Urban Design 99 - Summer 2006

Growth Areas

Publication Date: 01 July 2006

 

NEWS AND EVENTS

The 24-hour City 3

Design Codes 3

Design Review Panels 4

Jane Jacobs 4

Study Tour: The Valley of the Baroque 5

Study Tour: Squares in Montpellier 6

Study Tour: Holland and Germany 7

Nordic Urban Design Association 7

Letters 8

Princes’s Foundation 9 CABE Page 10

Young Urban Designers 11

 

VIEWPOINTS

Achieving a Sustainable Consensus, Jane Elliott 12

Habitat Imaginari, James Hennessey 14

 

INTERNATIONAL

Out-of-Scale: Rapid Development in China, Marc Furnival 16

 

TOPIC: GROWTH AREAS

Introduction, Karl Kropf and Alex Cochrane 16

Towards a Galactic Metropolis, Alastair Donald 17

The Lost Model of Urban Planning, Silvia Lazzerini 20

North Northamptonshire: Designing the Regional City, Joanna Cave 23

Design and Distinctiveness in the Cambridge Growth Area, Peter Studdert 26

Ashford at the Crossroads, Marcus Wilshere 29

Cars: the Mode of Choice in the Growth Areas, Tim Pharoah 32

 

CASE STUDIES

Totnes Southern Area Master Plan, Colin Richards 34

Action Area for Regeneration in Portsmouth, Peter Frankum 36

 

BOOK REVIEWS

The Code of the City, Eran Ben-Joseph 38

Making Cities Work, George Hazel and Roger Parry 38

Courtyard Housing, Brian Edwards, et al (eds) 39

Unbuilding Cities, Anique Hommels 39

 

PRACTICE INDEX 42

 

CORPORATE INDEX 48

 

EDUCATION INDEX 49