Urban design /

Urban design / Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders, editors. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009. - xix, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Most of the essays published here previously appeared in Harvard design magazine, Harvard University Graduate School of Design"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An urban frame of mind / The first urban conference : extracts -- The emergence of urban design in the breakup of CIAM / The elusiveness of urban design : the perpetual problem of definition and role / Urban design at fifty : a personal view / Fragmentation and friction as urban threats : the post-1956 city / The way we were, the way we are : the theory and practice of designing cities since 1965 / Where and how does urban design happen? / Defining the urbanistic project : ten contemporary approaches / Beyond centers, fabrics, and cultures of congestion : urban design as a metropolitan enterprise / The end(s) of urban design / Bad parenting / Facts on the ground : urbanism from Midroad to Ditch / A third way for urban design / Urban design after Battery Park City : opportunities for variety and vitality / The other '56 / Democracy takes command : new community planning and the challenge to urban design / Designing the postmetropolis / Unforeseen urban worlds : post-1956 phenomena / Urban design looking forward / Urban design now : a discussion. Alex Krieger -- Eric Mumford -- Richard Marshall -- Denise Scott Brown -- Fumihiko Maki -- Jonathan Barnett -- Alex Krieger -- Joan Busquets -- Richard Sommer -- Michael Sorkin -- Emily Talen -- Michelle Provoost and Wouter Vanstiphout -- Kenneth Greenberg -- Timothy Love -- Charles Waldheim -- John Kaliski -- Edward W. Soja -- Peter G. Rowe -- Marilyn Jordan Taylor -- Introduction: Origins of an urban design sensibility: Perspectives on a half-century of urban design practice: Territories of urban design practice: Debates about mandates and purpose: Expanding roles and disciplinary boundaries: Challenges for the unprecedented phenomena of our new century:

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City planning.

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