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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.
* 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.
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Urban Design the American Experience Jon Lang Urban Design: The American Experience places social and environmental concerns within the context of American history. It returns the focus of urban design to the creation of a better world. It evaluates the efforts of designers who apply knowledge about the environment and people to the creation of livable, enjoyable, and even inspiring built worlds. Urban Design: The American Experience emphasizes that urban design must take a user–oriented approach to achieve a higher quality of life in human settlements. All the keys to this approach are spelled out in chapters that address:
- Urban design as both a product and process of communal decision–making
- Types of knowledge required as a base for urban design action
- How to apply recent environmental and behavioral research to professional design
- How human needs are fulfilled through design
- The true role of functionalism in design
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Not what it seems...
15 Jun 2006
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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.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Close look at the Moderns
10 Oct 2000
Format:Hardcover
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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Perception as an Urban Design Student
14 Oct 2009
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I found this book as a good start to build your understanding in Urban design either as a career, profession, academic settings, or even as an extra reading. Its a good reference with multi informative illustrations. I advice anyone who is searching or has any intentions to know more about this field to have this book on the shelf.
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