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Companion to Urban Design (Routledge Companions)

ISBN-13: 9781138776548
ISBN-10: 1138776548
Edition: 1
Author: Tridib Banerjee
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 736 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781138776548
ISBN-10: 1138776548
Edition: 1
Author: Tridib Banerjee
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 736 pages

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Companion to Urban Design (Routledge Companions) (ISBN-13: 9781138776548 and ISBN-10: 1138776548), written by authors Tridib Banerjee, was published by Routledge in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Urban & Land Use Planning (Architecture, Geography, Earth Sciences, Human Geography, Social Sciences, Urban, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Companion to Urban Design (Routledge Companions) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Urban & Land Use Planning books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales – ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary public policy – multiculturalism, healthy cities, environmental justice, economic development, climate change, energy conservations, protection of natural environments, sustainable development, community liveability, and the like. The field now comprises a core body of knowledge that enfolds a right history of ideas, paradigms, principles, tools, research and applications, enriched by electric influences from the humanities, and social and natural sciences.

Companion to Urban Design includes more than fifty original contributions from internationally recognized authorities in the field. These contributions address the following questions: What are the important ideas that have shaped the field and the current practice of urban design? What are the major methods and processes that have influenced the practice of urban design at various scales? What are the current innovations relevant to the pedagogy of urban design? What are the lingering debates, conflicts ad contradictions in the theory and practice of urban design? How could urban design respond to the contemporary challenges of climate change, sustainability, active living initiatives, globalization, and the like? What are the significant disciplinary influences on the theory, research and practice of urban design in recent times?

There has never before been a more authoritative and comprehensive companion that includes core, foundational and pioneering ideas and concepts of urban design. This book serves as an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, future professionals, and practitioners interested in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, but also in urban studies, urban affairs, geography, and related fields.

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