![Sustainable place-making: The end of The Road?](http://sue.bdp.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Francis-Glare_470x260-470x140.jpg)
by Francis Glare, Manchester Studio Director Sustainable place-making In Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’, the charred and apparently hopelessly denuded landscape is the setting…
![Why Urban Design?](https://sue.bdp.net/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
by Jaimie Ferguson, Urban Design Director We live in an Urbanising world. In less than 50 years more than twice as many people will live…
![Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool](http://sue.bdp.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Alder-Hey-Childrens-Hospital-Liverpool-470x140.jpg)
by Chris Harding The concept of community is as old as civilisation itself . More than a practical necessity , it is fundamental to our…
![Nanjing Road, Shanghai /BDP](http://sue.bdp.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Nanjing-Road-Shanghai-470x140.jpg)
by Tessa O’Neill The dynamic retail sector is going through its most significant period of transition in a century. The current global financial crisis is…
![Qingdao Westcoast Masterplan /BDP](http://sue.bdp.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Qingdao-Westcoast-Masterplan-470x140.jpg)
The mistake that architects made a century ago was to envisage the city of the future in terms of aesthetics. Such a view, is doomed…
![Shanxi Broadcast & TV Centre /BDP](http://sue.bdp.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Shanxi-Broadcast-and-TV-Centre-470x140.jpg)
Deyan Sudjic has likened the city to a forcefield, one in which mobility and ideas are the energy of the city flowing through the network…
![Zhengdong New District Transport Hub masterplan /BDP](http://sue.bdp.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Zhengdong-New-District-Transport-Hub-masterplan-BDP-470x140.jpg)
by FRANCIS GLARE Living in an urbanised world. In the 19th century, London was the only world city of more than five million people. Now…