Urban Design Reader

by Steve Tiesdell, Matthew Carmona

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136350610
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/07/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	52 MB
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About the Author

Matthew Carmona, Tiesdell Steve

Table of Contents

Introduction; Understanding Urban Design; Chapter 1 ‘Places’ Matter Most; Chapter 2 Ambiguities of Urban Design; Chapter 3 Urban Environments as Visual Art or as Social Settings? A Review; Chapter 4 An Integrative Theory of Urban Design; Chapter 5 Postmodern Urban Form; Chapter 6 A Procedural Explanation for Contemporary Urban Design; The Morphological Dimension; Chapter 7 What is Lost Space?; Chapter 8; Chapter 9 Typology: an Architecture of Limits; The Perceptual Dimension; Chapter 10 On the Identity of Places; Chapter 11 Reconsidering the Image of the City; Chapter 12 The Social Production of the Built Environment: Architects, Architecture and the Post-Modern City; Chapter 13 Invented places; Chapter 14 Learning from Disney World; The Social Dimension; Chapter 15 Three Types of Outdoor Activities; Outdoor Activities and Quality of Outdoor Space; Chapter 16 The Uses of Sidewalks; Chapter 17 The Future of Public Space; Chapter 18 The Character of Third Places; Chapter 19 The Rise of the Private City; The Visual Dimension; Chapter 20 Townscape; Chapter 21 Path–Portal–Place; Chapter 22 What Makes a Good Building?; Chapter 23 A Report from the Front; The Functional Dimension; Chapter 24 Functionalism; Chapter 25 The Life of Plazas; Chapter 26 Needs in Public Space; Chapter 27 Understanding Transactions, MacCormac Richard; Chapter 28 Cities as Movement Economies, Bill Hillier; The Temporal Dimension; Chapter 29 Images in Motion; Chapter 30 The Presence of the Past; Chapter 31 Shearing Layers; Implementing Urban Design; Chapter 32 The Built Environment; Chapter 33 The Politics of Urban Design; Chapter 34 Heroes and Servants, Markets and Battlefields; Chapter 35 Private-Property Decision Makers and the Quality of Urban Design; Chapter 36 The Debate on Design Review, Brenda Case Scheer; Chapter 37 The Inner City, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck;