Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice brings together diverse voices in urban design, emphasizing the urgent need for innovative approaches to address shared challenges, offering actionable steps to empower practitioners, students, and academics in creating vibrant and sustainable cities.

Sommario

1. Foundations of Practice: Introduction 1.1 Urban Design Education & Training 1.2 Organizational Contexts for Urban Designers: Current Roles and Future Trajectories 1.3 The Many Modes of Collaboration: Collaboration Throughout the Urban Design Process 1.4 How Urban Designers Can Borrow Ideas from the Advocacy Professionals to Master the Political Lens of Our Work 1.5 Engagement & Inclusion in Urban Design 1.6 Urban Design Products & Programming 1.7 Site Planning 1.8 Schematic Design and Design Process 2. Urban Design Planning & Process: Introduction 2.1 In Defense of Design Policy: Strategies for Practice 2.2 Towards a More Inclusive and Reflective Urban Design Practice: Five Principles for Beginning a Project 2.3 Neighborhood Planning and Urban Design 2.4 Form-based Codes 2.5 Design Charrettes 2.6 Design Review & Design Guidelines 2.7 Designing with Dignity: Piloting Bold Ideas to Advance the Human Experience 3. Global Cities and Urban Design: Introduction 3.1 Informal and Formal Urbanism in Urban Design 3.2 Cheaper and Safer to Build a Community than a House: how urban design can address unsettledness 3.3 Cheaper and Safer to Build a Community than a House: how urban design can address unsettledness 3.4 Snapshot of Urban Design Practice: Chile 3.5 Snapshot of Urban Design Practice: Chile 3.6 Snapshot of Urban Design Practice: Ghana 3.7 Snapshot of Urban Design Practice: The Netherlands 3.8 Snapshot of Urban Design Practice: Spain 3.9 Snapshot of Urban Design Practice: Iraq 3.10 Snapshot of Urban Design Practice: India 3.11 Snapshot of Urban Design Practice: China 3.12 Snapshot of Urban Design Practice: Korea 4. Shaping the City: Introduction 4.1 Structuring the City 4.2 Development Types & Practices (Uses, Program, Components) 4.3 Rationales for Dominant Building Types and Practices 4.4 Vertical Urbanization, Placemaking and High-Rise Buildings 4.5 Human Scale High-Density Urban Design 4.6 Transit Types & Practices 4.7 Beyond Bump-Outs - a brief overview of contemporary pedestrian and public-space oriented street designs 4.8 Calming Traffic and Sharing Streets 4.9 Micro-mobility Types & Practices in Urban Design 4.10 Walkable Urbanism 4.11 Strategizing Streets and Streetscapes 4.12 Landscape Types & Practices 4.13 Design Details with Purpose 5. Technology & Innovation in Urban Design Practice: Introduction 5.1 The Uses of Digital Knowledge in Urban Design 5.2 Social Life & Social Space in the City 5.3 Digital Civics & Citizenship in Urban Design 5.4 Urban Data Visualization 5.5 Airspace and Urban Design, but don't call them "flying cars" 6. Climate Change and Urban Design: Introduction 6.1 Net Zero Cities & Urban Design 6.2 Sea Level Rise & Urban Design 6.3 Remaking Urban Design for Climate Resilience 6.4 Strategies in Urban Adaptation 6.5 Biophilic Cities: A New Framework for Urban Design and Planning 6.6 Planning for Successful Green Infrastructure 6.7 Urban Forest Strategies for a Changing Climate 6.8 Environmental Sustainability and Urban Design 7. Public Health and Urban Design: Introduction 7.1 Wellness, Identity, and Urban Design 7.2 Spatial Cognition, Mental Health, and Wellbeing 7.3 Pandemic Response & Urban Design 7.4 Urban Design and Healthy Suburbs 7.5 Urban Design and Safety 7.6 Urban Design: Making Space for Play 7.7 Food Systems and Access in Urban Design 7.8 Trauma-informed Design 8. Community Flux and Urban Design: Introduction 8.1 Urban Design for Complete Communities 8.2 Urban Design for Multiple Public Interests 8.3 Displacement Resilience Through Equitable Development 8.4 Gentrification & Urban Design 8.5 Urban Planning for Reparations: Transforming Spaces, Restoring Equity 8.6 Zoning Reform 8.7 Urban Design as if Black Lives Matter 8.8 LGBTQ Inclusive Urban Design 8.9 Social Sustainability in Urban Design Practice 9. Justice and Urban Design: Introduction 9.1 Redressing Past Urban Design Injustices 9.2 Radical Transformation: The Right to the City in Urban Design 9.3 Ensuring Voice & Belonging in Urban Design 9.4 Cross-Cultural Skills & Cultural Competency in Urban Design 9.5 Toward Interactive Justice in Urban Design: The Role of Intercultural Communication 9.6 A Practitioner's Guide to Catalyzing Commercial Corridor Investment 9.7 Environmental Justice in Urban Design 10. Economic Resilience and Urban Design: Introduction 10.1 Urban Design in Times of Boom & Decline 10.2 Design for Economic Diversification 10.3 Urban Design for Economic Vitality 10.4 Urban Design & Equitable Economic Development 10.5 Urban Design, Social Equity, and Urban Land Value 10.6 Affordable Housing Design: Typologies and Considerations 10.7 Adaptive Reuse as Urban Design: Finding Economic Resilience in Old Buildings 10.8 Urban Design and the Creative City 10.9 A Cultural Oriented Approach: Affirming Community Roles in the Urban Re-Design Process 10.10 The Informal Economy and Urban Design 10.11 Economic Sustainability in Urban Design 11. Placemaking and Place Quality: Introduction 11.1 Designing the Livable City 11.2 Placemaking, Caring and Keeping 11.3 Cultivating a Sense of Belonging through Place Stewardship 11.4 Narrative Landscapes and Urban Design 11.5 Putting the Public and the Art Into Public Art 11.6 Catalytic Public Realm Investment 11.7 Materiality in Placemaking: The role of paving in the image of the city 11.8 Ecological Placemaking 11.9 Landing in a Region: A Geographic Approach to Urban Design 11.10 Urban Design & Global Tourism 12. Urban Design Practice into the Future: Introduction 12.1 Projecting the Future City 12.2 Toward an Ethical Future 12.3 Designing the Regenerative City of the Future 12.4 The Future of Public Space 12.5 Exigency of Urban Design in Our Collective Future 12.6 Urban Design and the Resource Infinity Loop

