URBAN DESIGN 171 - Summer 2024

NEWS

3 Speakeasy and Book Launch: Laura Alvarez and Rob Cowan

3 Research Handbook on Urban Design: Book Launch

4 Porto City: Renaissance, Renewal and Reinvention

5 Reflections on Urban Design: Barcelona

REGULAR FEATURES

6 My Favourite Plan: Ana Kashfi Muhamad

7 Urban Design on Film, Todd Strehlow

8 Student Work: LTNs – Opportunities for Care instead of Controversy, Chloe Michaela McFarlane

11 Viewpoint: Crafting Key Diagrams for Local Plans, Bally Meeda

12 Climate Change Global Digest

14 Behind the Image: Strand Aldwych, London

TOPIC: URBAN ILLUMINATION

16 Introduction, Sharon Stammers and Martin Lupton, guest topic editors

18 City Lights and Social Nights, Clementine Fletcher-Smith

22 Integrating Light and Art into Urban Planning, Annukka Larsen

26 Circularity in Urban Lighting, Jonathan Rush

30 The Urban Designer’s Next Frontier: Night Time Design, Leni Schwendinger

34 Social Light: Light as a Tool for Engagement and Change, Elettra Bordonaro and Luciana Martinez

38 Light Art in Urban Spaces, Chris Lowe

41 Design for Social Inclusion, Nick Albert

44 Embracing Darkness: The Benefits of Nocturnal Placemaking, Kyra Xavia

47 Illuminating the Past, Envisioning the Future, Faraz Izhar

50 Read On: Light, Jess Gallacher

BOOK REVIEWS

53 Urban Design Library #50

54 9 Ways to Make Housing for People

54 Atlas of Informal Settlements, Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design

55 A Beginner’s Guide to Urban Design and Development, The ABC of Quality, Sustainable Design

55 Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife

56 High Street: How Our Town Centres Can Bounce Back from the Retail Crisis

56 Occupation: Boundary, Art, Architecture and Culture at the Water

57 Shaping Neighbourhoods: For Local Health and Global Sustainability

58 PRACTICE INDEX

64 EDUCATION INDEX

65 ENDPIECE Walking on water, Joe Holyoak