Iain Brodie, our MSc UD Student in 2010-11, won the prestigious UDG Award for the best Urban Design student work in the UK. Announced by Urban Update the Urban Design Group Student Award 2012 winners: “Richard Hayward introduced the students awards, announcing the winner: Ian Brodie (University of Strathclyde) for his …
Michael Mehaffy will lecture on “SUSTAINABLE URBAN FORM: The Modern Structure of Walkable Cities”. The lecture will take place at Department of Architecture of University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, on Tuesday May 10th at 6.00pm. The event, partnered by Glasgow City Council and the Sustainable Glasgow Initiative, will be opened by …
UDSU, in partnership with ICSS Institute of Complex System at Strathclyde, organizes the Evolution of Complex Transportation Networks (ECTN) Workshop to be held at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, on 29-30 August 2011. The list of invited speaker includes: Dr. Marc Barthélemy Institute of Theoretical Physics, CEA, Saclay, France. Prof. Andy …
Sergio and Eugenio are going to present a paper entitled “Urban Morphometrics: Measuring the principal components of the city block morphospace”, authored with Emanuele, Andrea and Ombretta, at the ISUF 2011 Conference in Montreal, CA, next August 26-29 August 2011. The paper presents a first collection of results of 3 …
Emanuele is showing off his work on network configuration and biking habits at Mobil.TUM 2011 in Munich, DE, on April 7-8 2011. His talk, entitled “The contribution of urban form in encouraging everyday walking and cycling in English cities” is the product of a joint effort with Tim Jones aimed …
The Urban Design Studies Unit at Department of Architecture has secured funding from the Sir David Anderson Bequest Fund to support Michael Mehaffy’s one-year collaboration on issues of sustainable urban design theory, practice and education. The Fund is aimed at supporting “the field of science and technology … to invite …
Evening Times of 15/12/2010 announces our event at Barras for the presentation of students’ strategic work to the community and The Glaswegian adds its commentary with an interview to Laura Hannah,one of our students. See our UDSU Face Book page for a gallery of photos. The event also hosted a …
Last Tuesday November 2nd 2010 students of the MSc in Urban Design course presented their works at the end of the first phase: analysis. They illustrated and discussed analysis not just with staff, but also with stakeholders, sponsors and the wider community during a post-exam event that looked more like …
Kum Tak Wong’s magnificent design for the regeneration of Govan district in Glasgow is one of the four shortlisted for the Urban Design Group’s Francis Tibbald Student Award 2010. The award, which this year will be assigned during the event held on Wednesday 2nd February 2011 in London, is given …
The RTPI West of Scotland Chapter’s Convener John Walls reviews the Award for Excellence 2010 given to Peter Russell for his Masterplan of the Govan Area in Glasgow realized in our MSc in Urban Design course. In particular, John writes on the August 2010 issue of “ScottishPlanners”: “Peter Russell from …
