WMUD

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

training

Community design training in Twechar, East Dunbartonshire

Training is central to our activities - keeping ourselves in touch with best practice and successful place-making throughout Europe and America is the first part - passing on this information to others is the second part. We develop continuous professional development modules within our network of consultants and pass these on to others.

We take a holistic view of training preferring to blur boundaries between historic professions in order to achieve greater success. We participate locally in academia through the Department of Property and Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow and through the Department of Architecture at Strathclyde University.

We are part of the Improvement Service’s Design Awareness Training for local authorities. We have also trained communities in the basics of urban design and in design guidance. We can provide training for professionals, elected members and for communities.

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 ...