Theory

Urban Design Theory

Author

Title

Alexander, C

A New Theory of Urban Design, New York, Oxford University Press, 1987

Anderson , S

On Streets, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1986

Appleyard, D

Livable Streets, Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 1981

Arida, A

Quantum City (Originally JCUD MA Thesis), Oxford Brookes University, 2002

Beaudrillard, J

For A Critique of The Political Economy of The Sign, 1981

Bentley, I et al

 

Responsive Environments, Architectural Press, 1985

Urban Transformations

Bernstein, B

Codes, Modalities and the Process of Cultural Reproduction, 1980

Butina, G

The Use of Urban History in the Design of Local Urban Areas, UD Quarterly, Dec, 1988

Cadman, D and Austin-
Crowe, L

Property Development, Spon 1983

Carrmona, M

Public places - urban spaces, Architectural Press, Oxford, 2003

Castells, M

The Informational City, Blackwell, 1989

Civic Trust

Urban Wasteland Now, Civic Trust, 1988

Couch, C

Urban Renewal Theory and Practice, Macmillan, 1990

Cowan, R

The Dictionary of Urbanism, 2005

DoE Inner Cities Directorate

Improving Urban Areas, HMSO, 1988

Eade, J

Living The Global City, 1996

Gehl, J

Life Between Buildings, Van Nostrand Reinhold 1987

Giddens, A

The Meaning of Modernity, 1989

Gilbert, O L

The Ecology of Human Habitats, Chapman and Hall, 1989

Graham S & Marvin

Splintering Urbanism, 2000

Haas-Klau, C

The Pedestrian and City Traffic, Belheven, 1990

Hall, P

Cities of Tomorrow, 1995

Harvey, D

The Condition of Post Modernity, 1989

Hayward, R and McGlynn, S

Making Better Places: Urban Design Now, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1993

Hough, M

City Form and Natural Process, Croom Helm, 1984

Howard, E

The Garden City, 1905

Jacobs, J

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Penguin, 1984

Krier, R

Urban Space, AD, 1983

Kuhn, T

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1970

Laurie, I

Nature in Cities, Wiley, 1979

Llewelyn Davies for English Partnership,

Urban Design Compendium, EP, 2000

Lynch, K

The Image of the City, MIT, 1976

Matrix

Making Space: Women in the Man Made Environment, Pluto Press, 1984

Medina, J

Re-Urbanism (JCUD MA thesis)

Mumford, L

The City In History, 1984

Owens, S

Energy, Planning and Urban Form, Pion, 1986

Punter , J

A Case Study of Aesthetic Control, Reading University, 1985

Reeve, A and Simmonds, R

 

Bicester Village and The Village of Bicester UD International, 1999

Public Realm As Theatre UD International, 2001

Relph , E

The Modern Urban Landscape, Johns Hopkins, 1990

Rossi, A

The Achitecture of The City, 1966

Schon, D

The Reflective Practitioner, 1979

Sennett, R

The Fall of Public Man, 1993

Shane, D.G

Recombinant Urbanism, 2005

Shields, R

Lifestyle Shopping, 1990

Simmonds, R and
Hack G Eds

Global City Regions: Their Emerging Forms, 1999

Tolley, R

Calming Traffic in Residential Areas, Brefi Press, 1990

Venturi, R

Complexity and Contradiction In Architecture, 1966

Venturi, R, Scott Brown , D, Eisenour, S

Learning From Las Vegas, 1971

Whyte, W

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, Conservation Foundation, 1980

Zeisel, J

Inquiry by Design: Tools for Environment - Behaviour Research, CUP, l984