What is urban design?
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what is urban design?
David Tittle8th May 2011
The collaborative and multi-disciplinary process of shaping the physical setting of life in cities, towns and villages; the art of making places; design in an urban context.The Dictionary of Urbanism, Rob Cowan (2005)
urban design
urban design v.
• architecture• town planning• landscape architecture
what do urban designers do?
organic v. planned
industrial squalor
modernism
Child of Le Corbusier: Lee Bank, Birmingham, 1950s.
new left protest
1958 Rockefeller Foundation conference on urban design
Jane Jacobs
The picturesque tradition: Gordon Cullen, Townscape
Responsive Environments, 1985
walking seminar
• explore the qualities of place• keep up• keep together• please don’t take photos