The Gruesome Shambles that is the English Housing System From Vegetables to Megastructures Fields of Yield: Beyond the Built Environment Jobs Associate Director, Design, Turley Bristol Design Director, Turley Southern England Urban Designer – Edinburgh - Barton Willmore Edinburgh To advertise jobs in Urban Update – please email Finally we should develop a vision and be optimistic that if implemented and managed correctly, driverless cars could create healthier, happier and greener towns and cities. ¹Bridges, Rutt 2015, Driverless Car Revolution: Buy Mobility, Not Metal [Kindle Edition] ²BBC 2015, Toyota promises driverless cars on roads by 2020 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34464450) accessed on 10.11.2015 ³OECD 2015, International Transport Forum at the OECD - . ⁴ CUTR Will car free towns ever become a reality? A review of schemes around the world. Events and Webinars Academy of Urbanism Landscape Institute Rethinking the Urban Landscape Exhibition Leeds, Sheffield – see website for dates Latest Lectures on UrbanNous New Improving the quality of new housing: Negotiating improvements in delivery and design Architecture and Design Scotland Several workshops on the use of traditional materials coming up. No one should attempt architecture or urban design in Scotland without a knowledge of Ballachulish slate! IHBC
MADE Build your own - Wolverhampton Arts & Heritage Competition deadline 8th Jan City Builder Academy July 2016 West Midlands Urban Design Forum Next events 2016 Yorkshire Regional Urbanism in the Era of Globalisation 3-5 Feb – University of Huddersfield Engage Liverpool Neighbourhood Planning Network Event 19th January Museum of Walking Dash or Dawdle – Clerkenwell Pubs Any day until the 10 January 2016 Urban Design London Events coming up – extensive programme some free, some charged/ £175+VAT (Free for UDL subscribers) Cultural Interventions 14th January 2016 (Full Day) PiP – Design, Quality and Technical Consents Workshop 20th January Challenging Practice: Street Design Amy Burbidge is Design Action Manager at North Northamptonshire Joint Planning Unit. Improving the quality of new housing: New issues for affordable housing. Andy von Bradsky is former Chairman of PRP, Chair of the RIBA Housing Group, Board Member of the Housing Forum and recent chair of the Government appointed Challenge Panel for the Housing Standards Review that advised on UK standards for housing of all tenures. A better future for high streets and town centres. Julian Dobson, Urban Pollinators Towns and cities: Function in form Julian Hart, Lancefield Consulting Designing the business model: Sharing land uplift and unlocking long term value. Yolande Barnes, Director of the World Research team at Savills Weather in the City – How Design Shapes the Urban Climate Sanda Lenzholzer All urban designers, architects, planners, and highway engineers should have a knowledge of this subject. UrbanNous Catalogue available on-line Highlights include Christopher Alexander, George Ferguson, Hans Monderman and scores of others. 11 February 2016 - Manchester Centre for Cities Cities Outlook 2016 Launch 25 January 2016 | 12.30pm | CIty Hall, London BOBMK Events Future of Transport and Innovation February 2016 @ Milton Keynes PTRC Transport Practitioners Meeting 2016 – Nottingham 29-30 June 2016 | Nottingham Call for papers open.