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Chairman A collaborative enterprise Kevin Murray AoU Soundings Where now for urbanism? Sarah Chaplin Taking stock Four recessions & a pottery David Rudlin AoU European City Lisbon: The winning formula Prof Chris Balch Congress 202 The Resilient City Mary Kerrigan Insight The Rewards of the Awards Prof David Porter Backstory Glasgow - all signed up? Prof Brian Evans Viewpoint The Academy of Suburbanism? Jon Rowlands Project focus Changing Chelmsford Stephanie Mills Viewpoint Spirit in Motion Dr Richard Simmons Academy Programmes Board & Academicians Getting Involved Events Calendar Our new publication, The AoU Journal, provides a vehicle for Academicians to discuss current issues in urbanism, share insights, challenge assumptions and stimulate debate. Each of the topics in this publication will continue to be explored online through our LinkedIn.com group 03 04 08 12 13 14 16 18 20 21 22 24 26 28
A collaborative enterprise
I am sometimes asked what kind of urbanism the Academy advocates. Are we modernist, post-modernist, enlightenment rationalist, baroque or even medieval organic in our leanings? Are we top-down corporatists or bottom-up localists? What is our view on James Craig and Haussman, Corb and Jane Jacobs, the New Urbanists and the Prince? And do we support Richard Rogers recent reassertion of the compact city model?
The simple answer is that we do not advocate any singular form or size of urbanism, partly because it is the wrong question. The Academy was founded on the principle of distilling the lessons from great places at different scales. What we have learned from studying nearly 00 locations is that good urbanism is culturally and climatically specific. Yes, key spatial ideas can be exported, from Derry to North America or Holland to Gothenburg. But whether they take root depends on people and institutions, and practical utility over time. The question belies a predilection towards urban form, usually by spatial designers with a leaning towards environmental determinism. There is no doubt that a legacy of good urban components, whether from the Romans, Georgians or Victorians, can provide characterful ingredients of value. Some of the deeper lessons of good urbanism come not from overt form however, but from subtler layers of complexity and contradiction; and a fundamental adaptability that nurtures changing ventures, accommodates diversity and even contrasting opposites. (We have come across the re-use of industrial Lacemarket buildings as a university in Nottingham, temporary pop-up evening uses in historic Budapest, and places transformed into people hubs by creative transport projects in Brighton and Bordeaux.) It is the ability to be crucible for a variety of economic and social enterprise that seems to distinguish really successful places. Robert Davis, the founder developer of Seaside in Florida, told me recently that the ability to nurture new enterprises, and to enhance the range of retail and market ventures, was a key ingredient of a towns vitality. That is not to say form is superficial or irrelevant, just that it is not the whole story. Better places tend to be more tolerant of a diversity of people and backgrounds, making people feel comfortable and providing them with positive stimuli for creativity and collaboration. Creative collaboration is essential to the art of shaping and managing the city. So the goal of good urbanism may be less about seeking some idealised form, and more one of finding ways to realise these diverse wants and needs. Great places that endure, do so because they enable people to live connected, fulfilling lives alongside each other. Good urbanists are therefore charged with liberating the paths to this aspiration, and the Academy will be debating and updating this mission over the coming months. I hope to see you at the Congress in Derry in the meantime please join our debates online.
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Exmouth Market The Great Street of the Year 2011 Installation: Non-stop Forest Suzi Winstanley
AOU SOUNDINGS
Robert Adam
Principal Robert Adam Architects
Jim Coleman
Head of Economics, Happold Consulting Ltd The primary one without a doubt is funding, but were also facing a serious lack of innovation, from the top down - currently there is a vacuous policy platform combined with poor leadership.
Paul Hildreth
Visiting Policy Fellow Salford University To start with, the policy process is flawed - its just not up to dealing with the spikier world we live in now - theres no real effort going into rebalancing the economy and everything is too piecemeal.
Lora Nicolaou
former Director of Urban Strategies at DEGW I see the main problem as a lack of urgency for local projects now - only the big interenational projects are getting funded, and this is an issue of short-sighted short-termism when what we need is long term investment.
