The new course Designing Cities aims to train professional planners who has skills in urban design and site planning and who who can make a valuable contribution to sustainable development in an international context. It aims to address a gap…
...read more
‘Hello everyone, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Luka Zumbach. I’m a student currently living in the United States. I was accepted to the Designing Cities course this summer, then decided to go for a deferred entry and…
...read more
Designing Cities has already started and today we have launched the Designing Cities Talk Series. Michael Neuman, recently appointed as Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at the University of Westminster and will be joining us in early 2017, opened the talk series….
...read more
In a recent trip to China, I was invited to attend the International Forum on Small Settlements Conservation (12th – 14th October 2016) in the Qiandongnan Prefecture of the Guizhou Province. It is the poorest Province of China with almost…
...read more
During our first session of the Contemporary Issues in Designing Cities module we visited the Olympic Park at Stratford. Alex Savine, the Head of Planning Policy, and Allison De Marco, Head of Development Management, gave us a presentation on the work…
...read more
A warm welcome to our first cohort of Designing Cities students! The ice-breaking exercise was to discover the ‘everyday urbanism’ of London through direct observations and by taking pictures of daily activities and people. Cities are shaped by different actors resulting in…
...read more
Designing Cities Orientation Week, 19/21 September 2016. Introduction and Project@London on ‘Living Cities‘ @TateModern, ways to discovering London! Picture: kids playing on a large floor-based rubber map of the city of Beirut, ‘Beirut Caoutchouc‘, Marwan Rechmaoui, 2004-8 © Tate, London [2016]. The map of the…
...read more