Here & Now Journal - Summer 2024 - The Urban Task Force 25 Years On
The Summer 2024 edition of the AoU's Here & Now e-journal, focusing on 25 years of the UTF Towards an Urban Renaissance report
Contents
1. Welcome
2. Letter from the Editors
3. The Academy in Action
4. A View from Inside
Martin Crookston looks back twenty five years, and reflects on his time as a member of the Urban Task Force.
8. The Better of Times or the Worse of Times?
Ian Gordon reflects on the UTF from ‘outside the tent’ and tells a tale of two urbanisms.
12. In conversation with Jon Rouse
Harrison Brewer and Matt Lally sat down with Jon Rouse to talk about his role in the Urban Task Force and its relevance in 2024.
18. Channeling my John Prescott
David Rudlin encourages us not to underestimate how the UTF changed government policy towards cities.
20. A Personal Anecdote
Andreas Markides highlights the importance of ‘Towards an Urban Renaissance’ on his own career.
22. Things can only get better... but did they?
Matt Lally looks back to look forward, finding a legacy with a very mixed scorecard.
25. An Exemplar to Advance Future Sustainable Urbanism
Tony Reddy raises important, current questions about the British planning system.
32. Furthering the Urban Renaissance
Leyla Moy untangles the UTF report and asks how the recommendations can drive community-led renewal.
35. The City Observatory: Tokyo
In the first instalment of BDPlab’s Good City papers, Eijo Okada and Takayushi Kishii explore how other cities might learn from Tokyo’s public transport system.
44. The City Observatory: Lima
By contrast, Solangel Fernandez and Alessandra Peña explain the impact of an absent public transport system and how plans for new infrastructure will change the situation.
52. La Bici Brava
Young Urbanists Ben Meador and Julie Plichon reflect on four days of urban, suburban, and rural tribulations in Barcelona and Girona.
56. Book review: EcoResponsive Environments
40 years since the publication of ‘Responsive Environments’, Harry Knibb reviews a new volume that focuses on issues of environmental degradation and human wellbeing.
58. Urban Philosophy: Transition
Guest Philosopher ‘Harristotle’ looks to Janus and Sisyphus for help deciphering what lies in wait for the next 25 years of the UTF report.
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