Urban Design Group Presentations

Gerald Mills, an Associate Professor at University College Dublin, is a physical geographer with an interest in city climates. His current focus is on the World Urban Database Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT), which is a community-based initiative to create a global database on cities suited for climate studies.

Katja Stille, Tibbalds and Roger Evans, Studio Real.

In the second part of this talk Matthew Carmona asks why the results reported in A Housing Design Audit for England are as they are. To do this he explores correlations between the headline results and a range of market, contextual and design governance factors and against resident and community views.

In the first part of this talk Prof Matthew Carmona explores the results of A Housing Design Audit for England. He explains how the audit was conducted and provides the headline results, nationally and regionally as well as a more detailed discussion of the seventeen audited design considerations.

Katja Stille BA(Hons) DipArch MA(Arch) MA(UD) Assoc RTPI is a Director with Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design. Katja specialises in large scale projects, spatial strategies and design policy, working with public sector bodies, private landowners and their teams to develop masterplans and development frameworks to help bring forward development.

David Harrison. London Living Streets.

Dr Rachel Lee is Policy and Research Coordinator for Living Streets, a campaigning UK Charity promoting an environment that encourages and inspires people to walk more. Living Streets is governed by volunteer trustees with a network of members, local groups and supporters.

Cat White is Associate Director of Planning with the planning and development consultancy Turley at their Southampton office in the UK.

Roger Evans is an architect, urban planner, urban designer and founding director of Studio Real based in Oxford UK. He is a past Chair of the Urban Design Group and has taught as a visiting lecturer on urban design at several UK university courses. He has been a member of advisory panels to government, writes extensively in the professional press on urban design issues and sits on several local authority design review panels. Roger is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism and a former Trustee of the Urban Design Group. He has led major urban design studies for a wide range of historic, new and emerging towns and cities throughout the UK and also in Europe and the Middle East. He has a special interest in urban form and how good urbanism can be achieved through the planning system

Tim Pharoah’s approach to placemaking evolves and continues to be ahead of its time. Tim Pharoah MSc, MCILT, MCIHT, MTPS is a transport and urban planning consultant with more than 40 years experience of transport and land use planning, street design and urban regeneration. He provides specialist advice on a wide range of urban issues, and disseminates experience through lectures and training events. Before becoming an independent consultant he worked in local authorities, private consultancies, and the academic sector. He is a keen advocate of planning for vibrant urban communities through integrated accessibility and public realm design and speed management. He has always perceived mass private motorised transport as a serious threat to urban quality of life, and consistently argued and worked for the prioritisation of modes that are urban-compatible. He was closely involved in the fight against urban motorway proposals in London and Edinburgh in the early 1970s, and has promoted traffic limitation ever since. He has been involved in over 150 widely varying projects including the design of specific places, areas and town plans, and regional and national policy studies. In addition to involvement in projects in the UK and other countries, he has managed, authored or contributed to a number of national best practice guides and reports, including the award-winning Manual for Streets (DfT, 2007) and Traffic Calming Guidelines (Devon County Council, 1991). Tim has a wide knowledge of international best practice, and makes effective use of this in projects in the UK and elsewhere.

Griff Rhys Jones is President of the charity Civic Voice which has the core objective of engendering civic pride by making places more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive. He is well known as a writer, actor, tv programme producer and presenter. With a broad portfolio he has a particular interest in and knowledge of building conservation, architecture, landscape and planning.

Marie Burns is one of the founding Directors of Burns + Nice, an award winning landscape architecture and urban design practice based in Clerkenwell, London. The design and implemented project for Leicester Square in central London has won fifteen awards including the UK Landscape Institute’s President’s Award in 2013. This is an account of the thought processes and practical work that led to that outcome.

Kate Jeffery is Professor of Neuroscience, Faculty of Brain Sciences. UCL.

Kate Jeffery is Professor of Neuroscience, Faculty of Brain Sciences. UCL.

Paul Reynolds is Honorary Secretary of the UDG and a member and former Chair of its Executive Committee.

Katja Stille BA(Hons) DipArch MA(Arch) MA(UD) Assoc RTPI is a Director with Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design. Katja specialises in large scale projects, spatial strategies and design policy, working with public sector bodies, private landowners and their teams to develop masterplans and development frameworks to help bring forward development.

Paul Reynolds is a Chartered Landscape Architect, Urban Designer and founding Director at Urben, a specialist urbanism and placemaking consultancy based in London, UK.

Christopher Martin BSc (Hons) Dip.TP MSc (UD) UDG AoU is Co Founder and Director of Urban Strategy at Urban Movement.

Paul Reynolds is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Urban Designer. Jas Bhalla is a qualified Architect, Urban Designer, Town Planner, and founder of Jas Bhalla Architects

Dr Noha Nasser is an architect, urban designer and academic with an interest in the influence of culture on urban form and design. She is the Founding Director of MELA, a social innovation enterprise for public spaces. She has held several academic Director posts and two international Post-doctoral Fellowships and co edits the Journal, Urban Design International

David Rudlin is current chair of the Academy of Urbanism. He is an urbanist, planner and manager of URBED (Urbanism Environment and Design) and director of the URBED Trust.

Matthew Carmona is Professor of Planning and Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Planning.

Jenny Raggett is the Foundation for Integrated Transport's Transport for New Homes project

Paul Quinn is Director of Merton Regeneration, Clarion Housing, having worked in housing and urban regeneration for some 30 years.

