Abstract
Urban Design Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders: editors, Minnesota Press: Mineapolis, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8166-5638-7, 368 pages Hardcover 72.31 US $ By the world is becoming more urbanized people evolve as urban species as a result of manifold variables. In order to handle the troubles of this new age we need to combine many disciplines with the areas of knowledge. The urban design is one of these disciplines which involve politics, planning, architecture, social sciences and so on. The book with the title “Urban Design” includes a collection of essays in 6 chapters and examines the contribution of the varied enterprises about urban design. The essays from 1950’s to 2000’s are grouped under key issues highlighting the nature of the urban design, the origins of the notion, Urban Design in 1950’s and the territories of Urban Design practice today. The book also stresses the recent and radical relationship between urban design, landscape architecture, planning and architecture. The editors of the book try to define the Urban Design notion by analyzing recent and previous approaches in the field.
