URBAN DESIGN 161 Winter 2022

This issue has been kindly sponsored by Vestre

COVER

Oslo Opera House in Winter by Snøhetta. Photograph credit: The Norwegian Opera and Ballet/ Svein Nordrum

UPDATE

3 — A Century of Evolution in Architecture and Urbanism in the Arabian Peninsula
3 — John FN Collins 1924-2021
4 — The Walkable City
4 — Urban Design Summit at COP26
5 — My Favourite Plan: Berlin Planwerk Innenstadt, 1999 | Mike Biddulph
6 — Urban Design Library #40 | People and Plans, Essays on Urban Problems and Solutions  Herbert J Gans
7 — Climate Change Global Digest
8 — Behind the Image: From Broad Street to Broad Meadow, Oxford

TOPIC: SCANDINAVIA AND THE NORDIC REGION

10 — Urban Design in Scandinavia and the Nordic Region | Paul Woodville, guest topic editor
12 — Cities for Friends and Lovers | Paul Woodville
15 — Bioclimatic Urbanism: Ideas from Arctic Sweden | David Chapman
18 — A Feminist Approach to Promoting Social Sustainability | Bettina Werner and Amalie Gammelgaard
21 — Green Thresholds | Susan Carruth and Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard
25 — Towards Integrated Energy and Climate Masterplanning | Andreas Eggersten Teder
28 — Trondheim’s Urban Ecology Experimental Zone | Michael Grüner and Alise Plavina
31 — Community Engagement in Aarhus | Stephen D Willacy
34 — Water as Public Realm in Nordic Cities | Karl Dubois
37 — Alvar Aalto: Town Planner and Ecological Designer | Paul Woodville

BOOK REVIEWS

40 — Soft City – Building Density for Everyday Life  David Sim
40 — People Cities – The Life and Legacy of Jan Gehl  Annie Matan and Peter Newman
41 — Public Space Design And Social Cohesion – An International Comparison  Patricia Aelbrecht and Quentin Stevens (Ed.)
41 — Civilizing Cities – An Analysis of the Major Political Issues of our Time  David Williams

42 — PRACTICE INDEX

48 — EDUCATION INDEX

ENDPIECE

49 — Barber sets out his stall on the street | Joe Holyoak