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ISBN 10: 1136350610
ISBN 13: 9781136350610
Author: Matthew Carmona, Steve Tiesdell
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.
Urban Design Reader 1st Edition Table of contents:
Section One Understanding urban design
1 ‘Places’ matter most
2 Ambiguities of urban design
3 Urban environments as visual art or as social settings? A review
4 An integrative theory of urban design
5 Postmodern urban form
6 A procedural explanation for contemporary urban design
Section Two The morphological dimension
7 What is lost space?
8 The grid as generator
9 Typology: an architecture of limits
Section Three The perceptual dimension
10 On the identity of places
11 Reconsidering the image of the city
12 The social production of the built environment: architects, architecture and the post-Modern city
13 Invented places
14 Learning from Disney World
15 Section Four The social dimension
15 Three types of outdoor activities; Outdoor activities and quality of outdoor space
16 The uses of sidewalks: safety
17 The future of public space: beyond invented streets and reinvented places
18 The character of third places
19 The rise of the private city
Section Five The visual dimension
20 Townscape: introduction
21 Path-portal-place
22 What makes a good building?
23 A report from the front
Section Six The functional dimension
24 Functionalism
25 The life of plazas
26 Needs in public space
27 Understanding transactions
28 Cities as movement economies
Section Seven The temporal dimension
29 Images in motion
30 The presence of the past
31 Shearing layers
Section Eight Implementing urban design
32 The built environment
33 The politics of urban design
34 Heroes and servants, markets and battlefields
35 Private-property decision makers and the quality of urban design
36 The debate on design review
37 The inner city
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