Explorations in urban design : an urban design research primer / edited by Matthew Carmona.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Carmona, Matthew (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, [2014]
Subjects:
City planning.
City planning > Research.
Physical Description:xxiii, 372 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.Investigating urban design / Matthew Carmona
  • pt. I PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES
  • Using theory and critique to understand urban design processes and outcomes and the rationale, purpose and nature of urban design
  • 2.The role of risk in urban design / Iain Borden
  • 3.Deconstructing and recalibrating urban design in the global south / Andrew Wade
  • 4.The politics of space production: the case of Macau, China / Paula Morais
  • 5.Urban design in the realm of urban studies / Pushpa Arabindoo
  • 6.Place-temporality and rhythmicity: a new aesthetic and methodological foundation for urban design theory and practice / Filipa Wunderlich
  • pt. II PROCESS INVESTIGATIONS
  • Focusing on the normative and p̀otential' systems, tools, procedures and networks that shape the outcomes of urban design
  • 7.Mixing methods/theorising urban design process / Matthew Carmona
  • 8.Link and Place - bridging stakeholder divides / Peter Jones
  • Contents note continued: 9.Actor-network theory coevolution framework for urban design / Tse-Hui Teh
  • 10.Unlocking policy documents: policy analysis in urban design / Antoine Zammit
  • 11.Smart cities, social networks and the Internet of Things / Andrew Hudson-Smith
  • 12.Environmental masterplanning: defining an integrated approach / Ben Croxford
  • pt. III PHYSICAL EXPLORATIONS
  • Through a range of analytical studies in which the form and configuration of space is examined as the physical p̀roduct' of urban design and the container for use and flows of resource
  • 13.Urbiculturalism, understanding the patterns of place / Terry Farrell
  • 14.Space syntax as interdisciplinary urban design pedagogy / Sam Griffiths
  • 15.Thinking systems in urban design: a prioritised structure model / Kinda Al-Sayed
  • 16.Explorations in generative street layouts / Mark Sutton
  • 17.The relationship between density, built form and design / Philip Steadman
  • pt. IV PROPOSITIONAL EXPERIMENTS
  • Contents note continued: Studio-based research and pedagogical investigation using design process and creative speculations to reveal responses to defined urban problems and problematics
  • 18.London short stories / CJ Lim
  • 19.The siting of writing and the writing of sites / Jane Rendell
  • 20.Design as research and research as design: mega-plans and mega-projects in Karbala and Hong Kong / Matthew Carmona
  • 21.Crafting a methodology for urban design in development: between research, pedagogy and practice / Anna Schulenburg
  • 22.An evidence-based approach to designing new cities: the English New Towns revisited / Laura Vaughan
  • pt. V PERFORMANCE ENQUIRIES
  • Examining through direct and indirect anthropological investigation, stakeholder enquiry, and historical study, how places perform through use and time
  • 23.Public space as lived / Quentin Stevens
  • 24.Historical exploration/explanation in urban design / Michael Hebbert
  • 25.The problem of scale / Adrian Lahoud
  • Contents note continued: 26.Urban design as a tool in urban conservation, and urban conservation as a tool in urban design research / Elisabete Cidre
  • 27.Does urban design add value? / Matthew Carmona
  • 28.A personal postscript / Matthew Carmona.