-Jones Michael Crilly Francesca Morrison • Alan Simpson - Urban Design in Action 33 Marion Roberts Dealing with Texts 34 Judith Ryser Peter Inch Alan Simpson Tailpiece 35 Bob Jarvis Editor John Billingham Details of Contributors to this issue 35 Book Reviews Reviews by Helen Webster and Peter Howard, Derek Abbott, 36 Book reviews Tim Catchpole Tony Lloyd-Jones, Annabel Downs, Jon Rowland and John Billingham 56 Gilpin Ave, London SW14 8QY 0181 878 0594 Practice Profiles David Lock Associates 40 Art direction Simon Head Urban Design Futures 42 Print production Constable Printing Practice and Education Index 44 Endpiece 47 ©Urban Design Group Songs About Towns ISSN 0266 6480 Joe Holyoak Material for publication: This should be addressed to Back Cover The Editor, 26 Park Road, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 1DS. 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News and Events Daniel Libeskind's competition entry for Northern Region MA in Urban Environmental Design the V&A extension has drawn many The Urban Design Group is joining with the RTPI Northern At Leeds Metropolitan University D comments both favourable and critical - Branch in promoting and a new Urban Environmental staging a Seminar entitled Design course is planned for (D favourable in terms of an exciting result 'Building in Quality'. September 1996. The focus of the course is on the creation of from what was intended to be merely the This will be held at Gateshead sustainable urban environments Civic Centre on Wednesday 25 through interdisciplinary design. selection of an architect and critical in September and the charge will be £80 per delegate with The programme may be studied terms of its setting. bookings made to Kay Lough at either full-time over one year or the RTPI office on 0191 222 part-time over two years.