URBAN UPDATE
16th July 2015
Main news
from the Urban Design Group
Jobs – Bournemouth, London, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Hertfordshire, Kent
The City as Master Developer – Urban Design edition 135
Tall buildings and protected views
UK scraps 2016 zero carbon homes target
Housing Design Award winners 2016
Gardening: Floral 'food' lifts a city's mood
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Forthcoming UDG Events
Weather in the City - How
design shapes the Urban
Climate
Monday 20 July – The Gallery,
Cowcross Street London 6.20
The launch of a book by Sanda
Lenzholzer which brings an
understanding of wind, sun, heat
and air movements within the reach of any built
environment professional.
Introduced by Professor Michael Hebbert with
additional contributions from
Paula Cadima & Robert Huxford
Copies of the book will be on sale for £20 at the event
– RRP £26
Standard UDG low admission charges apply
See also…
http://www.udg.org.uk/udupdate/news/urban-update-16-July-2015
What software should
students learn ?
Last call for the online survey
The National Conference
on Urban Design 2015
Bristol 8-9-10 October
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5WFZD3F
Results so far
Essential…
*Desk Top Publishing package
*General graphics tools raster/vector rendering Adobe Illustrator most used
Important
*Urban Design Conceptual Masterplanning: CityCAD
*2D - AutoCAD
*3D – Sketchup, followed by Autodesk 3D Max
*Mapping - Google earth pro, Promap, Arcview, QGIS
*Photo editing package
Packages to learn on the job
*BIM – Revit, followed by AutoCAD Civil 3D
*Specialised CAD systems
This year’s conference is takes place in Bristol, one of the
UK’s most vibrant and successful cities. It is also one of
the UK’s leading experiments in civic leadership and
governance, with George Ferguson as mayor.
The conference theme looks at town, cities and
development in the 21st century and how better design
quality can achieve health, wellbeing and prosperity while
reducing costs to the public purse; and yet still make a
profit.
We hope to see you in Bristol!
Details available later in July.
The problem with the skyscraper wind effect
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33426889
Shape of the Walkie Talkie creates a wind hazard
http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/walkie-talkie-aka-walkie-scorchie-now-walkie-windy.html
URBAN DESIGN 135 The City as Master Developer
Eminent planning practitioners from Continental Europe and the UK question the dominant role in UK planning of
controlling rather than that of impresario making good things happen.
Peter Bishop argues planning is about leadership prepared to assume the role of impresario, and then earn the right
to hold the ring.
Peter Studdert reflects on his experience at Cambridge highlighting the weaknesses as well as the strengths of the
UK delivery model for accommodating growth. “It expects local authorities to operate largely as regulators of a
dysfunctional market rather than active partners with the private sector”.
The Continental contributions drawn from Dublin, Utrecht, Berlin and Malmo highlight the greater autonomy of
European cities, arising from their different legal structure, greater opportunity to raise money and strong emphasis
on community, collaboration and equality.
John Worthington and Rosalie Callway the guest editors in summing up suggest developing the city involves in
collaboration the State, City and Civic Society. The State providing the infrastructure for cities and their citizens to
thrive and the certainty to make decisions in a timely manner. Cities providing a long term vision, leadership and
facilitation, to support the success of their citizens, and seeking sustainable and equitable outcomes for all. Civil
society contributing to the ambitions of the city, through social and economic enterprises, stimulating resilience,
prosperity and global competitiveness and innovation.
Urban Design is available through UDG membership subscription. Individual copies can be purchased, please see
the website for details.
Other events
New Lectures
on UrbanNous
The number of events is on the wane as we approach
the holiday period, but there are still events to go to for
those that seek them…
Urbanism: Improving quality and value
The importance of product, land and money
Yolande Barnes - Savills
Festival of British Archaeology
Garden Cities Past and Present.
Potential morphologies explored.
Dominic Papa S333 Architecture and Urbanism
There are many events across the UK to go to,
including walks, talks and site visits. It is an excellent
way to understand more about how society operates
http://www.urbannous.org.uk/urbanism-quality-and-value.htm
http://www.urbannous.org.uk/garden-city-morphologies.htm
PROJECT OF THE WEEK
Barking Riverside
Sheppard Robson
as a system, and the position towns and cities occupy
within it.
http://www.archaeologyfestival.org.uk/whatson
Garden Cities: Is there a Business Case?
