URBAN DESIGN 129 Winter 2014

This issue has been generously sponsored by Tibbals Planning and Urban Design

Update

• Urban Design Interview: Eithne Moran 4
• The Urban Design Library #10 5
• The Pursuit of Growth: The Role of Urban Design, National Conference on Urban Design 6

Viewpoint

• Better streets for walking are better for businesses - Tim Long 8
• Changing places, changing spaces - Katja Stille 10
• Walking around Britain, Tim Hagyard 12

Topic: Market Towns

• Introduction - Jane Manning 14
• Market Towns: Moving to the Future - Jamie Veitch 15
• Innovation and Inspiration - Jamie Veitch 18
• The First Cittaslow in Wales - Niall Waller 21
• Transforming Markets into Market Places - David K. O’Neil 25
• Casablanca: A New Sustainable Market Square - Tom Van Odijk 28
• Slow Towns and Smarter Growth - Nicholas Falk 31
• New Market Towns, James Gross and Dominic Scott 34

Francis Tibbalds Award Public Sector Shortlisted Projects

• Short Blue Place - Barking Borough Council 38
• Know Your Place - Bristol City Council’s City Design Group (CDG) 40
• A Joint Approach to Residential Design Guidelines - Four North Midlands Councils 42
• Porth Eirias - Conwy County Borough Council 44

Book Reviews

• Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability - Donia Zhang 46
• Good Urbanism: Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places - Nan Ellin 46
• Designing to Heal - Jenny Donovan 46
• The Agile City: Building Well-Being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change - James S Russell 47
• Green Cities of Europe: Global Lessons on Green Urbanism - Timothy Beatley (ed) 48
• Cities are Good for you: The Genius of the Metropolis - Leo Hollis 48
• Urban Ecological Design - Danilo Palazzo and Frederick Steiner 49
• The Radicals’ City: Urban Environment, Polarisation, Cohesion - Ralf Brand and Sara Fregonese 49

Endpiece

Velocity* - Joe Holyoak 57

This is another stimulating issue which no urban design professional should be without.

URBAN DESIGN is the leading journal in its field; it is posted automatically to members of the Urban Design Group, a good reason to join the group today. Each issue provides in-depth analysis of topical themes, with contributions from leading practitioners, policymakers and academics from the UK and abroad. Its 48 pages offer a mix of articles, short reports and listings that reflect the diversity of urban design today.