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Sustaining our Passion for Place

Urbanism is not a new concept dreamt up by professionals, but a key component of human evolution. The creation of community wellbeing from agglomeration and specialisation dates from Uruk, 5-6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia.The question of how to optimise the role of settlements and address their resource implications is a huge contemporary conundrum, with over half of the world population now classed as urbanised. help places become resilient, especially when there is pressure on key sectors to default to just jobs, just health, just housing, or just transport, overlooking the whole place in which people live out their lives. We therefore plan a new Place Partnering initiative where, in addition to growing our network of UniverCities, we will provide Diagnostic Visits and Placemaking Charrettes, as well as helping places access useful knowledge like the principles of The Freiburg Charter. We will publish a toolkit of City X-Rays to provide insights into measuring layers of place, and continue to draw lessons from The Awards Finalists through further editions of the Learning from Place book series. Growing towards 500 Academicians, we combine a great breadth of expertise and passion, symbolic of the creative synergy that makes places thrive. We aim to enhance our geographic spread with further outreach events and nurture our growing international relationships. Whatever your background, whether design, economics, planning, development or community activism, if you share our passion for place, we warmly encourage you to participate in our programme.

We plan to partner with more places, helping them to access useful knowledge and expertise drawn from the experience of our Academicians.
Kevin Murray AoU Chairman

The Academy of Urbanism has sought to contribute to the discourse by visiting, analysing and celebrating great places at different scales. We consider that such empirical study helps foster insights into what makes somewhere successful, essentially Learning from Place, our core activity. Through the Urbanism Awards and events like our Annual Congress, we exchange knowledge drawn from a diverse range of places and practitioners. Our studies show that each place is unique, not only in location, geology and climate, but also in its layers of community back-story.This demands a sensitive approach when moving forward, not a one-size-fits-all template. As the Academy matures, it is clear that observing good urbanism is not enough. We need to use practical means to

Cover: Glasgow The European City of the Year 2011 Right: Arabianranta, Helsinki Assessment Visit

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Structure and Programmes

The Academy of Urbanism is an active, not-for-profit membership organisation founded to expand our collective understanding of placemaking and to share best practice. We draw our membership from across many diverse professions and practitioner backgrounds, all with the aim of Learning from Place. The Academy has created a number of Core Programmes to expand and deepen our knowledge of place, each with its own delivery team, drawn from our growing membership. Our Place Partnering programme will capture the knowledge and experience of Academicians, together with the embedded knowledge from the 75 Great Places we have already identified through The Urbanism Awards.

Through Learning from Place we are distilling best practice and through Place Partnering we will deliver active support on the ground.
John Thompson AoU Honorary President

Management
The Board of Directors Executive Team

Developing the Academy

Membership Team Strategy Team Communications Team

Learning from Place

Outreach The Urbanism Awards The Annual Congress Publications City X-Rays

Place Partnering

UniverCities Diagnostic Visits Placemaking Charrettes Visioning

Behind the new agenda for planning is a presumption in favour of sustainable development, great placemaking and giving a stronger voice and role to local communities - ideals we share with the Academy.
Richard McCarthy AoU Director General, Neighbourhoods Department of Communities & Local Government

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Learning from Place

Learning from Place is the key overarching mission of the Academy. Only by an empirical understanding of place can we learn from, then translate, success. So much of our activity is built around this, including: Regional and national events The 10x10x10 seminars The Freiburg Charter Learning from Place books The Annual Congress In addition to our larger scale events, individual Academicians have hosted local events through Great Britain and Ireland as part of the 10x10x10 seminar programme. These have stimulated debate, enlarged the Academys network and set further initiatives in motion. For our Academicians, projects such as Changing Chelmsford, The Freiburg Charter and Understanding Leeds all combine a hands-on-learning experience with a networking opportunity and a means of sharing interest and expertise. For the places we visit as part of our Place Partnering initiative, they gain the inputs and insights of a broad range of high-level experience, represented by the Academicians.

