HOPUS (Housing Praxis for Urban Sustainability)

Overview

Funded by the European Union URBAT programme

HOPUS brought academics and practitioners together from Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the UK to discuss questions of design and sustainability in housing and its regulation through public sector guidance and control.

The project focused in particular on design coding as a tool for delivering better design in Europe's suburban areas, and compared practice and experiences across the continent. Matthew Carmona acted as lead expert for the HOPUS Working Group which was spearheaded by Sapienza, University of Rome.

People

Professor Matthew Carmona
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Outputs

The project resulted in the following publications:

Matthew Carmona, 'Design Coding and the Creative, Regulatory and Market Tyrannies of Practice', in The URBACT Tribune, Paris, 2009, pp. 34-37

Matthew Carmona, 'Decoding Design Coding' in Carola Clemente and Federico De Matteis (eds), Housing for Europe, Strategies for Quality in Urban Space, Excellence in Design, Performance in Building, Rome, 2010, pp. 13-43

Matthew Carmona, 'Decoding Design Guidance' in Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (eds), Companion to Urban Design, London, 2011 

Impact

This work helped to disseminate work on design coding from the UK to other European countries, informing local practice through a local partner network in each participating country.