Public Places Urban Spaces Case Study

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Works Cited Carmona, M., Tiesdell, S., Heath, T. and Oc, T. (eds.). 2010. Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design. London and New York: Routledge. Chapter 4: The Morphological Dimension, 61-86. Carmona, M., Tiesdell, S., Heath, T. and Oc, T. (eds.). 2010. Public Places, Urban Spaces:The Dimensions of Urban Design. London and New York: Routledge. Chapter 4: The Perceptual Dimension, 87-105. Cuthbert, A. R. 2005. A Debate From Down-under: Spatial Political Economy and Urban Design. Urban Design International, [online], 10 (3), 223-234. Available at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/udi/journal/v10/n3/abs/9000150a.html [accessed: 17 September 2014]. Ellin, N. 1999. Postmodern Urbanism. Princeton Architectural Press: New York. …show more content…

The failure of urban design in shaping cities due to false assumption about people and what makes good environment, led professional in urban design to shift attitudes in modern period. Therefore, designers became knowledgeable that urban design and architecture cannot shape the social. Currently, advocacies of urban design are fighting for recognition, both in theory statement and in practice, in the political arena. Currently, urban design deals with a variety of ideas about why and how to shape urban space. However, four varying attitudes in urban design express the objective of urban design: urban design as art, financially pragmatic, community design and problem solving. This paper aims to show that the current attitudes shaping urban design, interlock in atypical ways, as both similarities and differences coexist in the way they relate to one another. Creative, technical, and social approaches may be applicable to different aspects of the urban design process; however, simple fusion of the different views of urban design cannot go without any complications. Some elements of different approaches can be combined together; others go the opposite way around. This is quietly shown in our cities’ current situation, where amalgam of these attitudes shapes the urban form leading back to Langs quote “Four attitudes towards the concerns of urban design coexist uncomfortably today” (Lang 106). Therefore, the future effectiveness of the field depends on its ability to digest this fundamental knowledge and to use it to evaluate theories and practices (Moudon). With the intention of attaining this, the paper covers each of the four attitudes with respect to movements, ideologies, and dimensions of urban design. In addition, it continues to explain how they coexist uncomfortably through taking

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