PARTNERS & SPONSORS

Health

Happiness

Harmony:

The role of

Urban Design

THE NATIONAL URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE 2017

Manchester

7th – 9th September

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The aim of the 2017 National Urban Design Conference is, as always, to create a

partnership between all professionals and decision makers involved in the design of towns

and cities.

It is only by working together at all levels, sharing our knowledge and experience, that we

can strive to avoid the much vaunted mistakes of the recent past; sadly, we still see

fundamental urban design errors being carried forward in new development. But we can

also learn and appreciate what works well, through an understanding of our enduring

heritage, a sensitive response to context, and foresight into future challenges, to create

resilient, adaptable and lasting places of delight for the future.

Everyone who cares about the urban environment in which they live, and wants to do

better, is therefore welcome at conference.

THEME

The UK is facing massive challenges in these uncertain times: in providing new housing for

an expanding population, while improving the liveability of towns and cities for all; in

addressing the social injustice evident in inequalities of health, mortality and quality of life;

in balancing demands on land for new settlements, with food production and conservation

of the diversity of natural habitats; and addressing the social injustice evident in the stark

contrast between areas of affluence and growth and those left behind by post-industrial

changes in the economy.

The conference therefore looks at examples of projects that can enhance the health,

happiness and harmony of the UK population, and the lessons that can be drawn, and

generally applied, from here and abroad. It aims to show how successful urban design

depends on a holistic approach to the integration of development, land-use planning,

transport planning and urban engineering.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS We are grateful for the generous sponsorship of Green Blue Urban, Broadway Malyan, IBI,

Tibbalds, McCaul, and Boyer in helping us keep costs low and affordable, to enable the

widest attendance.

National Urban Design Conference 2017 – University of Manchester

Health Happiness Harmony: The role of urban design

Thursday 7 September

8.00I Exhibition setup (Individual organisations, practices, sponsors, Manchester students’ end of year show).

8.30 Registration

9.30 Start of Conference Welcome Colin Pullan, Urban Design Director, Lichfields, Chair Urban Design Group.

9.40 UrbanDesignFest Short, high energy presentations showcasing research, ideas, opinions & projects – including:

� Recycled Railway Corridors: Opportunities harnessed and possibilities explored

Tom Froggatt, independent consultant.

� Jographies: creating a network of running routes

David McKenna, Studio Associate Director, IBI Group.

� How a large scale approach is the key to better places

Katja Stille, Tibbalds

� Healthy New Towns – a view from the North West

Andrew Clarke, Director WYG

� Ocean Estate London – regeneration for health, happiness and harmony

Glynn Tully, Associate Director, Head of Urban Design, Levitt Bernstein

� Essex Design Guide 2017: A charter for Growth

Martin Ivatt, Place Services – Essex County Council � Public Realm: Design for Intersection and Unexpected Confluences

Christopher Fannin, Director of Planning, HOK.

� Hidden Spaces, Healthy Streets

Danny Crump, Director of Urbanism, Broadway Malyan

� Landscape practice survey

John Clay Head of Research, AHC

� Transformation

Husam Al Waer, University of Dundee

� Waste of Space

Wendy Davis, Director, Rooms of our Own

� ACTIVATOR, the digital high street

Anna Reiter, Director, Tyréns � Inclusive Design

Joan Rutherford, Joint Chair Manchester Women's Design Group, Member: Manchester

Disabled People's Access Group; TfGM Disability Design Reference Group; Age-Friendly

Manchester Design Group, and Care & Repair England NW representative.

� Designing the Underworld: the key to civilising our cities

Robert Huxford, Director, Urban Design Group.

10.40 Coffee break

11.00

Lecture

Theatre

Health Happiness Harmony: Setting the Scene

Chair: Dr Philip Black, Head of Urban Design programme, University of Manchester

� The need for a wellbeing science of cities: “Candy Floss v Parsnips”

Jamie Anderson, Senior consultant & co-investigator

� Physical Activity and Urban Environments: The Evidence

Andrew Raven, Director, Urban Design, Savills.

� Healthy Cities; Healthy New Towns – the latest on the NHS programme

Marcus Wilshere, London Masterplanning Lead, IBI Group & Urban Design

Group Trustee.

� City of Wellbeing: A radical guide to planning

Professor Hugh Barton, University of the West of England.