We gain huge insights into positive placemaking by looking across regions and nations, as well as towns and neighbourhoods.
Pam Alexander AoU Director Chief Executive SEEDA

Undertaking outreach activity across Great Britain and Ireland has become a key part of our work, building upon the relationships established through The Urbanism Awards. We have held events in Copenhagen, Dublin, Liverpool, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester, NewcastleGateshead, London, and in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.

Changing Chelmsford - Visioning

Changing Chelmsford is an experimental programme, a prototype of localism in action. It is a collaborative project between the Royal Society of Arts, Chelmsford Borough Council and Essex County Council, and involves a wide range of Academicians. 5 Ways to Wellbeing Connect. . . Be Active. . . Take Notice. . . Keep Learning. . . Give. . . New Economics Foundation This historic market and industrial town faces a challenging scale of growth over the next 20 years. The aim of the project is to engage diverse sections of Chelmsfords communities in developing an understanding of the role and potential of the whole town as an emerging city within the broader context of Essex and the wider region. The brief was to collaboratively develop a clearer identity for Chelmsford by building on its strengths and exploring comparator towns and cities to establish the ingredients to enable our town to become a more innovative and successful place. A series of workshops and discussion programmes has been held that harnesses energy and ideas from leading thinkers and local interests in a way that goes beyond the normal political, planning and regulatory functions of the formal planning process. This has informed new directions and engaged new people in future actions.

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The Freiburg Charter for Sustainable Urbanism

Renowned for decades as one of Europes greenest cities, Freiburg has an important story to tell about postwar reconstruction and challenging conventions with innovative directions in neighbourhood planning, transport and energy, whilst simultaneously maintaining its trajectory to become an extremely liveable place that combines modernity with tradition. Awarded the title of The European City of the Year 2010 by the Academy, the City of Freiburg celebrated this recognition by hosting a special study tour and discourse with Academicians, culminating in the production of a Charter that advocates good practice in sustainable urbanism. The Charter consists of 12 high-level principles, distilled from experience, for reflection and adaptation to suit different geographical circumstances and administrative regimes. The Academy commends the Charter as a tool for progressive dialogue, and we will use it to help raise aspirations and improve practice amongst our growing network of places and people. The English-language version was launched in London with a presentation from Honorary Academician Prof Wulf Daseking, Freiburgs Head of Urban Planning, followed by a seminar at the Ecobuild exhibition. We will continue to disseminate these principles to other audiences across government, practitioner and community sectors.

The Freiburg Charter represents a critical step in the right direction for understanding and delivering high-quality urban planning.
Emma Cariaga AoU Head of Strategic Projects Land Securities Principal Sponsor The Freiburg Charter

Learning from Freiburg The seminar and study visit gave Academicians and their colleagues the unique opportunity to engage with The European City of the Year for 2010 and to help frame the principles of The Freiburg Charter for Sustainable Urbanism.

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The Urbanism Awards

Alongside the diversity of interests and commitment of the Academicians, what makes the Academy special is The Urbanism Awards programme and the learning and relationships that emerge from it. The Awards are focused around place rather than the success of a single profession, organisation or personality. We seek to understand, evaluate, then celebrate Great Places and the lessons they teach us. The Awards for successful Cities, Towns, Neighbourhoods, Streets and Places have already shortlisted 75 locations, a list which grows annually by an additional 15 finalists. Through these Awards the Academy aims to build a relationship with a learning network of finalists, helping each to deliver opportunities to learn from their own place and exchange insights with others who are involved in similar processes of change and renewal. The Freiburg Charter for Sustainable Urbanism has become a landmark by-product of the relationship with the city which was the Academys European City of the Year in 2010. The Awards programme continues to gain wider international recognition every year with Glasgow winning The European City of the Year Award for 2011, against very strong competition from Helsinki and Budapest. The learning gained from the Assessment Visits for each award category, held during late summer, is widely regarded as the best contemporary CPD learning by those involved. These visits are very popular with Academicians and provide host locations with an opportunity to carry out their own self-assessment against the principles contained within the Academys Manifesto.

