The Rotunda has been converted into apartments by developers Urban Splash.

Following a period of decline, the estate is being renovated by developers Urban Splash.

A part-privatisation scheme by the developer Urban Splash in partnership with English Heritage to turn the flats into upmarket apartments, business units and social housing is now under way.

The main building was redeveloped from 2005 to 2006 into office and retail space by Urban Splash.

It was refurbished between 2004 and 2008 by Urban Splash with Glenn Howells who turned it into a residential building with serviced apartments on 19th and 20th floors.

From 2004 to 2008, the Rotunda, a Grade II listed building, was refurbished and partially converted for residential use by developer Urban Splash and Glenn Howells Architects.

Since 1995 the Bank Hall Action Group have campaigned to save Bank Hall, the restoration plan is for Urban Splash to develop the building into apartments, with the great hall and clock tower as a visitor centre.

They developed from a handful of RSLs in the city and were driven by Janice Long and backed by Kiss 102's Mike Gray, Bob Geldof, Boy George, Primal Scream and Urban Splash.

* 20 November 2003-A press release is issued stating that funding has been approved to convert the Grade-II listed building of St Peter's Church into high-specification offices by Urban Splash.

Funding is received from the EU (£ 260k ), the North West Development Agency (£ 190k ) and Urban Splash itself (£ 450k ).

In 2000 property developers Urban Splash bought the mills.

* Urban Splash official website

Developers Urban Splash recently completed the refurbishment of Fort Dunlop and The Rotunda and are involved in the redevelopment of the former Cincinnati Lamb factory in Erdington and the future refurbishment of three tower blocks on the Birchfield Road in Perry Barr.

The Rotunda was refurbished by Urban Splash into residential apartments from an office building.

Urban Splash also developed Fort Dunlop, a former factory building next to the M6 motorway, which opened in December 2006.

However, on 20 March, Sefton Council announced that a company called Urban Splash had been chosen to develop Southport seafront including the Pleasureland site.

* Tom Bloxham, founder of influential regeneration firm Urban Splash ; Chancellor of the University of Manchester

The Urban Land Institute ( ULI ) awarded the Battery Park City Master Plan its 2010 Heritage Award, for having " facilitated the private development of 9. 3 million square feet of commercial space, 7. 2 million square feet of residential space, and nearly 36 acres of open space in lower Manhattan, becoming a model for successful large-scale planning efforts and marking a positive shift away from the urban renewal mindset of the time.

* Urban exploration, an activity similar to caving, but done in urban areas

Urban economics, which examines the challenges faced by cities, such as sprawl, air and water pollution, traffic congestion, and poverty, draws on the fields of urban geography and sociology.

Various armies and manufacturers have developed add-on tank armor and other systems for urban combat, such as the Tank Urban Survival Kit ( TUSK ) for M1 Abrams, slat armor for the Stryker, ERA kit for the FV432, AZUR for Leclerc, and others.

The United States Marine Corps tested the usefulness of commercial off-the-shelf skateboards during urban combat military exercises in the late 1990s in a program called Urban Warrior ' 99.

Brunvand used his collection of legends, The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings ( 1981 ) to make two points: first, that legends and folklore do not occur exclusively in so-called primitive or traditional societies, and second, that one could learn much about urban and modern culture by studying such tales.

Television shows such as Urban Legends, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and later Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed feature re-enactments of urban legends detailing the accounts of the tales and ( typically ) later in the show, these programs reveal any factual basis they may have.

The 1998 film Urban Legend featured students extensively discussing popular urban legends while at the same time falling victim to them.

Urban explorers often attempt some or all of these subsets of urban exploration.

* Melody Gilbert's Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness ( 2007 ), a documentary about some of the world's urban explorers.

Urban emergence has also been linked to theories of urban complexity and urban evolution.

Thessaloniki's Thessaloniki Urban Area | urban and Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area | metropolitan areas as of 2011.

* Urban regeneration, another term for urban renewal

Urban planning ( urban, city, and town planning ) is a technical and political process concerned with the control of the use of land and design of the urban environment, including transportation networks, to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities.

