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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. |
Ordsall riverside: A new Riverside Quarter
The masterplan for a new neighbourhood, Ordsall Riverside in Salford, aims to avoid piecemeal development and to create a vibrant mixed use waterfront quarter providing continued employment opportunities and riverside living. By Hugo Nowell The DNA of successful places
Through a combination of research and practical experience in the UK and Europe, URBED has built up unique insights into achieving the goals of ‘eco towns’. Lessons from new suburbs in the Netherlands and Germany inform the density debate and the challenges new housing must address, says Dr Nicholas Falk Knitting the city together
With the 2014 Commonwealth Games on the horizon, the opportunity to deliver radical and far-reaching ‘place change’ in one of Glasgow’s most deprived communities is considerable, says Stephen TuckerBespoke house types add quality and character
The South Devon College Campus regeneration scheme, Torquay, features bespoke house designs and an integrated public realm that balances the needs of traffic and parking, says Christopher Wilson Hampton: taking the long view
Hampton, a residential-led mixed use new community south of Peterborough, will have been 25 years in the making once complete. It takes a great deal of commitment and attention to detail to create a place that accommodates 8,000 homes, schools, ‘free range kids' and a colony of great crested newts, says Heather Pugh Northfields development, Colchester: making new connections
Northfields is an outward facing residential development set within a traditional network of street and spaces, well linked to its surroundings and the town centre, says Darren ShorterWhat lessons can we learn from the new settlement of Cambourne?
Cambourne is a new settlement, masterplanned by Terry Farrell and Partners. It is in fact a new hybrid – an ‘exurb’ – says Dr Stephen Platt, asked to report on progress being made. Does Cambourne meets the objectives of the original masterplan? What lessons can be drawn from it to guide future large-scale development? By Dr Stephen Platt Merton Rise, Popley: blending new with old
Community integration and the wish to avoid a potential ‘us and them’ situation were key drivers behind an urban extension at Merton Rise, Popley, says Hilary Satchwell
Upton: design codes as a collaborative tool
At Upton, design codes have been used to raise the standard of housebuilding and encourage developers to explore the Northamptonshire vernacular rather than to prescribe architectural style, say Guy Briggs and Giles Thomson
