WMUD

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

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employment at WMUD - borrowed from http://www.westwoodworks.net/HowItWas/TheDrawingOffice/index.htm

We are not recruiting at the moment - there are no vacancies. However we are always interested in hearing from recently qualified urban designers or year out students from urban design, landscape or planning courses. Or maybe you have other talents.

We hope that you can draw or express ideas clearly in writing. We expect you to be competent in Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator / Freehand / Corel, Flash, ARCView and MapInfo GIS, CAD and Office software - on Mac or PC.

If you are interested, please get in touch. Send a CV telling us something interesting about yourself with some examples of your work either attached to your CV or with a link to a website such as Flickr that can display your work.

featured studies

St Helier Urban Character Appraisal - animation of the town's historical development and a link to the Final Report

Bolton's Distinctiveness - final report and summary of the Bolton Local Distinctiveness Study

Public Realm - a slideshow of studies in Renfrew, Glasgow, Ashington and Dundee

Canterbury - City of Imagination: analysis and framework drawings

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July 12th 2008
Tags: cities, comment, research, strategy

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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
Tags: cities, comment, place making

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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
Tags: cities, comment, place making, strategy

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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 ...

March 31st 2008
Tags: communities, frameworks, place making, research, strategy

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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 ...

December 27th 2007
Tags: cities, comment, communities, neighbourhood, place making, strategy

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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 ...

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