Ian Hingley is Co Founder and Principal Landscape Architect with Urban Movement. He has worked in many UK towns and cities on a wide range of projects including streets, squares, civic spaces, public parks, residential new build and refurbishment, education, health care and play. He is an examiner on the Landscape Institute Pathway to Chartership programme and a member of Kingston University Professional Review Group. He also contributes occasionally to the Landscape Institute and Urban Design Group journals. Ian has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and regularly contributes to Transport for London and Urban Design London training programmes. He runs an annual guided public realm tour for Open House London.

David Rudlin is current chair of the Academy of Urbanism. He is an urbanist, planner and manager of URBED Urbanism Environment and Design and director of the URBED Trust.

With experience as a local government principal planner in London, Richard Crutchley is an associate with Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design where he specialises in planning policy and strategies, neighbourhood planning, design guidance, design advice, and area based regeneration

David Harrison is from London Living Streets

Emma Griffin is a journalist, urbanist and a campaign coordinator for London Living Streets.

Howard Gray is Sales Account Manager at Greenblue Urban, an industry leading consultancy dedicated to researching and implementing the establishment and integration of green infrastructure with water sensitive design in our towns and cities.

Howard Gray is Sales Account Manager at Greenblue Urban, an industry leading consultancy dedicated to researching and implementing the establishment and integration of green infrastructure with water sensitive design in our towns and cities.

Martin Ellerby is an architect with post graduate training in environmental urban design. Formerly with architects Shepard Robsons sustainability group, he joined Placefirst in 2011 to establish a new project specialising in high quality, low-energy, affordable build to rent homes.

Mike Fox is an urban design trained planner with more than 18 years of experience in handling complex planning and regeneration projects. Lindy Morgan has worked in the affordable housing sector for nearly 30 years.

Lora Brill has lived in co operative housing environments for over 25 years and is currently a resident of Marmalade Lane.

Marcus Adams DipArch MA Urban Design RIBA, is Managing Partner of the architects, masterplanners and placemakers jtp, with responsibility for the strategic planning and management of the practice.

Formerly with Friends of the Earth, Fran Graham is now Campaigns Coordinator with The London Cycling Campaign.

Dr. Rachel Aldred is Reader in Transport at the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster.

Video Copyright, Auckland Council. This is an account of the Access for Everyone project. Ben van Bruggen is the Design Strategy Manager for Auckland Council

An Urban Land Institute UK event. Hosted by AECOM London. Eric Firley studied economics, architecture and city design in Fribourg, Lausanne, Weimar and London

An Urban Land Institute UK event. Hosted by AECOM London. Dennis Pieprz explores the economic and physical transformation of a university campus and the surrounding neighbourhoods. Dennis Pieprz is Principal, Sasaki Associates, Watertown, MA, playing a key role in the planning and urban design practice with an emphasis on international work. His teams have gained more than 70 design awards. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design he has taught in the Professional Development Program and in 2018, in the Elements of Urban Design Studio. He has been inducted as an honorary member of ASLA.

An Urban Land Institute UK event. Hosted by AECOM London. The UK based property developer Richard Meier asks, do we have an intelligent approach to the assessment of value. Does developer led monetary value adequately consider less measurable values? Should social and environmental value play a greater role in forming the physical environment. Richard Meier played a significant role in delivering the vision for the regeneration of King’s Cross in central London.

Michael Cowdy is a Director leading on urbanism with McGregor Coxall, a multi-disciplinary landscape practice based in Australia, China and the UK. With 80 awards, including the international TOPOS prize, the practice focuses on sustainable city development through design.

Colin Pullan is a planner and urban designer, a member of the Urban Design Group Executive Committee and former Chair. He has been Director of urban design at RPS and Lichfields and is currently Director, Urban Design at Lambert Smith Hampton.

Paul Reynolds is Honorary Secretary of the UDG and a member and former Chair of its Executive Committee. He is a landscape architect and urban designer with particular specialism in transit orientated development schemes, and is Director at the Urban Design and Planning Consultancy Urben Studio.

Lijiang, Xijiang, Xishuangbanna, Xitang, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianducheng and Rushan (Weihai). Barry Sellars is a town planner, urban designer, affiliate member of the RIBA and member and former Chair of the UDG Executive Committee. He is a Senior Planner with a Local Authority in London dealing with an array of strategic mixed use sites adjacent to the Thames.

Presented by Sebastian Loew, joint editor of the Urban Design Journal

Alan Stones is an architect-planner, former Head of Historic Buildings and Urban Design at Essex County Council and co-author of the Essex Design Guide 1998. He is a longstanding Executive Committee member and former Chair of the Urban Design Group and has organised more than thirty study tours for the UDG over the years. Alan describes highlights of a tour to Graz, Linz, Salzburg and Innsbruck.

Joe Ravetz is Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy at the University of Manchester.  He has pioneered the art of strategic thinking for sustainable cities and regions, which brings together environment climate policy, urban planning and design, new economics and governance, innovation and futures studies, systems thinking and complexity science.

Bob Phillips MTCP(Hons), MA(Urban Design), MRTPI, is Director, Planner and Urban Designer with the practice urban imprint. He is also a lecturer in Planning and Urban Design at the University of Manchester and a member of the RTPI Regional Management Board.

Dr Mark Usher is a lecturer in human geography in the School of Environment Education and Development at Manchester University in the UK