All urbanism articles
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OpinionHow Coventry beat Paris and London on the road to the future
From the prioritisation of cars to residential zoning and a disinclination to rebuilding lost buildings, no British city tells the story of post-war planning better than Coventry, writes Nicholas Boys Smith
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OpinionChange requires designers to stick their necks out and propose what a better future might be
Having put out a call for an alternative to the term ‘master plan’ David Rudlin reviews some of the many suggestions
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OpinionMaster plans are for Bond villains
We need to come up with a new name for master planning, but that’s no easy task, writes David Rudlin
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ReviewReview | High Street: How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis
A new book on high streets invites us to see the retail crisis in a different light, and seek out innovative ways to reinvent our urban centres, writes Jennie Savage
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OpinionManchester Unspun: The best guide to transforming a city you’re likely to find
A first hand account of Manchester’s transformation got lots of architects and developers reaching for the index to see what it says about them, writes David Rudlin
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OpinionHow Will Alsop’s vision for a halo over Barnsley ended up paying off
On the eve of the publication of High Street, a new book he has co-authored with Lucy Montague and Victoria Payne, David Rudlin tells the story of how Barnsley almost became a Tuscan hill town
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OpinionWe now have the evidence that proves Jane Jacobs was right – it’s time we started acting on it
Many people are happy to name-drop Jane Jacobs, but fewer seem to have truly listened to and absorbed her message, writes Nicholas Boys Smith
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OpinionOxford's 15-minute city debate risks turning into a ‘gridlock of stupid’
Seemingly innocuous proposals to reduce traffic in Oxford are being framed as a socialist version of the Truman Show, writes David Rudlin
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OpinionThe Professor and the Miner’s Son: the story of Britain's biggest shopping mall
David Rudlin tells the story of how a left-wing planner enabled the son of a miner to build Britain’s largest out-of-town shopping centre
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OpinionWhy we keep missing the target on housing numbers
The proposed changes to planning for housing in the NPPF are unlikely to fix an issue that is undermining our entire planning system, writes David Rudlin
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OpinionA disaster foretold: how a decade of high-rise architecture has blighted London’s skyline
Nine years on from NLA’s ‘London’s Growing Up’ exhibition, Barbara Weiss assesses the impact tall buildings have had on the capital
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OpinionA single School of Place won’t fix placemaking. We need better urban design teaching across the board
A School of Place may be no bad thing, but what we really need is a core curriculum for all urban design courses, which can be rolled out everywhere, writes David Rudlin
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OpinionThe M&S Oxford Street inquiry was a clash of world views
We must stop trying to solve our 21st century problems with 20th century thinking, writes Simon Sturgis
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ReviewHorror in the Modernist Block: The dystopian underside of the modernist vision
Contemporary artists shine a light on the haunting aspects of building design, writes Joe Holyoak