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Participation in Development Broadsheet No 5
Author: Women's Design Service
Publish date: August 1993
Publisher: Womens Design Service
Keywords: community, participation
Participation in the Design of Urban Space
Author: Punter, J V
Publish date: May 1991
Journal: Landscape Design
Pages: 24-27
Keywords: participation, process
Participation Urban Design and Housing Discussion Paper
Author: Haywood, R
Publish date: March 1991
Publisher: Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes Univ.
Pages: 1-5
Keywords: housing, participation
Pattern book to design guide: dictation or suggestion?
Author: Darley, G
Publish date: 1975
Journal: Built Environment Quarterly Vol 5(1)
Pages: 12-21
Keywords: design control/review, techniques
Paving the Way: How we can achieve clean, safe and attractive streets
Author: Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Publish date: July 2002
Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing
Abstract: This publication is a study of streetscapes. It looks at the decision making process that creates the streetscapes that exist today and how and why they have been created. 12 case studies are used to give details of design and management on streets.
Keywords: design strategy, streets
Peatonizacion, una opcion para el rescate urbano
Author: Brenes, E
Publish date: June 1995
Publisher: Editorial Tecnoligica de Costa Rica
Abstract: Spanish book about the general theory of urban design, and considering in particular process of pedestrianizing Central Avenue in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Keywords: developing context, pedestrian
Pedestrian Behaviour in Sydney
Author: Walmsley, D J
Publish date: September 1989
Journal: Australian Planner, Vol 27(3)
Pages: 26-29
Abstract: The article present results of research into pedestrian behaviour, and argues that Planners need to have a better understanding of how pedestrians act in differing environments.
Keywords: accessibility, pedestrian
Pedestrian Malls, Streetscapes and Urban Spaces
Author: Rubenstein, Harvey, M
Publish date: 1992
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, New York
Keywords: landscape, process, public space, retail, streets
Pedestrian Movement and Open Space Framework
Author: LDR/HLN Consultancy
Publish date: September 1988
Publisher: unpublished, Birmingham City Council
Keywords: accessibility, design control/review, design strategy, pedestrian
People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space
Author: Cooper-Marcus C, and Francis C
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York
Keywords: behavioural, landscape, social aspects of design, Urban Design
People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space, Second Edition
Author: Cooper Marcus, C and Francis, C
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York
Abstract: This is the Second Edition of the influential book which discusses human aspects of design derived from post-occupancy evaluation. The book considers: urban plazas; neighbourhood parks; mini parks; campus outdoor spaces; outdoor spaces in housing for the elderly; child care outdoor spaces; hospital outydoor spaces; and includes a new chapter on how to do post-occupancy evaluation.
Keywords: assessing quality, behavioural, children and youth, landscape, pedestrian, public space, social aspects of design, Urban Design
Percepcao Ambiental: A Experiencia Brasileira
Author: Del Rio, V and Oliveira, L (Eds)
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: Sai Paulo: Editora Studio-Nobel
Pages: 266 pp
Abstract: With a thorough introduction that explains the state-of-the-art of the research on environmental perception with emphasis on the Brazilian case, the book brings together 13 original essays by professors and researchers. All essays discuss the application of research from different view points and with different methods (eg Lynchian analysis, mental mapping, semiotics, city marketing, topophilia, education).
Keywords: behavioural, psychology, semiotics
Perception of qualitative changes in public open spaces: the case of Alexandria, Egypt
Author: Hassan Abdel-Salam
Publish date: March 1996
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 1(1)
Pages: 27-40
Abstract: The paper discusses how people hold different perceptions of urban quality, related to their individual roles and interests, and how they perceive qualitative changes accordingly. Varying responses to a pedestrianisation scheme in Alexandria are used to elaborate on the theory.