Jim Coleman, Buro Happold
http://www.urbannous.org.uk/garden-city-economics.htm
Academy of Urbanism
Event / Mid-Year Review and Reception
22nd July – London
Health and Urban Design
Lucy Coleman, GLA, TFL
http://www.urbannous.org.uk/health-and-urban-design.htm
http://www.academyofurbanism.org.uk/events/mid-year-review-and-reception/
Member only event
UrbanNous Catalogue available on-line
BOBMK Events
Go to the home page and move your cursor to where
it says “Hover here to bring ideas to life”
http://bobmk.org.uk/our-programme/
Next events autumn
MADE
http://www.made.org.uk/events/calendar/
Highlights include Christopher Alexander,
George Ferguson, Hans Monderman and scores
of others.
www.urbannous.org.uk
Museum of Walking
KingsXLost
Thursday, 23 July 2015 from 18:30 to 20:30 (BST)
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kingsxlost-tickets-17210924338
PTRC
https://www.ptrc-training.co.uk/Training/UpcomingCourses.aspx
An Introduction to Highway Design & Construction
Jobs
Urban Designer/Masterplanner - EDP
Gloucestershire
http://www.udg.org.uk/jobs/south-west/urban-designermasterplanner-edp
Urban Design Officers (x2) Royal Borough of
Kingston upon Thames
London
http://www.udg.org.uk/jobs/urban-design-officers-x2-royal-borough-kingston-upon-thames
The Principles of Traffic and Transport 20-Week
Evening Lecture Series, London and Bristol
Urban Designer / Master Planner – Terence
O’Rourke - Bournemouth
Bournemouth
http://www.udg.org.uk/jobs/urban-designer-master-planner-%E2%80%93-terence-o%E2%80%99rourkebournemouth
Urban Design London
Events coming up – extensive programme some free,
some charged/£175+VAT (Free for subscribers)
Senior Urban Designer - Cambridge City Council
Cambridge
http://www.urbandesignlondon.com/?page_id=3251
http://www.udg.org.uk/jobs/east-anglia/senior-urban-designer-cambridge-city-council
Network Meeting: How can Innovation help us?
Tuesday 21st of July 2015, 9.45am to 16:30pm
Planner/Urban Designer - JB Planning Associates
- Hertfordshire
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Heritage Skills: New Technology in Historic Places
22nd of July
http://www.udg.org.uk/jobs/london-and-south-east/plannerurban-designer-jb-planning-associateshertfordshire
Urban Designer/Senior Urban Designer - Pegasus
At 140 hectares, Barking Riverside is the UK’s largest
residential regeneration scheme. The masterplan includes
two distinct areas separated by a central linear park. There
are SUDs, cycle routes, a designated bus route and play
areas. To encourage the formation of a community there
are communal orchards, gardens and semi-private spaces
are designed to encourage people to actively care for their
neighbourhood.
More on…
http://www.urbandesigndirectory.com/projects/aytoun-street-holiday-inn-manchester
Where do you read Urban
Design? Photo competition
The Urban Design Group will award two prizes to the best
photographs taken during this Summer and submitted
before 5th September 2015. The idea is to show interesting
or original places in which members have read the journal.
The competition is open to individual UDG members and
the photograph (only one per member) should be submitted
as a jpg at 300dpi for a minimum size of 190mm width, with
your name, and the location of the photograph . The author
of the best photograph, to be chosen by the Editors, will be
Event Calendar
Group - Bristol
Equinox North, Great Park Road, Almondsbury,
Bristol
http://www.kentdesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Event-Calendar-2015-16-edited-14.4.15.pdf
http://www.udg.org.uk/jobs/south-west/urban-designersenior-urban-designer-pegasus-group-bristol
Design South East / Kent Design
http://www.kentdesign.org/events/
Housing Led Urban Design Summer School:
Designing the 21st Century Garden City
Friday 10 July until Saturday 11 July 2015
Chartered Landscape Architect | Traffic Engineer Urban Movement
London
http://www.udg.org.uk/jobs/london-and-south-east/chartered-landscape-architect-traffic-engineer-urbanmovement
Architecture and Design Scotland
http://www.ads.org.uk/events
MADE seeks your support to turn
flood defences into a work of art
http://www.made.org.uk/news/view/help_us_turn_flood_defences_into_works_of_art/
given a year's free subscription to the journal; the runner-up
will be sent a recent book about urban design and invited to
review it for the journal. Both photographs will be
published in the journal and online on the UDG website.
