Cambridgeshire Horizons have appointed URBED to undertake a third phase of work on the Cambridgeshire Quality Charter for Growth, focussed on how new developments in the Cambridge Growth Area can be made truly sustainable..

Conclusions from new research into the success of new settlements in four European countries were debated at a crowded launch event in London's new Kings Place in October.

A panel of experts led by Professor Sir Peter Hall welcomed the findings. The research, sponsored by Scott Wilson, The Guinness Partnership and Grainger plc, analyses how some of today’s exemplary European Eco-town projects have successfully delivered high quality and sustainable housing..

In October 2008 members of the TEN Group spent two days in Belfast looking at how to tackle worklessness and social cohesion in areas undergoing development. The report of the visit summarises the background and context, describes the places we saw, and the lessons that emerged. .

Built Environment Volume 32, Number 3
In the latest edition of Built Environment, Nicholas Falk brings together contributions from 12 experts on the future of our suburbs, and possible ways forward, drawing on a number of major research projects, and experience in the USA and Harlow. .

Proposals have been released for setting up a development trust, using innovative funding mechanisms, for the new town of Northstowe in South Cambridgeshire, where 10,000 new homes are expected to be built. A report by URBED with Marilyn Taylor Associates has been approved by South Cambs in principle as the basis for setting up the board and appointing staff. Further work is being commissioned on funding and legal matters..

The TEN Group's study tour to look at residential renewal and new communities in and around Berlin discovered some surprises..

A report on lessons from new Dutch suburbs, based on a study tour URBED organised for the board of Harlow Renaissance, stresses the very different approach taken by local authorities, who play a much more proactive role than their British equivalent..

London’s suburbs must respond to the Mayor’s sustainable development agenda. This is the message of the report - ‘A City of Villages’ produced for the GLA by URBED and the TCPA..

National Trust is selecting a development partner to implement URBED masterplan for a new community at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire .