{"product_id":"urban-design-made-by-humans-9781032185194","title":"Urban Design Made by Humans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design of urban environments is complex and involves diverse needs, organisations, professions, authorities, and communities. It requires relationships to be constructed and sustained between infrastructure, resources, and populations across multiple scales. This can be quite daunting. However, at the core of urban design is a simple ideaâour urban spaces are designed to allow people and communities to thrive. For that reason, a good starting point for urban designers is to focus on the way people think when engaging our built environment. This thinking is embodied, developed through the interactions between our mind, body, and the environment around us. These embodied concepts are central to how we see the world, how we move and gather, and how we interact with others. They are also the same ideas we use to design our environments and cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrban Design Made by Humans is a reference book that presents 56 concepts, notions, ideas, and agreements fundamental to the design\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUrban Design Made by Humans: A Handbook of Design Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne-Marie Lubenau\u003c\/b\u003e, Director of the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence at the Bruner Foundation and author of \u003ci\u003eUrban Placemaking: Building Equity by Design\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRahul Mehrotra\u003c\/b\u003e, John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanisation, Harvard University Graduate School of Design and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Kinetic City and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUrban Design Made by Humans\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlton Basmajian\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor of Urban Design, Community and Regional Planning, Iowa State University and author of \u003ci\u003eAtlanta Unbound: Enabling Sprawl Through Policy and Planning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSanjeev Vidyarthi\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of City Design, University of Illinois Chicago and author of \u003ci\u003eCity Planning in India: 1947-2017\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOne Idea, Many Plans: An American City Design Concept in Independent India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAhmed Z. Khan\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor and Chair Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and editor and author of \u003ci\u003eArchitecture and Sustainability: Critical Perspectives for Integrated Design\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In the form of a glossary of urban design key concepts, cleverly cross-referenced, Anirban Adhya and Philip D. Plowright’s \u003ci\u003eUrban design made by humans\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuiz Amorim\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Architectural Morphology, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil and author of \u003ci\u003eCidades: urbanismo, patrimônio e sociedade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat This Book is About\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThinking is Designing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrban Design is Not Big Architecture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow To Use This Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormal Concepts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAxis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBalance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoundary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCentre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompactness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplexity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContainment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDensity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpansion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigure-Ground\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMotion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNode\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePath\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePattern \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituated Notions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCapacity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCo-Awareness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConnectedness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCo-Presence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorridor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistrict\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrontage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLandmark\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMobility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePermeability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhyme\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhythm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalkability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocio-spatial Ideas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccessibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eActivation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoherence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eControl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublicness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResilience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSensibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeparation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStability \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTypology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocially Constructed Agreements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthenticity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharacter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChoice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiversity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSymbol\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTypo-morphology\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018884809047,"sku":"9781032185194","price":24.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032185194.jpg?v=1750778518","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-design-made-by-humans-9781032185194","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}