Urban Design

By: Alex Krieger (Editor), William S. Saunders (Editor)

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Highlights key issues in contemporary urban design through a discussion of its origins, current state, and future

Fifty years ago a landmark conference at Harvard University established urban design as a distinct architectural and planning practice. Today, with the world's urban population surpassing three billion people, urban design has become more crucial than ever. Indeed, the concerns that initially brought leading architects and city planners together--including concerns over sprawl, pollution, and aging infrastructure--have only intensified over the past half century.

In Urban Design, Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders have assembled prominent figures in architecture, planning, and landscape design to look back on the evolution of the discipline of urban design; assess the current state of the field; and anticipate the challenges posed by the unprecedented rate of urbanization, particularly in the developing world, and how the profession will need to adapt in order to confront them. The volume opens with excerpts from transcripts of the 1956 Harvard conference followed by essays that contextualize and critique its assumptions and ambitions. Subsequent essays address such topics as the social conscience of urban design and stake out the competing sensibilities in the field, from New Urbanism to avant-garde.

As humanity becomes an urban species to a degree that was unimaginable fifty years ago, this comprehensive volume seeks to encourage today's designers to draw on the energy and messy vitality of cities in shaping tomorrow's urban environments.

Contributors: Jonathan Barnett, Denise Scott Brown, Joan Busquets, Kenneth Greenberg, John Kaliski, Timothy Love, Fumihiko Maki, Richard Marshall, Eric Mumford, Michelle Provoost, Peter G. Rowe, Edward W. Soja, Richard M. Sommer, Michael Sorkin, Emily Talen, Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Wouter Vanstiphout, Charles Waldheim.

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Introduction: An Urban Frame of Mind	p. vii
Origins of an Urban Design Sensibility
The First Urban Design Conference: Extracts	p. 3
The Emergence of Urban Design in the Breakup of CIAM	p. 15
The Elusiveness of Urban Design: The Perpetual Problem of Definition and Role	p. 38
Perspectives on a Half-Century of Urban Design Practice
Urban Design at Fifty: A Personal View	p. 61
Fragmentation and Friction as Urban Threats: The Post-1956 City	p. 88
The Way We Were, the Way We Are: The Theory and Practice of Designing Cities since 1956	p. 101
Territories of Urban Design Practice
Where and How Does Urban Design Happen?	p. 113
Defining the Urbanistic Project: Ten Contemporary Approaches	p. 131
Beyond Centers, Fabrics, and Cultures of Congestion: Urban Design as a Metropolitan Enterprise	p. 135
Debates about Mandates and Purpose
The End(s) of Urban Design	p. 155
Bad Parenting	p. 183
Facts on the Ground: Urbanism from Midroad to Ditch	p. 186
Expanding Roles and Disciplinary Boundaries
A Third Way for Urban Design	p. 201
Urban Design after Battery Park City: Opportunities for Variety and Vitality	p. 208
The Other '56	p. 227
Democracy Takes Command: New Community Planning and the Challenge to Urban Design	p. 237
Challenges for the Unprecedented Phenomena of Our New Century
Designing the Postmetropolis	p. 255
Unforeseen Urban Worlds: Post-1956 Phenomena	p. 270
Urban Design Looking Forward	p. 285
Urban Design Now: A Discussion	p. 291
Contributors	p. 327
Index	p. 331
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