The Urban Design Reader

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of plates
Acknowledgments
Prologue
PART ONE: HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS IN URBAN DESIGN
	Introduction to Part One
	“Upsurge of the Renaissance”
	“The Islamic City: Historic Myths, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance”
	“The Family of Eyes” and “The Mire of the Macadam”
	“Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns”
	“The Meager and Unimaginative Character of Modern City Plans” and “Artistic Limitations of Modern City Planning”
	“Author’s Introduction” and “The Town–Country Magnet”
	“Ideology and Aesthetics”
	“The Neighborhood Unit”
	“The Pack-Donkey’s Way and Man’s Way” and “A Contemporary City”
PART TWO: FOUNDATIONS OF THE FIELD
	Introduction to Part Two
	“Josep Lluís Sert’s Urban Design Legacy”
	“Introduction to The Concise Townscape”
	“The Image of the Environment” and “The City Image and Its Elements”
	“Author’s Introduction” and “The Uses of Sidewalks: Contact”
	“A City is Not a Tree”
	“The Significance of A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas”
	“Collage City”
	“Introduction,” “The Life of Plazas,” “Sitting Space,” and, “Sun, Wind, Trees, and Water”
	“Conclusion: Great Streets and City Planning”
	“Toward an Urban Design Manifesto”
	“Dimensions of Performance”
	“A Catholic Approach to Organizing What Urban Designers Should Know”
PART THREE: GROWTH OF A PLACE AGENDA
	Introduction to Part Three
	“Prospects for Places”
	“The Phenomenon of Place”
	“The Problem of Place in America”
	“Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of Place”
	“A Crisis in the Urban Landscape,” “The Origins and Theory of Type,” and “Legitimacy and Control”
	“Charter of the New Urbanism”
	“Themes of Postmodern Urbanism”
	“Introduction,” “Preface: The Current State of Everyday Urbanism,” and “Blurring the Boundaries: Public Space and Private Life”
	“The Generic City” and “Whatever Happened to Urbanism?”
PART FOUR: DESIGN ISSUES IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT
	Introduction to Part Four
	“What is Sprawl?”
	“Density in Communities, or the Most Important Factor in Building Urbanity”
	“Introduction,” “Physical Activity and Public Health,” and “Urban Design Characteristics”
	“Introduction,” “The Changing Nature of Public Space in City Centres,” and “Whose Public Space?”
	“Profit and Place”
	“Urban Dualities in the Arab World: From a Narrative of Loss to Neo-Liberal Urbanism”
	“The Urbanism of Ambition” and “China Reinvents the City”
PART FIVE: ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
	Introduction to Part Five
	“An Ecological Method for Landscape Architecture”
	“Principles for Regional Design”
	“Landscape as Urbanism”
	“Discourses for Landscape and Urbanization,” “The Production of Waste Landscape,” and “Drosscape Explained”
	“Planning for Sustainability in European Cities: A Review of Practice in Leading Cities”
	“Urban Resilience: Cities of Fear and Hope”
PART SIX: URBAN DESIGN PRACTICE NOW AND TOMORROW
	Introduction to Part Six
	“Where and How Does Urban Design Happen?”
	“Designing the Urban Design Studio”
	“Design Guidelines in American Cities: Conclusions”
	“The End(s) of Urban Design”
	“A Third Way for Urban Design”
Epilogue
Illustration credits
Editorial credits
Copyright information
Index