URBAN DESIGN 72 Autumn 1999

News & Events

• Leader 4
• Tourism and Heritage
• Kevin Lynch Memorial Lecture 5
• Research in Urban Design
• Urban Task Force Report Launch 6
• Urban Task Force Seminar 7
• Waiting for the Spin Doctors
• Study Tour of the Silesian and Spis Towns 8
• New Housing: Back to the Future 9

Regional

Novocastrian Urbanism 10

Michael Crilly

Making the Connections 11

Rob MacDonald

 

Viewpoint

The UDAL Placechecks Initiative 13

Robert Cowan

Towards a Car-Free London 14

Brian Richards

 

International

Phoenix, City of the Future? 16

John Minett

 

Topic

Glasgow 1999 18

Hildebrand Frey and Lesley Forsyth

A Reconnected City? 20

Stephen Tucker

No Mean City - No Mean Achievement 23

Tom Macartney

Homes for the Future 26

Norrie Innes

1999 Millennium Spaces 29

Peter Richardson

The Lighthouse 31

Stuart MacDonald

Area Festivals 32

Anne Wallace and Pauline Gallacher

Education Programme 33

Anne Wallace and Pauline Gallacher

 

Case Study

Darlaston Town Centre 34

Lesley Wallace and Simon Peake

 

Book Reviews 37

Reviews by John Billingham, Tim Catchpole, Peter Eley,

Sebastian Loew, Jon Rowland and Chris Williamson

 

Practice and Education Index 43

Endpiece 47

Searching for the Genius Loci

Bob Jarvis