Info autore

Michael Angelo Larice, Ph.D., is an urban designer and educator teaching urban design, planning, urban studies, and pedagogy at the University of California, Berkeley. His studios involve design work for municipal governments and institutions. His academic work focuses on urban design practice, streetscape design, livability, social sustainability, and slum upgrading with recent projects on urban arterials and streetcar lines in America. With Professor Elizabeth Macdonald, he co-edited two editions of Routledge's Urban Design Reader.
Molly O'Neill Robinson is an urban designer and planner, founder of MOR Design & Planning, and a career-line instructor at the University of Utah's College of Architecture and Planning. With nine years leading Salt Lake City's urban design efforts, she spearheaded the Downtown Plan, reframing public engagement to include previously marginalized communities and establishing urban policy that supports downtown as a vibrant, livable neighborhood. Previously, she worked with award-winning teams at OLIN and Sasaki.
Allen Penniman weaves urban planning, design, and real estate development into the equitable revitalization of distressed urban communities. He practices as a senior urban planner at Agency Landscape + Planning and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Allen's work has involved reactivating commercial corridors, realizing housing development, sustaining post-industrial creative districts, and reinventing streets to support joyful public life.
Amanda Haycox has worked as both a statutory and strategic planner for state and local government as well as a planning consultant in the private sector. She began her career planning for public housing in the state government and later as a planner in the (then) state Department of Infrastructure. She worked as a planner in Eswatini, Southern Africa and as a planner in the Birmingham City Council in England. Amanda is currently the Coordinator of City Strategy and Place Planning Glen Eira City Council in Melbourne, Australia.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Molly Larice Oneill Robinson
• Con la collaborazione di: Amanda Haycox (Editore), Michael Angelo Larice (Editore), Molly O’Neill Robinson (Editore), Allen Penniman (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.10.2025
• EAN: 9780367821364
• ISBN: 978-0-367-82136-4
• Pagine: 1104
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Pianificazione urbanistica, territoriale e del paesaggio; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, ARCHITECTURE / Methods & Materials, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, ARCHITECTURE / Reference, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Interdisciplinary studies, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Civil engineering, surveying and building