URBAN DESIGN 163 Summer 2022

CONTENTS

This issue has been kindly sponsored by ADAM Architecture

COVER Crawthorne, Bracknell: Design Code diagrams produced for Bucklers Park by Tibbalds on behalf of Legal & General Homes

UPDATE

3 — Appealing Design, Does Design Quality carry Weight in Planning Appeals?

3 — Christopher Alexander (1936–2022)

4 — A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place

5 — My Favourite Plan: Richard Hayward

6 — Urban Design Library #42

7 — Climate Change Global Digest

8 — Behind the Image: Superkilen Park, Copenhagen

VIEWPOINT

10 — From Barely Liveable Spaces to Lovable Places, Evangelia Pavlaki

TOPIC: Design Codes

12 — Design Codes, guest topic editor Marcus Wilshere

14 — Code for Streets, not Highways, Andrew Cameron 

17 — Design Codes: a Local Authority Perspective, Jane Hakes

20— Delivering Popular and Sustainable Urbanism, Hugh Petter

23 — Design Coding for Coherent Placemaking, Graeme Phillips

27 — Raising the Status of Design Guidance, Ana McMillin

30— Design Coding for the Future, Oscar Macdonald and Sandra Wilmot

33 — Design Codes – A Revolution or More of the Same? Esther Kurland

37 — Testing Design Codes in England, Matthew Carmona

BOOK REVIEWS

40— Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks, Andres Sevtsuk

40— Why Travel? Understanding our need to move and how it shapes our lives, Matthew Niblett and Kris Beuret (ed.)

41 — The Power of Past Greatness, Urban Renewal of Historic Cities in European Dictatorships, Harald Bodenschatz and Max Welch Guerra (ed.)

41 — Unlocking the Potential of PostIndustrial Cities, Mathew E Kahn and Mac McComas

42 — PRACTICE INDEX

48— EDUCATION INDEX ENDPIECE

49— Green room, Joe HolyoaK