WMUD

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

Gretna Masterplan

Gretna, Gretna Green and Springfield are affected by the decommissioning of Chapelcross nuclear power plant. The area is also affected by economic challenges common across the South of Scotland related to continuing population reduction and low levels of growth or decline in key industries. At the same time, Gretna ...

CELL Area Masterplan

The CELL area is situated in Castle Morpeth in comprises four settlements - Creswell, Ellington, Linton and Lynemouth. These four settlements have similar problems but they also have distinct characteristics which are important to recognise when planning for their future. The villages have been largely dependent on the mining ...

Twechar Design Guide

We have been appointed by East Dunbartonshire Council to prepare a Design Guide for the village of Twechar incorporating a Landscape Masterplan. The brief describes an interesting and important piece of work - it is also highly topical. It seeks to address a central issue faced by ...

North Chelmsford Area Action Plan

We have been appointed by Chelmsford Borough Council as part of a team led by Kevin Murray Associates to produce an upstream spatial composition as a framework for the development of a masterplan for the North Chelmsford Area Action Plan. The study will involve key stakeholder consultation to explore, ...

Cookstown Urban Design Strategy

We have been appointed by Cookstown District Council in Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to produce an urban design strategy for the centre of this striking and unusual town. First impressions of Cookstown are positive. Members of our team who were not familiar with the town found it to be ...

Bolton Local Distinctiveness Study

Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council have commissioned Kevin Murray Associates, Drew Mackie Associates and ourselves to provide the research baseline for the Building Bolton project, incorporating consultation, urban analysis and policy recommendations. The team has devised a unique approach to Bolton town centre linking the inputs of different ...

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. ...
July 11th 2008
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Finisterre

FINISTERRE from Plexifilm on Vimeo. London has always been a source of influence, inspiration and curiosity. Paul Kelly and Kieran Evans' FINISTERRE tries to identify the dreams that London holds for so many, and the reality of the city -- the spaces between the landmarks, the spaces Londoners inhabit. Presented and scored ...
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 ...