This Award recognises our collective success in transforming our city over the last 30 years. Working with the Academy and its network of Great Places will enrich our thinking as we develop our Vision for the future.
Alistair MacDonald AoU Head of Planning Glasgow City Council The European City of the Year 2011
The 6 Stage Awards Process 1 January - April Call for Nominations 4 July - September Assessment visits by Academicians

2 April Top 10 places shortlisted 5 October Final vote by Academicians

3 May Academicians vote for Top 3 6 November The Urbanism Awards Ceremony

Winner The European City of the Year The Great Town The Great Neighbourhood The Great Street The Great Place

2007 Edinburgh Ludlow Merchant City, Glasgow Marylebone High Street, London Borough Market, London

2008 Berlin Kilkenny Grainger Town, Newcastle Buchanan Street, Glasgow Peace & Winter Gardens, Sheffield

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The role of Lead Assessor for the Great Place category allowed me to meet the movers and shakers responsible for delivering the schemes and spend time getting under the skin of the place.
Lindsey Whitelaw AoU Founding Director Whitelaw Turkington
Above: Assessors Visit Tobermory Harbour, Isle of Mull The Great Place 2011 Right, top: Westport Great Town Finalist 2011 Right, lower: Hebden Bridge The Great Town 2011

2009 Bristol Richmond Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham Skipton High Street, Skipton Oxford Castle, Oxford

2010 Freiburg Scarborough Coin Street, London Grey Street, Newcastle Sheaf Square, Sheffield

2011 Glasgow Hebden Bridge Northern Quarter, Manchester Exmouth Market, London Tobermory Harbour, Isle of Mull

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The Annual Congress

The Academy hosts an extensive and exciting programme of events that spans Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and, for those lucky enough to make it, even the Caribbean. Alongside The Awards Ceremony, the centrepiece of our annual activity is The Annual Congress and Dinner, which proves each year to be an inspiring, thought provoking and entertaining opportunity for a lively exchange of ideas between Academicians, their guests and a wide range of representatives from our growing network of Great Places. Congress events have been held in Copenhagen, Dublin, Sheffield, NewcastleGateshead and Manchester, with Glasgow to follow. They provide the opportunity for local, regional and international presentations to be balanced with stimulating debate and fascinating insights into the place itself. The local orientation visits, on foot, by bus, even by boat, all contribute localised learning in places delegates may not have visited in depth before. The success of Congress owes as much to the background and passions of its participants as to the insights and inspiration of the invited presenters. Our Congress Dinner speakers, who have included politicians, poets and media personalities, add a further dimension to the proceedings. The Academy aims to share relevant and motivated forms of learning which are also fun. As all good psychologists will tell you, this is the most enjoyable way to learn. So come and enjoy the learning playground that is The Annual Congress!

Congress brings together a rich mix of people sharing a passion for place. Its a great forum for learning.
Jas Atwal AoU Congress Curator Director Jas Atwal Associates

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Participants at The Annual Congress Right, clockwise Rt Hon Lord Hattersley Tamanna Rahman, BBC Panorama Roger McGough CBE, Poet Lemn Sissay MBE, Poet Bottom from left, opposite Panellists: Dick Gleeson, Dublin City Planner Andrew Clarke, Taylor Young Prof Peter Roberts OBE Andy Karski, Tibbalds Planning & Urban Design Kelvin Campbell, Urban Initiatives Christer Larsson, Malm Peter Nears, Peel Holdings Liam Curtin, Northern Quarter John Thorp, Leeds City Architect

