URBED
Organisational information
URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) does what its name suggests we specialise in urban design and sustainability in an urban context. We work across the UK from our bases in Manchester and London and for public and private sector clients. Our background is in urban regeneration, something that remains close to our heart. However recent work has ranged from town centre strategies to outline planning applications for large commercial masterplans, from University estate strategies to urban design guidance. This work is united by our core values of urbanism, community, environmental sustainability and design. URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) is an employee-owned co-operative, we now have 11 staff and associates, comprising planners, architects, an economist and a sustainability expert.
Personal Biog
David Rudlin is a director of URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) a cooperative urban design practice in Manchester. He is a planner by training and started his career working on the early stages of the redevelopment of Hulme. He was a founder member of the Homes for Change housing cooperative and with Charlie Baker wrote the seminal Hulme Guide to Development.
He has been responsible for masterplans that have now been built in the New England Quarter in Brighton, Temple Quay in Bristol and East Ketley in Telford. He has also written widely including reports for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Friends of the Earth and the Urban Task Force. This writing is summarised in a book Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood published in 2009 by the Architectural Press. This was described by Richard Rogers as ‘the best analysis (he) had read of the crisis facing the contemporary city’. It has been also been translated into Chinese.
David was a member of the CABE design review committee from 2004 to 2006 and is currently joint chair of the Sheffield Design Panel. He is also Chair of BEAM, an architecture centre and public art agency based in Wakefield. He was a trustee of CUBE in Manchester from 1999 to 2005 and organised the Organic Cities exhibition in the gallery in 2004. He is a founder Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, has been a judge for the Congress of New Urbanism in the US, Europan 08 and the UK Regeneration and Renewal Awards.
URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) does what its name suggests we specialise in urban design and sustainability in an urban context. We work across the UK from our bases in Manchester and London and for public and private sector clients. Our background is in urban regeneration, something that remains close to our heart. However recent work has ranged from town centre strategies to outline planning applications for large commercial masterplans, from University estate strategies to urban design guidance. This work is united by our core values of urbanism, community, environmental sustainability and design. URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) is an employee-owned co-operative, we now have 11 staff and associates, comprising planners, architects, an economist and a sustainability expert.
Personal Biog
David Rudlin is a director of URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) a cooperative urban design practice in Manchester. He is a planner by training and started his career working on the early stages of the redevelopment of Hulme. He was a founder member of the Homes for Change housing cooperative and with Charlie Baker wrote the seminal Hulme Guide to Development.
He has been responsible for masterplans that have now been built in the New England Quarter in Brighton, Temple Quay in Bristol and East Ketley in Telford. He has also written widely including reports for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Friends of the Earth and the Urban Task Force. This writing is summarised in a book Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood published in 2009 by the Architectural Press. This was described by Richard Rogers as ‘the best analysis (he) had read of the crisis facing the contemporary city’. It has been also been translated into Chinese.
David was a member of the CABE design review committee from 2004 to 2006 and is currently joint chair of the Sheffield Design Panel. He is also Chair of BEAM, an architecture centre and public art agency based in Wakefield. He was a trustee of CUBE in Manchester from 1999 to 2005 and organised the Organic Cities exhibition in the gallery in 2004. He is a founder Academician of the Academy of Urbanism, has been a judge for the Congress of New Urbanism in the US, Europan 08 and the UK Regeneration and Renewal Awards.