Urban Design Methods

✍ Scribed by Martina Löw, Angela Million (editor), Jörg Stollmann (editor)

• Publisher: JOVIS
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Urban design―understood as a transdisciplinary field at the intersection of architecture, urban and regional planning, landscape architecture and sociology, plus the stakeholders involved in any project―requires a compendium of methods to collapse boundaries between theory and praxis. This book collects a range of approaches intended to support urban designers with this aim.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents

A.1 urban design as a changing profession

A.2 some notes about interdisciplinarity

A.3 external statements

A.4 working across geographical boundaries: reflecting on sino-german cooperation in urban design

B. how to read this book

Introduction

B.1 understanding spatial practices

B.2 diagrammatic sketching

B.3 unpacking discourses

B.4 experimenting

B.5 interviewing experts

B.6 mapping spatial systems

B.7 urban data mining

B.8 analyzing pictures

B.9 using questionnaires

B.10 applying ANT

B.11 understanding typologies and morphologies

B.12 viewing the urban through an ethnographic lens

B.13 analyzing and visualizing actors

B.14 getting lost: unfolding creative thinking

B.15 narrating through graphics

B.16 adding, dividing, superimposing

B.17 creating conceptual models

B.18 intervening through system thinking

B.19 designing grid principles

B.20 producing and reducing complexity

B.21 engaging humans and nonhumans in design

B.22 building knowledge through charrettes

B.23 participation and enactment games

B.24 visualizing possible futures

B.25 urban coding

B.26 curating evolutionary landscapes

B.27 co-designing and building

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