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Design management and value
Published in Peter Fewings, Christian Henjewele, Construction Project Management, 2019
Peter Fewings, Christian Henjewele
Urban design needs to incorporate social values and may influence patterns of land use, transport provision, building design, landscaping, environmental impact, typography and orientation. These all have the ability to enhance the experience of the occupiers of a building and those living in the surrounding neighbourhood. Urban projects are normally controlled by the planning authorities but designed or funded privately so that a tension often exists between developers wishing to maximise profit and planners trying to maximise amenity, which results in ugly compromises – more work here is needed.
Knowledge Architecture and Design
Published in Denise Bedford, Knowledge Architectures, 2020
Urban design is the process of designing and shaping cities, towns, and villages, in contrast to architecture, which focuses on the design of all the urban landscape components. It is an interdisciplinary field that utilizes elements of many built environment professions, including landscape architecture, urban planning, architecture, civil engineering, and municipal engineering. Why is this important? What can we leverage from this architecture?
Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments
Published in Paolo Gardoni, Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2018
Nuwan Dias, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Kaushal Keraminiyage, Richard Haigh
In today’s world, the scope of urban design is wider, endeavouring to enhance the socio, economic, and environmental life of a city. Urban design is the art of making places in an urban context which involves designing groups of buildings and the spaces and landscapes between them and also creating frameworks for successful development (Urban Design Group 2011).
Coupling shared E-scooters and public transit: a spatial and temporal analysis
Published in Transportation Letters, 2023
Mohammadjavad Javadiansr, Amir Davatgari, Ehsan Rahimi, Motahare Mohammadi, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, Joshua Auld
The characteristics of urban space including the urban design, land use, and transportation system have a significant effect on the demand for different travel modes (Handy et al. 2002). Urban design is a term used to describe the arrangement and appearance of the physical elements of a city which shapes individuals’ perceptions of the attractiveness of different places. Land use is the spatial distribution of activities that affect the access and egress trips, and the transportation system contains the physical infrastructure of roads, intersections, sidewalks, etc., that serve human activities. According to the literature on micromobility, besides urban space elements, other factors such as people’s demographics, temporal features, and safety-related characteristics also play a critical role in shaping the decision to use e-bikes and/or e-scooters (Caspi, Smart, and Noland 2020; Heaney et al. 2019; Noland 2019; Younes et al. 2020). Here, we discuss in more detail the most important variables that have been highlighted by previous studies.
Responsibilities and challenges of urban design in the 21st century
Published in Journal of Urban Design, 2020
Additionally, the design process should become more participatory and inclusive. The usual norm is that of the designer-expert, who may interact with clients, but who is mostly guided by his/her creative skills, professional ethics, and perceived understanding of client needs. In contrast, design should aspire to become a ‘bottom-up’ process. The notion that urban design is a communicative process situates the profession in a social context, where activity evolves through participation and engagement of users. Urban design should foster more inclusive processes, by advocating for the inclusion of vulnerable groups in design processes, mediating their need for justice in the built environment, co-creating with them the physical landscape, and broadening opportunities for local neighbourhoods to shape equitable physical, social, and ecological outcomes.
What is urban design? A proposal for a common understanding
Published in Journal of Urban Design, 2020
Stefano Cozzolino, J. Polívka, R. Fox-Kämper, M. Reimer, O. Kummel
Urban design is a creative and purposeful activity with collective and public concerns that deals with the production and adaptation of the built environment at scales larger than a single plot or building. Its main scope is to impress a certain degree of order in the shaping of new physical developments and in the creation and management of the public realm. It operates in two main ways: first, by visualizing the physical outcome of particular projects through drawings or, second, by providing rules to deal with the physical forms of future transformations. This practice requires the capacity to analyse the current state of affairs, sketch out possible workable scenarios and implement them in reality.