This study explores the social dimension of urban design in urban regeneration with a detailed
empirical investigation of urban design in urban regeneration practices, principally Scotswood and Walker
Riverside in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The two case studies within the umbrella of the Housing Market Renewal
Pathfinder programme provides a chance to discuss the social dimension of urban design in urban regeneration
through a comparative analysis of different urban design approaches adopted for two areas and different
outcome in the social dimension of urban design. This study concludes with a discussion about the social
dimension of urban design as the antithesis of top-down master planning and the potentials of urban design
in urban regeneration. It highlights that urban design plays a role in community engagement, as a means of
engendering community engagement in urban regeneration.

• The social dimension of urban design as a means of engendering community engagement in urban regeneration