Description
Urban Design Made by Humans is a reference book that presents 56 concepts, notions, ideas, and agreements fundamental to the design and interpretation of our human settlements. The ideas here parallel those found in Making Architecture Through Being Human but extends them into urban environments. Urban Design Made by Humans distinctly highlights priorities in urban design in how we produce meaningful environments catering to wider groups of people. Each idea is isolated for clarity with short and concise definitions, examples, and illustrations. They are organised in five sections of increasing complexity. Taken as a whole, the entries frame the priorities and values of urban design while also being instances of a larger system of human thinking.
CONTENTS
- What This Book is About
- Thinking is Designing
- Urban Design is Not Big Architecture
- How To Use This Book
Formal Concepts
Axis, Balance, Boundary, Centre, Compactness, Complexity, Containment, Density, Edge, Expansion, Figure-Ground, Grain, Grid, Motion, Node, Path, Pattern
Situated Notions
Block, Capacity, Co-Awareness, Connectedness, Co-Presence, Corridor, District, Frontage, Landmark, Legibility, Mobility, Permeability, Rhyme, Rhythm, Space, Visibility, Walkability
Socio-spatial Ideas
Accessibility, Activation, Coherence, Control, Locality, Presence, Publicness, Resilience, Sensibility, Separation, Stability, Typology, Use
Socially Constructed Agreements
Authenticity, Character, Choice, Diversity, Identity, Interest, Place, Symbol, Typo-morphology
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