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Publications
The Academy collects and distils learning directly from our Core Programmes through a growing number of publications. Our aim is to capture and transfer the collective insight and knowledge of our Academicians and release the innerurbanist in our readers. Our most established publication is Learning from Place, published by Routledge. Each book contains five chapters, drawing lessons from the cities, towns, neighbourhoods, streets and places that have been shortlisted for The Urbanism Awards. Included in each chapter is a thought-provoking narrative written by the Academician who performed the assessment, blended with a commissioned essay which draws out a wider theme on placemaking issues. Highly illustrative and including figuregrounds and vignettes of each of the finalists, the books will build into a compendium of all the remarkable places we have studied. In addition to Learning from Place, we have also published The UniverCities Starter Pack and The Freiburg Charter for Sustainable Urbanism, combining the ideas and essence of what places need to pursue at a strategic level for a successful longterm future. We will continue to draw on our Academicians rich source of knowledge and expertise and expand our publications to include the lessons that can be learned from our City X-Rays and UniverCities programmes.

The Academy has access to a wealth of wisdom and experience of what makes places great. The Learning from Place books allow us to collect and publish this wisdom in a way that we hope will be inspiring and useful.
David Rudlin AoU Academy Publishing Team Director URBED

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Cathedral Quarter, Belfast Theres a renaissance here: come and catch it! Theres a groundswell powered by art, Hear it, taste it, touch it, watch it: A transformation in a citys heart. Of course you need money to make change last And commerce helps to turn things round But art makes sense of the glorious past So the futures on solid creative ground. Galleries and bars and espresso to savour; A fiddle tune and an abstract construction This Quarters a feeling, a notion, a flavour, A place of delight and of subtle instruction So come and write a sonnet or raise a glass of porter In the artistic hub: the Cathedral Quarter!

Ian McMillan AoU Poet-in-Residence

Space Place Life is the Academys annual Awards Ceremony publication, celebrating each of the 15 Finalists with a figure-ground (Space), a vignette (Place) and a poem (Life).

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City X-Rays
The aim of the City X-Rays programme is to capture, test and bottle a range of place-measuring techniques to better understand our surroundings. By working with the Academys growing network of Great Places and UniverCity partners, City X-Rays will enable individuals and groups, from professionals to the public, to evaluate their places performance. in Plymouth, where the University will be working with the City Council on a variety of place-based projects. The programme will strengthen and deepen collaborative working across the City, which has been at the forefront of planning practice in recent years. As the focus for planning now switches to the neighbourhood level, developing a practical set of tools to help communities understand their locality is vital. Building on the success of the Leeds 10x10x10 symposium, we will be exploring a growing number of well-used and innovative City X-Ray techniques, which we will publish as an ever-expanding toolkit.

We aim to capture and publish a range of exemplar City X-Ray methodologies.

Prof Chris Balch AoU Director Professor of Planning University of Plymouth

The breadth of the Academys membership allows us to explore a wide range of approaches which will help a community engage thoughtfully with its surroundings, being able to see with fresh eyes and, by doing so, change perceptions and initiate action. City X-Rays form a key element in the emerging UniverCity programme

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Leeds 10x10x10
This two-day symposium in Leeds, part of the 10x10x10 series, was hugely enjoyable and engaging for all participants. The event was held at MEPCs Wellington Place, which is a memorable and elegant building designed by John Thorp and constructed out of used containers. The hosts, Leeds City Council and Concourse, organised four transect walks through the city where participants were encouraged to explore aspects of Leeds using mobile phone cameras, human intuition and individual curiosity. The subsequent workshops produced intense discussion and were followed by shared learning presentations from previous 10x10x10 hosts from Glasgow, Dublin, Chelmsford, Folkestone, Stoke-on-Trent and Cambridge.

The Academy, with its holistic, inclusive approach, can play a key role in collaboratively raising an awareness of the characteristics of sustainable place-shaping to improve livelihoods through the understanding of place.
John Worthington AoU Director of Learning Founder DEGW

Teamwork at MEPCs Wellington Place Below Petals by John Thorp Leeds City Architect The flower analogy symbolises the aim of reconnecting the city radially and concentrically into an organic whole.

Derry - Londonderry (left) Space Syntax spatial accessibility model of Derry - Londonderry, illustrating the impact of the Peace Bridge, currently under construction.

