Dr Philip Black is Director of the Manchester Urban Design LAB (MUD-Lab) and Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Head of Urban Design Programmes at the University of Manchester. He is the lead author of The Urban Design Process and Applied Urban Design: A Contextually Responsive Approach.

Rachel Kerr is Lecturer in Urban Design at the University of Manchester and chartered member of the RTPI, with over ten years' experience working in urban design practice. She has worked at consultancies AECOM and WYG and most recently as Associate in the Urban Design team at Tetra Tech, before joining the University of Manchester.

Dr Taki Sonbli is Manager of the Manchester Urban Design LAB, and the Technical Lead Specialist for all urban design programmes at University of Manchester. Taki is co-author of The Urban Design Process and Applied Urban Design: A Contextually Responsive Approach.