URBAN DESIGN 177 - Winter 2026

NEWS
3 Obituary: Sir Terry Farrell (1938-2025)
4 National Urban Design Conference
7 Women in the Public Realm
8 Suffolk Design Festival
9 Reflections on Urban Design: Overtourism

REGULAR FEATURES
10 My Favourite Plan: Thorsten Peters
11 Urban Design in Fine Art
12 Climate Change Global Digest
14 Behind the Image: Market Square, Dover
16 Viewpoint: Toronto: Lessons on Landscape Urbanism, Gareth James, Dermot O’Kane and James T White
19 Viewpoint: When Density is more than Numbers, Quitterie d’Harcourt 

TOPIC: Women and Girls
22 Introduction, Marina Milosev, guest topic editor
25 Why Feminist Urbanism? May East
28 Co-designing Gender-inclusive Policy and Guidance, Jennie Savage
31 Embedding Gender Equality within Project Delivery, Ruth Lin Wong Holmes
34 Holloway Park: Gender Mainstreaming in Engagement and Practice, Susannah Walker
38 Where are the Girls? Linda Thiel
42 Public Art and Representation in Public Space, Moira Lascelles
45 Climate-responsive Cities, Safaa Charafi
49 Urban Lighting Design for Social and Gender Equality, Elettra Bordonaro
53 The Future of Gender-inclusive Urban Planning and Design, Julia Watson

BOOK REVIEWS
56 Human Transit, How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
56 Global City Typologies, Transactional Forces in Urbanised Development
57 Londoners Making London
57 Great Estates, Models for Modern Placemaking

58 PRACTICE INDEX
64 EDUCATION INDEX
65 ENDPIECE
The making of place, Joe Holyoak