The time has come to develop a code for urban design

Richard MacCormac is a long standing campaigner for the concept of urban design. The Royal Inststute of British Architects president is to chair a colloquium on the subject with the aim of working out a basic code for urban development. MacCormac uses principles for assessing urban design which are based on his own experience but hopes for a pluralist approach to the issues rather than the prescriptive nature of developments like Poundbury, Dorset.