URBAN DESIGN 176 - Autumn 2025
NEWS
3 The Future of Council Housing
3 Mohenjo-daro and Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley and India
4 Community-led Urbanism
5 Birmingham Design Festival Conference
6 Reflections on Urban Design: Revisiting Copenhagen
REGULAR FEATURES
7 My Favourite Plan: Anke Boehme
8 Urban Design in Fine Art
9 Viewpoint: Retrofitting for Health, Tony Beaman
12 Climate Change Global Digest
14 Behind the Image: Piazzale Valdo Fusi, Turin
TOPIC: IRELAND
16 Introduction, Miriam Fitzpatrick and Alan Mee, guest topic editors
19 The Rockwood Parade Plan, Sligo, Derry O'Connell
23 Celebrating Social Infrastructure in Urban Ireland, Dick Gleeson
27 The Metropolitan Gap, Michael K Hayes
30 Discipline Agnostic Design, Stephen O'Malley
32 Thriving Places: Celebrating Character Through Engagement-led Planning, Alistair MacDonald and Peter Sagar
36 Optimism and Engagement in Irish Urbanism, Colin King
40 Review Everything, Collette Burns
44 From the Pub to the Park, Colum O'Connor
47 Dublin’s Accidental Urbanism: Something to Hold Onto, Emily Jones
51 Re-inhabiting the Street, Giulia Vallone
56 Triangulating Success: Church Square, Monaghan and the Geometry of Civic Life, Hugo Hickey
59 An Integrated Planning System for 21st Century Ireland, Tony Reddy
BOOK REVIEWS
64 Building Southwark
64 Empathic Design
65 She City
66 PRACTICE INDEX
72 EDUCATION INDEX
73 ENDPIECE
Memory sticks, Joe Holyoak
