David Rudlin
- Opinion
From green to grey: How the grey belt could steer development towards the wrong places
David Rudlin on why the most sustainable places to build may not always be in the grey belt
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Howard Bernstein: The visionary who helped save Manchester
David Rudlin celebrates Howard Bernstein’s strategic foresight and the transformative projects that underscore the enduring impact of his civic leadership
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Carlos Moreno’s 15-Minute City: Visionary urbanism or just recycled ideas?
Carlos Moreno champions the 15-Minute City as a revolutionary approach to urban living, but is it truly innovative or simply a repackaging of familiar ideas, asks David Rudlin
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Drawing for urban design: The fine line between vision and delusion
Idealised renderings of landscapes and urban design schemes are not new, but we should beware using images as a stand-in for real understanding, writes David Rudlin
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The procurement system is crushing smaller businesses - it needs reform
Our public procurement processes are not serving the best interests of consultants or the end users, writes David Rudlin
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Mall-Ware: How Britain’s shopping centres went from saviours to wreckers of the high street
Planning largely saved Britain’s town centres from the ravages of out of town shopping, but that just forced the malls onto the high street, writes David Rudlin
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Traffic in Towns: 60 years on from Colin Buchanan’s prophetic report
On the 60th anniversary of the landmark publication David Rudlin asks whether there has ever been a report that has done more damage to our cities
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What Thomas the Tank Engine can tell us about HS2
Unnecessarily onerous regulation contributes to the high cost of building railways in the UK, writes David Rudlin
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Change requires designers to stick their necks out and propose what a better future might be
Having put out a call for an alternative to the term ‘master plan’ David Rudlin reviews some of the many suggestions
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Master plans are for Bond villains
We need to come up with a new name for master planning, but that’s no easy task, writes David Rudlin
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Manchester Unspun: The best guide to transforming a city you’re likely to find
A first hand account of Manchester’s transformation got lots of architects and developers reaching for the index to see what it says about them, writes David Rudlin
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How Will Alsop’s vision for a halo over Barnsley ended up paying off
On the eve of the publication of High Street, a new book he has co-authored with Lucy Montague and Victoria Payne, David Rudlin tells the story of how Barnsley almost became a Tuscan hill town
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Oxford's 15-minute city debate risks turning into a ‘gridlock of stupid’
Seemingly innocuous proposals to reduce traffic in Oxford are being framed as a socialist version of the Truman Show, writes David Rudlin
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The Professor and the Miner’s Son: the story of Britain's biggest shopping mall
David Rudlin tells the story of how a left-wing planner enabled the son of a miner to build Britain’s largest out-of-town shopping centre
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Why we keep missing the target on housing numbers
The proposed changes to planning for housing in the NPPF are unlikely to fix an issue that is undermining our entire planning system, writes David Rudlin
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A single School of Place won’t fix placemaking. We need better urban design teaching across the board
A School of Place may be no bad thing, but what we really need is a core curriculum for all urban design courses, which can be rolled out everywhere, writes David Rudlin
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Plasticine versus Lego: Why is architecture so square?
David Rudlin shudders at the overwhelming rectilinearity of our cityscapes and ponders why architects are still so averse to addressing corners
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What record shops can teach the high street
Our high streets are struggling, but the spirit of the independent record shop could point the way towards recovery, writes David Rudlin
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Did we really always hate modernism?
People are drawn to good modern architecture, writes David Rudlin. It’s just the bad urbanism that lets it down
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When it comes to tall buildings, height is all a matter of perspective
Tall building are problematic, not least because they are distorting land values, but each one should should be judged on its merits, writes David Rudlin