Public Places - Urban Spaces | 
 enlarge | Authors: Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Taner Oc, Steve Tiesdell
Publisher: Architectural Press
Category: Book
List Price: $50.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 176115
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0750636327
Dewey Decimal Number: 307.1216
EAN: 9780750636322
ASIN: 0750636327
Publication Date: February 2003
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Product Description
Public Places - Urban Spaces is a holistic guide to the many complex and interacting dimensions of urban design.
The discussion moves systematically through ideas, theories, research and the practice of urban design from an unrivalled range of sources. It aids the reader by gradually building the concepts one upon the other towards a total view of the subject.
The author team explain the catalysts of change and renewal, and explore the global and local contexts and processes within which urban design operates. The book presents six key dimensions of urban design theory and practice - the social, visual, functional, temporal, morphological and perceptual - allowing it to be dipped into for specific information, or read from cover to cover. This is a clear and accessible text that provides a comprehensive discussion of this complex subject.
* Learn all you need to know about design of urban spaces from this one-stop introductory guide
*Gain a comprehensive overview of the topic through the authors' holistic approach
*Complex ideas are presented logically for ease of understanding
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| Customer Reviews:
 Public Places Urban Spaces January 5, 2007
This book is very useful to understand the theory,design approach and planning schemes and concept development for public spaces. In addition the presentation and data are easily to understand the message of the author. The case study also provide good attempt to look at several good examples. Finally, I would like to suggest this book for all urban designers, students, architects, planners even public to understand the Public Spaces particularly in the Urban area.
 great introduction to urban design August 25, 2006
I am a graduate student in planning and I had heard a lot about urban design but still had a ahrd time defining and describing it for myself-let alone someone else. I approached a professor who recommended this book and I found it really helpful. Good examples, lots of research from other urban designers, and I liked the way the book is divided into easy to grasp "dimensions."
For teachers and designers March 9, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent reference book for an overall view of urban design today, with an accurate portrait of contexts and conceptual dimensions of and for a practice in urban design. The graphic design with explanatory boxes is very didatic for teaching purposes.
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