Urban designers

Urban designers create places through layout of buildings, infrastructure, amenities and public spaces.

We publish guidance and advice on urban design, and offer training at our summer school. We have also developed support tools like Building for Life and our masterplanning toolkit.

How we help urban designers

Building for Life

Understand our 20 Building for Life criteria, increasingly used as an assessment of housing design quality across England.

Creating successful masterplans

Learn how to write planning documents that can lead to the physical, social and economic revival of places.

What makes an eco-town?

See what we think the government’s eco town initiative should actually look like, and the challenges designers will face.

Sustainable Cities

Get help to create better places. Cut through the complexities of climate change with clear priorities for action and see which places are getting it right.

Urban design summer school

Refresh your urban design skills on our annual four-day course for professionals, held in Bristol in 2009.

Calling time on exclusive design

Read the latest in the ongoing debate about access and inclusion, with everyday examples of urban living.

Enabling

Discover what we are doing to promote the principles of urban design across England, and our work with public sector clients.

Useful links

RUDI

Resource for Urban Design Information.

Urban Design Group

Promoting best practice in urban design.

Urban Design Alliance

Network promoting the value of urban design.

Web Urban Design

Promoting urban design in spatial planning.

RTPI Urban Design Network

Promoting urban design in spatial planning.

Urban Design Compendium

Guidance on good design and how to apply it.