Booking opens for CABE urban design summer school

Book now for early discounts and enter the competition to win a free place       

CABE is inviting people with a passion for places to register for its fifth urban design summer school. The 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 example of successful urban design. The deadline to enter the competition is Thursday, 31 January 2008. Booking for the urban design summer school is now open at www.udss.org.uk and there is an early bird reduction for those who book their place before the end of February. 

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.

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. In the words of one of last year's delegates: "I am still shell shocked. It was the most intensive and useful school / conference / seminar, I have ever attended."