Urban Update 25 May 2021
National Urban Design Awards 2021 – Open for entries
Forthcoming events…
- Manual for Streets Series: The New Logistics – Get up to speed in urban design for home-working, internet retail and hyperlocal delivery
- Walking and cycling to and from railway stations
- Evolution of the City: Aleppo
- IHBC Annual Seminar
- AoU Annual Congress
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- Designing Parking
Many new career opportunities: two new opportunities since last week
National Urban Design Awards 2021
Open for entries
Frameworks + Masterplans
Enter by 16 July 2021. Entry from £60
An award for Urban Design Frameworks and Masterplans created within the last three years, and are as yet unbuilt, or only partially built.
Policy, Strategy + Design Guidance
Enter by 16 July 2021 Entry from £60
An award for Urban Design Policies, Strategies and Design Guidance that have been adopted within the last three years, and any other similar work intended to promote or ensure quality urban design.
People Friendly Place
Enter by 16 July 2021 Entry from £60
An award for places that have been opened to public access in the last three years. Entries could include a town centre regeneration scheme, a pocket park, a community orchard, a public realm scheme, a flood defence or river restoration scheme, through to an entire new urban area.
Innovation
Enter by 16 July 2021 Entry Free
An award for new Tools, Methods, and Technologies released within the last five years that enable good urban design or a better understanding of towns and cities, and the needs of the people who live within them. Entries could range from new community involvement methods, GIS systems, through to blue skies technology including the use of satellite or lidar imagery, digital design and planning, and automated analysis using neural network and machine learning techniques.
Student Project
Enter by 30 June 2021 Entry Free
Open and free to all students attending a UK University previously registered with the UDG or have current UDG Student membership.
Streamlined on-line entry process
Includes self-assessment criteria for Frameworks/Masterplans, Policy-Strategy-Design Guidance, People Friendly Place Awards:
- People friendly design
- Enabling current best practice in technical design (eg highways, sustainable drainage)
- Following current best practice on wider design issues such as context, identity, movement, resources etc
- Helping local councils meet legal duties such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, and the 2050 net zero carbon emission target
Please click here for more information.
Manual for Streets Series
The New Logistics
Revolutionising the way we design towns and streets
Make sure you can design in response to the home-working – internet retail – hyperlocal delivery world
Lunchtime seminar
Wednesday 26 May 2021 – 12:00 to 14:00
Amazon distribution depot, East Midlands
Most of us can see how logistics is changing. Online-retail has captured around 20 percent of the retail market and deliveries have become part of normal life. Recently, hyper-local delivery business have been developing in major cities around the globe which guarantee small deliveries within 15 minutes of an order being placed. This is going to have implications for urban life and urban design and planning.
The way we design our streets and our urban areas is influenced and sometimes dictated by the requirements of the deliver vehicles. Goods are delivered to ports in 40 ft ISO shipping containers, and then transferred by articulated lorries to a chain of national, regional and local distribution depots. Waste is carried away in 32 tonne 4 axle refuse collection vehicles. At every stage, streets are designed to accommodate these vehicles. And though planning and highways policies are supposed to put people first, in many areas, it is the accommodation of delivery and waste collection vehicles that is the overweening design imperative. The result are streets and neighbourhoods that are difficult and potentially unsafe for people, and especially disabled and elderly people and children. If we could rethink and redesign the logistics systems then the design of town and cities could change too.
This event will cover
- the existing logistics systems that link factories, ports, distribution warehouses, wholesalers, retailers, offices, and homes. It is about deliveries and collections, and about the movement infrastructure including containers, palettes and cages, all of which have specific dimensions that have to be reflected in the design of the built environment.
- the adverse effects of this system
- a new approach to logistics using a rethought distribution system, neighbourhood hubs and zero emission deliveries and collections
- how the new approach could be reflected in the planning and street design guidance – and the forthcoming Manual for Streets.
Speakers
THE LOGISITICS THAT SUPPORT MODERN LIFE
Hannah Smart Edge Urban Design | Gary Young Place 54 Architects
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITES BIN LORRIES
David Milner Create Streets
THE NEW LOGISTICS: Revolutionising the way we design towns and streets
Chris Douglas WSP | Ian Brooker Jacob
IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING, THE NATIONAL DESIGN GUIDE AND MANUAL FOR STREETS
Panel Discussion
Free Tickets
Walking and cycling to and from railway stations
Wednesday 16 June 2021 - 18:00 to 19:30
Pedestrians – 1st Class Travel or side-lined
Speakers
KEYNOTE
Christian Woolmar Journalist, Author, Railway Historian, Advocate
FOOTWAYS: MAPPING BETTER ROUTES TO STATIONS
Dr David Harrison London Living Streets
WALKING AND CYCLING: STATE OF THE ART REVIEW
Dundee University Postgraduate Students
Covering the psychology of fear, natural surveillance, public lighting, electric bikes, overcoming hills, unbroken walking and cycling networks, streetspace reallocation
SUTTON COLDFIELD: MASTERPLAN FOR CONNECTION, A CASE STUDY
Richard Crutchley Tibbalds
INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE
Emma Griffin London Living Streets
This event is run by London Living Streets and the Urban Design Group.