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Place Partnering - UniverCities

UniverCities promotes place shaping by encouraging partnerships between the town or city (the council), its learning institutions (most likely the university), practitioners and the public. It is essentially about a range of local organisations working together in a particular place to improve and support that place, with a focus on learning, networking and developing and delivering programmes at their own pace. It is an idea that sits very well with localism, neighbourhood planning and with the big society model of places helping themselves to deal with change. The Academy provides support to different groups through the involvement of Academicians in the local area and the creation of a coordinating support group. Regular meetings give the chance for people to share experience with other groups and organisations. We aim to further explore how this approach can help generate real place-based change in a range of communities throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Over the next year we will be supporting our emerging UniverCities to help embed the programme and focus on its value in vision setting and consensus building.

The potential for UniverCities to deliver inclusive change is really exciting.

Hilary Satchwell AoU UniverCities Team Director Tibbalds Planning & Urban Design

The UniverCities Starter Pack, available in print or from the Academys website, offers guidance for those interested in initiating a UniverCity

Glasgow UniverCity The Urban Lab

Glasgow takes part in the Academys UniverCities network through the work of the Urban Laboratory, a partnership between Glasgow City Council and the Mackintosh School of Architecture. The Urban Laboratory is assisting in the preparation of a forward-looking city visioning process entitled Future Glasgow, looking to 2025 and beyond, and drawing analysis and ideas from specialists as well as the wider business and community sectors. The process will give Academicians opportunities to participate in the preparation of the Vision, both in specialist workshops and also via The Academy Congress which will be held in Glasgow in celebration of The European City of the Year Award for 2011.

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Place Partnering - Diagnostic Visits

This new service will help people active in places from streets to city quarters understand the factors that underpin or undermine their success. It will be offered to Award finalists and places seeking to emulate them. An Academy Team will visit, meet partners and prepare a diagnostic report. This will identify the local characteristics that help or hinder success. It will review local aspirations and identify conflicts and synergies. It will suggest priorities for action. It will provide a critical friends assessment of local responsibilities. Hosts will use this diagnosis to strengthen local relationships, commission advice, lobby and bid for support, attract investment, stimulate local participation, and lift local selfimage. The Academy will offer this diagnostic service to help those involved in building and sustaining successful places. It is an important addition to the range of activities undertaken by the Academy, reinforced by what has already been learned through our other programmes.

The Academy of Urbanism brings together the expertise needed to help secure successful places.
Steven Bee AoU Place Partnering Team Principal Urban Counsel

Dublin UniverCity The Creative Dublin Alliance

Against an austere economic backdrop, Dublin is actively embracing the concept of the Trialling or Prototyping City. Collaboration and the need for agility and innovation between its business, universities and communities of practice is central in a context where the local authority sees 1 Exploring 10 topics around the theme of Sustainable Dublin, producing outputs including great stories and identifying priority areas for research. 2 Celebrating 20 years of Temple Bar, applying emerging City X-Ray thinking and key learning from Designing Dublins Love the City project. itself as the architect of conversations. The ultimate aim is to invite citizens and city institutions to co-create the city of the future. The Academy will partner with the Irish capital through The Creative Dublin Alliance, working on four strategic projects:

3 Helping to map the research landscape of the universities, identifying relevant clusters and connecting dynamically with the priority challenges facing the City. 4 Scoping the potential for The Freiburg Charter for Sustainable Urbanism to articulate a model of urban value systems and strategy to unlock the potential of Dublins inner city.

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Getting Involved
Academicians Academicians are nominated by their peers and selected on the basis of their contribution to the making and shaping of places through a variety of both professional and personal experience. Since our inception, we have drawn our membership from a wide range of sectors including urban and landscape design, planning, development, housing, architecture, engineering, community development, politics, economic development, academia, the arts and other media. The breadth of the membership of the Academy is undoubtedly one of our greatest strengths, representing a powerful alliance of knowledge and expertise brought together by a shared passion for place. If you would like to join us in our common quest to rediscover the lost art of great placemaking, please get in touch.

