The Urban Design Reader 2nd edition by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald 0415668085 9780415668088

PART ONE: HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS IN URBAN DESIGN

Introduction to Part One

“Upsurge of the Renaissance”—Edmund N. Bacon

“The Islamic City: Historic Myths, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance”—Janet Abu-Lughod

“The Family of Eyes” and “The Mire of the Macadam”—Marshall Berman

“Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns”—Frederick Law Olmsted

“The Meager and Unimaginative Character of Modern City Plans” and “Artistic Limitations of Modern City Planning”—Camillo Sitte

“Author’s Introduction” and “The Town–Country Magnet”—Ebenezer Howard

“Ideology and Aesthetics”—William H. Wilson

“The Neighborhood Unit”—Clarence Perry

“The Pack-Donkey’s Way and Man’s Way” and “A Contemporary City”—Le Corbusier

PART TWO: FOUNDATIONS OF THE FIELD

Introduction to Part Two

“Josep Lluís Sert’s Urban Design Legacy”—Richard Marshall

“Introduction to The Concise Townscape”—Gordon Cullen

“The Image of the Environment” and “The City Image and Its Elements”—Kevin Lynch

“Author’s Introduction” and “The Uses of Sidewalks: Contact”—Jane Jacobs

“A City is Not a Tree”—Christopher Alexander

“The Significance of A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas”—Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

“Collage City”—Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter

“Introduction,” “The Life of Plazas,” “Sitting Space,” and, “Sun, Wind, Trees, and Water”—William H. Whyte

“Conclusion: Great Streets and City Planning”—Allan B. Jacobs

“Toward an Urban Design Manifesto”—Allan B. Jacobs and Donald Appleyard

“Dimensions of Performance”—Kevin Lynch

“A Catholic Approach to Organizing What Urban Designers Should Know”—Anne Vernez Moudon

PART THREE: GROWTH OF A PLACE AGENDA

>Introduction to Part Three

“Prospects for Places”—Edward Relph

“The Phenomenon of Place”—Christian Norberg-Schulz

“The Problem of Place in America”—Ray Oldenburg

“Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of Place”—Douglas S. Kelbaugh

“A Crisis in the Urban Landscape,” “The Origins and Theory of Type,” and “Legitimacy and Control”—Brenda Case Scheer

“Charter of the New Urbanism”—Congress for the New Urbanism

“Themes of Postmodern Urbanism”—Nan Ellin

“Introduction,” “Preface: The Current State of Everyday Urbanism,” and “Blurring the Boundaries: Public Space and Private Life”—Margaret Crawford

“The Generic City” and “Whatever Happened to Urbanism?”—Rem Koolhaas

PART FOUR: DESIGN ISSUES IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Introduction to Part Four

“What is Sprawl?”—Oliver Gillham

“Density in Communities, or the Most Important Factor in Building Urbanity”—Eduardo Lozano

“Introduction,” “Physical Activity and Public Health,” and “Urban Design Characteristics”—Lawrence D. Frank, Peter O. Engelke, and Thomas L. Schmid

“Introduction,” “The Changing Nature of Public Space in City Centres,” and “Whose Public Space?”—Ali Madanipour

“Profit and Place”—Ian Bentley

“Urban Dualities in the Arab World: From a Narrative of Loss to Neo-Liberal Urbanism”—Yasser Elsheshtawy

“The Urbanism of Ambition” and “China Reinvents the City”—Thomas J. Campanella

PART FIVE: ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES

Introduction to Part Five

“An Ecological Method for Landscape Architecture”—Ian McHarg

“Principles for Regional Design”—Michael Hough

“Landscape as Urbanism”—Charles Waldheim

“Discourses for Landscape and Urbanization,” “The Production of Waste Landscape,” and “Drosscape Explained”—Alan Berger

“Planning for Sustainability in European Cities: A Review of Practice in Leading Cities”—Timothy Beatley

“Urban Resilience: Cities of Fear and Hope”—Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer

PART SIX: URBAN DESIGN PRACTICE NOW AND TOMORROW

Introduction to Part Six

“Where and How Does Urban Design Happen?”—Alex Krieger

“Designing the Urban Design Studio”—Elizabeth Macdonald

“Design Guidelines in American Cities: Conclusions”—John Punter

“The End(s) of Urban Design”—Michael Sorkin

“A Third Way for Urban Design”—Kenneth Greenberg