Discussion & debate.

12.30 UDG AGM for subscribing members of the Urban Design Group

12.30 Lunch

1.30 Introductory Lecture: Manchester - 200 years of planning and urban design

Bob Phillips Chair RTPI North West.

1.50

Health Happiness Harmony Research at University of Manchester Learn more about how people live in urban areas, the way they behave, and what can be done to

improve their quality of life.

Opening welcome and SPA-Lab research overview

Prof Richard Kingston (Head of Department and Professor of Planning and GIS)

Masterplanning for Urban Intelligence

Dr Joe Ravetz (Architecture)

Historical and Political Context of Green Infrastructure

Dr Mark Usher (Human Geography)

Temporary Urbanism in England’s Core Cities

Mr Michael Martin (Urban Design and Planning)

Wellbeing Evaluation in the Urban Built Environment

Dr Kelly Watson (Manchester Urban Institute)

Urban Design’ s Relationship with the Bicycle

Dr Philip Black (Urban Design / Programme Director MSc Urban Design)

Manchester Urban Design Course Yearbook Launch

3.00 Tea break

3.20 Health Happiness Harmony: Major Challenges Chair: Bob Phillips Chair RTPI North West & Urban Imprint

� Conflict and Urban Design: a global view

Colin James, Director, Urban Design, WYG.

� Transport for New Homes: Car dependence is the norm for new development

Jenny Raggett, Transport for New Homes.

� Vision Zero: Bringing an end to death and serious injuries on our streets

Professor John Whitelegg, Vision Zero UK.

Discussion

4.30 Lecture Theatre

The bigger picture Chair: Monica Qing, Head of

Placemaking, Thurrock Council

� The Urban Revolution

Michael Cowdy, Director, Global

Urbanism Leader, McGregor Coxall

� Alliances for Health, Harmony

and Happiness

Malcolm Noble, Chairman, Royal

Caledonian Education Trust.

� Towards a Healthy Happy

Harmonious Glasgow

Graham Ross, Partner, Austin

Smith Lord.

Studio

Designing for

Diversity

Workshop led by

Joan Rutherford

with

David McKenna, Studio

Associate Director

IBI Group.

Studio

Planning and

Design for Public

Health and

Wellbeing

Workshop led by

Jenny Fisher

with

Helen Forman and

Peter Nixon

Leeds City Council

5.30 Refreshments and buffet

6.15 Built Environment Question Time All welcome Organised and hosted by RTPI NorthWest

Chaired by RTPI NW Regional Chairman, Bob Phillips, Urban Imprint

Panellists include

� Cllr Sean Anstee, Leader of Trafford Council

� Stephen Gleave, Turley

� James Sidlow, Allied London

� Chris Monkman, Urban Splash

� Philippa Reece, Southway Housing Trust

� Killian Garvey, Kings Chambers

7.50 Close

National Urban Design Conference 2017 – University of Manchester

Health Happiness Harmony: How Urban Design can make it happen

Friday 8 September

8.30 Registration

9.30 Welcome: Colin Pullan, Chair Urban Design Group

� Opening Address

Sir Richard Leese, Leader, Manchester City Council, Deputy Mayor, Greater Manchester

Combined Authority

9.50 Towards a deeper understanding of health and wellbeing

� Wellbeing: What Works

Professor Rhiannon Corcoran, Institute of Psychology, University of Liverpool

� Biophilic design

Professor Alan Simson, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Forestry Leeds

Beckett University

� Psychology of Cities

Chris Murray, Director, Core Cities UK

11.15 Coffee break

11.45

Lecture Theatre

Challenges for New settlements Chaired by Tony Mulhall

Associate Director, RICS

� Garden Cities: what should they be like?

Philip Ross, Co-founder,

Garden Cities Alliance.

� Delivering health, happiness and

harmony with Garden Villages

Mark Blain, Director Design, Turley.

� Connected Cities: a global urban strategy

Brian Q Love, Chief Executive,

Connected Cities.

� Transit Oriented Development:

A blueprint for C21st Garden City

Simon Catton, Head of Masterplanning

Weston Williamson.

Studio 1

Detailed Design Chaired by Stephen O’Malley

Founding Director, Civic Engineers

� Active Design: planning for health &

wellbeing through sport & physical activity

Keith Brown, Associate,

David Lock Associates.

