Twenty months into the project RUDI has made considerable progress, and this article describes some of its achievements and current services. The enthusiasm of the UDG for the project from its early stages led firstly to the digitisation of back issues of UDQ, from issue 53 onwards, and these went live on the web in July 1996.
Issues continue to be added, but usually about six months after publication.
The journal was shortly followed by the UDG Source Book, all of which was included except the personal membership list and constitution. UDG events are now notified to RUDI and included in its Diary of Events. Effectively then, RUDI acts as a 'homepage' website for the Urban Design Group, and hopes to do more to promote the Group through its pages. We were fortunate to secure the Department of the Environment's Quality in Town and Country and its Urban Design Campaign documents, including an electronic version of the catalogue of the DoE's Urban Design Exhibition held at the RIBA in September 1996. By putting this on the web, we gave access to a fuller version than the paper catalogue, and have subsequently acquired additional materials relating to two of the 21 exhibited schemes.