Current Issue

The current issue of Urban Realm contains articles on:

• Right of Passage - How will the likely election of a Conservative Government effect our built environment?
• Roses Design Awards - A round up of the top schemes to emerge from our Nottingham soiree
• The Rubble Club - Owen Luder pulls a rocket from his pocket and Stephen Furnell rues his Shard luck
• Hard Lessons - Questions have been raised as to the sincerity of the competition held for New Campus Glasgow, Urban Realm investigates.
• Halls Crisis Call - Glasgow's Egyptian Halls have lain quietly mouldering for decades but what lies beneath that respectable facade?
• Police Estate - With increasing security are we properly protecting ourselves or are we fostering a climate of fear?
• Le Corbuncle - He is a figure from the past who embodies the modern and continues to hold architects in his thrall. But is modernism a failed architectural experiment or the bedrock upon which we must base solutions to todays needs?
• Post War Architecture - Historic Scotland campaign for public recognition of Scotland's modernist gems.
• Theatre Land - A look back stage at Scottish Ballet and Howden Park
• Algiers - Paul Stallan rocks the Casbah of this North African time capsule
• A Rubbish Idea - Lee Ivett talks rubbish in a look at an unconventional north Glasgow community centre
• Planning reform - Nick Wright assesses the impact of recent planning legislation, comparing approaches in Scotland and England
• Pedestrian progress - Chris Simmonds of architects Page\Park explains his practices role in the adoption of Home Zones in this country