National Urban Design Awards 2017
The Urban Design Group was delighted to announce the winners of the UK 2017 National Urban Design Awards at the Awards ceremony on 2 March 2017 in central London.
Practice Project
PRACTICE PROJECT WINNER
Knowledge Hub Masterplan, Birmingham
Node
PRACTICE PROJECT FINALISTS
Mulberry Park and Foxhill Estate Regeneration
HTA Design LLP
Regents Park Estate, Camden
Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design
Vaux Brewery, Sunderland
URBED
Public Sector
PUBLIC SECTOR WINNER
Connected Croydon
Croydon Borough Council
PUBLIC SECTOR FINALISTS
Plymouth City Centre and Waterfront Masterplans
Plymouth City Council
South Oxfordshire Design Guide
South Oxfordshire District Council
Swindon: Residential Design Guide
Swindon Borough Council
Student Project
WINNER
Charlton Riverside Masterplan
Brian Yuen, Douglas Lee, Cassie Tang, Wilson Wong (Bartlett School of Planning, UCL)
FINALISTS
Lanes You'll Love
Jo White (University of Strathclyde)
Athens: Landscape City
Lucy Fineberg (University of East London)
Lifetime Achievement Winner
Tim Pharoah
For his modest approach and persistent commitment, both as a town planner and transport planner, to the primacy of the pedestrian over vehicle movement and thus ensuring the important components of quality of life in the built environment are regarded.
Outstanding Contribution Winner
Alan Baxter
Founder of Alan Baxter Associates, for pioneering work in people focused design, including street design in Poundbury which created a practical precedent for others to follow, and in the encouragement of multi-disciplinary working both in the practice and in the shared workspace at 70 Cowcross Street that has become a hub for built environment practices and voluntary organisations.
Book Award
WINNER
Housing Cairo: The Informal Response
Eds Marc Angelil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, in collaboration with Something fantastic and CLUSTER
Ruby Press
FINALISTS
Human Ecology: How Nature and Culture Shape our World
Frederick Steiner
Island Press
Zoning Rules! The Economics of Land Use Regulation
William A Fischel
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Concurrent Urbanities: Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion
Ed Miodrag Mitrasinovic
Routledge
The Urban Climatic Map: A Methodology for Sustainable Urban Planning
Ed. Edward Ng and Chao Ren
Routledge
Infratecture, Infrastructure by Design
Marc Verheijen
nai010 Publishers
Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities
Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman
MIT Press
Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory
Charles Waldheim
Princeton University Press