Publications & Projects

We engage in many urban design-focused activities.

Many of these activities are sponsored by our affiliates. To find out more, contact us.

Book cover for The Urban Design Toolkit featuring modern, angular grey apartment buildings clustered around a stepped public waterfront plaza, with canals and dense urban housing in the background.

Publications

Research and project-related publications from the MUD Lab.
Group of students and faculty posing in a classroom setting, with some holding project folders labelled WOODLEY and DANE ROAD, under the Manchester Urban Design Lab as seen on the screen behind.

Projects & Activities

MUD Lab activities and collaborations including funded projects.
Logo for Tapes Design & Landscape featuring stylised grey lowercase letters d and l inside a thin orange rectangle, with the word TAPES in orange and the rest of the text in light grey.

Podcast

Our podcast series exploring cities' urban design and green infrastructure.
Evening view of The Place building at The University of Manchester, with illuminated interior spaces and science themed posters displayed on the ground floor windows facing the street.

Postgraduate research

Explore a PhD in Planning, Property and Environmental Management.
Aerial view of city blocks

Blog

Commentary on our team’s scholarship and research.