A cool wall : We can all urban design ● What is quality?  From Vitruvius to the present day ● Urban design principles ● Character and distinctiveness ● Continuity and enclosure ● Quality of public spaces ● Ease of movement ● Legibility ● Adaptability ● Inclusivity, diversity and sustainability ● Conclusion ● Passive or proactive planning ● Good practice publications ● Urban Form ● Urban structure ● Urban grain ● Streetscape and landscape ● Density and mix ● Height and massing ● Building types ● Facade and interface ● Details and Materials ●

Masterplanning
Demystified

Perspectives on the development process ●  Design beyond style ● Successful places ● Lost in translation ● Current Issues ● Briefing ● Key elements of a masterplan : Strategic Frameworks ● The spatial masterplan  ● An implementation plan ● A spatial masterplan example ● Movement frameworks ● Urban structure ● Land use and landscape ● Urban grain and detail ● Streets, building types and the end product  ● The preparation stage ● The design stage  ● The implementation stage end product ●                 

Preparing a site brief ● From policies to a design concept diagram ● From a sketchy outline idea to a detailed plan  ● Establishing a movement framework ● Define streets and block structures ● The size of blocks  ● Integrating diverse land uses   ●  Character and hierarchy of public spaces ● 

From a good quality brief to a good quality place ● The necessity for a clear Project Brief ● Good practice brief writing ● The management of the commission ● Scope of contents i ● Scope of contents ii ● Scope of contents iii ● Scope of contents iv ● A reality check: Is the brief realistic? ● The tender process ●

Putting marks on paper ● An introduction to a live site project ● How to deal with a live site ● Pre-design assessment criteria ● Pre-design assessment criteria  ● Drawing : The basics ● Drawing : Character analysis ● Drawing: Site analysis ● Drawing: Green corridors ● Drawing: Character & function ● Summary drawings ● 

PPS1 and design guidance ● Best practice policy framework ● Regional policy ● Statutory and non-statutory tools ● Local Development Frameworks ● From national policy to site specific guidance ●  

The role of central and local government in the control of design  ● Freiburg: A journey from a nuclear to a solar city ● Space shared versus space as commodity  ● Freiburg: An intricacy of procurement and design ● Comparable small scale uk examples ● Comparable larger uk examples ● Values, planning and design ● Design leadership: Where control ends and living begins ●

Holly street Hackney  ● Management of space: Accordia Cambridge ● Accordia: Overall and detailed layout ● Accordia: The development process ●  Accordia: A community website ● Accordia: Section 106 uses ● Accordia: The importance of secured management plans and structures ● Management structures: Argyle Street Cambridge  ● Poor quality design and management discussed ●

Ten steps to an excellent project: i: Strong client leadership. ● ii: Successful programming ● iii: Learning from other projects ● iv: Producing a clear brief ●           v: Realistic financing ● vi: Integrated processes ● vii: Appropriate skills ● viii: The context ● ix: Sustainable development ● x: Signing off key stages ●

Moving away from box ticking ● Looking at the process in addition to the product ● Establishing core values ● An integrated team ● A masterplanning team ● An integrated design solution ● Benefits of integration  ●

Introduction i ● Introduction ii  ● Defining a project ● Mapping a project life cycle from concept to closure ● What good project managers do ● Project life cycle achievements ● The concept stage ● What is a stakeholder? ● Project indicators and targets ● Feasibility ● The primary players in the development process ● Typical project organisation ●

Managing and influencing design quality ● What is quality? ● Objectivity and subjectivity in establishing quality standards ● Project quality planning, assurance and control ● Controlling design quality ● Stages of project quality influence ● Efficiently influencing design quality ●  

Procurement and procurement routes ● Design Risks ● Main procurement routes ● Main contract types ● Traditional contracts and client risk exposure ● Design and build contracts and contract coverage ● Design and Build contracts and client risk exposure ●  Design and Build: Risk transfer ● Partnering and contract coverage ● Partnering : A discussion of risk ● Supplier selection and probity  ● Supplier selection criteria ● Potential pitfalls ● Working at risk ● Selection processes : The EU Procurement Directive ●

Thinking beyond Planning ● Stages A-B: Appraisal & Design ● Opportunities and constraints analysis ● Broad design options ● Stage C: Pursuing a preferred development option ● Progressing Stage C detail ● Stage D: Design development ● Detailed layout drawing proposals and 3D modelling ● Design and Access Statements and additional planning documentation ● Stage E: Technical design ● Stage F: Production information ● Stage G-H: Tendering ● Stage J-K: From construction to completion ●  Stage L: Post completion ●

Reducing fossil fuel consumption: Energy assessments ● Renewable technologies ● Energy and carbon emission factors ● Analysing a development proposal ● Domestic energy demands ● Renewable energy ● Energy demand ● Combined heat and power ● CHP energy flow diagram ● Diagrammatic energy flow diagrams ●Renewable technology: wind ● Wind projects ● Renewable technology: Solar ● Renewable technology: Biomass ●  Renewable technology: Heat pumps ● Summary of energy assessments  

The evolving built environment ● 'Drivers' in 2010 ●'Drivers' by 2020? ● Using less to do more ● One World Community: 10 principles ● Carbon reduction (i) ● Carbon reduction (ii) ● Carbon emissions case study: Sheffield ● A carbon strategy applied through time ● Integrated design: Climate change ● Sustainable urban systems: passive ● Active ● District heating ● Green buildings ● Inertia: Breaking the 'cycle of blame' ●   

The Code for Sustainable Homes ● Code levels and mandatory requirements ● Mandatory requirements (ii) ● Mandatory requirements (iii) ● What is zero carbon? ● Fabric and Energy Efficiency Standard and Code Compliance ● Carbon compliance and complexity of 'Allowable Solutions' ● Proposed energy changes and Code levels  

Allerton Bywater : A site visit ● Vauban district, Freiburg ● Newhall, Harlow ● Bourbon Lane, White City ● Accordia, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge ●

A discussion between local government  town planning staff offering an insight into some of the issues that might typically be considered during an assessment of a site and its prospects for development.

Joining up investment ●  Preparing a context for living ● Creating affordable homes ● Funding source examples ● Layers of business planning ● Rethinking investment in a post-recession market ● Integrating an array of diverse planning objectives ● The complex strands of planning ● Reconciling potentially conflicting priorities ● Sustainability ●