WMUD

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

Lock 27 Feasibility Study

We have been commissioned by British Waterways Scotland (with yellow book and Jacobs Babtie) to undertake a feasibility study of the Lock 27 area. The study is intended to encompass a planning and urban design strategy for the site, an engineering, technical and roads assessment, and a commercial viability ...

Twechar Regeneration Masterplan

Together with lead consultant Kevin Murray Associates, yellow book, McLean Hazel, Drew Mackie Associates and Turner & Townsend, we have been appointed by East Dunbartonshire Council to produce a masterplan for the regeneration of Twechar. The history of Twechar as a mining village, initiated by Baird and Company, lasted only around ...

Helensburgh Town Centre + Waterfront

As part of a team led by yellow book, we have been commissioned jointly by Argyll and Bute Council and Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire to prepare a strategy and action plan to guide and inform the management, promotion, regeneration, revitalisation and redevelopment of Helensburgh's waterfront and town centre. The brief calls ...

Bellingham, Washington, USA

This study was an extended and focused public participation effort, educating communities on the principles and intention behind growth management planning, the trade-offs present when the ramifications of an urban growth boundary are taken seriously, the possibilities occurring in the face of rapid growth and the methods available to manage ...

St Helier Urban Character Appraisal

We have been commissioned by the States of Jersey to carry out an Urban Character Appraisal of St Helier. This appraisal of the urban character and townscape of the town of St. Helier is intended to be an aid to the process of preserving and enhancing the character of the ...

Renfrew Town Centre - Design and Traffic

This proposal was submitted in response to an invitation from Renfrewshire Council requesting proposals for the preparation of Design Proposals and Guidance for Renfrew Town Centre and Renfrew Riverside Urban Extension. The study brief describes an interesting and demanding piece of work that has the potential to help assure ...

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 ...