Deadline 5th September - email your entry to
Administration@udg.org.uk
Urban Design around the World
Latest Research, Policy and Practice
Australia
In the tabloids
Ken Maher on cities – they matter to our future, why not the pollies?
http://www.thefifthestate.com.au/politics/cities-matter-to-australias-future-why-dont-our-federal-politicians-get-it/75564
Looks like an “industrial wartime bunker”
–The Architectural Review’s best new home
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3162120/Oxfordshire-s-Fayland-House-named-best-house-world-Architectural-Review.html
Canada
How a dead raccoon touched the heart of a city
Built Environment
http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/how-dead-raccoon-touched-heart-city.html
Shipping container homes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3158198/Detroit-shipping-container-home-built-just-SIX-HOURS.html
http://www.interiordesign.net/articles/detail/35853-eric-lloyd-wright-joins-three-squared-as-lead-architect/
India
SURE - Specifications for Urban Road Extension – wider pavements that could
transform Bangalore
Developer compliance with planning permission monitored by residents using
drone
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/greenpolitics/planning/11736149/Spy-drone-caught-builders-working-without-planning-permission.html
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jul/15/bangalore-new-pavement-road-design-walkable-traffic-pedestrian
Tall buildings and protected views – A new policy in Oxford
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jul/14/how-protected-views-shaping-cities-heritage-development
New Zealand
Oxford has been criticised in recent years for the Castle Mill development described by
former planning minister Nick Boles as “some of the worst he had seen”.
Public gets no say over SkyCity Convention Centre consents
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2935515/Campaigners-demand-floors-new-build-blocks-flats-Oxford-sliced-end-blight-dreaming-spires-cost-30m.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/70122017/public-gets-no-say-over-skycity-convention-centre-consents
Thailand
Growing public doubts beset promenade project
Humans Health Society
Gardening: Floral 'food' lifts a city's mood
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11479416
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/620796/growing-public-doubts-beset-promenade-project
UK
Housing Design Awards
Supreme winner – Parkside Matlock - Evans Vettori Architects - Barncroft Homes
http://www.hdawards.org/archive/2015/winning_schemes/supreme_winner/
Website
http://www.hdawards.org/
UK scraps 2016 zero carbon homes target
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/10/uk-scraps-zero-carbon-home-target
Time spent on smartphone and GPS location sensor data detect depression
The more time people spend on their phones, the more likely they are to be more
depressed; spending lots of time at home was linked to depression
http://time.com/3958128/smartphone-depression/
Physical fitness in US youth assessed: NFL PLAY 60 FITNESSGRAM shows more
activity needed
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/ehs-pfi071315.php
Weight-lifting and jumping exercises improved bone density, could decrease
osteoporosis risk
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150714150936.htm
USA
How Much Rain Would End The Drought In North America?
Obesity-related behaviors increase when school's out
http://www.sciencenewsline.com/articles/2015071417030007.html
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/07/how-much-rain-would-end-the-drought-in-north-america/
Training boys to recognise another’s fear reduces violent crime
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27872-training-boys-to-recognise-anothers-fear-reduces-violent-crime/
Aging in Community: Local leaders envision the future of growing older
http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/21501-aging-in-community/
How Black Vernacular Architecture is Changing Museums
http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/07/how-black-vernacular-architecture-is-changing-museums/398111/
A tale of two design documents in Kansas City
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/steve-paul/article26970676.html
One man’s trash is another man’s tourist destination in New York
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/11/us-usa-trash-tourism-idUKKCN0PK1B120150711
Politics, Philosophy, Economics
Islington Council to publish developers’ viability assessments and supporting
calculations in move to increase proportion of affordable homes
“all viability evidence must be robustly justified and appraisal assumptions should be
benchmarked against publicly available data sources”……“supporting evidence from
applicants and lenders to justify proposed rates of profit”.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/14/councils-publish-developers-murky-viability-claims-increase-cheap-homes
Movement
The UK has a particular problem with the destabilising boom-crash property price
cycle which adds to the uncertainty over the returns from development
Rotterdam to trial roads made from plastic bottles – box section provides
space for utilities
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/rotterdam-may-be-first-city-to-build-roads-from-plastic-bottles-10382588.html
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