Keywords: assessing quality, behavioural, egypt, pedestrian, psychology, public space
Performance Standards: a way to achieve high quality design
Author: Goldin, P
Publish date: 1995
Journal: Australian Planner, Vol 32(3)
Pages: 161-165
Abstract: Most Australian states traditionally operate zoning based planning systems, which usually specify prescriptive standards. Critics have called zoning systems restrictive and archaic and unable to encourage high quality design. Yet no workable alternative to zoning has been thoroughly debated. Performance based plans are one alternative which provide greater flexibility for developers as well as requiring higher skills and understanding amongst designers and regulators. The purpose of this paper is not to ar
Keywords: australia, standards
Permitted Development - The Limits to Aesthetic Control The Legal Dimension
Author: Ornsby, S
Publish date: March 12 1993
Journal: Paper given at Aesthetic Control Conference, RTPI
Pages: 1-8 with legislative off prints attached
Keywords: aesthetics, design control/review, planning
Persistence of the Vernacular: A Minority Shaping Urban Form
Author: Salazar, D
Publish date: 1998
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 3(3)
Pages: 303 - 330
Keywords: cultural, developing context, greece, urban form
Place and Placelessness
Author: Relph, E
Publish date: 1976
Publisher: Pion Press Ltd, London
Keywords: genius loci, identity, place
Place and Space in the Networked City: Conceptualizing the Integrated Metropolis
Author: Roberts M, Lloyd-Jones T, Erickson B and Nice S
Publish date: 1999
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 4(1)
Pages: 51 - 66
Abstract: Paper that supports the view that polycentism is a desriable goal in urban development, and that urban design should seek to promote effective polycentric forms through attention to networks, transport interchanges and specialised sub-urban sub-centres
Keywords: theory, urban form, urbanism
Place is inherently participatory (To design a place involves the interests of many)
Author: Lyndon, D
Publish date: 1999
Journal: Places, Vol 12(2)
Pages: 2 - 3
Keywords: community, participation, place
Place Making and Design Review
Author: Hough, M
Editor: Scheer, B C and Preiser, W F E
Publish date: 1994
Journal: in Design Review: Challenging urban aesthetic control
Publisher: Chapman Hall, New York
Pages: 147-155
Keywords: design control/review
Place Making Place Marking
Author: Cannings, Hugh
Publish date: 1999
Journal: Urban Design Quarterly, No 70
Pages: 12 - 15
Abstract: The author reviews an approach to urban design that distinguishes between factors that provide a design with structure, and factors that give a place character. It is argued that these are key components of any design endeavour.
Keywords: place, principles
Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets and Urban Villages
Author: Bohl, Charles C
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: Urban Land Institute
Abstract: Good intoduction to the conditions necessary for creating and managing traditional commercial/retail areas. Contains a large number of interesting examples. The publication is similar to "Vital and Viable Topwn Centres: Meeting the Challenge" published in the UK in the mid 1990s.
Keywords: commercial, mixed use, neo-traditional, new urbanism, pedestrian, public space, regeneration, retail, shopfront, united states of america
Place Promotion The use of publicity and marketing to sell towns and regions
Author: Gold, J R and Ward S V
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Chichester
Keywords: place, spatial interpretation
Place, Form and Cultural Identity
Author: Frampton, K
Editor: Thackera, J
Publish date: 1988
Journal: Design after Modernism
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London
Keywords: cultural, genius loci, identity, modernism, place, social aspects of design
Places, Streets and Movement
Author: Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: London: DETR
Abstract: Supplementary design guidance from the British Government on housing layout. The guidance requires a better balance between highways and other matters, and is a distinct move away from fromerly cul-de-sac dominated developments.
Keywords: design control/review, design guide, housing
Plan Graphics
Author: Walker, T D
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, N Y
Abstract: A compilation of graphics techniques for all types of presentation media. The illustrations range from large to small scale plans and include site analysis and design concepts.
Keywords: techniques
Planning a place in the sun: Monarto, South Australia
Author: Jones, D S
Publish date: 1998
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 4
Keywords: australia, planning
Planning and the Heritage: Policy and Procedure
Author: Ross, M
Publish date: 1991
Publisher: E and F N Spon, London
Keywords: conservation, heritage, planning
Planning for Beauty The Case for Design Guidelines
Author: Royal Fine Arts Commission / Hillman, J
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: design control/review, planning
Planning for Crime Prevention
Author: Kitchen,T
Publish date: October 2001
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Books LTD
Abstract: An examination into the extent to which the design, planning and management of the built environment can prevent or reduce crime opportunities.
Keywords: security
Planning for Living at Higher Densities
Author: Lotbiniere N and Milliken S
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: Grimley J R Eve, London
Keywords: sustainability, urbanism
Planning for Urban Quality: urban design in towns and cities
Author: Parfect, M and Power, G
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Routledge, London
Abstract: This is a general text which describes itself as follows: Planning for Urban Quality examines how to achieve quality in the urban environment, in a planning context. Tracing urban design from its roots, the authors draw on both historical and current practices to examine the key physical, political and economic forces at play and the social pressures and impacts brought about by both failures and achievements in urban design.
