Public places: Urban spaces

Author: (English) Camona
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: Urban design is an important component of urban development, renewal, management, planning, and protection. This book is deeply rooted in comprehensive reading and research on literature, striving to broadly integrate existing urban design concepts and theories. It analyzes and explains the content through three main parts: the context of urban design, the dimensions of urban design, and the implementation of urban design. The book adopts a holistic writing approach, neither confined to certain qualities of urban design nor excluding key points, while providing a comprehensive overview for beginners and those in need of general guidance. The structure of the book is easy to understand, with chapters relatively independent yet interconnected, making it suitable as supplementary reading for professional students. The Dimensions of Urban Design is a comprehensive guide to the complex, interrelated, and multidimensional aspects of urban design. Through the ideas, theories, research, and practice of urban design, the book systematically unfolds with unparalleled breadth, helping readers develop a comprehensive understanding of urban design through a series of progressively advancing concepts. The authors explain the catalysts of change and renewal, explore global and local contexts, and examine the processes in which urban design operations are situated. The book showcases six key dimensions of urban design theory and practice—the social, visual, functional, temporal, formal, and cognitive—making it both suitable for in-depth reading on specific topics and for browsing page by page. The book is clear, readable, and offers a comprehensive and extensive discussion of this complex subject. It is a comprehensive treatise that elucidates the ideas and methods of urban design, serving as a required reading for urban design courses at several renowned universities in the UK, and has been widely acclaimed and welcomed by the international urban design community.