Julia Unwin
Chief Executive Joseph Rowntree Foundation The real underlying issue is that there is no emphasis on promoting and prioritising jobs for the 18-24 cohort, ensuring ongoing deep and persistent poverty, plus our ageing society needs a new approach.
Q1
what is the major stumbing block?
It has a lot to do with land assembly problems - this holds up a good many projects, coupled with the dire lack of finance, and I have to say it is not helped by the baffling complexity of the planning process.
Q2
what can we as urbanists do?
One place to start would be to simplify the urban regeneration tools at our disposal, with a view to making all our masterplans, design codes, and the whole planning process much more streamlined and straightforward.
Given the dearth of compelling new ideas out there, to get things going we perhaps need to think in terms of giving something away for free, instead of waiting to be commissioned by clients.
We should all do our level best to encourage consistent investment over a long time frame, promoting more discussion around the spatial economy, and housebuilders to develop not hoard land.
We could do a lot more if we focused on reusing the places that are still alive and kicking, enabling ownership to be real, and on the ground initiatives to find their feet more easily - like Group 91 did in Dublin.
We need to maintain the campaign for quality, work hard to change peoples aspirations, shift the focus to more cheap refurb and renew projects and quick wins, and train the next generation to box clever.
We need to align our thinking much more towards poverty alleviation rather than making pretty places for our clients. And we should be exploring ways of making dementia-friendly cities.
Q3
what will our relationship to place be in 10 years time?
As macro economics and global, even national politics feel increasingly more remote, this will have the effect of making home and our local neighbourhoods more and more important - people will learn to value and love whats on their doorstep much more.
The plus side might be we see more local independent actions, making places seem more distinctive. On the downside this effect will be extremely uneven across the country - places that fare best being in the already wealthy pockets.
The thing well notice most in ten years time will be the worrying disparities in terms of rich and poor places - the long-term effects of this recession will be divisive, and only bottom up organic change will produce any respite.
Given an emergent culture of frugality, in ten years time people will have a much more realistic sense of what land is worth, and an improved sense of stewardship - looking after their places better and reporting on them in new ways or media.
Places will experience fewer visitors as we travel less in our leisure time, and the attention will no longer be on whats luxury, but on whats necessary. No high quality new places will have been built, making those that are very valuable commodities.
Ten years down the line we will have an even more ageing society - meaning we will be using space in different ways. We will also think about places differently - because social networks will have transformed our relationship to place.
Q4
what new measures should be implemented now to get things moving?
While we have time to take stock, we should commit more time to understanding the nature of place - cultural as well as physical - which requires better links between our disciplines.
The watchword here has to be integration: there needs to be more effort put into achieving effective joined-up goals and into approaching projects with a true spirit of multidisciplinarity.
This has got to be aimed at facilitating genuine devolution of decision-making to the local level, and cultivating a mindset towards patient long term returns on investing in placemaking.
We need to introduce some simple stimuli - such as the removal of business rates inside city centres, allowing alternative uses for derelict sites, or starting a regeneration academy, like the one in Bradford.
Under a regime of cutbacks and hardship, any measures that allow us to be more creative with funding and fundraising, and achieve small temporary transformations has to be a bonus.
Any new measures that are geared towards acknowledging and acting in the light of social media networking, so that what we get is social placemaking not just social capital.
AOU SOUNDINGS
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It is not easy working as an urbanist in a time of recession. In the late 0s and early 2000s there were plenty of people who wanted to build things, land values were positive and change seemed possible even in the most deprived neighbourhoods. The job of the urban designer was to mould and shape this development pressure into successful urban areas. It was therefore quite a shock in the autumn of 2008 to see this development pressure evaporate seemingly overnight. Suddenly no one wanted to build anything, and the notion of masterplanning seemed slightly absurd. The question became not how can we shape development, but how can we make something (anything!) happen? In the parts of the country with the strongest economies, the downturn might have felt like a temporary, and not entirely unwelcome, respite from the relentless pressure of development, an opportunity perhaps to take stock and plan. However many of the weaker urban economies had seen development take place only at the high watermark of the boom. They faced the prospect that it would take years to return, if indeed it ever did. It has been a long time since we had such a property slump and to many of the young planners, architects and urban designers we work with it is a novel situation.
