Urban design
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Urban design is related to urban planning, but focuses on the physical design of places through place making. The complexity of urban design requires the balance and representation of multiple fields such as architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, ecology, local history, and transport planning.
Urban design tends to suggest a serious collective concern for three-dimensional space and as much consideration for the public areas between or beneath buildings as for the buildings themselves. This would imply an understanding of microclimate; the aesthetics, environmental qualities and durability of materials; the benefits of landscaping, trees and nature in the city; suitability of maintenance arrangements; the social functions and interactions possible in urban spaces; and the wishes of likely future users.
In some approaches, Street furniture is playing a larger role in urban planning as well as increasing city income through outdoor advertising; in others, simplification of street design is being persued, requiring signage and other street furniture to be kept to a minimum along with a lessening of the distinctions between spaces for motorised transport and people.
See also
- architecture
- Urban economics
- Car-free zone
- Crime prevention through environmental design
- Space Syntax
- Urban Planning
- Urban village
- New Urbanism
- Congress for the New Urbanism
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