All urban design articles – Page 2
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OpinionThe 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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OpinionWhy 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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OpinionWhat next for the future of housing design?
We need to work harder to make our housing and communities more sustainable, writes Adam Darby
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OpinionA 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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OpinionWe need a ‘School of Place’ for clients, not just architects
Good placemaking also requires well educated clients, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionPlasticine 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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OpinionWhy do we struggle to densify suburbia?
For centuries settlements densified organically over time, but our suburbs stubbornly hold out against such change. We need a new approach that allows suburbia to mature, writes Samuel Hughes
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OpinionWhat 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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OpinionDid 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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OpinionNever mind the placemaking rules – this was London as theatre
Strolling around Whitehall and Horseguards is a dispiriting urban experience with little typological variety, but that is not the point, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionClimate adaptation requires low-tech urban design solutions and open data
If Britain is to become a world leader in climate-change adaptation then we need to focus on proven design solutions and open access to data, writes Ed Baker
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OpinionWhen 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
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