Urban Design Methods
1st Edition
Published on 21. December 2020
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-3-86859-571-0 (ISBN)
Description
Urban Design Methods
is a manual for reconciling contemporary approaches with increasingly complex demands in the shaping of urban living spaces. Architects and landscape architects, as well as city, regional, and landscape planners, often find that they are unable to do modern projects justice with their specialist skills alone. Cooperative approaches are needed to deal with both the complexity of raising questions and the growing number of affected parties who need to be involved. Urban design-understood as an inter- and transdisciplinary field at the interface of architecture, city and regional planning, landscape architecture, sociology, and the diverse stakeholders involved in any project-requires a compendium of adaptable methods to dissolve the boundaries between theory and praxis and between natural and social systems. For the first time, this book collects a broad spectrum of methods intended to support urban designers in deciphering the contexts in which they work, and help them attain a greater individual professional understanding. It clearly outlines the range of challenges and the constantly evolving areas of activity.
Reviews / Votes
"[...] the book is a pleasure to dip into to gain a rapid understanding of the approaches, particularly for those seeking to move beyond their comfort zone and try something new. The book is a place to start and a source of inspiration." (Matthew Carmona in
Urban Design
)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
70 s/w Abbildungen, 30 farbige Abbildungen
70 b/w and 30 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
443 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86859-571-0 (9783868595710)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Undine Giseke | Martina Löw | Angela Million
Urban Design Methods
E-Book
03/2021
1st Edition
JOVIS
€29.80
Available for download
Persons
Undine Giseke / Martina Löw / Angela Million / Philipp Misselwitz / Jörg Stollmann (Hg.)
Content
Frontmatter -- Contents -- # A.1 urban design as a changing profession -- # A.2 some notes about interdisciplinarity -- # A.3 external statements -- # A.4 working across geographical boundaries: reflecting on sino-german cooperation in urban design -- # B. how to read this book -- Introduction -- # B.1 understanding spatial practices -- # B.2 diagrammatic sketching -- # B.3 unpacking discourses -- # B.4 experimenting -- # B.5 interviewing experts -- # B.6 mapping spatial systems -- # B.7 urban data mining -- # B.8 analyzing pictures -- # B.9 using questionnaires -- # B.10 applying ANT -- # B.11 understanding typologies and morphologies -- # B.12 viewing the urban through an ethnographic lens -- # B.13 analyzing and visualizing actors -- # B.14 getting lost: unfolding creative thinking -- # B.15 narrating through graphics -- # B.16 adding, dividing, superimposing -- # B.17 creating conceptual models -- # B.18 intervening through system thinking -- # B.19 designing grid principles -- # B.20 producing and reducing complexity -- # B.21 engaging humans and nonhumans in design -- # B.22 building knowledge through charrettes -- # B.23 participation and enactment games -- # B.24 visualizing possible futures -- # B.25 urban coding -- # B.26 curating evolutionary landscapes -- # B.27 co-designing and building -- index of authors -- imprint