It reminds me however of the dark days of 7 when I moved to Manchester to study planning and again of 0 when I started working for URBED. Indeed the type of work that many urbanists have found themselves doing in the years since the Lehman collapse reminds me of the early part of my career. Rather that the grand masterplans and iconic architecture of the 00s the current environment is all about working incrementally, stimulating activity, bring buildings back into use bit by bit, promoting meanwhile uses, working with artists and independent businesses and using festivals and events to generate interest. This is difficult and messy work and much harder to do in todays risk-averse, health and safety world than it was in the early 0s. However it goes back to the roots of why I got involved in urbanism: it is all about generating diversity rather than stifling it, which, in hindsight, was the result of many a commercial masterplan. So in October 200 when I was asked to present a paper to a conference in Bradford being organised by Beam on the theme of Creativity & Regeneration in the New Economy, it seemed a good opportunity to explore the link between recessions, urbanism and diversity. What I realised was that many of the urban places that we consider success stories were born in times of recession. Covent Garden grew out of the three-day week of the 7/4 recession when Londons economy had slumped. Yet when the market
moved out of Covent Garden the area filled with small creative businesses on short-term leases and a campaign was successfully waged against the GLCs redevelopment plans for the area. Something similar was happening in Camden Lock and North Laine in Brighton where, creative uses colonised areas blighted by road schemes. A few short years later came the Winter of Discontent in 7 that heralded the recession of the early 80s and its Monetarist cure of the Thatcher government that so harmed the industrial north. These were the dark days in which the seeds of Manchesters recovery germinated with the birth of Factory Records and developers like Urban Splash. Then in the early 0s came another recession which saw the emergence of Glasgow as European Capital of Culture and a remarkable if unfortunately short-lived renaissance in Bradford. Received wisdom suggests that these three recessions ripped the heart out of our towns and cities, as whole industries went to the wall, leading to mass unemployment and urban depopulation. Without wishing to belittle the pain of these recessions, it was also the case that this decline created space for new ideas to emerge, for diversity to flourish and for values other that the maximisation of profit to take root. Were it not for these recessions we wouldnt have the cities that we have today. Contribute your thoughts to this article on our LinkedIn group page
Recessions hold within them the seeds of recovery. What would you do if you were made redundant next week? In the last few years it is something that most of us have had to think about and many have experienced. People react to redundancy in very different ways. To some it is a blow to their self-esteem and financial stability that they never really recover from. To others it is an opportunity to do something different, to start a business, to take a lease on a vacant building and let it to people selling alternative clothing (which is how Urban Splash started). This is the stuff that urban economies are made of. If you look back to the beginnings of many of todays successful small and medium sized companies, I suspect you may find a disconsolate person clutching a redundancy cheque. If not this then you might find a graduate unable to get into their chosen profession and dabbling with computers or indulging their passion for music or graphics. My son is currently working 2 hours days for no pay on an independent feature film with a crew of 40 people all in the same position. This is not something that would be happening if they had all been sitting comfortably on the first rung of the career ladder. Recessions therefore create not the just vacant space to be filled, but people with time on their hands and energy to channel to fill this space. Recessions are incubators of new ideas and business. Continued over the page...
