Welcome to the Urban Design Alliance

UDAL is a network of professional and campaigning organisations that was formed in 1997 to promote the value of good urban design. UDAL’s organisations bring together over half a million people who design, plan, manage and campaign for better places. Their day-to-day decisions shape the urban environment. UDAL is working to help them become more effective.

Capacitycheck the urban design skills appraisal method, is now available online at www.capacitycheck.co.uk or click here for pdf and in print, published by The Urban Design Alliance, to order it free click here

Capacitycheck wins RTPI design award

	Who should build our homes? CABE : Creating green infrastructure, interview with Dan Pearson Case studies Find hundreds of the best buildings and places in the country, from large-scale plans for city centres to shops and theatres
PUBLICATIONS
Planning Act 2008: Guidance for the examination of applications for development consent for nationally significant infrastructure projects	Guidance on how applications for development consent for nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) are to be examined by the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC).
Planning for Town Centres: Practice guidance on need, impact and the sequential approach	This practice guidance is intended to support the implementation of town centre policies set out in Planning Policy Statement 4: Planning for Sustainable Economic Growth (PPS4).
The Places Database	The Places Database provides access to a broad range of statistical data and information at several geographic levels across England
	Interested in Urban Design? Check out these titles available at ribabookshops.com Sustainable Urban Development Volume 4 Changing Professional Practice

• Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)

• Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC)

• Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers (IHIE)

• Institution of Highways & Transportation (IHT)

• Royal Institute of British Architects(RIBA)

• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

• Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)

• Urban Design Group (UDG)

• Homes and Communities Academy

• CABE -Space

• Civic Trust

NEWS

The 2010 ASCHB Conference on 4th March marks ASCHB’s 40th year will look at how we demonstrate the value of the historic environment to meeting sustainability targets and how historic buildings and areas can be seen as adaptable to lower carbon consumption energy and places for sustainable living.

To find out about Urban Design Jobs click here

URBAN DESIGN GROUP PROJECT AWARDS
Over the past two years, the awards have highlighted a range of fascinating and innovative schemes and we expect the calibre to be just as high this year.
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Placecheck is a method for use by public and professionals to assess the qualities of a place and show what improvements are needed. For further details please click here.