Urban Design for Implementation (Contemporary Urban Planning and Theory Practice Series)

Author: Wang Shifu
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Features: This book focuses on the hot issues in urban planning—the practical characteristics of urban planning oriented towards management—and takes the operability of urban design, specifically how to implement urban design, as its research theme. Through a comprehensive analysis of institutional and technical factors, it establishes a theoretical and practical system for urban design based on reality and oriented towards implementation. The goal of implementing urban design is to achieve urban spatial order. Therefore, the book starts from the recognition, pursuit, and construction of urban spatial order, establishing a complete concept of urban space, and studies the process of urban development and urban spatial formation, which forms the conceptual foundation of the entire book. In terms of research approach, the book places urban design within the practical context of urban planning implementation, exploring its scope and pathways, revealing its behavioral characteristics based on public administration. Urban design, based on planning management, implements professional control over various development activities according to laws and regulations and approved urban plans. Institutional factors are the foundation for implementing urban design to form urban spatial order, while technical factors operate through institutional factors. Institutional factors must rely on technical factors as operational means. This book discusses not only how to compile urban design but also focuses on how urban design can serve as a basis for planning management, as well as how it can control various urban developments based on urban design. Through the analysis of institutional and technical factors, and based on research into the mechanisms of urban development, the legal basis for the implementation of urban design, and the institutional framework for its implementation, the book proposes that urban design should become a professional technology integrated into public policy. It should more pragmatically engage in the complex and ever-changing process of urban development, moving towards operability. At the same time, the book does not demand the pursuit of a perfect urban spatial order but instead aims to overcome poor urban spatial development outcomes through urban design, as much as possible preserving the public value in urban space. This is an important value orientation and fundamental attitude embedded in the research of this book.