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Urban Design Made by Humans: A Handbook of Design Ideas

Hardback by Adhya, Anirban; Plowright, Philip D. (Lawrence Technological University, USA)

Urban Design Made by Humans: A Handbook of Design Ideas

£124.99

ISBN:
9781032185170
Publication Date:
29 Sep 2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
224 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 13 - 18 Aug 2026
Urban Design Made by Humans: A Handbook of Design Ideas

Description

The design of urban environments is complex and involves diverse needs, organisations, professions, authorities, and communities. It requires relationships to be constructed and sustained between infrastructure, resources, and populations across multiple scales. This can be quite daunting. However, at the core of urban design is a simple idea-our urban spaces are designed to allow people and communities to thrive. For that reason, a good starting point for urban designers is to focus on the way people think when engaging our built environment. This thinking is embodied, developed through the interactions between our mind, body, and the environment around us. These embodied concepts are central to how we see the world, how we move and gather, and how we interact with others. They are also the same ideas we use to design our environments and cities. Urban Design Made by Humans is a reference book that presents 56 concepts, notions, ideas, and agreements fundamental to the design and interpretation of our human settlements. The ideas here parallel those found in Making Architecture Through Being Human but extends them into urban environments. Urban Design Made by Humans distinctly highlights priorities in urban design in how we produce meaningful environments catering to wider groups of people. Each idea is isolated for clarity with short and concise definitions, examples, and illustrations. They are organised in five sections of increasing complexity. Taken as a whole, the entries frame the priorities and values of urban design while also being instances of a larger system of human thinking.

Contents

What This Book is About Thinking is Designing Urban Design is Not Big Architecture How To Use This Book Formal Concepts Axis Balance Boundary Centre Compactness Complexity Containment Density Edge Expansion Figure-Ground Grain Grid Motion Node Path Pattern Situated Notions Block Capacity Co-Awareness Connectedness Co-Presence Corridor District Frontage Landmark Legibility Mobility Permeability Rhyme Rhythm Space Visibility Walkability Socio-spatial Ideas Accessibility Activation Coherence Control Locality Presence Publicness Resilience Sensibility Separation Stability Typology Use Socially Constructed Agreements Authenticity Character Choice Diversity Identity Interest Place Symbol Typo-morphology

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