What is urban design? A proposal for a common understanding

Cozzolino, Stefano; Polívka, Jan; Fox-Kämper, Runrid; Reimer, Mario; Kummel, Olivia

doi:10.1080/13574809.2019.1705776

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“…The design of this study is inspired by similar work such as by Cozzolino et al [36] on urban design, Igalla et al [12] on citizen initiatives, and Frantzeskaki et al [37] on changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions. Our study contributes to a further conceptualization of urban place-shaping by collective citizen initiatives by quarrying through a selection of core readings.…”

Section: Methods and Key Elementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizen Engagement in Spatial Planning, Shaping Places Together

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This paper explores the roles and practices of collective citizen engagement in spatial planning. Drawing on a selection of core articles in planning scholarship, it investigates how citizens (re-)shape urban places by responding to perceived flaws in how spatial planning addresses societal challenges. Formal planning interventions are often spatially and socially selective, ineffective, or even non-existent due to a lack of institutional capacities and resources. Consequently, citizens take on roles that they consider as missing, underperformed or ineffective. The paper shows that this results in a variety of practices complementary to, independent from, or opposing formal planning actors and interventions. Five dilemmas citizens face are identified, highlighting the tensions that surface on exclusion, participation, and governmental responsibilities when citizens claim their role in urban governance.

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Section: Methods and Key Elementsmentioning

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“…Cozzolino (Cozzolino et al, 2020) recently defined urban design with the help of 12 of the most established urban designers in the UK and US, putting at its forefront that it deals with urban forms at many spatial scales to manage a process that occurs in time. The paper takes this definition further to argue for urban design as a design discipline is focused both on the design and post-design phase.…”

Section: Defining Urban Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban design as a specialised, evidence-based, coordinated educational and professional endeavour

Rómice

Rudlin²,

AlWaer

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Desig

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Urban environments are complex, impacting on climate change, social justice and health globally and locally. Their spatial, social, economic, environmental dimensions are interlinked and must be studied from a complexity viewpoint. Yet, whilst complexity has successfully entered urban scholarship and practice in many fields, urban form, a key component of urban environments, is not yet studied in these terms and consequently they are not yet designed as complex. This paper argues that the discipline of urban design should be (re)defined as the understanding and design of urban environments as places of organised complexity. It can become the discipline best placed to manage a useful global overview of sustainable placemaking. It does so by tracing urban design's historical relationships and attitudes towards the evolution of the city, contrasting definitions of complexity in science, with the deterministic way in which the early urban design practitioners viewed design. It then looks at urban design's relationship with other design professions in the UK and suggest its lack of clarity and efficiency is an enduring consequence of this historic trajectory. Finally, it proposes urban design as the discipline concerned with the understanding and design of complex-adaptive urban environments and advocate its establishment as an independent profession.

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“…To manage the spatial transformation of "desakota," urban design and designer are required to come into play. Urban design plays a role in addressing the uncontrolled and fragmented landuse development as one of the main features of urban design by introducing a spatial order based on a certain principle (Cozzolino et al, 2020). Some studies from urban design fields have been conducted which proposed a spatial order.…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Peri-urbanisation and Urban Designmentioning

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“…We hypothesize that kampung as the informal settlement with the informal economic activities is a significant aspect to be considered for the development of the peri-urban area. Cozzolino et al (2020) reviewed informality as identical to self-organization that should be intended as complementary rather than contradictory elements. The spontaneous spatial configurations may continuously emerge within intentionally created design frameworks.…”

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Peri-Urban and Informality in Teluknaga, Tangerang Regency, Indonesia

Hadi¹,

Ellisa²

2021

CSID-JID

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Desakota' has been acknowledged as a unique landscape condition in South East Asia and Indonesia especially. In the middle of emerging economies and rapid urban development, 'desakota' as a peri-urban area suffers environmental degradation in the economy and socioculture because of poor planning and control from state and local authority. Inequality, spatial segregation, and inadequate infrastructure or slums are issues that peri-urban'desakota' has to encounter. Nevertheless, as a tool for producing and adapting the built environment and introducing a spatial order, urban design shows less concern for developing this distinct periurban area. This study conducted in Teluknaga, Tangerang, the neighboring Jakarta, examined the significance of informality which shapes a compact urban form in the 'desakota' area. Data collection of the study was done through field study by conducting interviews, observations, and direct mapping. We conclude that the informality potents should be considered for designing 'desakota' to maintain its compact form and create a more sustainable urban form and a better urban life.

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What is urban design? A proposal for a common understanding

Cited by 20 publications

References 49 publications

Citizen Engagement in Spatial Planning, Shaping Places Together

Citizen Engagement in Spatial Planning, Shaping Places Together

Urban design as a specialised, evidence-based, coordinated educational and professional endeavour

Peri-Urban and Informality in Teluknaga, Tangerang Regency, Indonesia

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