Urban Design Reader [Paperback]

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.Section One - DEFINING URBAN DESIGN; Tibbalds, F. (1992), Places Matter Most; Madanipour, A. (1997), Ambiguities of Urban Design; Jarvis, R. (1980), Urban Environments as Visual Art or Social Setting;Sternberg, E. (2000), An Integrative Theory of Urban Design; Loukaitou-Sideris, A. & Banerjee, T. (1998), Postmodern Urban Form; Varkki George R (1997), A Procedural Explanation for Contemporary Urban Design; Section Two - THE MORPHOLOGY DIMENSION ; Trancik, R. (1986), What is Lost Space?; Martin, L. (1972), The Grid as Generator; Kelbaugh, D. (2002), Typology: An Architecture of Limits,Section Three - THE PERCEPTUAL DIMENSION; Relph, E. (1976), On the Identity of Places; Lynch, K. (1984), Reconsidering The Image of the City; Knox, P. (19??), The Social production of the built environment: Architects, architecture and the post-modern city; Sircus, J. (2001), Invented Places, Prospect; Zukin, S. (1995), Learning from Disney World; Section Four - THE SOCIAL DIMENSION; Gehl, Jl_