On Beauty vs Quality at the "Better Design for Better Places" Conference
Thursday 28th February, 2019
On Valentine’s day the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) held the “Better Design for Better Places” conference, seeking to raise the bar for design in the built environment.
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URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) Ltd to close
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It is with great sadness that we announce that URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) Ltd has now closed and has stopped trading.
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URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) Ltd to close
Thursday 1st December, 2022
It is with great sadness that we announce that URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) Ltd will close early in the new year. The employee-owned cooperative finds itself with no option, following the completion of a number of jobs and operating in an incredibly difficult post COVID environment particularly with public sector tendering.
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Tales of the High Street Project Update
The future of UK high streets remains in the public consciousness as the cost-of-living crisis bites, and we continue to navigate the impacts of the pandemic. The team on Tales of the High Street received an extension to the commission, allowing us to acquire updated data which we hope will capture some of the impacts of the pandemic on our case studies. We're currently working with this data, the website (on which the data will ultimately be displayed) is taking shape and we have our heads down writing a book, which we hope will be available next year.
On Thursday 4th November at COP26, URBED’s Marianne Heaslip and Carbon Coop’s Jonathan Atkinson were presented with the Ashden Award for green skills by Carlos Quesada, President of Costa Rica. The Ashden Awards reward and promote pioneers across the globe who are taking on the climate crisis and trying to create better and more equal societies.
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What does your bookshelf say about you?
Friday 13th November, 2020
As we remain in lockdown and virtual meetings are here to stay, David Rudlin reflects on what seems to be everyone's video calling backdrop of choice, the beloved bookshelf.
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Urban Scrawl / Spode 10 years on
Wednesday 11th November, 2020
As you may already know, we launched Urban Scrawl to further explore ideas and issues we come across as urbanists during our day-to-day work. Whilst it’s not a publication to promote URBED or it’s services, it is driven by our world-view and the principles that guide us. We hope you enjoy reading this as much as we did working on it.
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Learning from lockdown: Will everything really be different afterwards?
Tuesday 21st July, 2020
As restaurants, pubs, shops and schools slowly begin to reopen, we take a look back at David Rudlin's think piece on urbanism after lockdown.
This article was first published in Building Design, April 2020.
The aim of the Y6 Urban Design Project is the preparation of an urban analysis, framework and masterplan for an agreed site. Y6 students work more autonomously, deciding which city to base their project within. This year, students focussed on Blackpool, Belfast, Leeds and Milan.