Emanuele is showing off his work on network configuration and biking habits at Mobil.TUM 2011 in Munich, DE, on April 7-8 2011. His talk, entitled “The contribution of urban form in encouraging everyday walking and cycling in English cities” is the product of a joint effort with Tim Jones aimed …
The Urban Design Studies Unit at Department of Architecture has secured funding from the Sir David Anderson Bequest Fund to support Michael Mehaffy’s one-year collaboration on issues of sustainable urban design theory, practice and education. The Fund is aimed at supporting “the field of science and technology … to invite …
Evening Times of 15/12/2010 announces our event at Barras for the presentation of students’ strategic work to the community and The Glaswegian adds its commentary with an interview to Laura Hannah,one of our students. See our UDSU Face Book page for a gallery of photos. The event also hosted a …
Architecture and urban design students from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow have moved to the community they have been asked to serve. The experiment will last one year and involves a group of 35 students and tutors who set up office in the once famous Barras market in the East …
The Milnbank Housing Association has comissioned UDSU the elaboration of the “Haghill/Milnbank Spatial Development Framework”. A challenging task indeed which focuses on one of the most complex and multifaceted districts of the East End of Glasgow, where intertwined factors of spatial fragmentation, land abandonment and social exclusion have brought the …
Last Tuesday November 2nd 2010 students of the MSc in Urban Design course presented their works at the end of the first phase: analysis. They illustrated and discussed analysis not just with staff, but also with stakeholders, sponsors and the wider community during a post-exam event that looked more like …
Ref: Baird, D. Feeley, M. Russell, P. Wong, K.T. (2010), Alterations in Scale. A Cartography of Urban Structure: Antiquity – New Urbanism, Working Papers of the Urban Design Studies Unit at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. *** *** This Working Paper documents the research work of four Masters students …
Kum Tak Wong’s magnificent design for the regeneration of Govan district in Glasgow is one of the four shortlisted for the Urban Design Group’s Francis Tibbald Student Award 2010. The award, which this year will be assigned during the event held on Wednesday 2nd February 2011 in London, is given …
Ref: Dempsey N, Brown C, Raman S, Porta S, Jenks M, Jones C, Bramley G, (2010), Elements of Urban Form, in Jenks M, Jones C, Dimensions of the Sustainable Cities, Springer, London, 21-51. *** *** This chapter provides a common platform for the research presented in the book regarding …
Ref: Pagliardini, P. Porta, S. Salingaros, N. (2010), Geospatial analysis and living urban geometry, in Jiang B, Yao XA (eds), Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Environments: Structure and Dynamics, Springer, New York, p.331-353. *** *** This essay outlines how to incorporate morphologic rules within the exigencies of our …
