Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood is the title of a new book by David Rudlin and Nicholas Falk published by the Architectural Press. It updates the 1999 edition Building the 21st Century Home that has come to be seen as an important text in the rediscovery of urbanism in the UK..

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. .

Following study tours organised through the Town and Country Planning Association, and also URBED's case studies of new settlements in Freiburg and Amersfoort, Sir Peter Hall and Nicholas Falk drew out the conclusions and asked 'Why not here?' Presentations of the findings are being made to a number of conferences. .

Dr Nicholas Falk gave a presentation to a packed audience at the London Building Centre on October 15th to launch the ‘Over the Edge?’ report, produced by URBED for the North and West London Strategic Alliances, as part of the London's towns; shaping the polycentric city exhibition (on until mid November). The summary was published in Planning in London, Issue 67 Oct-Dec 2088, www.planninginlondon.com. .

The second TEN Group visit to learn from Europe visited Lille and Roubaix, and drew on research that Clare Colomb has been doing for the Making Connections research project..

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

At the time of the first Urban Summit back in 2002 URBED was commissioned to work with 24 major towns and cities and the ODPM, and the resulting set of five reports set out the state of the cities and lessons from over 60 case studies. .

URBED's Turning the Tide research report, which is based on seven case studies of waterfront success stories, assesses the contribution that waterfronts are making to urban renaissance in Britain..

Making Connections is an eighteen month investigation into the lessons that European cities can provide on how to plan, finance and deliver urban regeneration, which forms part of a new Joseph Rowntree Foundation research programme on Transforming the prospects of places. .

Igloo has been selected by EMDA as the preferred partner for their new £100m East Midlands Property Investment Fund (EMPIF)..

Following our work to develop a masterplanning strategy for the Trentham Lakes ex-colliery site in Stoke, the site recently formed the basis for a BURA study tour..