WMUD

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

Keswick Greenspace Strategy

This Greenspace Strategy for Keswick has been commissioned by Keswick Area Partnership Ltd and is the first greenspace strategy for the town. It will set out a vision and aims for all greenspace within the town and the study will involve the local community to a great extent in ...

Keith Urban Design Framework

We have been commissioned by The Moray Council on behalf of the Keith Strathisla Regeneration Partnership for the preparation of a Keith Urban Design Framework. The brief describes an interesting and important piece of work and seeks to address issues faced by many small settlements at this time. ...

Supplementary Planning Guidance - Scottish Borders Council

The objective of this study commissioned by Scottish Borders Council is to produce Supplementary Planning Guidance for 15 housing sites with the aims of improving the quality of decision making and enhancing the quality of development, providing confidence and certainty to developers and the community and ensuring a strong negotiating ...

Keswick Town Centre Masterplan

We have been commissioned by the Keswick Area Partnership Ltd to prepare a masterplan for the town centre. This work will include a review of the existing strategy for the development of the town and will inform the review of the Lake District National Park Authority Local Development Framework and ...

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 ...

Campbeltown and Kintyre Strategy

This study is being commissioned jointly by Argyll and Bute Council (ABC), Argyll and Islands Enterprise (AIE) and Communities Scotland (CS). The strategy and action plan will aid, guide and inform the management, promotion, regeneration, revitalisation and redevelopment of Campbeltown town centre. We are pleased to be working with the ...

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 ...