Urban planning can include urban renewal, by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities suffering from decline.

It was adopted as a theoretical framework for analyzing redevelopment processes in large urban distressed areas in European cities ( see “ LUDA: Improving quality of life in Large Urban Distressed Areas ” project – Research funded by the European Commission, EVK4-CT2002-00081 ).

A key outcome of this process was the establishment of a Metropolitan Urban Limit (“ MUL ”) or urban fence that dictated the nature and extent of urban activities that could occur within the MUL and hence also dictated the relative values of land within the MUL.

This plan would as one of it components include a Spatial Development Framework plan which would normally, certainly for the larger metropolitan areas, indicate an Urban Edge beyond which urban type development would be severely limited or restricted.

Urban design is an inter-disciplinary subject that unites all the built environment professions, including urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, civil and municipal engineering.

Urban design demands a good understanding of a wide range of subjects from physical geography, through to social science, and an appreciation for disciplines, such as real estate development, urban economics, political economy and social theory.

A New Theory of Urban Design ( 1987 ) coincided with a renewal of interest in urbanism among architects, but stood apart from most other expressions of this by assuming a distinctly anti-masterplanning stance.

Urban renewal projects in the 1970s, including the Pei Plan, removed many older historic structures but failed to spark much new development, leaving the city dotted with vacant lots used for parking.

* Urban renewal

A factor in the increase in urban poor along Colfax has been linked to Denver Urban Renewal Authority's plans for urban renewal in Downtown Denver.

Urban renewal projects in the 1950s and 1960s cleared entire blocks of housing in the Center City and East Side areas.

Urban renewal efforts in the 1970s transformed downtown Lawton.

The federal Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) department's 1993 HOPE VI program addressed concerns of distressed properties and blighted superblocks with revitalization and funding projects for the renewal of public housing to decrease its density and allow for tenants with mixed income levels.

During a campaign of urban renewal by the Yaoundé Urban Council in Cameroon, the cross was popularly referred to as " Tsimi's Cross " after the Government Delegate to Yaoundé Urban Council Gilbert Tsimi Evouna.

Urban renewal areas like Docklands, Southbank, St Kilda Road and Port Melbourne are now predominately apartments.

Urban renewal from 1966 onwards has resulted in the replacement of all buildings pictured.

Urban renewal is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use.

Urban renewal may involve relocation of businesses, the demolition of structures, the relocation of people, and the use of eminent domain ( government purchase of property for public purpose ) as a legal instrument to take private property for city-initiated development projects.

Urban renewal has been seen by proponents as an economic engine and a reform mechanism, and by critics as a mechanism for control.

" " Urban renewal " was a phrase popularized with the passage of the 1954 Housing Act, which made these projects more enticing to developers, by among other things, providing FHA-backed mortgages.

Some of the policies around urban renewal began to change under President Lyndon Johnson and the War on Poverty, and in 1968, the Housing and Urban Development Act and The New Communities Act of 1968 guaranteed private financing for private entrepreneurs to plan and develop new communities.

Urban renewal sometimes lives up to the hopes of its original proponents – it has been assessed by politicians, urban planners, civic leaders, and residents – it has played an undeniably important role.

Urban renewal is usually non-consultative.

Urban renewal continues to evolve as successes and failures are examined and new models of development and redevelopment are tested and implemented.

Urban renewal and gentrification began to take effect in NYC including Crown Heights.

Urban renewal began in earnest 2000, with several independent privately developed areas overseen by VicUrban, an agency of the State government of Victoria.

During the late 1960s / early 1970s, numerous buildings were constructed as part of a major urban renewal project, such as the Pullen Library ( 1966 ), Classroom South ( 1968 ), the expansion of the Pullen Library in 1968, the Arts and Humanities Building ( 1970 ), the ten-story General Classroom Building ( 1971 ), the Sports Arena ( 1973 ), and the twelve-story Urban Life Building ( 1974 ).