Keywords: assessing quality, planning
Planning Policy Guidance 13: Transport
Author: Department of the Environment/Department of Transport (UK)
Publish date: March 1994
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: highways, sustainability, traffic
Planning Policy Guidance 15: Planning and the Historic Environment
Author: Department of the Environment/Department of National Heritage (UK)
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: conservation, design control/review, heritage
Planning Policy Guidance 19: Outdoor Advertisement Control
Author: Department of the Environment (UK)
Publish date: March 1992
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: design control/review, shopfront
Planning Policy Guidance 1: General Policy and Principles
Author: Department of the Environment (UK)
Publish date: March 1992
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: design control/review, planning
Planning Policy Guidance 3: Housing
Author: Department of the Environment (UK)
Publish date: March 1992
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: design control/review, planning
Planning Policy Guidance 6: Town Centres and Retail Development
Author: Department of the Environment (UK)
Publish date: July 1993
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: commercial, management, planning, retail
Planning the New Suburbia: Flexibility by design
Author: Friedman,A
Publish date: July 2002
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Abstract: A look at alternatives to urban sprawl and how a new flexible approach can be taken.
Keywords: suburbs
Planning the Public Realm: Part 1
Author: Simpson, A
Publish date: May 1991
Journal: Landscape Design
Pages: 28-29
Keywords: participation, planning, public space
Planning the Public Realm: Part 2
Author: Simpson, A
Publish date: June 1991
Journal: Landscape Design
Pages: 37-39
Keywords: participation, planning, public space
Planning, design and managing change in waterfront redevelopment
Author: Gordon, D L A
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Town Planning Review, Vol 67(3)
Pages: 261 - 290
Abstract: The paper discusses projects in New York, London, Boston and Toronto. The paper analyses processes and techniques adopted by regeneration agencies to control the quality of the resulting environment.
Keywords: management, planning, practice, regeneration
Platinum City at Twin Lakes: an urban neighbourhood in Bangalore, India
Author: Hetzel, P and Thadani, D
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 1(4)
Pages: 323 - 334
Abstract: The paper reviews the plan for Platinum City; a new, mixed use neighbourhood in Bangalore, India. The key elements of the plan are described.
Keywords: india, neo-traditional, practice
Political Factors in the Reconstruction of Warsaw's Old Town
Author: Mezga, D
Publish date: 1998
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Volume 4
Keywords: conservation, poland, politics
Poor Management, Design Skills and Regulations Blight Street Improvement Projects
Author: Dark, J.
Publish date: 2002
Journal: Urban Environment Today, Issue 152
Pages: p6-7
Abstract: A report of findings of research into how government advice to create attractive, safer, uncluttered, cared for streets has been implemented.
Keywords: design control/review, management, skills, streets
Portland cements reputation for design awareness
Author: Punter, J V
Publish date: April 14th 1995
Journal: Planning, No. 1114
Pages: pp. 20 - 21
Keywords: design control/review, united states of america
Postmodern Culture
Author: Foster, H (ed)
Publish date: 1983
Publisher: Pluto Press, London
Keywords: cultural, postmodernism, social aspects of design
Postmodern History
Author: Jencks, C
Publish date: 1978
Journal: Architectural Design Profile 10
Publisher: Architectural Design, London
Keywords: postmodernism
Postmodern Urbanism
Author: Nan, Ellin
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell
Keywords: neo-traditional, postmodernism, urbanism
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Author: Jameson, F
Publish date: July-August 1984
Journal: New Left Review, No 146
Pages: 53-92
Keywords: cultural, postmodernism
Postmodernism, geography, and the social semiotics of space
Author: Lagopoulos, A P
Publish date: 1993
Journal: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Vol 11
Pages: 255-278
Keywords: postmodernism, semiotics, spatial interpretation
Postmodernism: An Introduction
Author: Goldberger, P
Publish date: 1977
Journal: Architectural Design Profiles
Keywords: postmodernism
Power to the People: Websites as tools for public participation
Author: Stringer,P
Publish date: 1999
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 5
Pages: 41-46
Abstract: Paper that examines how websites can be used to present the city to the public through the eyes of the urban designer. This method of presentation can also encourage responce and oppinions on specific issues.
Keywords: participation, practice
Pragmatic city versus ideal city: Tughluqabad, Perso-Islamic planning and its impact on Indian towns
Author: Shokoohy,M. and Shokoohy,N.H
Publish date: 1999
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 5
Pages: 57-84
Abstract: This paper reports on a study of a 14th century sultanate town that gives a good indication of urban design at that time. It looks at how some of the design principles that were employed have proved very successful.
