Seminar course
You can register for any of the seminars at www.urbanevents.org.uk or by e-mailing training@urbandesignlondon.com.
| Seminar course dates | Course code |
Intensive course 1 |
code IC1 |
| Intensive course 2 – 20, 21,22 January 2009 |
code IC2 |
Once a week course 1 |
code WC1 |
| Once a week course 2 3, 10, 24 Feb 3, 10 March 2009 |
code WC2 |
| Once a month course 7 Oct, 11 Nov, 9 Dec, 15 Jan, 12 Feb 08/09 |
code MC1 |
Cost
A number of free places are available for Urban Design London subscribers. Additional places may be available at £650 plus VAT per person for the 5-seminar course.
Dates, times and venues
The intensive courses will run all day for three full days (9.00am – 5.00am).
The other seminars take place in the morning with registration from 9.00am for a 9.30 start. Seminars will end around 1.00pm.
Most seminars will be held at:
Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8AA.
Venue and travel details will be provided a week before each session.
Seminar dates and locations are subject to change.
Seminar 1: Urban Design – its value and principles
This session will explain why good design matters. You will learn what makes places successful and why good urban design is of value. The seminar will cover how good design promotes economic growth, builds social capital, improves health and well being, helps us adapt to climate change, reduce emissions and enhance culture.
Presentations:
- What is urban design and why does it matter? How does it affect your job and who can be an urban designer?
- The value of urban design: What makes a successful place and the principles of good urban design.
Practical exercise:
- Assessing urban design and reading plans by considering a real proposal.
Seminar 2: Urban Design in the real world
This session will help you relate the qualities of good places to real situations. Assessment tools and checklists like Placecheck will be explained and used during site visits to real developments.
Presentation:
- An introduction to appraising the design of existing places: Delegates will appraise an area of the city first by examining plans to highlight possible issues, and then on site. Some specific tools for appraisal such as Placecheck and Building for Life will be critically examined.
Practical exercise:
- Site visits, observation and analysis.
Seminar 3: Urban Design – the policy background and knowing who’s responsible
This seminar will explain relevant design policies and practices which effect how we manage our built environment. It will also explain the variety of roles and responsibilities within built environment management.
Presentations:
- Delivering good design through the development process: How to use our familiar transport engineering and planning policies and systems.
- Partnership and leadership: looking at who is responsible for what and how to work together.
Practical exercise:
- Play the Planning Game. Take on the roles of landowner, developer, planner, and other agents and negotiate the future of a site. See what happens to the design and ask how we can we make it better.
Seminar 4: Urban Design – using the tools
Seminar 4 will focus on the practical side, looking at ways in which you can help ensure, explain and assess design quality. For example, it will cover how best to use pre-application processes, statements, planning appeals, procurement processes and quality assessments to ensure quality outcomes.
Presentations:
- Working with the processes: Explaining best practice guidance on how to use common processes like procurement and planning appeals.
- Assessing Quality: Looking at the different techniques available to assess the quality of schemes, including Design and Access Statements and Design Review.
Practical exercise:
- Have a go at assessing schemes, from major redevelopments to individual buildings, using a range of assessment tools.
Seminar trainers will include:
Jonathan Bore BA (Hons) Dip Urban Design MRTPI Director of Planning at Urban Initiatives
Jonathan is a town planner with overall responsibility for planning matters within the Practice. He has over twenty five years’ experience of national, regional and local planning policy, public inquiries, planning appeals, called-in applications, development plans and planning briefs. He has held senior management positions with the Planning Inspectorate and the Planning Casework Division in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, has conducted many planning inquiries and hearings and has worked with local authorities, architects and developers on major projects, planning and design briefs, planning applications and appeals.
Kelvin Campbell BArch RIBA MRTPI MCIT FRSA Director of Urban Design at Urban Initiatives
Kelvin is a Director and founder member of the Practice and is responsible for urban design and development planning. He has over twenty years’ experience in strategic and local scale urban regeneration, master planning and economic development programmes including town centre revitalisation, arts, cultural and conservation projects, and public/ private sector partnerships.
