WMUD

conceptual, strategic and development work in urban design, town making, city planning, urbanism and place-making

Custom House Square, Belfast: assessment

We were appointed by the Laganside Corporation with Douglas Wheeler Associates and Crothers Chartered Surveyors to investigate and examine potential leisure and visitor development opportunities to establish an attractive destination to enliven Customs House Square. Laganside Corporation is investing £4m in a bold vision to establish an exciting new ...

Laganside Corporation Term Contract

WMUD is part of a team providing three year team providing regeneration, architecture, urban design and traffic management consultancy services to the Laganside Corporation in Belfast. The contract is led by FaberMaunsell and includes Manogue Architects, Mackel & Doherty Architects and Douglas Wheeler Associates. One of the key areas ...

Regeneration of Laurieston Gorbals, Glasgow

Together with lead consultants Kevin Murray Associates, we have been commissioned by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow in partnership with Glasgow City Council and Communities Scotland to investigate and consider options for the regeneration of Laurieston Gorbals. Although the Gorbals has been the subject of regeneration activity since the late 1980's, recognition ...

Drumchapel Environmental Vision

This study has been commissioned by the Drumchapel Environment Trust (DET) and DRUMCOG. The study area is defined by the boundary of the Drumchapel Social Inclusion Partnership (SIP) area, a substantial area of northwest Glasgow stretching in the south from Great Western Road north to the City Boundary. The original ...

Byres Road and Partick Centres, Glasgow

Together with lead consultants Halcrow Group Ltd, Kevin Murray Associates and Jones Lang la Salle, we have been appointed by Glasgow City Council to produce an Action Plan for the Byres Road/Partick area of the City. The aim of the study is to sustain these centres by providing high quality, ...

North Belfast Environmental Improvements

We have been commissioned by the North Belfast Area Partnership to develop a methodology, including identification of target areas and activities, to improve the attractiveness of the physical environment of North Belfast. Economic change, redevelopment, depopulation and ethnic-religious segregation have had an adverse effect on the environment of the area, ...

November 4th 2008
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A banana republic welcomes Trump

The Scottish Government's approval yesterday of the Trump Organisation's plans for Menie in Aberdeenshire is unsurprising and shameful. Obviously this is a political decision in the face of compelling environmental, economic and planning reasons for refusing the application. Scotland's politicians, like their counterparts at Westminster are so obsessed (and ...
July 12th 2008
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Lewis Mumford on the city

These short film clips featuring Lewis Mumford, author of the City in History, were recently published on the Planum website. Before the end of 1961 the New York publishing company Harcourt, Brace and Co. had the first edition of Lewis Mumford's highly successful book The City In History ready for publication. ...
June 28th 2008
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Signs and the city

The Spring 2008 edition of JoLA, the excellent peer-reviewed academic Journal of Landscape Architecture established by the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools, contains an article on the work of Gregor Graf which raises the question, "How do we read a city without signs?". With a mixture of purist ...

Network mapping

by Drew Mackie It has become fashionable to talk of networks of organisations, people, computers, transport and so on. In organisations there is talk of being more “networky” and getting away from the older more hierarchical ways of doing things. Conferences are organised around “networking” both formal and informal. Yet, the more ...

Remarkable Rieselfeld

Much has been written in recent weeks about Rieselfeld and Vauban, both extensions of Freiburg in Breisgau in south west Germany. These areas have been under construction since the 1990s but the current interest in them from a UK perspective comes from the Government's plans to build a number ...