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Built Environment editor Stephen Marshall has been appointed Professor of Urban Morphology and Urban Design at the Bartlett.
We are delighted that Lucy Natarajan has joined the Built Environment editorial team as Reviews Editor. Lucy is a Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Since completing her doctoral research into community engagement in spatial planning she has run an investigation of governance of urban design, and co-founded the Place Alliance movement at UCL. Her research interests centre on the interface between communities and urban policy-making. She also has conducted research in diverse public policy areas for the UK government and on international planning issues for the RTPI/Commonwealth Association of Planners.
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
Of which the Journal of the American Planning Society said:
A rich collection of essays from a wide range of thoughtful contributors…The breadth and depth of this collection is impressive, including an analysis of Jacobs's eyes-on-the-street framework in the context of crime in the 21st-century built environment. Her principles are also analyzed in the context of such diverse topics and contexts as urban form in medieval China, open and public space in Thailand, and redevelopment in Beirut.
Described in the Journal of Urban History as:
A much-needed succinct history of Hong Kong’s three-dimensional urban form… For designers working on projects in Hong Kong, The Making of Hong Kong may well be the one essential text.
The next issue of Built Environment is ‘Delta Urbanism’ edited by Han Meyer, Professor of Theory and Methods of Urban Design at the Delft University of Technology. He is the ideal person to edit an issue on this – for UK readers – all too pertinent subject! See: http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/en/about-faculty/departments/urbanism/organisation/environmental-technology-and-design/research/events-research-calls/complexity-cognition-urban-planning-and-design/speakers-abstracts-short-papers/han-meyer/
Martin Crookston’s Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow? A New Future for the Cottage Estates is described as ‘must read’ by Jackie Sadek, Chief Executive of UK Regeneration see http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/jackie-sadek/2014/01/great-crookstons-must-read/.
In January Peter Hall’s Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism was named a Times Higher Education Book of 2013!
