Urbanism

David Rudlin, Rob Thompson, Sarah Jarvis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781138474086
• eBook ISBN: 9781317213895
• Topic: Arquitectura
• Subtopic: Planificación urbana y paisajismo

The Academy of Urbanism was founded in 2006 with a mission to recognise, encourage and celebrate great places across the UK, Europe and beyond, and the people and organisations that create and sustain them. This book is a compendium of seventy five places that have been shortlisted as part of the Academy's annual awards scheme which covers great Places, Streets, Neighbourhoods, Towns and Cities.

Included are 75 places shortlisted between 2009 and 2013. Each has been visited by a team of Academicians who have spent time in the place, talked to officials and local people and sought to understand what it is that makes them special and how they have achieved what they have achieved. The Academy also commissions a poem, a drawing and a figure ground plan to understand and interpret the place. David Rudlin, Rob Thompson and Sarah Jarvis have drawn on this treasure trove of material to tell the story of these 75 places. In doing so they have created the most comprehensive compendium of great urban places to have been published for many years.

Index

Aalto University, Finland 43

Abercrombie, Charles 198

Aber deen, Union Street 157, 158, 198–200

Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807) 19

Academy of Urbanism: awards - see awards,

Academy of Urbanism;

collective expertise of 3

formation 1–2

methodology 2

Accordia, Cambridge 113, 116–17, 247;

Stirling Prize (2008) 117

acupuncture, urban 227, 247

Adam, Robert 233

Adams Building, Lace Market (Nottingham) 139

administrative boundaries, neighbourhoods 113

Affleck & Brown department store, Northern Quarter(Manchester) 141, 143

ageing population see retired people/ageing population Ainscow, Carol 55

‘Albertopolis’ (west London institutions) 169

Alfama, Lisbon 45, 47

Alsop, Will 205, 206

Anderson, George 175

Anderson, Gerry 81

Another Place project, Sefton 208, 209

Anselm, Abbot 77

Antwerp 7, 8–11

population losses 6, 9

port 6, 9, 10

regeneration 9, 11

slow urbanism approach 9, 11

Strategic Spatial Structure Plan 9, 11

arcades, Cardiff 157, 159, 160–1

architecture 1

anti-architecture plan 217

in Bordeaux 12, 13, 14

in Bradford (City Park) 204

in Brighton (North Laine) 218

in Bury St Edmunds 73

in Cambridge (Accordia) 116, 117

in Cardiff (arcades) 160

in Chester 77

in Chichester 79

Dark Architecture 61

in Dublin (Temple Bar) 217

in Edinburgh (Cockburn Street) 167

Elizabethan 77

in Exeter (Princesshay) 117, 225

in Freiburg 24

in Glasgow 31

Gothic 77, 79

‘iconic’ 37, 63, 221

in Kensington 186

in Lincoln (Ste...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Contributors and Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Urbanism: The ingredient of great places
• Cities
• Towns
• Neighbourhoods
• Streets
• Places
• Conclusion: What we can learn from place
• Picture Credits
• Index
• The Academy of Urbanism