URBAN DESIGN 162 Spring 2022

This issue has kindly been sponsored by Manchester Urban Design LAB and Urban Imprint

COVER

Deák Square, District V, Budapest. Photograph by Philip Black

UPDATE

3 — Evolution of the City: Isfahan
3 — Recent UDG Visits: Chester and Tunbridge Wells
4 — John Billingham (1935-2022)
6 — Urban Design Group Annual General Meeting 2021
7 — My Favourite Plan: from Towards an Urban Renaissance | Richard Summers
8 — UD Library #41 | Planning for Play  Lady Allan of Hertwood
9 — Climate Change Global Digest
10 — Behind the Image: Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

STUDENT WORK

12 — Re-Earthing Amazonian Cities | Jessica Isabel Alvarez Cueva
14 — Cities at Risk: Coastal Responses for Dublin | Zhuotong Shen

INTERNATIONAL

16 — Vallabh Vidyanagar: An Education-oriented Ped-shed Neighbourhood | Priyanshu Shrivasta

TOPIC: DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE

18 —  Design and Landscape: A Complex Past, A Contested Present, A Critical Future | Philip Black, guest topic editor
23 — Aligning Landscape and urban Design | Ian Mell
25 — Revisiting Classic Case Studies | Bob Phillips
28 — Perceptions of Colour, Form and Amenity in Greenspaces | Helen Hoyle
31 — Building with Nature: Quality Standards Driving innovation | Gemma Jerome
34 — Natural Cities: Fixing Nature at the Heart of Development | Mark Graham
37 — South Downs national Park: A Landscape-led Approach to Design | Mark Waller-Gutierrez
41 — The Parc des Hauteurs Project, Paris | Paul Lecroart
44 — Biodiversity in Urban Spaces – A Possibility or Dilemma? | Agnes Sandström
46 — Beauty and the Bees | Philip Black and Ian Mell

BOOK REVIEWS

48 — Transforming Towns: Designing for Smaller Communities  Matthew Jones
48 — Why Face-to-Face Still Matters: The Persistent Power of Cities in the Post-Pandemic Era  Jonathan Reades and Martin Crookston
49 — Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing  Jenny Roe and Layla McCay
49 — Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology  Andres Duany and Brian Falk

50 — PRACTICE INDEX

56 — EDUCATION INDEX

ENDPIECE

57 — Engaging Reverse Gear | Joe Holyoak