Companion to Urban Design

ISBN-13: 9781138776548 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 714 str.

Tridib Banerjee; Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

Opis

Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales - ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary public policy - multiculturalism, healthy cities, environmental justice, economic development, climate change, energy conservations, protection of natural environments, sustainable development, community liveability, and the like. The field now comprises a core body of knowledge that enfolds a right history of ideas, paradigms, principles, tools, research and applications, enriched by electric influences from the humanities, and social and natural sciences. Companion to Urban Design includes more than fifty original contributions from internationally recognized authorities in the field. These contributions address the following questions: What are the important ideas that have shaped the field and the current practice of urban design? What are the major methods and processes that have influenced the practice of urban design at various scales? What are the current innovations relevant to the pedagogy of urban design? What are the lingering debates, conflicts ad contradictions in the theory and practice of urban design? How could urban design respond to the contemporary challenges of climate change, sustainability, active living initiatives, globalization, and the like? What are the significant disciplinary influences on the theory, research and practice of urban design in recent times? There has never before been a more authoritative and comprehensive companion that includes core, foundational and pioneering ideas and concepts of urban design. This book serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners interested in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, but also in urban studies, urban affairs, geography, and related fields.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Roots  Introduction  1. From CIAM to CNU: The Roots and Thinkers of Modern Urban Design   2. The Open and the Enclosed: Shifting Paradigms in Modern Urban Design  3. Pedagogical Traditions  Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives  Introduction  4. Urban Design: An Incompletely Theorized Project  5. The Two Orders of Cybernetics in Urban Form and Design  6. Urban Design and Spatial Political Economy  7. Critical Urbanism: Space, Design, Revolution  Part 3: Influences  Introduction  8. Urban Design and the Traditions of Geography  9. Influences of Sociology on Urban Design  10. Influences of Anthropology on Urban Design  11. Feminist Approaches to Urban Design  12. Environmental Psychology and Urban Design  13. The Law of Urban Design  14. Political Theory and Urban Design  15. Interactions between Public Health and Urban Design  16. Urban Design and the Cinematic Arts  Part 4: Technologies and Methods  Introduction  17. Design Studios  18. Media Tools for Urban Design  19. Visualizing Change: Simulations as a Decision Making Tool  20. City Design in the Age of Digital Ubiquity  Part 5: Process  Introduction  21. Customs, Norms, Rules, Regulations and Standards in Design Practice  22. Decoding Design Guidance  23. Urban Design Competitions  24. The Design Charrette  25. Citizen Design: Participation and Beyond  Part 6: Components  Introduction  26. Downtown Urban Design  27. Suburbs: Rus in Urbe, the Picturesque, and Selfhood  28. Planned Communities and New Towns  29. Neighborhood Spaces: Design Innovations and Social Themes  30. Spaces of Consumption  31. Cultural Institutions: The Role of Urban Design  32. Streets and the Public Realm: Emerging Designs  33. Mixed-Life Places  34. Urban Flux  Part 7: Debates  Introduction  35. Compactness vs. Sprawl  36. Living Together or Apart: Exclusion, Gentrification, and Displacement  37. Place, Identity and the Global City  38. Old vs. New Urbanism  39. Form-Based Codes vs. Conventional Zoning  Part 8: Global Trends  Introduction  40. City Branding  41. From Metropolitan to Regional Urbanization  42. Ethnoscapes  43. Urban Design for a Planet of Informal Cities  Part 9: New Directions  Introduction  44. Postmodern and Integral Urbanism  45. Ecological Urbanism  46. Metropolitan Form and Landscape Urbanism  47. Intertwist and Intertwine: Sustainability, Meet Urban Design  48. Smart Growth: A Critical Review of the State of the Art  49. Notes on Transit Oriented Development  50. Placemaking in Urban Design  51. Secure Cities  52. Design for Resilient Cities: Reflections from a Studio.  Epilogue