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TAKING STOCK
With established economic, political, and social certainties disappearing like snow off a ditch the challenges facing our towns and cities have never been greater. Natural disasters, global terrorism, rising unemployment, fuel and food poverty and the risk of these are forcing a response that will redefine our ways of life, our society, its culture and the expression of that in our physical environment. The seventh Academy Congress, - May 202, explores the robustness and flexibility of our historic urban settlements for developing greater resilience to cope with and adapt to these challenges; and the potential for high levels of social capital to drive and achieve socially and economically sustainable regeneration. Jewel in the crown of the Ulster Plantation settlements, and the first example of true urban planning in Ireland, Derry~Londonderry is no stranger to economic recession. Though geographically peripheral it has been central to some of Northern Ireland and Irelands most turbulent and progressive historic events. Derrys is an inspiring story of ground up social and physical transformation in the most testing circumstances an ideal prism through which to explore issues of resilience often flip sides of the one coin. Built heritage is crucial to the character and distinctiveness of our different places and frequently sustains the most diverse and interconnected community life. Despite contributing significantly to economic regeneration through tourism heritage is often seen as a liability rather than an asset its repair an obstacle to progress and in conflict with the climate change agenda of reducing carbon footprints. How do we resolve these apparent dichotomies?
The economic engine behind the regeneration and expansion of so many towns and cities has slowed to a purr or conked out completely particularly in Ireland. With the pennies in our collective purses in very short supply how do we cut our cloth to suit? As the physical and social severance wrought by traffic engineering theories devised to cater for increasing car ownership is laid bare literally by decreasing traffic volumes resulting from fuel poverty there is a pressing need to redress the balance. This Congress convened in the first UK City of Culture 20 challenges us to adapt our cultural mindsets to meet our global and local challenges positively and creatively. It challenges us to keep the baby in the bath water and to distill essential lessons left by our ancestral place makers so we are better equipped to make and remake places that are truly resilient, fantastic experiences for us all as human beings. Reputed for its warmth and wit, Derry welcomes international delegates and speakers interested in engaging in its live resilience issues though interactive, purposeful inquiry to share learning and leave a lasting legacy. Dubbed the Halloween capital of Ireland, this place loves a party so with lots of joyous celebration thrown in this promises to be the most distinctive and memorable Congress ever.
TAKING STOCK
Prof Chris Balch AoU Professor of Planning, Plymouth University Director, The Academy of Urbanism
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When I look at a city I dont just view it as a cultural tourist but try to see how the people who live and work there might view it. It is the social divisions that hold our towns and cities back, so in my view we should be exploring how to bridge the divides.
Dr Nicholas Falk AoU, Assessor
INSIGHT
Oslo, Norway Finalist The European City of the Year 2012
Prof David Porter AoU Former Head of School Mackintosh School of Architecture
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UNIVERCITIES
Prof Brian Evans AoU Professor of Urbanism, Glasgow School of Art Director, The Academy of Urbanism
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We need to explore how suburbs are created, nurtured, and packaged, and the gaps between aspiration and the actuality on the ground.
VIEWPOINT
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Changing Chelmsford
2011 was very significant for Chelmsford, which has benefited hugely from the impetus given by the Academy. This relationship has enabled dialogue with practitioners bringing experience, lessons and ideas and new links between Chelmsford interests. We have seen some really interesting projects develop with the encouragement of Changing Chelmsford. Changing Chelmsford is an experimental programme, a prototype of localism in action. It is a collaborative project between the Royal Society of Arts, the Academy, Chelmsford Borough Council and Essex County Council. It involves a wide range of local people, organisations, and self-organising initiatives as well as local schools, colleges and universities. Chelmsford has recently become Englands newest city and the aim of our project is to engage diverse sections of Chelmsfords communities in developing an understanding of its emerging potential within the broader context of Essex and the wider region. The brief was to develop collaboratively a clearer identity for Chelmsford by building on its strengths and exploring comparator towns and cities to establish the ingredients to enable the town to become a more innovative and successful place. With the close support of key partners, we put together a series of stimulating events in the Changing Chelmsford festival of ideas which have boosted individual projects and opened up leads for the coming months. We envisage a number of people-focussed activities relating to animation of the public realm, meanwhile uses for vacant or underutilised spaces, adaptive reuse of buildings for community use and longer term investment of energy in safeguarding local heritage, strengthening networks, nurturing collective ambitions and strengthening city identity. Changing Chelmsford is now set up as a Community Interest Company and will continue to work through challenges of accountability, governance, funding and hours-in-the-day. The Chelmsford cabinet councillor Neil Gulliver is actively supporting Young Urban Explorers and media contacts and we hope to build our relationship with borough and county councillors. Its important that it remains distinct from the councils and with a distinctive offer. Its been a fascinating journey so far understanding the challenges of accountability, governance, funding and time commitments. We aim to build on our relationship with Chelmsfords wider communities and with borough and county councillors although its important that Changing Chelmsford remains distinct from the councils and maintains its ability to act as a catalyst between the statutory authorities, business, community groups and individual pro-active changemakers.
