Urban Design Made by Humans

A Handbook of Design Ideas
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-18517-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 133 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

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.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adhya, Anirban

Plowright, Philip D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Anirban Adhya is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Lawrence Technological University, USA. He focuses on highlighting underlying dimensions of architecture in the city that connects urban ecology, spatial typology, and everyday urbanism. His previous book, Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs: The Case of Detroit and Warren, Michigan (Palgrave, 2017) illustrated the ecology of problems and responses in metro Detroit. He has also written on evolving notions of publicness in The Public Realm as a Place of Everyday Urbanism (University of Michigan Press, 2008), and worked with communities in Buffalo, New York; Warren, Michigan; Seattle, Washington; and Monteverde, Costa Rica.

Philip D. Plowright is Professor of Architecture and Design Theory at Lawrence Technological University, USA. His interest focuses on developing clarity around foundational knowledge in the applied design disciplines for use in teaching and production environments. His previous book, Making Architecture by Being Human (Routledge, 2020), presented the cognitive building blocks of spatial semantics between individuals and spaces in relation to architectural values. He has also explored cognitive methodology in Revealing Architectural Design (Routledge, 2014), and embodied meaning in Qualitative Embodiment in English Architectural Discourse (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2017).