URBAN DESIGN 172 - Autumn 2024

NEWS

3 Urban Design and Young Children

4 Towards a Neighbourhood Renaissance

5 Obituary: Nicky Gavron

6 New Life for Antakya

7 Reflections on Urban Design: Design Codes

REGULAR FEATURES

8 My Favourite Plan: Nick Brown

9 Urban Design on Film, Todd Strehlow

10 Climate Change Global Digest

12 Viewpoint: Reflections on Fifty Years of Oxford’s Joint Centre for Urban Design, Ivor Samuels

14 Viewpoint: New and Old: Strengthening the Sense of Place, Kevin O’Connor

16 Behind the Image: Qasr al Hosn Cultural Park, Abu Dhabi

18 Student work: Design Justice: Restructuring a Historic Precinct, Priyanshu Shrivastava

TOPIC: MAKING VIBRANT PLACES

22 Introduction, Martyn Saunders, guest topic editor

24 Bromley at Night, Lorraine McQuillan

27 Catering to Communities: The Future of Health and Community in Local Centres, Olivia Jackson

31 Innovation in Urban Centres, Paul Rostas

35 An Unnoticed Heritage Crisis? Martyn Saunders

40 From Empty Space to Vibrant Communities, Tim Lowe

43 Stitching Centres Back Together, Kevin Logan

47 Rethinking High Street Value beyond Economics, Theodora Beckett

50 What’s the Use?! Patrick Ransom

BOOK REVIEWS

54 Why Public Space Matters

54 American Urbanist, How William H Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life

55 Informal Settlements of the Global South

55 Future Public Spaces, Urban Design in Times of Crisis

56 Mapping Possibility, Finding Purpose and Hope in Community Planning

56 Architectural Anthropology, Exploring Lived Space

57 The Shape of Land: Topography & Landscape Architecture

58 PRACTICE INDEX

64 EDUCATION INDEX

65 ENDPIECE Urban renewal, Joe Holyoak