Keywords: history, india, principles
Precedents, Desires, Nature, Urban Design: Parameters For A New Urban Modernism Research Note 25
Author: Bentley, I
Publish date: April 1990
Publisher: Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes Univ
Pages: 1-12
Keywords: modernism
Presentation Graphics
Author: Langendorf, R
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: American Planning Assoc. Report No 453
Abstract: A report that shows how planners can use a variety of graphic techniques to assist in communication.
Keywords: techniques
Preservation Pays
Author: Binney M and Hanna M
Publish date: 1978
Publisher: Save, London
Keywords: conservation
Pride of Place: How to improve your surroundings
Author: Civic Trust
Publish date: 1974
Publisher: Civic Trust, London
Keywords: conservation
Primrose Hill, an urban village examined: with lessons for brownfield developments
Author: Barr,A
Publish date: 1999
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 5
Pages: 9-26
Abstract: This paper looks at evaluation techniques and applies them to Primrose Hill, London. It suggests guidelines for evaluation, such as the use of mental maps in describing how an area is perceived, and encourages analysis that avoids preconceptions.
Keywords: assessing quality, design control/review
Principles of Property Investment and Pricing
Author: Fraser, W D
Publish date: 1984
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Keywords: valuation
Private Design Review in Edge City
Author: Baab, D J
Editor: Scheer, B C and Preiser W F E
Publish date: 1994
Journal: Design Review: Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control
Publisher: Chapman Hall, New York
Pages: 187-196
Abstract: The chapter considers the role of the private sector in producing and implementing design review procedures.
Keywords: design control/review, edge city
Private-property Decision Makers and the Quality of Urban Design
Author: Rowley, A
Publish date: 1998
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 3(2)
Pages: 151 - 174
Abstract: Results of research commissioned by the UK Department of the Environment and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors which looks at how developers, investors and occupiers of five developments view the "urban design" of the respective schemes.
Keywords: commercial, development process, process
Privately Owned Public Realm Discussion Note
Author: Simmonds, R
Publish date: March 1991
Publisher: Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes Univ
Pages: 1-8
Keywords: commercial, public space
Privately owned Public Space: The New York City experience
Author: Kayden, J.S.
Publish date: November 2000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Abstract: An examination of the history, law, design and use of the privately owned public spaces in New York City. The problems related to design, management and enforcement are also looked at.
Keywords: public space
Privatisation of public open space the Los Angeles Experience
Author: Loukaitou-Sideris, A
Publish date: 1993
Journal: Town Panning Review Vol 64(2)
Pages: 139-167
Keywords: public space, united states of america
Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government
Author: McKenzie, E
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press
Keywords: community, gated community, social aspects of design
Professional vs Lay Tastes in Design Control - an empirical investigation
Author: Hubbard, P
Publish date: 1994
Journal: Planning Practice and Research Vol 9(3)
Pages: 271-287
Keywords: design control/review
Programmes and Manifestoes in 20th Century Architecture
Author: Conrads, U
Publish date: 1970
Publisher: Lund Humphries, London
Keywords: architecture, history, social aspects of design
Promoting Contemporary Architecture in Historic Areas: Summary of Proceedings, Publication No 31
Author: English Historic Towns Forum
Publish date: 27th April 1994
Publisher: EHTF, The Huntingdon Centre, The Vineyards, The Paragon, Bath, BA1 5NA
Keywords: conservation, heritage, history, visual interpretation
Promoting Nature in Cities and Towns - a good practice guide
Author: Emery, M
Publish date: 1986
Publisher: Croom Helm, London
Keywords: sustainability
Promoting Urban Design in Development Plans: typo-morphological approaches in Montreuil, France
Author: Trache,H.
Publish date: 2001
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 6 (3)
Pages: 157-172
Abstract: This article revievs the typo-morphological approach to plan-making in Montreuil, investigating urban design themes and place responsiveness, significant to the preparation of development policies.
Keywords: development process, morphology, planning
Proof of Goodness: A Substantive Basis for New Urbanism
Author: Vernez Moudon, A
Publish date: 2000
Journal: Places, Vol 13(2)
Pages: 38 - 43
Abstract: Paper that argues that New Urbanists should establish a research agenda to provide clear evidence for the value of the development concept. A number of themes for this agenda are discussed.
Keywords: neo-traditional
Property and Industrial Development
Author: Fothergill, S et al
Publish date: 1987
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Keywords: commercial, development process
Property Development Third Edition
Author: Cadman, D and Austin-Crowe, L
Publish date: 1991
Publisher: E and F Spon, London
Keywords: commercial, development process, mixed use, process, Urban Design, valuation
Property Dynamics and the multiple needs of disabled people
Author: Irmine,R
Publish date: June 2000
Publisher: Royall Holloway, University of London
Keywords: accessibility, principles
Public and Private Spaces of the City
Author: Madanipour, A
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Spon Press, London
Abstract: Looks at how social space is subdivided from the most private to the public.
