Urban Design Made by Humans

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"Urban Design Made by Humans: A Handbook of Design Ideas offers a visual glossary of common urban design terms. The authors introduce, interpret, and illustrate key concepts with descriptive text and simple diagrams, creating a valuable foundation and tool for learning."
Anne-Marie Lubenau, Director of the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence at the Bruner Foundation and author of Urban Placemaking: Building Equity by Design

"A skillful disaggregation as well as a synthetic compilation of the fundamental tools that define the practice of Urban Design. The book goes beyond being a mere glossary or dictionary and serves as a comprehensive as well as operational kit of parts which will be extremely valuable for the teaching as well as practice of Urban Design."
Rahul Mehrotra, John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanisation, Harvard University Graduate School of Design and author of The Kinetic City and Other Essays

"Urban Design Made by Humans offers a robust, annotated glossary of terms and concepts essential to urban design. Rarely does one find a book that brings together so many basic ideas, with clear, crisp explanations, and highly legible illustrations. It brings depth and perspective to technical knowledge in an approachable format. This book will be a valuable resource for a range of designers, from beginning urban design students, to design faculty, to seasoned professionals."
Carlton Basmajian, Associate Professor of Urban Design, Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State University and author of Atlanta Unbound: Enabling Sprawl Through Policy and Planning

"Students of urban design have long missed a clearly composed primer explaining fundamental concepts and foundational ideas of the field in an easy-to-understand manner. Adhya and Plowright cleverly combine meaningful insights and explanatory graphics to illustrate a wide range of basic building blocks helpful both for understanding the scholarly literature and professional practice of urban design."
Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Professor of City Design, University of Illinois Chicago and author of City Planning in India: 1947-2017 and One Idea, Many Plans: An American City Design Concept in Independent India

"This is a masterful contribution aimed at unpacking the complexity of urban design. With great clarity and focus, the book provides a comprehensive illustration of complex, entangled and overlapping ideas of urban development in a structured, accessible and understandable way. The book is a great resource for students, and relevant for researchers and practitioners in urban design."
Ahmed Z. Khan, Professor and Chair Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and editor and author of Architecture and Sustainability: Critical Perspectives for Integrated Design

"In the form of a glossary of urban design key concepts, cleverly cross-referenced, Anirban Adhya and Philip D. Plowright's Urban design made by humans is an important contribution to structure a common language of our field, accessible to everyone involved in the daily construction of this magnificent artefact called city. This is a much-needed tool in the era of collaboration and interoperability."
Luiz Amorim, Professor of Architectural Morphology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil and author of Cidades: urbanismo, patrimonio e sociedade