URBAN DESIGN 175 - Summer 2025

NEWS

3 Designing Child-friendly Neighbourhoods
4 Urban Design: What Developers Really Want…
5 Reflections on Urban Design: No Net Land Take (NNLT)

REGULAR FEATURES

6 My Favourite Plan: Brian Quinn
7 Viewpoint: Putting Climate Resilience at the Heart of Urban Design, Shira de Bourbon Parme
11 Viewpoint: Los Angeles after the fires, Daniel Elsea
14 Climate Change Global Digest
16 Behind the Image: Exchange Square, City of London

TOPIC: COMMUNITY-LED URBANISM

18 Introduction, Paul Reynolds, guest topic editor
21 Learning from the Imaginative Power of Community-led Housing, Neil McKenna
26 Cultivating Place in Hastings, Cameron Smith, Jess Steele and Pasha Milburn
30 Design, Community and Control, Levent Kerimol
34 Nightingale Housing: A Groundbreaking Model, Toby Dean
38 A Second Life for Department Stores, Jessica Craig
42 Better Urbanism through Cohousing, Neil Murphy
46 Retrofitting Condemned Properties into Affordable Homes, Paul Reynolds and Hazel Tilley
50 The Hackney Wick Model, Tom Kihl and William Chamberlain

BOOK REVIEWS

54 Applied Urban Design – A Contextually Responsive Approach
55 Handbook of Tyranny
55 Sarajevo Singular Plural, contributions in honour of Zdravko Grebo
56 Temporal Urban Design, Temporality, Rhythm and Place
56 Domicide, Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria
57 Inclusive Transportation, A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

58 PRACTICE INDEX
64 EDUCATION INDEX
65 ENDPIECE
Urban drama, Joe Holyoak