The Academy is on an amazing journey and we are gathering momentum. Our Academicians have a remarkable wealth of knowledge, second to none. I feel privileged to be part of this learning community.
Linda Gledstone Director of Operations
Directors Left to right: John Worthington Chris Brett Prof Chris Balch Janet Sutherland John Thompson (Hon President) Prof Kevin Murray (Chairman) Dick Gleeson George Ferguson CBE Pam Alexander Prof Brian Evans

Assessment Visits Exmouth Market, London (top) Stroud, Gloucestershire (middle) Northern Quarter, Manchester (bottom)

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Sponsorship The Academy of Urbanism is only able to achieve its goals because of the generosity of its sponsors, drawn from across the public and private sectors, all of whom we thank for their support. All our sponsors are enthusiastic and high-profile supporters of good urbanism and we are proud to be associated with their work. We offer a compelling means to promote our sponsors brand image to both a national and international audience. A number of Sponsorship Opportunities are currently available, ranging from 3,000 to 15,000, which can support our Awards, Events and Learning Programmes. Our Supporters-in-Kind provide a wide range of professional services, each valued in excess of 3,000, and play an essential role in supporting the day-to-day activities of our Management Team.

Sponsors at 1 January 2011 Architecture + Design Scotland Barton Willmore Clyde Gateway Dublin City Council Evans Property Group Glasgow City Council Howard de Walden Estate Land Securities Ptarmigan Land Savills Scottish Centre for Regeneration The Muir Group The Peel Group The Scottish Government The Trevor Osborne Property Group WYG Planning and Design Supporters-in-Kind at 1 January 2011 Alan Baxter & Associates BDP Charles Russell Solicitors Ecobuild Gillespies John Thompson & Partners PPS Group Prentis & Co. Space Syntax Terry Farrell & Partners Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design URBED

Management Team Linda Gledstone Director of Operations Stephen Gallagher Communications Manager Dogan Behic Finance Felicity Meerloo Membership If you would like to support us, either through Sponsorship or as a Supporter-in-Kind, please contact Linda Gledstone, the Academys Director of Operations. Tel: +44 (0)20 7251 8777 lg@academyofurbanism.org.uk

