URBAN DESIGN 159 Summer 2021

This issue has been kindly sponsored by Tetra Tech

We are grateful to the following who have provided the additional financial support to enable production of this extended issue: TOWN, Colin Haylock, Civic Engineers, AECOM, Optimised Environments, Graham Marshall, Planit-IE and Stephen Gleave

COVER

Commercial Wharf, Manchester. Photograph by Carl Thompson

UPDATE

3 — National Model Design Code, Part 1 and 2
4 — Future Work Webinar
4 — Water and The City Webinar
5 — My Favourite Plan: County of London Plan by J H Forshaw and Patrick Abercrombie | Dick Cole
6 — Urban Design Library #38 | Design of Cities  Edmund Bacon
7 — Climate Change Global Digest
8 — Behind the Image: Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, Hackney, London

VIEWPOINT

10 — Housing Delivery at the Expense of Urban Design | Tim Catchpole

DISSERTATION AND PROJECT RESEARCH

12 — Local New Urbanism in Colombia | Gonzalo Sanchez
14 — Germi-Nation: A New Urban Movement | Astrid Guthier

TOPIC: DESIGN FOR AN AGEING POPULATION

17 — Introduction | Stephen Gleave, guest topic editor
18 — The Value of Place and Design Quality for Communities | Councillor Elise Wilson
19 — In Service of The Powerhouse | Neil Murphy
22 — People are the Northern Powerhouse | Graham Marshall and Rhiannon Corcoran
24 — Riverside Sunderland | David Roberts
27 — Never too Early to Start | Jo Harrop
30 — Influences and Influencers | Leah Stuart
33 — Planning and Designing for a Growing and Diverse Urban Population | Matt Doran
36 — Yorkshire: Redefining Post-Industrial Areas | Jordan Butler and Andrew Clarke
40 — Driving Diversity and Entrepreneurship | Amir Hussain
43 — An Equitable Approach to Housing Design Quality | Vicky Payne
46 — Towards a New Northernism | Jaimie Ferguson
50 — The Net-Zero Northern Powerhouse and the Role of Urban Design | Andy Roberts
53 — A View from the Front Line | Graeme Moore and Colin Haylock
55 — Delivering Diversity in Urban Design | Stephen Gleave with John Ebo

BOOK REVIEWS

56 — DIY City: The Collective Power of Small Actions  Hank Dittmar
56 — Ecologies of Prosperity for the Living City  Margarita Jover and Alex Wall
57 — Space & Anti-Space, The Fabric of Place, City and Architecture  Steven Peterson and Barbara Littenberg
57 — The Heart of the City, Creating Vibrant Downtowns for a New Century  Alexander Garvin

42 — PRACTICE INDEX

48 — EDUCATION INDEX

ENDPIECE

49 — The Name of the Roads | Joe Holyoak