URBAN DESIGN 54 Spring 1995
Cover Anthony Gormley's 'Iron man', Victoria Square, Birmingham.
News and Events 4
Regional News
Making the U Turn
Revisiting the Urban Design Manifesto
Viewpoint
Urban Design: Myth or Reality 7
David Chapman and Peter Larkham present their ideas for an agenda.
Rural settlement design 9
Stephen Owen provides a response to Jeff Bishop's views on rural design contained in UDQ 52.
Publications
The Good Place guide 12
John Billingham presents a prospectus
International
Johannesburg: A city in transition 14
Arlene Segal describes changes occurring in South Africa
Topic / Engineering the Public Realm 16
Tony Lloyd Jones, Roger Evans and Joe Holyoak reflect on major issues arising at the Conference
Engineering the environment 19
David Lock spoke on "The Visible and Invisible' elements of engineering the public realm
Victoria Square, Birmingham21
Geoff Wright and John Blakemore reviewed the background to a public spaces policy and how a major space was implemented
Supertram Sheffield 25
Andy Topley and Dick Owen-Smith emphasised the importance of considering environmental issues at a very early stage
Paddington study 29
Tibbalds Monro and Steer Davies Gleave's transport and environmental study for Paddington described by Andy Karski
Book reviews 33
Books by Jon Lang, Landscape Design and Urbed reviewed by John Punter, Elizabeth Young, Bob Jarvis and John Billingham
Practice profiles
Building Design Partnership 36
Halcrow Fox 38
Practice and Education index 40
Endpiece 43
Urbanity by Bob Jarvis
Diary 44