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Zusatztext "The Companion to Urban Design provides far more than a single companion with a unitary perspective. Rather! it places the reader at the centre of an entire social network of deeply reflective commentators! each of whom invites us to debate and define the contours of the field. For students! faculty! and practitioners alike this volume pushes out at those boundaries and demonstrates how urban design has become integral to what it means to inhabit city-regions thoughtfully." Lawrence Vale! Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning! Massachusetts Institute of Technology! USA."This companion with carefully selected original contributions will serve the Built Environment and cognate fields extremely well. The current knowledge and debate in Urban Design is clearly presented making an invaluable as well as very accessible contribution. It will enhance our understanding of the current issues and approaches in Urban Design to make our environments liveable and enjoyable by respecting the needs of different communities and interest groups today as well as the future inhabitants of our planet." Professor Taner OC! Editor of The Journal of Urban Design (Routledge)! School of the Built Environment! Nottingham University! UK."As editors of the Companion to Urban Design! Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris have compiled an enormously helpful collection of over 50 original essays to provide a highly readable and representative overview of theoretical frameworks! key issues! and connective discussions across the disciplinary perspectives that shape the field of urban design. Organized into nine parts! the book offers cogently connected essays by thought leaders in many disciplines! including notable authors Christine Boyer! Robert Fishman! Gary Hack! Jerold Kayden! Edward Soja! Anne Whiston Spirn! and many others." Anthony M. Sease! Journal of Regional Science Informationen zum Autor Tridib Banerjee holds the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning and Development. His research focuses on the design and planning of the built environment and the related human and social consequences. In particular, he is interested in the political economy of urban development, and the effects of globalization in the transformation of urban form and urbanism from a comparative international perspective. Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Professor of Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Urban Planning. Her research focuses on the public environment of the city, its design, social meaning, and impact on urban residents. In particular, her work is characterized by a "user focus" in that she seeks to analyze and understand the built environment from the perspective of those who live and work there. Zusammenfassung Urban design interfaces with many aspects of contemporary public policy - multiculturalism, economic development, climate change, energy conservation, sustainable development, community livability, and related issues. This title includes original contributions from a select group of internationally renowned scholars and practitioners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Roots Introduction 1. From CIAM to CNU: The Roots and Thinkers of Modern Urban Design 2. The Open and the Enclosed: Shifting Paradigms in Modern Urban Design 3. Pedagogical Traditions Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives Introduction 4. Urban Design: An Incompletely Theorized Project 5. The Two Orders of Cybernetics in Urban Form and Design 6. Urban Design and Spatial Political Economy 7. Critical Urbanism: Space, Design, Revolution Part 3: Influences Introduction 8. Urban Design and the Traditions of Geography 9. Influences of Socio...
