Our #UrbanDesignGroup talk on Cumbernauld Town Centre is online if you'd like to take a look: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_jj...

The book can be bought here: concretedreams.org.uk/book/

@chrislesliephoto.bsky.social @dialectographer.bsky.social @librariesnl.bsky.social #Cumbernauld #Brutalism

Massive thanks to #UrbanDesignGroup for hosting last night’s event in #AlanBaxterGallery for our book #AppliedUrbanDesign 📕!

Fab chatting w. practitioners across the #builtenvironment- thanks so much for coming! PhilBlack BobPhillips & I had a blast!

Very cool to see our 📕 in #RIBA bookshop too 😎

Motonormativity invites isolation and intimidation. Designing specifically for women invites safer streets for everyone else.

Find out more in this week’s Sketch…

#urbandesign #womenssafety #manualforstreets #equalityact #motonormativity #placemaking #amirite #placemakers #nppf #urbandesigngroup

It’s official! Don’t mess with LTNs. Leave them be. It’s good to see the law finally sticking up for something that saves lives.

Get all the juice in this week’s Sketch!

#lowtrafficneighbourhoods #ltn #filteredpermeability #urbandesigngroup

A quick look at the revised NPPF with only a mug of weapon’s grade coffee and some ulcer-inducing trepidation between me and the transport planning elephant in the room.

Get all the juice in this week’s Sketch!

#placemaking #walking #cycling #activetravel #newyearresolution #urbandesigngroup #udg

Even engineers are now calling for joined up working, placemaking and a recruitment drive for built environment professionals.

But are they just fuelling the war on the motorist?

Find out in this week’s Sketch…

#urbandesigngroup #newtowns #placemaking #cykelslangen

We know 20mph limits save lives. But how does this tie in to the government’s plans for “well-connected, well-designed, sustainable and attractive” new towns?

Find out in this week’s Sketch…

#20mph #urbandesigngroup #newtowns #manualforstreets #pedestrians #cyclists #motonormativity

Why are we building new housing estates with no facilities? The NHS wants to get Britain walking and cycling more, but what’s the point if there is nowhere for people to walk or cycle to? Let’s investigate in this week’s Sketch…
#LTN #LTNs #walking #cycling #publictransport #20mph #urbandesigngroup

Perhaps when Manual for Streets 3 is finally published it should call for pavements to be a minimum of 3m wide rather than the current 2m?

#placemaking #urbandesigngroup #udg #cities #urbandesign #janejacbos #children #motonormativity #streets #streetsforpeople

✅ Investing in good design will increase the value of your scheme! Find out how in this week’s Sketch...

#placemaking #urbandesign #urbandesigners #officeforplace #urbandesigngroup #udg #manualforstreets #walking #cycling #nowheresville

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Why are highways authorities able to continue using outdated guidance when this puts vulnerable road users at unnecessary and potentially fatal risk?
#placemaking #janejacobs #jangehl #manualforstreets #urbandesigngroup #udg #LTN1/20 #nationaldesignguide #nationalmodeldesigncode #gearchange #NPPF