ISBN:
9781118174647
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (402 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dobbins, Michael, 1938 - Urban design and people
DDC:
307.1216
Keywords:
City planning
;
Urban ecology (Sociology)
;
Electronic books
;
Stadtplanung
;
Stadtökologie
Abstract:
This introduction to the field of urban design offers a comprehensive survey of the processes necessary to implement urban design work, explaining the vocabulary, the rules, the tools, the structures, and the resources in clear and accessible style. Providing a comprehensive framework for understanding urban design principles and strategies, the author argues that urban design is both a process and a collaboration in which the different forces involved are knit together. Moving from the regional scale down to the scale of places, the book examines the goals and strategies of the urban designer from the viewpoints of the private sector, public sector, and community. The text is illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings that make theory and practice relevant and alive.
Abstract:
Intro -- Urban Design and People -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- PART ONE BACKGROUND -- Setting the Stage -- 1. People and Place -- How People Have Shaped Their Worlds -- Introduction -- Antecedents -- The 1960s -- The "Movement" and the Civic Environment -- Organizational Responses to the Rise of Citizen Participation -- Growing Pains-The Challenges of Citizen Participation -- Citizen Participation-Where We May Be Heading -- Summary -- 2. Urban Design Traditions -- Design and People-Spatial Models in the Built World -- Introduction -- The Organic Tradition -- The Formalist Tradition -- The Modernist Tradition -- Interactions and Overlaps of the Three Traditions -- Getting to Where We Are Today -- Environmentalist Responses-From Exploitation to Balance -- Design Responses-From Old Urbanism to New Urbanism, or Forward to the Past -- Citizen Participation and Urban Design-From Receiver to Transmitter -- The Place Design Disciplines-From Divergence to Convergence -- Summary -- PART TWO CONTENT -- The Elements of Urban Design -- 3. The Physical Environment -- The Places People Occupy -- The Natural World -- The Built World-What People Have Done with It -- Summary -- 4. Human Activity -- The Things People Do -- What People Have to Do, Want to Do, and Where They Do It -- Summary -- 5. Connections -- The Infrastructure That Ties People and Places Together -- Introduction -- Transportation -- Utilities -- Communications -- Summary -- PART THREE PRINCIPLES -- Principles for Urban Design Theory and Practice -- 6. Design -- Design Matters (or There's No "There" in There) -- Introduction -- Good Design Makes Better Places -- Design Places to Reflect the People Who Are or Will Be There -- Design Places Consciously and Holistically -- Design Is an Essential Skill -- Beware of "Solutionism".
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