Research in urban and regional planning has grown tremendously in the recent decade. This section contains the best and most relevant topics related to research in Urban design and regional planning. Areas of Study Mediated City This theme builds on work done by Kevin Lynch in the early years of
The ‘city’ has been the focus of many literatures in urban theories where the scholars try to understand the ‘city’ and try to determine how to design it. Aldo Rossi is an influential theorist in such discipline. This paper is concerned with the review of the theoretical argument about the
What is Urban Design? The process of urban design is the process of developing cities, and it involves elements of architecture, engineering, landscape design, art, and science. Here are some common terms used in urban design. Urban Design Terminology 1. Accessibility The ease with which locations can be reached. People
The concentric zone “model” designed by Ernest Burgess was developed and considered as an urban planning “model” regardless of its nature and context. It would appear that the commonality in meaning is “abstraction of reality,” with the aim of either better understanding a real system or being able to predict
When we think of regeneration, we think of mending or resurrecting something from the ground up, rather than simply making it environmentally friendly. As a result, Regenerative Design is founded on the concept of designing a structure that reflects the healing aspects of nature in order to have a good
Anthropometrics is the comparative study of the human body’s measurements and capabilities. It comes from the Greek words anthropos (human) and metron (machine) (meaning measure). Anthropometry has a significant impact on the design of buildings, influencing a wide range of businesses, processes, services, and products. When it comes to establishing
Urban Design is a hybrid discipline with its main principles fundamentally rooted in public and socio-economic welfare through an appropriate physical design of the environment. Given some pondering on the terminological spectrum of urban design, while terms like public realm, walkability, activity node, and legibility steal the limelight more frequently,
1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (1961) A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the definitive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official
Food cultivation is one of the great historical milestones of our society’s development. The knowledge of agriculture was fundamental for the evolution of a nomadic society into a sedentary civilization. Centuries later, agricultural production has become one of the main contributors to the organization of the land. This phenomenon can be seen
THIS PUBLICATION IS essentially an attempt to articulate some of the insights, key themes, and unsettled questions linked to market-based conservation that are more fully explored in the book People Plants and Justice. The original publication was an exploration of the relationships between market-based schemes for nature conservation or “sustainable”
