URBAN DESIGN 173 - Winter 2025
NEWS
3 National Urban Design Conference
4 When Driving is not an Option
5 Reflections on Urban Design: Townscape
REGULAR FEATURES
6 My Favourite Plan: Craig Wall
7 Urban Design in Fine Art, Dick Cole
8 Climate Change Global Digest
10 Behind the image: The Opera Park, Copenhagen
12 Viewpoint: (Not) a Waste of Space… An Ode to Central Reservations and their Potential, Dan Crane
STUDENT WORK
14 Edge City + Hydro City: from Riga to Birkenhead, Matt Quayle, Carolina Ionita, Eamonn Canniffe, Loris Rossi, Rudolfs Dainis Smits and Efe Dunyan
18 The Urban Struggle in São Paulo: Occupations as Radical Spaces of Possibility, Giovanna Astolfo, Giorgio Talocci, Laia García and Dina Mneimneh
TOPIC: FROM ROADS TO BOULEVARDS
22 Introduction, Paul Lecroart, guest topic editor
24 Breaking the Concrete Collar in Birmingham, Sandeep Shingadia and Raj Aujla
28 Regenerating the Chlumecka Highway Corridor, Prague, Vojtěch Benedikt
32 Helsinki’s Comprehensive Roads-to-Streets Strategy, Niklas Aalto
36 Dag Hammarskjöld Boulevard Project, Gothenburg, Staffan Sandberg and Paul Lecroart
39 From Strategy to Real Change: the Herrmann-Debroux Corridor in Brussels, Milène Deneubourg
42 Avinguda del Vallès, Barcelona: Cocreating Infrastructure Integration
46 Wroclaw: Reclaiming Społeczny Square, Izabela Gajny and Jose Ferreira
50 Highway Transformation in the Paris Region: A New Design Paradigm, Paul Lecroart
BOOK REVIEWS
54 The Landscape Project
54 Innovation in Practice in Theory
55 Urban Lessons of the Venetian Squares
55 Mise-en-Scene: The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes
56 People Planet Design, A Practical Guide to Realizing Architecture’s Potential
56 Property: The Myth that Built the World
57 Housing Atlas - Europe 20th Century
58 PRACTICE INDEX
64 EDUCATION INDEX
65 ENDPIECE
Too much space, Joe Holyoak
