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• Title:Urban design, space and society / Ali Madanipour.
  
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• Author/Creator:Madanipour, Ali.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT165.5 .M33 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning.
  Space (Architecture)
  Urban policy.
  
• Description:x, 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• Series:Planning, environment, cities (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
  
• Summary:"This major new text introduces the nature and dynamics of Urban Design. Setting Urban Design in its broader context, it demystifies the subject for non-designers and enriches it for designers. "-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-286) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781137023650 (pbk.)
  1137023651 (pbk.)
  9781137023667 (hbk.)
  113702366X (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Analysing the nature of urban design
  Responding to the challenges of urban change
  socio-spatial approach to urban design
  Textual analysis: 'urban' and 'design'
  Technical analysis: what urban designers do
  Relational analysis: from a contested division of labour to interdisciplinarity
  Functional analysis: the roles of urban design
  Contextual analysis: urban design as a multi-dimensional action in a context
  Diagnostic analysis: urban design and urban problems
  Conclusion
  Episode 1: ordering the medieval city
  Episode 2: ordering the revolutionary city
  Episode 3: ordering the modern metropolis
  Episode 4: ordering global urbanism
  Conclusion
  Spatial tools for social linkage
  From streets to roads, and back
  street as the backbone of the new urban experience
  street as a vehicle of urban regeneration and strategic planning
  street as a place of drama and excitement
  Digital linkages and urban space
  Urban design as linking the spatial fragments
  contingency of connections
  Conclusion
  urban planet: restless growth of urban agglomerations
  Globalization and urban economic change
  Cities are built in cycles
  Urban design as an integral part of the economy
  Regeneration through competitiveness
  Regeneration through creative destruction
  Shaping regenerative clusters
  Science and technology clusters
  Cultural quarters
  Conclusion
  Functional organization of urban space: from segregation to mixed use
  Division of labour and social fragmentation
  Spatial division of labour
  Mixed use and social integration
  Social organization of space: the neighbourhood as the unit of urban space
  Living apart: social segregation and ghettoization
  Living together: social mixing and gentrification
  Inclusive places
  Inclusive processes
  Conclusion
  Traces of the past: disconnection from the natural and social world
  From conquest to concern
  Limiting the footprint
  Protecting the environment
  Making cities compact, high density and mixed use
  Increasing and connecting green spaces
  Conclusion
  Public space and urban governance
  Spheres and boundaries
  Access to individuals: bubbles and masks
  Access to places: fences and walls
  Access to support and recognition: group membership
  Access to exchange: information and communication channels
  Access to recourses: laws and conventions
  Conclusion
  public infrastructure of meaning
  concept of freedom as removal of constraints
  Negative freedom and spatial distance
  Consequences of negative space
  composite idea of freedom
  Composite freedom, constructive space
  Urban design and the concept of place
  Conclusion
  Making cities
  historical search for a socio-spatial order
  Concepts and contexts
  Linkages and constellations
  Embedded constellations.