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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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:

  1. People friendly design
  2. Enabling current best practice in technical design (eg highways, sustainable drainage)
  3. Following current best practice on wider design issues such as context, identity, movement, resources etc
  4. 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.

Free tickets

 

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

Free tickets


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

Check out the massive range of recorded lectures on Urban Nous or on the UrbanNous Youtube channel.