A Critical Review on The Current Thought and Practice of Urban Design: New Roles in the Future
A Critical Review on The Current Thought and Practice of Urban Design: New Roles in the Future
Though urban design is historically rooted in development of cities, urban design, as a contemporary discipline, is relatively new compared to associated disciplines of architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture. Urban design’s close connection with these allied disciplines has also been the reason for its ambiguous nature, and its muddled definition. Accordingly, it is claimed here that a reexamination of the definition, status, and role of urban design is essential for the future directions of urban design as a discipline and cities as sustainable environments. In line with this, this article provides a critical framework regarding the current understanding of the discipline of urban design which is based on form, policy and efficiency, and highlights the need for place oriented approachesperformed in an interdisciplinary working framework. The paperfirst focuses on the meaning and significance of urban design,and discusses the problems with the manner in which urbandesign is conceived, practiced and researched. Second, itinterrogates the contemporary framework of urban designwhere the notions of ‘urban’ and ‘design’ are being disconnected.Third, it examines the changing role of urban design from thetraditional to the contemporary mainstream approaches. Theconclusion suggests lessons in terms of understanding andframing its scale, content, professional formation,interdisciplinary nature and role in sustainable urbanenvironments.
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- Başlangıç: 2013
- Yayıncı: KONYA TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ MİMARLIK ve TASARIM FAKÜLTESİ
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