URBAN DESIGN 116 Autumn 2010
News and Events
Trees and Climate Change 3
Suburbs 3
UDG in the North-East 4
StreetLondon Walk 4
Urban Design Group’s AGM 5
UDG Study Tour 6
CABE page 8
The Urban Design Interview: Rochelle Friend 9
Viewpoints
Segregated suburban Post-War estates,Jasdeep Bhalla 10
Topic: Olympic Legacies
Introduction, Liezel Kruger 12
Olympic Games Timeline 13
Placemaking and Legacy in the 2012 Olympic Park, Pat Willoughby 14
Olympic Gardens: A Green legacy of the Games, Hanwen Liao 17
Learning from Vancouver, Anne Stevenson 19
Beijing Olympics, Jun Huang 21
The Legacy of the Berlin 1936 Olympics, Neil Corteen 24
Cape Town 2004, Peter de Tolly 27
Anatomy of Mega-Projects, Judith Ryser 29
Measuring the Legacies, Peter Vlachos 31
Francis Tibbalds Award
Short Listed Projects
Main Town Square Caernarfon,Taylor Young Ltd. 32
Oxford Circus improvements, Atkins 34
Firepool, Taunton, NEW Masterplanning 36
Publishers Award
Book Reviews
Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environment, Cliff Moughtin, Kate McMahon and Paola Signoretta 38
Smartcities + Eco-warriors, CJ Lim and Ed Lui 38
Designing High-Density Cities for Social and Environmental Sustainability, Edward Ng (ed.) 39
The Urban Housing Handbook, Eric Firley and Caroline Stahl 39
Liverpool: Shaping the City, Stephen Bayley & Paul McMullin 40
Grand Urban Rules, Alex Lehnerer 40
Great Public Squares An Architect’s Selection, Robert F. Gatje 41
Making Better Places: The Planning Project in the Twenty-First Century, Patsy Healey 41
Practice Index 42
Education Index 49
Endpiece
Grid references, Joe Holyoak 49