Urban design is the multi-disciplinary process of shaping the physical setting of cities, towns, and villages through design to create quality public spaces and places. It involves architecture, town planning, and landscape architecture working together to address issues like industrial decline, modernist planning approaches, and creating responsive environments for communities. Key figures like Jane Jacobs and Gordon Cullen helped establish urban design as a field focused on the human experience of urban areas through qualitative approaches.

1. what is urban design? David Tittle 8 th May 2011

2. The collaborative and multi-disciplinary process of shaping the physical setting of life in cities, towns and villages; the art of making places; design in an urban context. The Dictionary of Urbanism, Rob Cowan (2005) urban design

4. what do urban designers do?

5. organic v. planned

7. industrial squalor

10. modernism

11. Child of Le Corbusier: Lee Bank, Birmingham, 1950s.

13. new left protest

16. Jane Jacobs

17. The picturesque tradition: Gordon Cullen, Townscape

18. Responsive Environments, 1985