Good urban form. What is it?
Examining different levels of scale from the whole city, town or village, through a neighbourhood to the street and architectural and landscape detail.
Pinpoints significant deficiencies in the current UK development process that repeatedly lead to poor outcomes at the strategic and local scales.
The UDG are offering panels of appropriately skilled advisers to assist local government in
the preparation of local plans. In particular, with strategic urban design input from
character assessments through urban design options to spatial plans and ‘visions for growth’. The aim is to speed, not delay the process of planning.
Whilst this is about the UK experience, the presentation may contain lessons for development processes in other countries.
Roger Evans is an architect, urban planner, urban designer and founding director of Studio Real based in Oxford UK.
He is a past Chair of the Urban Design Group and has taught as a visiting lecturer on urban design at several UK university courses. He has been a member of advisory panels to government, writes extensively in the professional press on urban design issues and sits on several local authority design review panels. Roger is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism and a former Trustee of the Urban Design Group. He has led major urban design studies for a wide range of historic, new and emerging towns and cities throughout the UK and also in Europe and the Middle East. He has a special interest in urban form and how good urbanism can be achieved through the planning system. (Copyright Studio Real)
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