urban design reader

Urban Design Reader | 2006 | Architectural Press |

  • Matthew Carmona (Reader in Planning and Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London)
  • Steve Tiesdell (Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow)


Description

The collection introduces six key dimensions of urban design and supplements these with discussions of what urban design means and how it is implemented.
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Binding: Paperback
Extent: 376 pages
Format: 165 X 234 mm
ISBN-10: 0750665319
ISBN-13: 978075065315
  • Brings together, in one place, the key texts that provide the foundations of this increasingly significant discipline
  • Includes a range of writing from the 1960's to contemporary work, ensuring a complete coverage of the development of the subject

Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this Reader draws together the key works that have provided the foundations for the place-making view of urban design.

Compiled and edited by two of the authors of the best selling Public Places - Urban Spaces, the Reader includes a wide range of contemporary and classic texts in urban design.

Many essays are crucial distillations of key areas of urban design knowledge, while others debate the theories behind a range of urban design concepts.

A number - including works by Jan Gehl, Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Gordon Cullen and many others - are referred to time and time again by urban designers and are a constant source of guidance. The essays are organised thematically and presented substantially
in their original form.

The Urban Design Reader offers not just an insight into the theory and practice of urban design using the work of some of the most influential writers of the last fifty years, but an inspiration to explore deeper and further.