what is urban design?

David Tittle8th May 2011

The collaborative and multi-disciplinary process of shaping the physical setting of life in cities, towns and villages; the art of making places; design in an urban context.The Dictionary of Urbanism, Rob Cowan (2005)

urban design

urban design v.

• architecture• town planning• landscape architecture

what do urban designers do?

organic v. planned

industrial squalor

modernism

Child of Le Corbusier: Lee Bank, Birmingham, 1950s.

new left protest

1958 Rockefeller Foundation conference on urban design

Jane Jacobs

The picturesque tradition: Gordon Cullen, Townscape

Responsive Environments, 1985

walking seminar

• explore the qualities of place• keep up• keep together• please don’t take photos