the urbed trust
London
Urbed (Urbanism, Environment and Design) Ltd to close-Urbed Trust unaffected It
is with great sadness that we announce that our partner organisation Urbed
(Urbanism, Environment and Design) Ltd will close early in 2023. The
employee-owned cooperative finds itself with no option, following the completion
of several projects and operating in an incredibly difficult post COVID
environment, particularly with public sector tendering. Urbed (Urbanism,
Environment and Design) Ltd formed in 2006, and grew out of the original Urbed
(Urban and Economic Development) Ltd from 1976. It is one of the last surviving
members of a group of consultancies that pioneered the process of urban
regeneration in the 1970s and 80s. Since that time Urbed have undertaken
ground-breaking work on the reuse of industrial heritage, managed workspace,
town centres, sustainable urbanism, domestic retrofit, urban design and coding.
Their closure will not affect ourselves at the Urbed Trust. We are a separate
not for profit company run by Urbed’s 1976 original founding director Dr
Nicholas Falk. We will continue our work on smarter urbanisation and sustainable
housing in both the UK and India. Who are the URBED Trust? The URBED Trust is a
not for profit company with charitable aims set up to promote research into the
future of urban areas, and to disseminate best practice. The trust was
reconstituted after Nicholas Falk and David Rudlin won the 2014 Wolfson
Economics Prize for showing how to build new Garden Cities that are visionary,
viable and popular. A group of expert board members are overseeing different
projects, in partnership with other public bodies.
