Companion to Urban Design

Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales ? ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary public policy ? multiculturalism, healthy cities, environmental justice, economic development, climate change, energy conservations, protection of natural environments, sustainable development, community liveability, and the like. The field now comprises a core body of knowledge that enfolds a right history of ideas, paradigms, principles, tools, research and applications, enriched by electric influences from the humanities, and social and natural sciences.

Companion to Urban Design includes more than fifty original contributions from internationally recognized authorities in the field. These contributions address the following questions: What are the important ideas that have shaped the field and the current practice of urban design? What are the major methods and processes that have influenced the practice of urban design at various scales? What are the current innovations relevant to the pedagogy of urban design? What are the lingering debates, conflicts ad contradictions in the theory and practice of urban design? How could urban design respond to the contemporary challenges of climate change, sustainability, active living initiatives, globalization, and the like? What are the significant disciplinary influences on the theory, research and practice of urban design in recent times?

There has never before been a more authoritative and comprehensive companion that includes core, foundational and pioneering ideas and concepts of urban design. This book serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners interested in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, but also in urban studies, urban affairs, geography, and related fields.

Introduction Part 1: Roots Introduction 1. From CIAM to CNU: The Roots and Thinkers of Modern Urban Design 2. The Open and the Enclosed: Shifting Paradigms in Modern Urban Design3. Pedagogical TraditionsPart 2: Theoretical Perspectives Introduction 4. Urban Design: An Incompletely Theorized Project5. The Two Orders of Cybernetics in Urban Form and Design6. Urban Design and Spatial Political Economy7. Critical Urbanism: Space, Design, RevolutionPart 3: Influences Introduction 8. Urban Design and the Traditions of Geography9. Influences of Sociology on Urban Design10. Influences of Anthropology on Urban Design11. Feminist Approaches to Urban Design12. Environmental Psychology and Urban Design13. The Law of Urban Design14. Political Theory and Urban Design15. Interactions between Public Health and Urban Design 16. Urban Design and the Cinematic ArtsPart 4: Technologies and Methods Introduction 17. Design Studios18. Media Tools for Urban Design19. Visualizing Change: Simulations as a Decision Making Tool20. City Design in the Age of Digital UbiquityPart 5: Process Introduction 21. Customs, Norms, Rules, Regulations and Standards in Design Practice22. Decoding Design Guidance 23. Urban Design Competitions 24. The Design Charrette25. Citizen Design: Participation and BeyondPart 6: Components Introduction 26. Downtown Urban Design27. Suburbs: Rus in Urbe, the Picturesque, and Selfhood28. Planned Communities and New Towns29. Neighborhood Spaces: Design Innovations and Social Themes30. Spaces of Consumption31. Cultural Institutions: The Role of Urban Design32. Streets and the Public Realm: Emerging Designs33. Mixed-Life Places34. Urban FluxPart 7: Debates Introduction 35. Compactness vs. Sprawl36. Living Together or Apart: Exclusion, Gentrification, and Displacement37. Place, Identity and the Global City38. Old vs. New Urbanism39. Form-Based Codes vs. Conventional ZoningPart 8: Global Trends Introduction 40. City Branding41. From Metropolitan to Regional Urbanization42. Ethnoscapes 43. Urban Design for a Planet of Informal CitiesPart 9: New Directions Introduction 44. Postmodern and Integral Urbanism45. Ecological Urbanism46. Metropolitan Form and Landscape Urbanism47. Intertwist and Intertwine: Sustainability, Meet Urban Design48. Smart Growth: A Critical Review of the State of the Art49. Notes on Transit Oriented Development50. Placemaking in Urban Design51. Secure Cities52. Design for Resilient Cities: Reflections from a Studio.Epilogue

Tridib Banerjee holds the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning and Development. His research focuses on the design and planning of the built environment and the related human and social consequences. In particular, he is interested in the political economy of urban development, and the effects of globalization in the transformation of urban form and urbanism from a comparative international perspective.

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Professor of Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Urban Planning. Her research focuses on the public environment of the city, its design, social meaning, and impact on urban residents. In particular, her work is characterized by a "user focus" in that she seeks to analyze and understand the built environment from the perspective of those who live and work there.