URBAN DESIGN 125 Winter 2013

CONTENTS

Cover

Mile End Road, London - Photograph by Claudia Schenk

Update

• Design Council Cabe – Championing a new strategic direction for Design Review 3
• The Value of Urban Design 4
• The Urban Design Library #7 6
• The Urban Design Interview: Colin James 7
• Some Reflections: John Billingham 8
• UDG Forthcoming Study Tour: Conquistador Towns 9

Topic: Mixed Streets

• Introduction: Matthew Carmona 10
• Multiple Centrality Assessment - Sergio Porta et al 12
• Complete Streets: More Than a New Design - Barbara McCann 14
• A Suburb is not a Tree - Laura Vaughan & Sam Griffiths 17
• Design A Good Street and You Design a Good City - Rob Adams 20
• Liveable Arterials in Auckland City - Ian Munro & Ross Rutherford 23
• Re-Thinking Berlin’s Radial Streets - Cordelia Polinna 26
• Reshaping the American Commercial Strip - Karen L. Gulley 29
• Bradford: Complex Streets, Complex Societies - Ali Baig & Myfanwy Trueman 32
• High Street 2012: Celebrating a Great London High Street, Tunde Awofolaju & Paul Harper 35

Francis Tibbalds Award Public Sector Shortlisted Projects

• Town Centre Urban Design Guide, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council 38
• Reviving the Market Place, Kettering Borough Council 40
• City Park, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council 42
• Listening to Youth Voices, The Partnership of South Hampshire 44
• Chain Street Goitside Urban Design Framework, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council 46
• Place-Making Guide, South Norfolk Council 48

Practice Index 50

Education Index 56

Endpiece

Sainsbury’s Global - Joe Holyoak 57

URBAN DESIGN is the leading journal in its field. Each issue provides in-depth analysis of topical themes, with contributions from leading practitioners, policymakers and academics from the UK and abroad. This issue offers a mix of articles, short reports and listings that reflect the diversity of urban design today. This is a journal that no urban design professional or student should be without.