Join this year's National Urban Design Conference - Plymouth... Early bird tickets for professionals, and sponsored tickets for councillors, local government officers, developers and housebuilders available. https://lnkd.in/en5MJNq4
Urban Design Group
Non-profit Organizations
London, England 3,103 followers
Working together to make life better in our cities, towns and villages.
About us
The Urban Design Group (UDG) is a membership charity open to all who care about the quality of life in our cities, towns and villages and believe that raising standards of urban design is central to its improvement. The UDG believes that good urban design depends upon successful collaboration between all those who shape the built environment, whatever their professional or personal background. Our primary goals are: to promote high standards of performance and inter-professional co-operation in planning, urban design and architecture, landscape design and all other aspects of the built environment; and to educate the relevant professions and the public in matters relating to urban design. Since our foundation in 1978, we have played a major role increasing the understanding and awareness of urban design and there have been some major successes and a transformation in the quality of existing and new development. However a great deal of development is still badly designed. More than three quarters of all planning applications in the UK are prepared by someone with no design training. Much development is designed or planned by people with little idea of how to work in an urban context. Our mission is to raise standards of education and awareness of urban design across societies both in the UK and internationally.
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http://www.udg.org.uk
External link for Urban Design Group
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- London, England
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1978
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Primary
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70 Cowcross Street
London, England EC1M 6EJ, GB
Employees at Urban Design Group
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Colin Munsie
M.Phil (UCL)TP, B.Arch (Uni W.A.) RIBA ARAIA ARB ... Consulting: Design Review for Government - Design, Concept Development and Property…
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Paul Reynolds
Founding Director, Tapestry ... Chartered Landscape Architect & Urban Designer
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Sarah Murray
Founder Director at edge Urban Design; Recognised Practitioner in Urban Design
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Luke Hillson
Design Partner - Urban Design, Masterplanning, Expert Design Witness and Strategic Land Promotion
Updates
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https://lnkd.in/ed6FcxKX Neighbourhoods are in crisis. Shops and community facilities are closing, loneliness and isolation is increasing. Public health is worsening, and life expectancy is declining owing to unhealthy lifestyles. Villages are losing shops, pubs and post offices, reducing them to nothing more than quaint rural housing estates. In new development, neighbourhoods seem to be hard or impossible to create – something that has been picked up by press and local communities. No shops, no doctor’s surgery, no community centre, no leisure facilities, no employment, no public transport. Just houses. What can be done? – this day-time in person event brings some of the UK’s leading researchers and practitioners on: ...Existing Neighbourhoods: what can be done to retrofit, revive and sustain them ...New Neighbourhoods – how to best to lay them out, what density, and how to ensure they have the facilities that people need, when they need them, not years later.
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The Make it Happen Conference, on 17th April at The Island Quarter is dedicated to celebrating good design delivery and best practice during challenging times. Tickets are FREE for Local Authorities and Students, and £35 per person for industry. Numbers are limited so hurry and book your pass: https://lnkd.in/eH2jsVZd.