Evolution of the City – Event Series Aleppo
Thursday 24 June 2021 - 17:00 to 18:30 19:00 to 20:30pm (Damascus Time)
The first in a series of international events to develop our understanding of how towns and cities across the globe develop in response to environment, economy, politics, culture and people.
“We have many more things that unite us, than divide us”
Humans have lived in cities for millennia, and during that time many different forms of urban development, architecture, lifestyle, economy, governance and management have emerged, providing an astonishing diversity. Ideas have also been shared around the world, sometimes for good and sometimes for ill.
Aleppo is one of the oldest cities in the world. Its urban origins go back as far as 6000 years. It has witnessed many different civilisations rise and fall, each one leaving their mark or influence, Amorite, Hittite, Phoenecian, Greek, Macedonian, Roman, Sassanian, Islamic, Ottoman, French, and finally 21st century corporate global. These influences can be seen in the morphology of Aleppo, and in the way it works today.
Speakers
THE EVOLUTION OF ALEPPO
Dr Husam AlWaer University of Dundee
THE HISTORIC HAMMAMS OF ALEPPO: Catalysts for Urban Sustainability
Dr Magda Sibley Cardiff University
THE OLD SOUKS (MARKETS) OF ALEPPO
Dr Hala Asslan ICOMOS Syria, Cultural Heritage Specialist
The second event in the series, a discourse on being and becoming places, will take place in September:
A CENTURY OF EVOLUTION IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN THE ARABIAN GULF STATES
Professor Ashraf M. Salama University of Strathclyde
In collaboration with University of Dundee | Cardiff University | Habitat World | Biennale Habitat | Academy of Urbanism
Recent UDG events to view online via UrbanNous
Check out the UDG events archive page for access to the recordings.
Manual for Streets 3 series events A new Manual or Streets - what do we need
https://www.udg.org.uk/events/2021/towards-new-manual-streets-3-what-do-we-need
Presentations from leading experts in the field
Designing Parking
https://www.udg.org.uk/events/2021/manual-streets-3-designing-parking
more presentations being added day by day by UrbanNous
ideasSPACE with James Delaney of Block by Block
https://www.udg.org.uk/publications/articles/ideasspace-james-delaney-block-block
James Delaney in conversation with Christopher Martin
National Model Design Code Event 2
https://www.udg.org.uk/events/2021/national-model-design-code-event-2
Future Work
https://www.udg.org.uk/events/2021/future-work
National Model Design Code Event 1
https://www.udg.org.uk/events/2021/national-model-design-code-udg-workshop
Future facing approaches to parking and movement
https://www.udg.org.uk/events/2021/future-facing-approaches-parking-and-movement-udg-coalition-conversation
More on the UrbanNous Channel on Youtube, and on the UDG Events Archive Page.
IHBC Virtual Conference
Historic Places : People Places
18 June
Day School programme
- the changes that sustain and improve places, led by Jan Gehl on urban design issues for people and places, and
- assessing different approaches to generating change, including through monitoring and review, on impacts, anchored by lead US economist Donovan Rypkema, as well as
- Public partnerships in regeneration; lottery investment, regulation and designation
AoU Congress 2021
Responsive Cities : Adapting under Pressure
16-18 June
WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE 2021
OPENING WELCOME & NETWORKING SESSION
THURSDAY 17 JUNE 2021
EXPLORING EDINBURGH
Hear from experts on approaches to housing and health, transport and streets, placemaking and events Experience Edinburgh City Centre through virtual tours Opportunity to explore award-winning neighbourhoods on evening virtual tours
FRIDAY 18 JUNE 2021
RESPONSIVE CITIES – INTERNATIONAL DAY
Keynote speakers from around the globe
Workshops and case studies
https://congress.academyofurbanism.org.uk/
Opportunities
UDG Careers Board
Senior Project Officer, Active Travel Strategy
Sustrans
Scotland
Senior / Associate Urban Designer
Urban Initiatives Studio
London and South East
Senior / Principal Urban Designer
RPS Consulting Services
Associate / Senior Consultant Built Heritage and Townscape
Iceni Projects
London and South East
Urban Designer
Pegasus Group
East Midlands
Senior / Associate Urban Designer
Lambert Smith Hampton
London and South East
Residential Layout Designer
Pegasus Group
South West
Urban Designer
BDP
North West
Experienced Urban Designers, Masterplanners and Layout Designers
David Lock Associates
London and South East
Urban Design Consultant (Various levels)
Place Services
London and South East
Director | Associate Urban Designer
Pegasus Group
South West
Urban Designer | Senior Urban Designer
Pegasus Group
South West
Urban Engineers
Alan Baxter
London and South East
Senior/ Associate Urban Designer
Savills Urban Design Studio
Solent
Programme Manager
Design South East
Recent events on UrbanNous
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