URBAN DESIGN 155 Summer 2020

COVER

Picadilly Circus, London. Photograph by Sebastian Loew

UPDATE

3 — The Multi-level City
3 — Designing a City for all Londoners
4 — The National Design Guide Symposium
5 — My Favourite Plan: Graham Paul Smith
6 — Urban Design Library #34: Towards an Urban Renaissance, Final Report of the Urban Task Force chaired by  Lord Rogers of Riverside
7 — Climate Change Global Digest
8 — Behind the Image: Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires

DISSERTATION AND PROJECT RESEARCH

10 — Shrinking Cities: Interventions in Underused Public Spaces, Eva Aitsam

VIEWPOINT

12 — Perfecting Placemaking – The Importance of Great Design, Hugh Petter, Anthony McNamee and Charles Anderson

TOPIC: REFLECTIONS ON URBAN DESIGN

14 — Introduction, Sebastian Loew, topic editor
16 — The Eye of the Beholder, Geoff Noble
18 — Character Matters, Louise Thomas
21 — A Design Quality Unit for England – Marmite to Manna?, Matthew Carmona
23 — Town and Country Design Split?, Tim Hagyard
26 — Hedonistic Urbanism, Christopher Martin
28 — Urban Design and Climate Change, Judith Ryser
31 — Zero Waste Masterplanning, Jane Manning
34 — Urban Design in a Post-Pandemic World, Richard Crappsley
37 — From Civic to Eco Urban Design: Plus ça change…, Sebastian Loew

BOOK REVIEWS

40 — The Urban Block, A Guide for Urban Designers, Architects and Town Planners, Jonathan Tarbatt and Chloe Street Tarbatt
40 — Extreme Cities, The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, Ashley Dawson
41 — New Life in Public Squares, Marie Burns
41 — Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives, Clayton Strange

42 — PRACTICE INDEX

48 — EDUCATION INDEX

ENDPIECE

49 — Great Street Expectations, Joe Holyoak