The Urban Design Process (Concise Guides to Planning) - Hardcover

Black, Philip; Sonbli, Taki Eddin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848222882 ISBN 13: 9781848222885

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2019

This useful guide sets out clearly the urban-design process in practice, from initial site analysis through consultation, design development, and design delivery across a range of scales within the built environment. It provides the reader with a clear overview of the role which urban design and urban designers play in shaping and creating places today and how designers conceive and deliver contextually responsive, high-quality design solutions. Beginning with a brief history of contemporary urban design, the book tracks urban design's roots in architecture and planning and identifies how and why it has emerged as a separate discipline. It then sets out the principles and key criteria that underpin urban design and explains how urban designers interpret policy, baseline data, and graphical analysis to present an understanding of place and space. Following the urban-design process through concept development/strategic framework provisions to public consultation and final design, the book discusses subjects such as costing, phasing, construction, post-construction monitoring and maintenance. It describes the complexity of project management in delivering large-scale projects, such as master-planning and major public-realm and civic schemes. Illustrated with a series of international case studies, the book concludes by highlighting a number of growing urban challenges facing cities today, discussing how urban design can play a leading role in tackling issues connected with climate change, globalisation, and technological advancements, and positively respond to the current and future needs of society.

About the Author:

Dr Philip Black is a lecturer in Urban Design at the University of Manchester. Dr Taki Sonbli is an Urban Design Technician, also at the University of Manchester.

• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1848222882
• ISBN 13: 9781848222885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160