Keywords: public space, social aspects of design
Public Art in Mitigation Planning: The Experience of the Squaw Peak Parkway at Phoenix
Author: Blair, J M Pijawka, D and Steiner, F
Publish date: 1998
Journal: Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol 64(2), Spring
Pages: 221 - 234
Abstract: Reviews the experience of using public art to mitigate against the negative impacts of a major road proposal.
Keywords: art
Public Art: A local authority perspective
Author: Hamilton, J. Forsyth, L and De Longh, D
Publish date: 2001
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 6 (3)
Pages: 283-296
Abstract: Based on a survey of Scottish local authorities, this article addresses the attitudes of government bodies towards the provision of public art. It reviews the history of public art and what the content is considered to be.
Keywords: art, planning
Public Places - Urban Spaces: the dimensions of urban design
Author: Carmona, M. Heath, T. Oc, T. and Tiesdell, S
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Architectural Press
Abstract: The book tries to pin down 'what is' urban design. It reflects on the processes that go into urban design and its increased importance in the field of planning. A large amount of material from the design field is presented clearly and effectively. The book presents the reader with numerous concepts, methods and approaches to urban design.
Keywords: planning, principles, process, public space, techniques, theory, Urban Design
Public Places, Urban Spaces
Author: Tiesdell, S
Publish date: November 2002
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Abstract: An introduction to urban design with specific focus on the interacting theoretical, policy and practice dimensions of the dicipline.
Keywords: practice, theory, Urban Design
Public Realm as theatre: Bicester Village and Universal City Walk
Author: Reeve,A. and Simmonds,R.
Publish date: 2001
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 6 (3)
Pages: 173-190
Abstract: Taking a UK abd US example, this paper looks at the changing nature of commercial space as a form of public space. It uses the metaphore of the theatre to analyse the relationship between the user and the setting.
Keywords: public space, retail, spatial interpretation
Public Space
Author: Carr S, Francis M, Rivlin L G, and Stone A M
Publish date: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Keywords: behavioural, landscape, mixed use, process, public space, Urban Design
Public Space in the Old Derelict City Area- a case study of Mong Kok, Hong Kong
Author: Xue,C. Manuel,K. and Chung,R.
Publish date: 2001
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 6 (1)
Pages: 15-31
Abstract: A case study exploring the quality of public space in derelict city areas of Asia. Strategies for improving the situation are suggested.
Keywords: china, public space
Public Spaces Public Life
Author: Gehl, J and Gemzoe, L
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture Publications, Copenhagen.
Abstract: A book that provides a comprehensive review of research into public street life in Copenhagen.
Keywords: behavioural, pedestrian, public space, social aspects of design
Public Streets for Public Use
Author: Moudon, A V (ed)
Publish date: 1987
Publisher: Van Nostrand Rheinhold, New York
Keywords: public space, social aspects of design, streets
Pull up the drawbridge: fortress mentality in the suburbs
Author: Hillier, J and McManus, P
Editor: Gibson, K and Watson, S
Publish date: 1994
Journal: Metropolis Now: planning and the urban in contemporary Australia
Publisher: Sydney: Pluto Press
Keywords: gated community, housing, security, suburbs
Pulling Down the Prince
Author: Rogers, R
Journal: Architectural Design: Urban Design
Publisher: Architectural Design, London
Pages: 66-69
Keywords: modernism, style
Put a shop in it
Author: Smit, J
Publish date: December 1996
Journal: Building Homes (Supplement to Building) Vol 9
Pages: 37 - 42
Keywords: mixed use, retail
Putting Design onto the Agenda
Author: Coleman, Alice
Publish date: September 1992
Journal: Voluntary Housing
Pages: 11-13
Keywords: housing, management, security, social aspects of design
Putting Social Activity Back into the Street
Author: Chapman,C. & Cane,M.
Publish date: February 2002
Journal: Urban Environment Today Issue 140
Pages: 12-13
Abstract: Looks at the progress of home zones in the UK and some features of design.
Keywords: britain, home zones, housing, streets
Putting the Best Face On A Review of Options for the Outer Skin of the Home
Author: Sewell, Julia
Publish date: February 1991
Journal: House Builder
Pages: 45-46
Keywords: housing, semiotics, style
