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Urban Designer Urban Green North West	Senior / Associate Urban Designer Savills Urban Design Studio London and South East	Associate Director / Director Savills Urban Design Studio London and South East
Urban Designers / Masterplanners Planned Resources International Urban Design Organisations	Urban Designer / Senior Urban Designer LHC Design South West	Design Champion and Specialist Services Manager East Suffolk Council London and South East

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From Broad Street to Broad Meadow, Oxford Behind the Image by Alice Raggett, Lionel Eid, George Garofalakis, Elizabeth Lancaster, Imogen Blaikie and Laura-Dodds Hebron	My Favourite Plan, Berlin Planwerk Innenstadt, 1999 My Favourite Plan by Mike Biddulph	Climate Change Global Digest Winter 2022 Climate Change Global Digest by Jane Manning with Joanna Wright, Mitch Cooke and Julie Futcher
Barber sets out his stall on the street Endpiece by Joe Holyoak	Urban Design Summit at COP26 UDG Event Review by Sebastian Loew, with assistance from Malcolm Moor and Tim Hagyard	ideasSPACE with Wei Yang, 2021 President of the RTPI ideasSPACE by in conversation with Christopher Martin

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January 2022

Urban Update

How to Make People Friendly Places: new guide from the UDG | news + research | career opportunities

December 2021

UDG's December round up

Our monthly round up of events, initiatives and other UDG activities and resources

December 2021

Announcing UDG's Exec Committee for 2022

At the Urban Design Group's AGM on Tuesday 14 December we warmly welcomed a couple of new faces to the Executive Committee to join the familiar and long standing. Thank you to those who put themselves forward and we look forward to the year ahead!

Latest Journal Issues (View All)

URBAN DESIGN 161 Winter 2022

SCANDANAVIA AND THE NORDIC REGION

URBAN DESIGN 160 Autumn 2021

FUTURE NEIGHBOURHOODS

URBAN DESIGN 159 Summer 2021

THE NORTHERN POWERHOUSE

About the Urban Design Group

Founded in 1978, the Urban Design Group (UDG) is a campaigning membership organisation with over 1000 members who care about the quality of life in our cities, towns and villages, and believe that raising standards of urban design is central to its improvement.

The UDG website contains a wealth of information for anyone interested in urban design including details of urban design practices, university courses, publications and job vacancies, as well as future urban design events. Our regular email newsletter Urban Update is a one-stop-shop for urban design news, articles and blog posts.