Urban Design Reader

Steve Tiesdell, Matthew Carmona

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9780750665315
• eBook ISBN: 9781136350610
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of the best selling Public Places Urban Spaces, this indispensable guide includes all the crucial definitions and various understandings of the subject, as well as a practical look at how to implement urban design that readers will need to refer to time and time again. Uniquely, the selections of essays that include the works of Gehl, Jacobs, and Cullen, are presented substantially in their original form, and the truly accessible dip-in-and-out format will enable readers to form a deeper, practical understanding of urban design.

Index

• A/B street grids,354
• Accessibility of third places,166–167
• Accommodation: third places,166–167
• Active engagement: public space,234–238
• Activities:
  • identities of places,105
  • outdoor activities,141, 143–146
  • paths,186–187
  • place,105, 193–195
  • portals,190
• Aesthetics:
  • aesthetic-expressive approach,21–22
  • design review,344, 349–351
  • The Image of the City,108, 112
  • needs,220–221
  • visual versus spatial,15–16
• Affiliation needs: Maslow,219–220
• Alexander, Christopher,29–31, 71–72, 305
• Aliveness of place,193
• Ambiance,187, 190–191, 195–196
• Ambiguities,12–23
  • definitions,12–22
  • macro/micro-scale,13–14
  • private/public sector,19
  • process types,19–22
  • process/product argument,17–18
  • professionals,18–19
  • rationality,19–22
  • social versus spatial,16–17
  • visual versus spatial,14–16
• American city diagram,66
• American downtowns,43–50
• American gas stations,88
• Anthropophilic environments,214
• Anthropozemic environments,214
• Arbitrariness in design review,348
• Architects:
  • building designs,201–202
  • competition,122
  • creativity,330, 349
  • design review,344
  • heroic model,323–324
  • job sa...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table Of Contents
• Introduction
• Section One Understanding urban design
• Section Two The morphological dimension
• Section Four The social dimension
• Section Five The visual dimension
• Section Six The functional dimension
• Section Seven The temporal dimension
• Section Eight Implementing urban design
• Bibliography
• Index