ABSTRACT

The journey towards completing this book began through frustration, frustration that despite 15 years working at The Bartlett, UCL, I still had little idea what colleagues located elsewhere in the Faculty were doing, despite many also being engaged in teaching and researching urban design. In one sense this was entirely my own fault. Having been so focused on my own teaching and research, and for eight years of that period on running The Bartlett School of Planning, it was easy enough to justify to myself that I had little time to investigate what was happening beyond my own School. Yet there was also structural problem. Urban design degree programmes of one sort or another were taught in four of the Schools of The Bartlett, although there was no relationship between any of them and very little communication between the colleagues responsible for their delivery.