Rob Cowan Director, Urban Design Group NO LONGER
Rob is a Director of the Urban Design Group and a consultant. He is a well –known lecturer and one of the most experienced trainers in the field of urban design. His latest book, the Dictionary of Urbanism (Streetwise Press, 2005), has been acclaimed as the definitive reference on planning, urban design and regeneration. He was the joint author of the ODPM/CABE design guidance, By Design, and the author of the Scottish equivalent (Designing Places) and the housing design guide for Scotland (Housing Quality). He originated the Placecheck method of community urban design appraisal with the Urban Design Alliance.
John Dales MSc BSc MIHT MCIT MILT Director of Transport and Movement at Urban Initiatives
John has considerable experience in the conception, design, execution and management of a wide range of urban transportation and traffic projects. He specialises in handling the movement and access aspects of inter-disciplinary urban design, masterplanning, and regeneration studies and in preparing and assessing transportation assessments and travel plans for all types of developments.
Peter Dickinson BSc, CEng, MICE, FIHT Technical Consultant IHT
Peter is a Chartered Engineer with 35 years’ local government experience in highways management. Peter is a Fellow of the IHT and, on behalf of the Institution, has been responsible for organising, managing and facilitating the recent IHT/CABE “Streets for People” workshops.
Alex Ely MAE Architects
Alex Ely RIBA is an architect and partner at the Mae LLP Architects. He has a wide range of experience in training, mentoring, writing best practice and enabling. Between 2005–06, Mae have been managing a series of expert urban design and housing design workshops, led by Alex, for Housing Associations called “Building Skills: Building Quality”. The workshops include sessions on Good Urban Design, Good Housing Design, the Preparation of Design and Access Statements, Design Review and the Building for Life Standard and International Best Practice.
Professor George Hazel OBE, BSc, MSc, PhD, RTPI, FIHT, MICE, FILT Managing Director, MRC Mclean Hazel Ltd
Professor Hazel is Managing Director of MRC Mclean Hazel Ltd a consultancy specialising in providing transport advice, concepts and solutions for the public and private sectors. In January 2005, he became the Chair of the Urban Design Alliance (UDAL) in his role as Past President of the IHT and was also awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to Transport. He has written a book on “Making Cities Work” which was published by Wiley in 2004.
Jon Herbert BSc (Hons) DipTP MRTPI Associate at Urban Initiatives
Jon is a chartered planner with eight years’ experience working for major consultancies; prior to joining Urban Initiatives, he worked for Llewelyn Davies and Halcrow Fox. His work has covered the fields of policy and research, integrated planning and transportation, design, regeneration and development.
Daniel Hill MA (Cantab Hons) MEng (Dist) MSc MRTPI Associate Director at Urban Initiatives
Dan is an urban planner and designer with degrees and qualifications in engineering, planning and urban design. He has four years’ project management experience in the private sector. He is currently writing best practice guidance for the GLA and was the primary author for “Start with the Park” (CABE Space).
Steve Lorimer BA (Hons) MPhil MRTPI Associate at Urban Initiatives
Steve is a planner and urban designer with experience in wide-ranging urban design and planning projects in the UK, Ireland, and France. He has worked within all three planning systems writing planning documents, research papers, masterplans, capacity studies and regeneration frameworks.
Jonathan Tricker Associate Director at Urban Initiatives
Jonathan is an innovative and flexible transport planner, with over 10 years’ commercial experience of transport planning and traffic engineering, focusing on development and urban planning. Two particular areas of expertise are “design for access and movement” and transport assessments.
Marcus Wilshere BSc (Hons) DipArch Maud (Dist) RIBA MRTPI
Director of Urban Design at Urban Initiatives Marcus is an urban designer and architect with 20 years experience in a range of building and planning projects. He has expertise in a variety of sectors including commercial developments, arts and heritage based projects and housing design for both the luxury and affordable housing sectors.
Seminar 5: Key issues in Urban Design
This last seminar will allow you to pull together all you have learnt having a go at a practical design exercise.
Presentation:- Recap of previous seminars
- Introduction to the exercise and briefing on specialist design issues.
Practical exercises:
- Applying the principles of good urban design to a case study area, including considering issues of access, heritage, density and mixing uses.
- Focus on one part of the case study area and draw up more detailed design ideas.
- Assess schemes to see if they represent good urban design.
