URBAN DESIGN 139 Summer 2016

This issue has been generously sponsored by Barton Willmore Partnership

COVER

London Skyline, Photograph by Sebastian Loew

UPDATE              

3 — Building Better Places
3 — Latin America
4 — Delivering Housing for London
5 — The Place Alliance Big Midlands Meet
5 — The Big Meet 5
6 — Milan and Turin UDG Study Tour
8 — My Favourite Plan: Philadelphia Plan, 1683 | Mike Galloway
9 — The Urban Design Library #18 | The Geography of Nowhere, The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-made Landscape  James Howard Kunstler

VIEWPOINTS

10 — A House Builder’s Perspective | Nick Rogers

TOPIC: TALL BUILDINGS

14 — From Guidance to Action | Ziona Strelitz
18 — London’s Latest Tall Stories | Tim Catchpole
20 — Whither London’s Skyline? | David Mathewson
23 — Seeing Capitalism in the View | Gunter Gassner
26 — The Impact of Transport Oriented Development | Chris Williamson
28 — Dublin’s New Tall Buildings | Michael Short
30 — An Imagined Urban Environment | Charlotte Nyholm
33 — From Void-Deck to Skygarden | Philip Oldfield

The National Urban Design Awards 2016

36 — Urban Design Awards
38 — Urban Design Awards Student Award
Winner 2016, A New Laurieston by Sama Jabr

BOOK REVIEWS

40 — Towns and Cities: Function in Form - Urban Structures, Economics and Society  Julian Hart
40 — 101 Rules of Thumb, For Sustainable Buildings and Cities  Huw Heywood
41 — How to Save our Town Centres: A Radical Agenda for the Future of the High Streets  Julian Dobson
41 — Smart About Cities: Visualising the Challenge for 21st Century Urbanism  Maarten Hajer and Ton Dassen

42 — PRACTICE INDEX

47 — EDUCATION INDEX

ENDPIECE

49 — Street view | Joe Holyoak