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.
LULU Y5 Student Projects: A Terraces House in Edgeley
In order to meet a wider diversity of housing needs and ensure a mix of demographics throughout any urban area, we need to think more creatively about how to offer housing capable of meeting the needs of a broader range of people. In particular, there is a challenge to be addressed about how to maintain a diversity of demographics in our city centres. So how do we offer housing that is simultaneously dense enough to achieve developers’ profit requirements, young families and older couples in our city centres and robust enough to be adaptable over time.
First published in Building Design, we're pleased to be able to share David Rudlin's opinion piece on the cruel reality facing Sheffield's Urban and Environmental Design Team.
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News from Nowhere: A future in which our cities are properly planned
Thursday 21st May, 2020
"Relaxing after a pleasant meal William mused on the motives that had caused him to become a planner, the desire to create successful, equitable sustainable places, the aim of working with the market rather than always being the one to say no, the idea that the plans that he created might actually be realised."
Inspired by William Morris's 1890 utopian novel News from Nowhere, URBED's David Rudlin imagines how a reformed planning system could transform the city.
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Crisis upon Crisis on the High Street
Thursday 14th May, 2020
First published in Building Design, URBED's David Rudlin talks about the struggles that High Streets face during these testing times.
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Our response to COVID-19
Monday 20th April, 2020
The global pandemic has caused disruptions all around the world forcing a lot of us to combine our home and working life. At URBED we’re fortunate to have been able to transition smoothly to homeworking following our office closure. Having already set up remote working policies, procedures and IT systems, we were able to take immediate action in response to the outbreak.
Today we'll be attending the launch of the Housing Design Audit for England, at the Place Alliance's sold-out Big Meet event at UCL in London. We'll be sharing our experience of auditing some of the North West schemes - one of the first projects completed under our URBED+ collaboration with Manchester School of Architectue. The full report can be found here.
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