Booking opens for urban design summer school

CABE’s residential learning programme is for architects, planners, urban designers and anyone involved in the design, development and management of the built environment.

When:
Sunday, 22 - Wednesday, 25 June 2008

Where:
Hilton NewcastleGateshead Hotel, Gateshead

Booking has opened for next year's urban design summer school. Now in its fifth year, CABE's four-day residential school is the flagship learning initiative for architects, planners, urban designers and anyone whose work influences the design, development and management of the built environment.

CABE is offering a free place to whoever can best capture in a picture and 150 words their favourite place, building or space. The deadline to enter the competition is Thursday 31 January 2008. Book a place at the school at www.udss.org.uk and there is a discount for those who book before the end of February.

The CABE urban design summer school brings together leading lights from the built environment sector and is a combination of keynote speakers, hands-on workshops and visits to inspiring projects in the Tyneside area. Over its five years, the summer school has won a reputation as a dynamic ideas-sharing forum where the students gain valuable new perspectives from professionals with different backgrounds and disciplines. One of last year's delegates described leaving the summer school shell-shocked. "It was the most intensive and useful school / conference / seminar, I have ever attended."

The fee per delegate is £995 with a reduction of £100 for those who book before 29 February 2008.

NewcastleGateshead will provide an apt setting for the summer school - the city's street design has been singled out for best practice by CABE Space and the Grainger Town quarter won best neighbourhood at the recent Academy of Urbanism Awards.