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PUBLIC PLACES
URBAN SPACE
The Dimension of urban space

Book Description
Public Places Urban Spaces is a thorough introduction to the principles of urban design theory and practice. Authored by
experts in the fields of urban design and planning, it is designed specifically for the 2,500 postgraduate students on
Urban Design courses in the UK, and 1,500 students on undergraduate courses in the same subject.
The second edition of this tried and trusted textbook has been updated with relevant case studies to show students how
principles have been put into practice. The book is now in full color and in a larger format, so students and lecturers get a
much stronger visual package and easy-to-use layout, enabling them to more easily practically apply principles of urban
design to their projects.
Sustainability is the driving factor in urban regeneration and new urban development, and the new edition is focused on
best sustainable design and practice. Public Places Urban Spaces is a must-have purchase for those on urban design
courses and for professionals who want to update and refresh their knowledge.
Table of Contents
Part 1: The Context for Urban Design 1. Urban Design Today 2. Urban Change 3. Contexts for
Urban Design
Part 2: The Dimensions of Urban Design 4. The Morphological Dimension 5. The Perceptual
Dimension 6. The Social Dimension 7. The Visual Dimension 8. The Functional Dimension 9.
The Temporal Dimension
Part 3: Implementing Urban Design 10. The Development Process 11. The Control Process
12. The Communication Process 13. Holistic Urban Design
1. The context of urban space .
2. The Dimension of urban space .
Overview 3. Implementing the urban space
Design Context .
Urban design today ..
Urban design is the shaping of a Urban design addresses how people perceive
community’s physical form in a way that and use their environment. People care about
considers a multiplicity of objectives and the look, feel, and livability of their
interests through an inclusive, public communities, and urban design tools are a
decision-making process. Combining the planner’s most effective tools to address this
practices of architecture, planning, and need. To accomplish this, urban designers
landscape architecture, urban design must be well-versed in the way human
perception and behavior is affected by their
addresses the functional and aesthetic
physical surroundings, which also involves
qualities of the physical environment at a
understanding cultural behaviors and
range of scales, from the individual
preferences, economic factors, and functional
streetscape, park, or block to the larger activities associated with the physical
community, city, or region. environment.
Urban Change
Urban designers are typically architects,

town planners or landscape architects. Their
skill is to bring together ideas from
developers, local communities, architects,
planners, trafﬁc engineers, landscape
architects, transport planners and many
others, to resolve problems and conﬂicts in
order to create better places for everyone.
Sometimes this will result in new places being
built or a new appreciation of existing urban
areas in cities, towns and villages. Urban
designers can be employed by developers,
local planning authorities or community
groups, including neighbourhood planning
groups.
Context of Urban change
The dimension of urban design
The
morphological
dimension
The perceptual
design
The social dimension
The social dimension of sustainability is most difficult to grasp, and thus

only little light is thrown thereupon in the discussion about a sustainable
future. The reasons for this are, amongst others, that different (scientific)
disciplines are connected with the social dimension, and that the social
dimension can hardly be quantified. Therefore, today there is no clear
concept of social sustainability, and broad recognition is lacking.

The social dimension
The Visual dimension
The effects of fast changing economic and social conditions have

increasingly become significant on how people use and shape their
environments. The urban population has been dramatically
increasing worldwide and consequently physical structure of the
cities changes constantly, mostly in negative ways. As the
population increases, the demand for infrastructure and facilities
also increases. Privatization and decentralization are the two major
concerns on the future of the cities and open public spaces.
The Visual dimension
Places are temporal milieus, and the tempo of a place is inherently rhythmical. In an urban place,
the patterns of people's movements, encounters, and rest, recurrently negotiating with natural
cycles and architectural patterns, merge into expressive bundles of rhythms which give a place
its temporal distinctiveness. This paper investigates the aesthetics of place-temporality, focusing
on its expression and representation; it explores its principal attributes, experience, and
significance. And, building on an analogy with musical aesthetics, the paper brings forward a
conceptual framework for the understanding and analysis of temporality in urban space, with a
focus on place-rhythms and the triad of place-temporal performance, place-tonality, and sense of
time. These are the principal aesthetic processes through which place-temporality expresses and
represents itself in urban space.
IMPLEMENTING THE URBAN DESIGN
The Development Process
The Development Process
Urban planning, also referred to as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and
political process that focuses on the design and development of land use and the built environment, including air,
water, and infrastructure that enters and exits urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution
networks, as well as the accessibility of these networks. In the past, master planning of the physical layout of human
settlements was done using a top-down method.
The public’s welfare was the main priority, which also encompassed the consequences of the master plans on social
and economic activities as well as efficiency, sanitation, protection, and usage of the environment. Urban planning now
prioritises the social and environmental bottom lines, emphasising planning as a tool to enhance people’s health and
well-being while upholding sustainability norms. When the adverse economic and ecological effects of the earlier
planning forms became apparent in the late 20th century, sustainable development was incorporated as one of the
primary aims of all planning initiatives.
The Control Process
The Communication process
The Communication process
This chapter provides with buildings and material urban structures as symbolic resources
that themselves “communicate” certain values, or about urban space as a “space of
appearance” in which fundamental communicative processes of speaking and acting in
public take place. The location of key buildings and their relation to each other gave
material form to political hierarchy and social relations. The capacity for particular urban
structures and material settings to endure over time has served to anchor social practices
and political processes across generations, underpinning the assertion by architect Aldo
Rossi that the built environment is a critical dimension of a society’s collective memory.
The rise of urban planning as a profession, alongside the blunt force of developments in
infrastructure engineering, transport and communication technologies, and, above all, the
gravitational pull of profit-based urban development settings, all worked to reduce the
capacity of architects to shape the modern city in practice.
Holistic Design
Holistic design approaches in architecture enable architects to

account for all of these things. They examine the way that the
design will appear aesthetically – in context. They’ll look at
neighboring buildings and open spaces. They’ll consider the
position of the sun at different times of day and how light will
play on the surface. Then they’ll examine the use of the space
and consider what sort of messages the design should project.
Holistic Design
Conclusion
Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and
practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and
systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively revised and restructured.
Carmona advances the idea of urban design as a continuous process of shaping places,
fashioned in turn by shifting global, local and power contexts. At the heart of the book are eight
key dimensions of urban design theory and practice—temporal, perceptual, morphological, visual,
social, functional—and two new process dimensions—design governance and place production.
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PUBLIC PLACES

The Dimension of urban space

Urban designers are typically architects,

The social dimension of sustainability is most difficult to grasp, and thus

concept of social sustainability, and broad recognition is lacking.

The effects of fast changing economic and social conditions have

Holistic design approaches in architecture enable architects to

"Design is intelligence made visible."

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