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Academy programmes
The Academy of Urbanism brings together a group of leaders, thinkers and practitioners involved in the social, cultural, economic, political and physical development of our villages, towns and cities. The Academy was formed to extend urban discourse beyond built environment professionals, and to create an autonomous, politically independent and self-funded learned voice. We aim to Advance the understanding and practice of urbanism through evidence-based inquiry Provide an inclusive forum for dialogue across all disciplines Fulfill a proactive role in the shaping of our places through sharing knowledge and partnering with communities Foster, validate and celebrate excellence in placemaking The Urbanism Awards Our primary programme of learning, The Urbanism Awards, seeks to build and promote a body of evidence-based best practice at the level of City, Town, Neighbourhood, Street and Place. Each year, The Awards recognise 5 Great Places that have worked to improve their economic, social and public life over the past two-to-three decades. Academicians are involved in the cycle of shortlisting, assessment visits and voting, all of which culminate in The Awards Ceremony, our highest profile annual event. City X-Rays This programme was developed by the Academy to promote a holistic approach to measuring the quality, potential and success of our cities, neighbourhoods and streets. By using a range of tools to analyse our places, from statistical data right through to experiential observation, we can understand what factors underpin them, whether good or bad. The Academy views City X-Rays as the key to giving people, from citizens to practitioners, the power to understand their street or neighbourhood and track change over time. Place Partnering This diagnostic service utilises the experience and breadth of the Academys membership to help places gain a better understanding of themselves and the elements that help or hinder their success. The Academy achieves this by working with neighbourhoods, city-quarters and towns to identify synergies and conflicts, review local aspirations and suggest direction. For Academicians, it is a rewarding, hands-on experience. For the places themselves, we are providing a broad-expertise to help frame issues and plan for future action in a fresh, independent manner. UniverCities The role of UniverCities is to encourage the development of strategic partnerships across towns and cities between citizens, civic authorities, private practice and academic institutions. UniverCities promotes the virtues of shared understanding and joint working to achieve more for our towns and cities. This thinking led to the production of a UniverCities starter pack, produced alongside a government-funded pilot programme and aimed at fledgling groups who are keen to set up their own UniverCity. The Academy is already partnered with a number of UniverCities, supported and steered by the involvement of local Academicians. Publications The Academy produces a number of publications as a result of our programmes of learning. These include; Learning from Place published with Routledge which distils lessons and ideas from finalists of The Urbanism Awards; Space Place Life, which each year celebrates our 5 Award Finalists with a poem by Ian McMillan, a sketch by David Harrison and a figureground plan. The Academy also publishes individual documents such as The Freiburg Charter for Sustainable Urbanism, which defines 12 guiding principles from our European City of the Year 2010.
