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Case studiesRUDI's specialist team has, over the years, created detailed case studies relating to urban design projects around the world.We hope to provide many more such examples focusing on projects, case studies and works in progress, and we welcome any information that you would like to share with others on this site. Please contact us with your comments and case study suggestions.Click here for a 'quick link' to an alphabetical listing, by place name, of case studies. Alternatively, browse the taster pages below for each case study and click on the hyperlink to access the full case study information. Project overviewsWe also publish 'in a nutshell' project overviews featuring project data supported by images, plans and drawings, where available. Projects may be of any type: streets, housing estates, parks, squares, walkways, waterfronts – any part of the built environment in any part of the world as long as it references points of interest.We welcome submissions for this section, please contact RUDI for details. |
Streets are places, too
Local authorities could – and should – have taken a little trouble to make sure that road design and maintenance was coordinated with town planning. But, says Colin Davis, most of them didn’t, leaving us with many problems to address. Greenwich Peninsula: A place in the making
A stretch of undeveloped land on a distinctive curve of the Thames has provided a blank canvas and an unrivalled opportunity to develop Greenwich Peninsula, a new place for London Vital and viable towns
Measuring the relationship between successful public realm and successful development. By Roger Evans and Conrad Kickert (REAL) DIY urbanism
The idea of supporting communities of self-builders is gaining ground in the UK, says Juliana O’Rourke Do you speak placemaking?
Faced with the practical implications of placemaking, the need for a common language and a move to interdisciplinary teamwork is paramount, says Paul Reynolds, leader of the urban design team at Atkins London All parties working together: Dove Lane, Bristol
The Dove Lane project in St Paul’s, Bristol, encouraged a collaborative approach in two ways: an innovative community consultation plan engaged the public, while the development partners signed a Planning Performance Agreement (PPA). By Jim Weddell, urban design director at RPS More than the sum of its parts
We need to learn from traditional placemaking, and not turn our backs on the streets, the squares and the places that have been successful through the ages. Academy of Urbanism directors talk ‘place' with Placemaking Survival of the fittest: places must respond to survive
Planning meets preservation; urban design meets conservation. If we reconcile identity and technology, there is no reason why character and innovation should not go together, says Jack Warshaw
For place’s sake – refurbish, don’t rebuild
Preserving the unique sense of place and identity associated with communities is a key element of placemaking. The refurbishment of homes, rather than demolition and replacement, should be seen as a favourable sustainability option, says Cathy Hough, Energy for Sustainable Development (ESD) 
