Urban design reader

Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts.Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of the best selling Public Places Urban Spaces, this indispensable guide includes all the crucial definitions and various understandings of the subject, as well as a practical look at how to implement urban design that readers will need to refer to time and time again.Uniquely, the selections of essays that include the works of Gehl, Jacobs, and Cullen, are presented substantially in their original form, and the truly accessible dip-in-and-out format will enable readers to form a deeper, practical understanding of urban design.

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Matthew Carmona, Tiesdell Steve

F. TibbaldsA. MadanipourR. K. JarvisE. SternbergA. Loukaitou-Sideris and T. BanerjeeR. Varkki GeorgeR. TrancikL. MartinD. KelbaughE. RelphK. LynchP. L. KnoxJ. SircusS. ZukinJ. GehlJ. JacobsT. BanerjeeR. OldenburgP. GoldbergerG. CullenE. WhiteS. CantacuzinoP. BuchananJ. LangW. H. WhyteS. Car and M. Francis and L. G. Rivlin and A. M. StoneR. MacCormacB. HillierP. BosselmannK. LynchS. BrandP. Knox and P. OzolinsS. McGlynn and P. MurrainI. BentleyA. RowleyA. Duany and E. Plater-Zyberk and J. Speck

Introduction	p. 1
Section 1 Understanding urban design	p. 5
1 'Places' matter most	p. 9
2 Ambiguities of urban design	p. 12
3 Urban environments as visual art or as social settings? A review	p. 24
4 An integrative theory of urban design	p. 33
5 Postmodern urban form	p. 43
6 A procedural explanation for contemporary urban design	p. 52
Section 2 The morphological dimension	p. 59
7 What is lost space?	p. 63
8 The grid as generator	p. 70
9 Typology: an architecture of limits	p. 83
Section 3 The perceptual dimension	p. 99
10 On the identity of places	p. 103
11 Reconsidering the image of the city	p. 108
12 The social production of the built environment: architects, architecture and the post-Modern city	p. 114
13 Invented places	p. 126
14 Learning from Disney World	p. 130
Section 4 The social dimension	p. 139
15 Three types of outdoor activities; Outdoor activities and quality of outdoor space	p. 143
16 The uses of sidewalks: safety	p. 147
17 The future of public space: beyond invented streets and reinvented places	p. 153
18 The character of third places	p. 163
19 The rise of the private city	p. 170
Section 5 The visual dimension	p. 177
20 Townscape: introduction	p. 181
21 Path-portal-place	p. 185
22 What makes a good building?	p. 199
23 A report from the front	p. 204
Section 6 The functional dimension	p. 209
24 Functionalism	p. 213
25 The life of plazas	p. 226
26 Needs in public space	p. 230
27 Understanding transactions	p. 241
28 Cities as movement economies	p. 245
Section 7 The temporal dimension	p. 263
29 Images in motion	p. 267
30 The presence of the past	p. 293
31 Shearing layers	p. 302
Section 8 Implementing urban design	p. 307
32 The built environment	p. 313
33 The politics of urban design	p. 319
34 Heroes and servants, markets and battlefields	p. 323
35 Private-property decision makers and the quality of urban design	p. 332
36 The debate on design review B. Case Scheer	p. 344
37 The inner city	p. 352
Bibliography	p. 361
Index	p. 363

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