The Urbanism Award Finalists 2012 (left to right) Buy St Edmunds, Accordia (Cambridge), Totnes, Steep Hill (Lincoln), Lisbon, Cockburn Street (Edinburgh), Old Town / Harbour Arm (Margate), Derry~Londonderry, Byres Road (Glasgow), Oslo, Gothenburg, Gillett Square (Hackney), Borough / Bankside (London), Victoria Quarter (Leeds), Queen Square (Bristol)
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Academicians 202
Arthur Acheson Robert Adam Marcus Adams Lynda Addison OBE John Adlen Kyle Alexander OBE Peter Alexander-Fitzgerald Sandy Allcock Joanna Allen Ben Allgood Nigel Anderson Ian Angus Debbie Aplin Judith Armitt George Arvanitis Stephen Ashworth Philip Askew Jasvir Atwal Jeff Austin Janice Balch Jonathan Barker Yolande Barnes Alistair Barr Andrew Barton Jemma Basham Irena Bauman Trevor Beattie Ian Beaumont Matthew Bedward Simon Bee Andrew Beharrall John Bell Michael Bennett Neil Bennett Robert Bennett Janet Benton Duncan Berntsen John Best John Betty Richard Bickers Juliet Bidgood David Bishop David FL. Bishop Martin Boddy Henk Bouwman Christopher Boyle Mark Bradbury Guy Briggs Ross Brodie Annabel Brown Jonathan Brown Patricia Brown Mark Burgess Andrew Burns Andrew Burrell Jonathan Burroughs John Bury Malcolm Bushell Peter Butenschn Prof Georgia Butina Watson Peter Butler Stephen Byfield Blanche Cameron Fiona Campbell Kelvin Campbell Charles Campion Steve Canadine Tony Carey Emma Cariaga James Carr Sam Cassels Lynne Ceeney Tim Challans Marion Chalmers Joanna Chambers Sarah Chaplin Dominic Edward Chapman Prof James Chapman Peter S Chapman Richard Charge Giles Charlton Alain Chiaradia Prof David Chiddick Nick Childs Tom Clarke Tom Coffey Dr Jim Coleman Robert Coles Garry Colligan Paul Collins Martin Colreavy Max Comfort Peter Connolly Karen Cooksley Malcolm Cooper Prof Rachel Cooper OBE Matt Corrigan Rob Cowan David Cowans
Toby Crayden Linda Curr Ned Cussen Justine Daly Jane Dann Alex Davey Michael Davies Philip Davies Prof Trevor Davies Nick Davis Paul Davis Simon Davis Mark Davy Eric Dawson Neil de Prez Sophia de Sousa Ian Deans Guy Denton Hank Dittmar Andrew Dixon Sir Jeremy Dixon Lord John Doune Martin Downie Roger Dowty Paul Drew Peter Drummond Rosamund Dunn Paul Dunne Prof Mark Dyer John Dyke Duncan Ecob Luke Engleback Gavin Erasmus Karen Escott Roger Estop Prof Graeme Evans Roger Evans Nick Ewbank Richard Fagg Dr Nicholas Falk Ross Faragher Kerri Farnsworth Max Farrell Sir Terry Farrell Jacqueline Fearon Ian Fenn Jaimie Ferguson George Ferguson CBE Diana Fitzsimons David Flannery Richard Ford Sue Foster OBE Bernie Foulkes Jane Fowles Simon Foxell Alan Francis Jerome Frost Daisy Froud William Fulford Jeremy Gardiner Carole Garfield Tim Garratt Angus Gavin John Geeson Lia Ghilardi Andy Gibbins Prof Mike Gibson Bruce Gilbreth Ian Gilzean Christopher Glaister Francis Glare Stephen Gleave Keith Gowenlock Charles Graham Gerry Grams Gary Grant Michele Grant Mark Greaves Stephen Greenberg Ali Grehan Simon Guest Richard Guise Patrick Gulliver Trutz Haase Tim Hancock Derek Harding Annette Hards Geoff Haslam Philip Hayden Helen Hayes Michael Hayes CBE Nicholas Hayward Peter Heath Prof Michael Hebbert Michael Hegarty David Height Wayne Hemingway Simon Henley James Hennessey David Hennings Mark Hensman Peter Hibbert
Pam Alexander OBE
DIRECTORS
