Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory
and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear …

City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and
policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle …

An examination of informal urban activities—including street vending, garage sales, and
unpermitted housing—that explores their complexity and addresses related planning and …

Despite widespread recognition of the dual problems of sprawl and conventional zoning, the
specific nature of the relationship between sprawl and zoning is not well specified. In part …

Site analysis is the key to a well-designed project. In fact, the careful and complete analysis
of a site and its surrounding context can lead to better development proposals, smoother …

Problem: Form-based codes (FBCs) affect the design of cities with rules about building form
and location. They are of renewed interest to modern planners, but their history and that of …

This paper takes a typological exploration of the 'tools' of 'design governance'. It begins by
exploring the generic literature that focuses on the range of instruments, approaches and …

A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the
professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and …

Our aim in this book has been investigating the politics of public space at a moment of
crucial transformation for European cities, analysing the public space as a crossroad in …

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the
intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making …