Rob Cowan

Essential Urban Design

A Handbook for Architects, Designers and Planners

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This guide distils the essential information required for the expert direction of the day-to-day work of urban design, from strategic design to masterplanning through to character assessment and collaboration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RIBA Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 181mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781859469019
• ISBN-10: 1859469019
• Artikelnr.: 61261720

Autorenporträt

Rob Cowan is the author of The Dictionary of Urbanism and director of the consultancy Urban Design Skills. He is editor of Context, the journal of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. He invented Placecheck, and was the joint author of By Design, the UK government's ground-breaking urban design guidance. He is a cartoonist and illustrator, and he presents the Plandemonium series of online videos.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Place, Pioneers and Practitioners 2. Urban Design in Action 3. Context,
Character and Quality 4. Politics, Collaboration and the Role of Local
Authorities 5. Strategic Urban Design and Masterplanning; Appendix:
Checklist for Assessing Context and Character