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Paul Hildreth Jason Hill Stephen Hill Tom Holbrook Eric Holding Peter Hollis Stephen Howlett Jun Huang David Hughes Jonathan Hughes Michael Hurlow Prof Maxwell Hutchinson John Hyland Delton Jackson Philip Jackson Sarah Jackson Dr Nol James Dr Ying Jin Cathy Johnston Chris Jones Gwilym Jones Philip Jones Stephen Jordan Dr Kayvan Karimi Andy Karski Dr Harald Kegler John Kelpie Jonathan Kendall Angus Kennedy David Kennedy John Kennedy James Kerr Mary Kerrigan Ros Kerslake Janice Kirkpatrick Angela Koch Prof Motoo Kusakabe Chris Lamb Charles Landry Christer Larsson Derek Latham Diarmaid Lawlor Adrian Lee Sir Richard Leese Mick Leggett Alan Leibowitz John Letherland Harry Lewis Michael Lewis Kevin Leyden Chris Littlemore Michael Liverman David Lock Robin Lomas Fred London Tom Lonsdale John Lord Vivien Lovell Mark Lucas David Lumb John Lyall Barra Mac Ruairi Robin Machell Mary MacIntyre Keiji Makino Riccardo Marini Andreas Markides Derek Martin Dr Kat Martindale Andrew Matthews Dr Alice Maynard James McAdam Steve McAdam Richard McCarthy Frank McDonald Prof Michael McGarry Kevin McGeough Aideen McGinley Marie-Thrse McGivern Nigel McGurk Martin McKay Craig McLaren Mary McLaughlin Paul McTernan Ian Mellor Stephan Miles-Brown Gerry Millar Robert Millar Shane Mitchell Kris Mitra Prof Bill Morrison Prof Ruth Morrow Paul Morsley Elizabeth Motley John Muir Ronnie Muir Eugene Mullan John Mullin Barry Munday David Murphy Chris Murray Dr Claudia Murray Prof Gordon Murray Hugh Murray Peter Murray Vivek Nanda Stephen Neal Peter Nears Marko Neskovic Trevor Nicholson Lora Nicolaou Ross Nimmo Taryn Nixon John Nordon William Nowlan Calbhac OCarroll Dr Dell Odeleye Simon Ogden Killian OHiggins Adeola Oke Chris Oldershaw Wally Olins CBE Tiago Oliveira Breffne OMalley John ORegan Trevor Osborne Paul Ostergaard Chris Pagdin Dr Susan Parham Chris Parkin John Parmiter Prof Richard Parnaby Liz Peace Richard Pearce Adam Peavoy Ross Peedle Prof Alan Penn Alison Peters Andrew Petrie Hugh Petter John Phillipps Jon Phipps James Pike Steve Platt Ben Plowden Demetri Porphyrios Dr Sergio Porta David Porter David Powell Robert Powell Sunand Prasad John Prevc Dr Darren Price David Prichard Paul Prichard John Pringle Rhona Pringle Douglas Pritchard Stephen Proctor Matt Quayle Shane Quinn Mark Raisbeck Peter Ralph Clive Rand Dr David Randall Mike Rawlinson Tony Reddy Richard Rees Richard Reid Cllr Sian Reid Amanda Reynolds Christopher Rhodes Antony Rifkin Prof Marion Roberts Prof Peter Roberts OBE Dickon Robinson
John Worthington
Janet Sutherland
Dick Gleeson
Tim Stonor
Steven Bee
David Rodgers Bryan Roe Lord Richard Rogers Angela Rolfe Pedro Roos Anna Rose Graham Ross Jon Rowland Sarah Royle-Johnson David Rudlin Robert Rummey Gerard Ryan Dr Andrew Ryder Robert Sakula Rhodri Samuel Clare San Martin Andrew Sanderson Peter Sandover Hilary Satchwell Jamie Saunders Biljana Savic Bridget Sawyers Alberto Scarpa Dominic Scott Toby Shannon Dr Tim Sharpe Cath Shaw Richard Shaw Barry Shaw MBE Keith Shearer Anthony Shoults Ron Sidell Paul Simkins Dr Richard Simmons Prof Alan Simpson Andrew Simpson Anette Simpson Tim Simpson Alan Simson Ann Skippers John Slater Jonathan Smales Malcolm Smith Paul Smith Jim Sneddon Carole Souter CBE Adrian Spawforth Jerry Spencer Andy Spracklen Alan Stewart Andrew Stokes Alan Stones Rosslyn Stuart Peter Studdert Mick Sweeney Nicholas Sweet Stephen Talboys David Tannahill Ian Tant Deb Tate David Taylor David J Taylor Ed Taylor Nick Taylor Sandy Taylor Alison Tero Chris Thompson Robert Thompson Dale Thomson Lesley Thomson John Thorp Andrew Tindsley Damian Tissier Canon Andrea Titterington Ian Tod Peter Tooher Tricia Topping Robert Townshend Rob Tranmer Stephen