1st Edition
The British Papers Current Thinking on Sustainable City Design
The British Papers is a collection of invited essays and opinions from architectural and urban –design leaders, as a snapshot of current thinking and approaches to sustainable city-making.
This series of essays, compiled and edited by Angela Brady, brings together the thoughts of leading figures in the industry – such as Richard Rogers, Sir Terry Farrell, and Judit Kimpian to name but a few – to share their particular viewpoints about latest design thinking. This wide ranging collection of essays covers everything from Historic England (English Heritage) Carol Pyrah, promoting regeneration via constructive conservation to the Academy of Urbanism Steven Bee, discussing how our history, culture and identity anchor us in place and time. Our top universities – the LSE, Manchester and Birmingham among others – are key to shaping our city-design thinking and creative architects and engineers pave the way with their innovative ideas and projects – and this collection of essays is a testament to their hard work, creativity and ingenuity.
PPRIBA An Integrated Planning and Design Strategy for Urbanising City Regions in China and Asia
Professor Peter Head and Professor Laura Lee
The Electric City
Professor Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode
London: The Compact City
Richard Rogers KBE
High-Speed Stations: A Catalyst for Economic Growth
Sir Terry Farrell
Public Transport TFL Sustainable Urban Design: Public Versus Private Transport
Robin Buckle
The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: Promoting Sustainable Lifestyles
Kathryn Firth
Sustainable Urban Design and UK Specialism
Thomas Bender
Constructive Conservation: English Heritage’s Approach
Carol Pyrah
History, Culture and Identity
Steven Bee
What Is Green Design?
Dr Ken Yeang
Prototyping Innovation and New Systems for Sustainable Architecture
Bill Dunster OBE
Sustainable Urban Design
Chris Wilkinson OBE
Towards a Low-Carbon Design for the Middle East
Nigel Eckersall
Does the Manic Pace of Construction Leave Enough Time and Space for Critical Thinking?
Angela Brady
PPRIBA Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing the Productive City
Andre Viljoen and Professor Katrin Bohn
Urban Vegetation and UrbanAir Quality
Professor A. R. MacKenzie
The Cooling Effects of Trees
Professor Roland Ennos
The Trees and Design Action Group
Sue James
Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change
Professor Susan Roaf
Education, Research and Development
Professor Alan Penn
Evaluating the Energy Performance of Your Property
Dr Judit Kimpian
Creating Sustainable Communities: Process, Place, People
Charles Campion
Protecting the Uniqueness of Each City
David Twohig and Robert Tincknell
New City: Old City A Design Process Locked into Context, Community and Climate
Roddy Langmuir
The Living City: The Role of Technology in Planning, Design and Constructing More Sustainable Cities
Andrew Comer
Low Carbon and Cities: The Future
Simon Sturgis
How to Survive and Thrive in the 21st Century
Justin Bere
A New Kind of Suburbia
Neil Deely
Wilderness City
Bryan Avery
So Watt About China: The Power of 7 Billion Watts. (What’s...? What, Me?)
David Hampton
City of Shallow Hollows
Owen O’Carroll
Biography
Angela Brady is a Director at award winning private practice Brady Mallalieu Architects Ltd, with Robin Mallalieu. Angela was elected President of Royal Institute of British Architects (2011-2013). She reaches a wide public audience as a professional TV broadcaster, promoting Architecture on TV and Radio, along with published articles in books, magazines and blogs as well as running design workshops in schools and galleries as a STEMnet ambassador.
‘The compact city is the only sustainable way of housing a growing urban population. This means creating well-designed neighbourhoods with a live-work mix, and housing affordable to rich and poor, connecting them with walking, cycling and public transport infrastructure, and making public space that is open for all. Allowing sprawl not only destroys valuable natural resources, but also robs cities of the vitality, and potential for meeting friends and strangers, that is the bedrock of civilised society. It is exciting to see the breadth of architectural and design thinking in this collection of essays. I hope it will be widely read, not just by architects and planners, but by the politicians who lead our cities.’ - Richard Rogers KBE
‘It’s good to have a collection of essays with viewpoints from many different backgrounds. Sustainable city making is a collective endeavour and requires industry, government and communities to come together and shape a vision of the future. In the Farrell Review of architecture and the built environment, I made the point that more collaborative and proactive planning is needed to create resilient and adaptive communities. There are many lessons to be learned from these papers about quality design and placemaking.’ - Sir Terry Farrell, Farrells
‘The debate on the future of cities is intrinsically linked to the future of mankind. This collection of essays provides an important overview of the profoundly significant role that the form of the city and the design of buildings play in creating social and environmentally balanced eco-systems.’- Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies, Director, LSE Cities and Urban Age
‘The strength of great places derives from their diversity. This collection of perspectives is similarly diverse. It offers fresh insights that I hope will stimulate further reflection and action to help shape and sustain better places. The Academy of Urbanism promotes better understanding of successful urbanism through learning from place, and celebrates its essential components – Space, Place, Life – through its Annual Urbanism Awards. These papers reflect a similar enthusiasm for and commitment to better places.' - Steven Bee, Chairman, Academy of Urbanism and Principal, Steven Bee Urban Counsel
