Fifty years ago a landmark conference at Harvard University
established urban design as a distinct architectural and planning
practice. Today, with the world's urban population surpassing three
billion people, urban design has become more crucial than ever.
Indeed, the concerns that initially brought leading architects and
city planners together-including concerns over sprawl, pollution,
and aging infrastructure-have only intensified over the past half
century. In Urban Design, Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders have
assembled prominent figures in architecture, planning, and
landscape design to look back on the evolution of the discipline of
urban design; assess the current state of the field; and anticipate
the challenges posed by the unprecedented rate of urbanization,
particularly in the developing world, and how the profession will
need to adapt in order to confront them. The volume opens with
excerpts from transcripts of the 1956 Harvard conference followed
by essays that contextualize and critique its assumptions and
ambitions. Subsequent essays address such topics as the social
conscience of urban design and stake out the competing
sensibilities in the field, from New Urbanism to avant-garde. As
humanity becomes an urban species to a degree that was unimaginable
fifty years ago, this comprehensive volume seeks to encourage
today's designers to draw on the energy and messy vitality of
cities in shaping tomorrow's urban environments. Contributors:
Jonathan Barnett, Denise Scott Brown, Joan Busquets, Kenneth
Greenberg, John Kaliski, Timothy Love, Fumihiko Maki, Richard
Marshall, Eric Mumford, Michelle Provoost, Peter G. Rowe, Edward W.
Soja, Richard M. Sommer, Michael Sorkin, Emily Talen, Marilyn
Jordan Taylor, Wouter Vanstiphout, Charles Waldheim.
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