ISSUE 2
Joe Ravetz & Michael King

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND THE URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
There has been a great deal of discussion about the enviromental benefits of attracting people back to live in urban areas. But how can urban areas themselves become more sustainable? This is not, as sometimes seems the case, solely a matter of planting more trees...

ISSUE 3
David Rudlin & Simon Bevan

Ensuring Lasting Solutions
There is no point building environmentally sustainable housing areas if they have to be demolished within 30 years. Yet this has been the fate of many council estates built since the war. How can we build urban neighbourhoods which are both socially and environmentally sustainable?

ISSUE 4
David Rudlin & Nick Dodd

Model Neighbourhoods
The aim of the Sustainable Urban Neighbouhood Initiative is to help generate new models for urban development to rival the attraction of the suburbs. In previous issues we have discussed the principles of and justification for sustainable urban development. In this issue we suggest how they might work.

ISSUE 5
David Rudlin, Andy Hansfords & Ann Petherick

Managing Gridlock A Sustainable Transport Policy
Back in the Summer, the government invited comments on the development of an integrated transport policy. With the deadline for comments having just passed, the press has been full of comments from pressure groups and organisations representing road transport interests. In this article we summarise the comments submitted by the SUN Initiative which made a strong link between sustainable forms of urban development, a carrot and stick approach to cutting car use and a reduction in highway capacity

Issue 6
Keith Collins, James Horne, Kieran Yates, Nicholas Falk, David Rudlin & Nick Dodd

The Sustainable URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
It is 100 years since Ebenezer Howard published his seminal book, ‘Tomorrow: A peaceful path to real reform’. The impact of this work and the early garden cities that it inspired on the public and professional consciousness cannot be underestimated. Howard saw cities as ‘ulcers on the very face of our beautiful island’ and for much of the intervening century many people in Britain have tended to agree with him. The SUN Initiative has recently completed a report for Friends of the Earth which explores these issues. The report entitled ‘Tomorrow: A peaceful path to urban reform’ was published on 22nd April. It explores the implications of household growth and whether a greater proportion of new households could be accommodated in urban areas. The brief was to assess the feasibility of a 75% target for new homes in urban areas. This, the report does by looking at the historic rate of building on recycled land, the loss of population from urban areas and the urban capacity studies that have recently been undertaken. It goes on to collate national data on various forms of urban housing capacity, concluding that, in theory at least, there is the space to accommodate 75% of new households within towns and cities. However the issue is not so much the physical capacity of urban areas but the willingness of people to live there, of devel-opers to build there and of planners to allow it to happen. The report explores these barriers to urban development and sets out a series of recommendations to bring about change. These concern the workings of the planning system, fiscal measures such as a greenfield tax and initiatives to promote urban areas. We conclude that there is a need to designate Urban Priority Areas as happens in Ireland to provide tax incentives for develop-ment on recycled land and to focus the efforts of public agencies. At a time of increasing sophistication and complexity in everyday life, our towns and cities are being called upon to sustain greater social cohesiveness, economic dynamism and environmental balance. The rediscovery of urban living and the relearning of city building and management are vital if cities are to rise to the challenge.

ISSUE 7
Gorden Snape, Rob Squires, Dr Gary Bridge, & David Rudlin

The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood
STILLShining: The SUN Initiative lives on. Established in March 1996 the SUN Initiative was funded up until March this year by the DETR's Environmental Action Fund. The intention was always that it would be self-funding after that and we are pleased to announce that further funding has now been secured. We have recently secured funding from the BRE and the European ALTENER Programme for research into Autonomous Urban development. We are also undertaking a survey of waterfront development as well as being involved in schemes in Manchester and Leeds. We also undertaking research for the Urban Task Force and at long last the great SUN Book is to be published. These and other developments are described inside along with articles on innovative housing, LETSystems and urban housing capacity.

ISSUE 8
Daniel Libeskind, Joe Ravetz, Nicholas Falk, Kieran Yates & David Rudlin

The Sustainable URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Initiative will have achieved little if it concentrates on utopian models for urban development. Much more important are the anti-urban trends that currently dominate the development industry and the public attitudes behind these trends. In this issue we therefore review our recent work with MORI for the Urban Task Force looking at attitudes to urban living. Joe Ravetz also describes how policies to promote the sustainability of the city region impact on the neighbourhood and can reverse these very same trends to create a positive cycle of reurbanisation. There is no one physical model which responds to these challenges as illustrated by the variety of schemes descibed inside. From Libeskind's extension to Berlin and waterfront development to the Ideal Home Show's slim house and an urban village in Lincoln.

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ISSUE 9
Nicholas Falk, David Rudlin, Robert A Jones, Graham Freer, Graham Paul Smith, Simon Birch, Mike Biddulph, Ben Hillier, Simon Shu, Andrea Casalotti

The Sustainable URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
Welcome to the NINTH issue of SUN DIAL, the journal of the Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Initiative. This is the second issue to be sponsored by English Partnerships and it is themed around issues raised by the Urban Task Force. In our lead article Dr. Nicholas Falk discusses some of these issues while inside we feature an article on the urban renaissance of that most suburban of American cities Los Angeles. Bill Hillier describes important research into the effect of urban layouts on burglaries while Mike Biddulph describes the idea of Home Zones. We also look at research from Oxford Brookes University on mixed-use main streets and the role of car share schemes in reducing car use. All issues that contribute to our understanding of how to make urban areas more attractive as places to live and work.

ISSUE 10
David Rudlin, Charlie Baker, Nick Dodd

Urban Autonomy Project
This special issue of SUN Dial has been produced to describe the interim results of the Urban Autonomy Project. With funding from BRECSU and the European ALTENER Programme we have been working on a project to explore the feasibility of autonomous urban development. This was discussed at a workshop organised jointly by the Building Research Establishment and URBED on 10th November 1999. In this SUN Dial Special David Rudlin, Nick Dodd and Charlie Baker outline the thinking behind the research and describe the systems that are being explored.

ISSUE 11
David Rudlin, Chris Moller, James Hoeveler, Duncan Baker-Brown, Marylin Taylor, Francesca King, Martin Allcott, Rob Squires

The Sustainable URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
Welcome to the eleventh issue of SUN Dial, the journal of the Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Initiative. In this issue we develop two themes. The first is the relationship between where we live and work. In our lead article David Rudlin discusses the findings of research on measuring urban capacity, followed by articles exploring mixed-use urban design concepts for the UK and Netherlands, Location Efficient Mortgages, and the potential of workstations to reduce commuting. The second theme is regeneration and the role of the social economy. O-Regen describe their long-view of regeneration in Waltham Forest, while the Aston Re-investment Trust report on the financing of new enterprises in Birmingham. We also look at how a communities in Manchester and Liverpool have been developing their own computer networks and community garden projects.

ISSUE 12
David Rudlin, Nicholas Falk, Nick Dodd, Philip Meadowcroft, Ben Wilkinson, Chris Shirley-Smith, Tom Young, John Burton, Michael Taylor

The Sustainable URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
After nearly a year we are pleased to return with issue 12 of SUN Dial – the Journal of the Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood Initiative. This issue has been made possible due to the support of ICIAN Developments and describes their work with the SUN Initiative on energy efficient CHP technology for a major scheme in Manchester. To make up for lost time this issue also includes articles on postwar planning in the UK and Europe, research on mixed-use urban form, sustainable urban water systems and new approaches to providing workspace. As always our aim is to highlight the most interesting thinking and ideas concerned with the reinvention and sustainability of urban areas