Tucker Neil Tully John Turner Jonathan Turner Chris Twomey Julia Unwin Guilia Vallone Valli van Zijl Atam Verdi Andy von Bradsky Brita von Schoenaich Prof Lorna Walker Ian Wall Ann Wallis Russell Wallis Brendon Walsh David Walters Dr Gerry Wardell Pam Warhurst CBE Paul Warner Elanor Warwick David Waterhouse Nick Wates Camilla Ween Oliver Weindling Dr Michael Wells Rosemary Westbrook Allison Westray-Chapman Duncan Whatmore Craig White Paul White Lindsey Whitelaw Peter Williams Patricia Willoughby Marcus Wilshere James Wilson Chris Winter Godfrey Winterson Saffron Woodcraft Geoff Woodling David Woods Nick Woolley Nick Wright Ian Wroot Tony Wyatt Wei Yang Bob Young John Zetter Honorary Academicians Jan Gehl Prof Wulf Daseking Honorary Treasurer David Miles Artist in Residence David Harrison Poet in Residence Ian McMillan
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Getting involved
Become an Academician The Academy is built on the knowledge, experience and expertise of over 500 Academicians from across the public, private and third sectors. The membership is drawn from a wide range of backgrounds, embracing planning and design, community and cultural development, engineering and property, policy and politics, academia, media and the arts. Academicians are nominated by their peers and selected on the basis of their contribution to the making and shaping of places through a variety of professional and personal means. Joining the Academy means engaging with a diverse network of individuals who are committed to promoting and sharing the lessons learned from good urbanism. If you would like to find out more about becoming an Academician, please get in touch with Linda Gledstone, Director of Operations, on +44 (0) 20 725 8777 or by emailing lg@academyofurbanism.org.uk. Please also visit academyofurbanism.org.uk for more information. Sponsorship The Academy is able to achieve its goals because of the generosity of our sponsors, all of whom we thank for their support. All are high-profile advocates of good urbanism who we are proud to be associated with. If you or your organisation is interested in supporting one of the Academys learning programmes, please get in touch with Linda Gledstone, Director of Operations, on +44 (0) 20 725 8777 or by emailing lg@academyofurbanism.org.uk
Calendar 202
2 March Creating Communities The Olympic Legacy Study Tour and Seminar The View, East London 2.00 - 6.00pm 22 March The Academy at Ecobuild Towns in Transition Seminar ExCel Centre, London 2.0 - 4.00pm 28 March The Urbanism Awards Shortlisting Event Grosvenor, London 2.0 - 5.0pm 28 March The Academy Spring Reception and Debate Placemaking: NPPF - Friend or Foe? Grosvenor, London 6.0 - .00pm - May Academy Congress VII The Resilient City Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland 0 May The Congress Dinner Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland 8 July Mid Year Review and Reception The Gallery 75 Cowcross Street, London 4.00 - 8.00pm July - September Assessment Visits The Urbanism Awards Great Britain, Ireland & Europe September Learning from Lisbon Study Visit and Charrette Lisbon, Portugal 8 November Learning from Europe International Seminar London 6.0 - .00pm November The Urbanism Awards Ceremony The Grand Connaught Rooms London 2.00 - 4.00pm 2 December End of Year Review and Reception The Gallery 75 Cowcross Street, London 4.00 - 8.00pm Please visit academyofurbanism.org.uk to check our latest events
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