Budapest Finalist The European City of the Year 2011

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Directors Prof Kevin Murray (Chairman) John Thompson (Honorary President) Pam Alexander Prof Chris Balch Chris Brett Prof Brian Evans George Ferguson CBE Dick Gleeson Janet Sutherland John Worthington Academicians Arthur Acheson Robert Adam Marcus Adams Lynda Addison OBE Linda Aitken Prof Chris Alexander Sandy Allcock Ben Allgood Ian Angus Debbie Aplin Judith Armitt George Arvanitis Stephen Ashworth Jasvir Atwal Jeff Austin David Balcombe Sue Ball Jonathan Barker Yolande Barnes Alistair Barr Prof Lawrence Barth Andrew Barton Jemma Basham Trevor Beattie Ian Beaumont Matthew Bedward Steven Bee Andrew Beharrall John Bell Michael Bennett Robert Bennett Janet Benton Duncan Berntsen John Best John Betty Joost Beunderman Richard Bickers David Bishop David FL Bishop David Blackwood Murray Noemi Blager Sergey Bobkov Martin Boddy Alan Boldon Ben Bolgar Christopher Boyle Andrew Bramidge Guy Briggs Ross Brodie Jonathan Brown Patricia Brown Mark Burgess Andrew Burrell Jonathan Burroughs John Bury Prof Georgia Butina Watson Peter Butler Stephen Byfield Fiona Campbell Kelvin Campbell Steve Canadine Tony Carey Emma Cariaga James Carr Sam Cassels Sarah Chaplin Prof James Chapman Richard Charge Prof David Chiddick Nick Childs Harry Christophides Tom Clarke Adrian Cole Robert Coles Garry Colligan Paul Collins Martin Colreavy Max Comfort Peter Connolly Karen Cooksley Nick Corbett Rob Cowan David Cowans Toby Crayden Linda Curr Liam Curtin Ned Cussen Alex Davey Prof Trevor Davies Philip Davies Nick Davis Paul Davis Simon Davis Mark Davy Eric Dawson Guy Denton Neil DePrez Ben Derbyshire Andrew Dick Hank Dittmar Sir Jeremy Dixon Andrew Dixon Nick Dodd Mike Donnelly Lord John Doune Martin Downie Roger Dowty Paul Drew Peter Drummond Duncan Ecob Luke Engleback Gavin Erasmus Karen Escott Roger Estop Prof Graeme Evans Roger Evans Nick Ewbank Richard Fagg Dr Nicholas Falk Alan Farningham Sir Terry Farrell Max Farrell Jaimie Ferguson David Flannery Darryl Flay John Foddy Sue Foster Bernie Foulkes Jane Fowles Simon Foxell Alan Francis Jerome Frost William Fulford Jeremy Gardiner Angus Gavin John Geeson Lia Ghilardi Andy Gibbins Prof Mike Gibson Bruce Gilbreth Ian Gilzean Herbert Girardet Christopher Glaister Francis Glare Stephen Gleave Keith Gowenlock Charles Graham Gerry Grams Colin Grant Gary Grant Mark Greaves Stephen Greenberg Ali Grehan Simon Guest Richard Guise Prof Stuart Gulliver Patrick Gulliver Paul Guzzardo Trutz Haase Pete Halsall Tim Hancock Annette Hards Geoff Haslam Helen Hayes Nicholas Hayward Peter Heath Prof Michael Hebbert Michael Hegarty David Height Wayne Hemingway David Hennings Mark Hensman Peter Hibbert Jason Hill Stephen Hill Marie Hodgson Tom Holbrook Tim Holden Eric Holding Guy Hollaway Sam Howes Stephen Howlett Jun Huang David Hughes Prof Maxwell Hutchinson John Hyland Delton Jackson Philip Jackson Sir Simon Jenkins Philip Jones Stephen Jordan Prashant Kapoor Dr Kayvan Karimi Andy Karski Jonathan Kendall Angus Kennedy David Kennedy John Kennedy Ros Kerslake Hugo Kirby Gary Kirk Jim Kirkwood Liezel Kruger Stefan Krummeck Chris Lamb Cllr Andrew Lamont Charles Landry Derek Latham Diarmaid Lawlor Adrian Lee Sir Richard Leese Mick Leggett John Letherland Harry Lewis Michael Lewis Kevin Leyden Michael Liverman David Lock Robin Lomas John Lord Vivien Lovell Michael Lowndes David Lumb John Lyall Barra Mac Ruairi Tom Macartney Robin Machell Roger Madelin

St. Patricks Street, Cork

Union Street, Aberdeen

Princesshay, Exeter

Northern Quarter, Manchester

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Riccardo Marini Andreas Markides Kat Martindale Alona Martinez-Perez James McAdam Steve McAdam Richard McCarthy Donald McCreadie Frank McDonald Prof Michael McGarry Kevin McGeough Marie-Thrse McGivern Patrick McGrogan Nigel McGurk Martin McKay Craig McLaren Alan Mee Alastair Mellon Ian Mellor Prof Roger Milburn David Miles Stephan Miles-Brown Robert Millar Willie Miller Shane Mitchell Kris Mitra Prof Ruth Morrow Elizabeth Motley John Muir Ronnie Muir Eugene Mullan John Mullin Barry Munday Andy Munro Dr Claudia Murray Prof Gordon Murray Chris Murray Hugh Murray Peter Murray Vivek Nanda Stephen Neal Peter Nears Marko Neskovic Trevor Nicholson Lora Nicolaou John Nordon William Nowlan Dr Dell Odeleye Simon Ogden Killian OHiggins Adeola Oke Sean OLaoire Chris Oldershaw Tiago Oliveira John ORegan Trevor Osborne Paul Ostergaard Clara Overes Dr Susan Parham Chris Parkin John Parmiter Prof Richard Parnaby Richard Pearce Adam Peavoy Prof Alan Penn Alison Peters Andrew Petrie Hugh Petter Jon Phipps James Pike Steve Platt Ben Plowden Demetri Porphyrios Dr Sergio Porta Prof David Porter David Powell Robert Powell Sunand Prasad John Prevc David Prichard Paul Prichard Rhona Pringle Douglas Pritchard