� Do urban designers get cycling? And if they

don’t what should we do about it?

Phil Jones, Phil Jones Associates.

� Designing the Public Realm for economic

regeneration, people and public transport

David McKenna, Studio Associate Director

IBI Group.

� Living happy is living healthy – from

landscape frameworks to housing space

standards

Ananya Bannerjee, Director Design, Boyer

1.15 Lunch & Exhibition

2.00 Presentations and Workshops Lecture Theatre

Regeneration and

Remodelling

Chair: Hilary Satchwell

Director, Tibbalds

� Supurbia: Densifying the

Suburbs

Scott Elliott Adams,

Senior Designer, HTA

� Place First: Transforming the

Terrace

Martin Ellerby, Head of New

Business & Innovation, Place

First

Workshop & Presentations

Involvement

Chair: Laura Alvarez, Alkiki &

Convenor UDG East Midlands

� The social impact of

engagement in the design

process

Jo Harrop, Director, PLACED,

Built Environment Education

� From non-place to third space:

re-appropriating public space in

international City Business

Districts for play

Safeer Shersad, Bartlett School

of Planning

� A Cautionary Tale:

‘Stakeholdering’ public

consultation and the over

pedestrianisation of Liverpool

city centre

Victoria Lawson, PhD

Researcher, University of

Manchester

Workshop & Presentation

Asian Cities

Routes to Smarter

Urbanisation

Workshop facilitated by Dr

Nicholas Falk, Director, The

URBED Trust

+ short presentations

� City Visions and Rapid

Urbanisation: Pursuing Health

and Sustainability in India’s

newest city

Rowan Mackay, Urban Designer

and Researcher

3:00 Lecture theatre

Views and Virtual

Models

Chair: TBC

� Virtual City Models

Paul Oesten-Creasey

Associate Director, VU.CITY

� Southampton Views Study

Stuart Randle & Richard

Summers, Boyle and

Summers

� Designing energy efficient

neighbourhoods using

Virtual Reality

Professor Terence Fernando,

University of Salford.

Presentations

Public Realm Detailed

Design

Chair: Leo Hammond

Senior Urban Designer, PTE

� Food and Urbanism: The

Convivial City and a Sustainable

Future

Sue Parham, Head of Urbanism,

Centre for Sustainable

Communities University of

Hertfordshire

� London’s East-West Cycle

Superhighway: Case Study

Joy Wigg, Transport for London

� Sustrans Community Street

Design, Zoe Spiliopoulou, Head of

Built Environment

Workshop

How to make health count

in the planning system

Workshop led by Graham Marshall,

Visiting Fellow, University of

Liverpool

� Kay Pallaris, Environmental

Wellbeing Planning Consultant,

The Bartlett Development

Planning Unit, UCL

� Sarah Johnson Griffiths, Public

Health Consultant at Halton

Borough Council

4.00 Tea Break

4.20

Making Things Happen

Chair, David Rudlin, URBED, and Chair Academy of Urbanism

� Lessons from the North West

Lichfields

� Making strategic urban design and masterplanning projects work – Five

Lessons

Dr Deb Upadhyaya, Specialist (Planning), Homes & Communities Agency

� How to change the built environment: the story of the 20s Plenty campaign,

with tips for the urban design community

Rod King CBE, Founder, 20s Plenty for Us

5.20 Concluding remarks: Colin Pullan

Friday

Evening

7.00 for

7.30

Annual Dinner at The Principal, Oxford Rd/Whitworth St.

This year’s dinner takes place in the fabulous setting of the Refuge Assurance building of

1912, Designed by architects Alfred and Paul Waterhouse, the building is the apogee of

"Manchester style" late C19 commercial architecture. The dinner takes place in the Directors’

Rooms.

Welcome address:

Kevin Eastham, Founder member of the UDG

After dinner speaker:

Richard Reid, Richard Reid Architects,

The View from the Street – Updating Townscape – first hand memories of

Cullen, Nairn, Brown, Pevsner and De Hastings – and what they might say today

about creating attractive, walkable, convivial streets.

Saturday

Morning

10-12

noon

Urban Design Walking Tours

FREE All Welcome

Full Details will be emailed

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