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Public Places - Urban Spaces

ISBN: 9780750636322 | 0750636327
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Pub. Date: 2/28/2003

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Public Places - Urban Spaces is a holistic guide to the many complex and interacting dimensions of urban design. The discussion moves systematically through ideas, theories, research and the practice of urban design from an unrivalled range of sources. It aids the reader by gradually building the concepts one upon the other towards a total view of the subject. The author team explain the catalysts of change and renewal, and explore the global and local contexts and processes within which urban design operates. The book presents six key dimensio... MORE
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Acknowledgementsiv
Prefacev
PART I: THE CONTEXT FOR URBAN DESIGN
Urban design today
3(17)
Urban change
20(16)
Contexts for urban design
36(25)
PART II: THE DIMENSIONS OF URBAN DESIGN
The morphological dimension
61(26)
The perceptual dimension
87(19)
The social dimension
106(24)
The visual dimension
130(35)
The functional dimension
165(28)
The temporal dimension
193(20)
PART III: IMPLEMENTING URBAN DESIGN
The development process
213(24)
The control process
237(26)
The communication process
263(20)
Holistic urban design
283(8)
Bibliography291(14)
Index305
Matthew Carmona, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London Tim Heath, Institute of Urban Planning, University of Nottingham Taner Oc, Institute of Urban Planning, University of Nottingham Steven Tiesdell, Department of Land Economy, University of Aberdeen

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