Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

The Text

The Illustrations

PROLOGUE

THE ARGUMENT

PART I: THE NATURE OF URBAN DESIGN AND URBAN DESIGNING

CHAPTER 1. THE PUBLIC REALM OF CITIES AND URBAN DESIGN

CHAPTER 2. URBAN DESIGN PRODUCT TYPES

CHAPTER 3. URBAN DESIGN PARADIGMS

CHAPTER 4. URBAN DESIGN PROCEDURAL TYPES AND PROCESSES

CHAPTER 5. AN EVOLVING TYPOLOGY OF URBAN DESIGN PROJECTS

PART TWO: THE DESIGN PROFESSIONS, THEIR PRODUCTS, AND URBAN DESIGN

CHAPTER 6. THE PRODUCTS OF CITY PLANNING AND THE NATURE OF URBAN DESIGN

CHAPTER 7. THE PRODUCTS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND THE NATURE OF URBAN DESIGN

CHAPTER 8. THE PRODUCTS OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE NATURE OF URBAN DESIGN

PART THREE: THE CORE OF URBAN DESIGN WORK: PROCEDURES, PARADIGMS, AND PRODUCTS

CHAPTER 9. TOTAL URBAN DESIGN

CHAPTER 10. ALL-OF-A-PIECE URBAN DESIGN

CHAPTER 11. PLUG-IN URBAN DESIGN

CHAPTER 12. PIECE-BY-PIECE URBAN DESIGN Planning Districts and Urban Design

EPILOGUE

HOW GOOD IS THE TYPOLOGY? LEARNING FROM THE CASE STUDIES

Index

Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design.

Jon Lang, B.Arch (Rand), MRP, PhD (Cornell), is an Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he has been since 1990. Prior to that he taught for 20 years at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. He has published extensively on architectural theory, urban design, and architecture in India.