Urban Design: A typology of Procedures and Products. Illustrated with over 50 Case Studies
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Urban Design: A typology of Procedures and Products. Illustrated with over 50 Case Studies
Urban Design: A typology of Procedures and Products. Illustrated with over 50 Case Studies
By Jon Lang
Publisher: Architectural Press
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2005-10-18
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750666285
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750666282
Binding: Paperback
Urban Design provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, presenting a 3 dimensional model with which to categorise the processes and products involved. It not only defines the subject, but also considers the future direction of the field and what can be learned from the past. 50 international case studies demonstrate the variety of urban design efforts that have occurred in recent history.
* Enables students and professionals to understand the meaning of urban design by presenting an analysis of case studies from the past 5 decades.
* Illustrates how urban design guidelines and processes have been used in a broad range of projects around the world.
* Helps architects and planners to define their goals and to confidently predict design outcomes.
Summary: Not what it seems…
Rating: 2
This is not a comprehensive book on the field of Urban Design. Although this is obvious from the subtitle one is left with dissapointment. Aside from an interesting collection of cases studies you really don’t get the complexity and timeless cross-section of this field that is having a renaissance now. None of the current trends are mentioned nor do they get any strong coverage (new urbanism/trasnurbanism/reurbanism/everyday urbanism/splintered urbanism/complexity urbanism) nor does the historical element comes through. Generaly good written book but too much of a sallad bowl without a proper structure and philosophy. Not a good tool for teaching. If you want top of the pops book in this field go to D.Grahame Shane’s Recombinant Urbanism. For me it was astonishing how little space was given to new urbanism, the leading urban design theory and practice today.
Summary: Close look at the Moderns
Rating: 5
A spectacular book. Lang explains all the design process of the urban environment within USA in this century. What had going wrong and why. See also how a close relationship between designers and its clients can improve design quality and what sort of human needs can be fulfilled by the built environment. A book not only for urban designers but for all people related with the designing process from interiors designers to landscape architects.
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