Mark Raisbeck Peter Ralph Clive Rand Mike Rawlinson Cllr Sian Read Tony Reddy Richard Rees Richard Reid Amanda Reynolds Christopher Rhodes Antony Rifkin Prof Marion Roberts Prof Peter Roberts OBE Dickon Robinson Stuart Robinson Bryan Roe Lord Richard Rogers Angela Rolfe Pedro Roos Anna Rose Graham Ross Jon Rowland Sarah Royle-Johnson David Rudlin Robert Rummey Gerard Ryan Dr Andrew Ryder Robert Sakula Rhodri Samuel Andrew Sanderson Hilary Satchwell Jamie Saunders Biljana Savic David Schwarz Dominic Scott Toby Shannon Barry Shaw Richard Shaw Keith Shearer Anthony Shoults Ron Sidell Paul Simkins Dr Richard Simmons Alan Simson Jonathan Smales Malcolm Smith John Smylie Jim Sneddon Adrian Spawforth Jerry Spencer Andy Spracklen Visakha Sri Chandrasekera Alan Stewart Martin Stockley Andrew Stokes Alan Stones Tim Stonor Peter Studdert Mick Sweeney Nicholas Sweet Stephen Talboys David Tannahill Ian Tant Prof Robert Tavernor David Taylor Ed Taylor Mike Taylor Nick Taylor Sandy Taylor Catherine Teeling Alison Tero Chris Thompson Robert Thompson Kirsteen Thomson John Thorp Jeremy Till Rob Tincknell Andrew Tindsley Niall Tipping Damian Tissier Canon Andrea Titterington

Ian Tod Peter Tooher Tricia Topping Stephen Tucker Dr Richard Turkington Jonathan Turner Chris Twomey Julia Unwin Valli van Zijl Atam Verdi Andy von Bradsky Brita von Schoenaich John Wakefield Ian Wall Ann Wallis Russell Wallis David Walters Pam Warhurst CBE Paul Warner Nick Wates Rosemary Westbrook Duncan Whatmore Craig White Lindsey Whitelaw Patricia Willoughby Marcus Wilshere James Wilson Chris Winter Godfrey Winterson Matt Wisbey David Woods Nick Woolley Linda Wride Nick Wright Ian Wroot Tony Wyatt Wei Yang Bob Young Roger Zogolovitch Honarary Academicians Jan Gehl Prof Wulf Daseking Poet-in-Residence Ian McMillan Artist-in-Residence David Harrison Graphic Designer Joe Wood

Tobermory Harbour, Isle of Mull

St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh

Exmouth Market, London

Stroud, Gloucestershire

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Photo Credits Portraits Paul Brocklehurst, Niall McInerney, Pete Smith and John Thompson Ian McMillan Des Willie Budapest The City of Budapest Cathedral Quarter Festival Belfast City Council Changing Chelmsford Stephanie Mills Freiburg Group Dr. Rdiger Bruhl Leeds 10x10x10 Dick Gleeson St. Patricks Street, Cork Cork City Council St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh The City of Edinburgh Tobermory Assessment Nick Wright Tobermory Harbour Tobermory Harbour Association Union Street, Aberdeen Aberdeen City Council Westport, Ireland Joseph Romano All other photos John Thompson from the Assessment Visits The Urbanism Awards Front and back cover Buchanan Street, Glasgow The European City of the Year 2011 Glasgow City Council