Applied Urban Design: Shaping Urban Design as a Technical Discipline.

04/08/2025

Presenters: Dr Philip Black; Dr Michael Martin; Mr Robert Phillips.
00:00 – Philip Black: Introduction. The Applied Urban Design Framework
01:39 – Why design?
02:42 – Who for?
03:28 – What we design
04:46 – How we design
05:21 – A contextually responsive approach
09:46 – What is the urban designer
11:20 – The team and the book
14:18 – Urban design, an emerging discipline
14:50 – Context
17:40 – Bob Phillips: The Applied Urban Design Framework
20:58 – Case studies
22:31 – Context as the engine
26:15 – The Pivot (linking the analysis and design process)
28:30 – Design
31:55 – Context / Pivot / Design
32:44 – Michael Martin: Urban design futures
35:34 – How can the framework be used?
40:12 – Philip Black: Re-framing urban design
42:45 – Education
43:56 – Skills
45:02 – Experience
46:08 – A technical discipline?
Dr Philip Black is Director of the Manchester Urban Design LAB (MUD-Lab), Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Lead of Urban Design Programmes at the University of Manchester UK
Dr Michael Martin is a Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning and Director of the MA Urban Design and Planning at the University of Sheffield
Robert Phillips is a Director at Urban Imprint Ltd, an RTPI award winning planning and design consultancy in Macclesfield UK, and an Honorary Lecturer in Urban Design at University of Manchester
Co-author of the book (not on this recording): Dr Taki Sonbli is Manager of the Manchester Urban Design Lab and Technical Lead Specialist for all urban design programmes at University of Manchester.
Recorded by and © Philip Black, Michael Martin, Robert Phillips.
Copyright compliance regarding the images and illustrations in this presentation has been assured by the authors.

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