Designing Cities is the first reader to be published in the thriving field of urban design. It has been assembled to appeal to a broad range of readers interested in how the design of cities comes about.

Designing Cities is the first reader to be published in the thriving field of urban design. It has been assembled to appeal to a broad range of readers interested in how the design of cities comes about.

日本平面设计大师原研哉先生，日本设计中心代表，武藏野美术大学教授，无印良品咨询委员会委员 他以一双无视外部世界飞速发展变化的眼睛面对“日常生活”，以谦虚但同时尖锐的目光寻找其设计被需要的所在，并将自己精确地安置在他的意图能够被赋予生命的地方。当我们的日常生活正在越来越陷入自身窠臼之时，他敏锐地感知到了设计的征候和迹象，并且自觉自主地挑战其中的未知领域。他的设计作品显现出来的不落陈规的清新，在于他找到了设计被需求的空间并在其中进行设计。在这样的态度下，他拓展了设计的视野和范畴，在他所经历之处，崭新的地平线不停地被发现和拓展。

<DIV>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 spr...(展开全部)

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroa...(展开全部)

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroa...(展开全部)

Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the a...(展开全部)

Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the a...(展开全部)

[意大利]达尼洛•帕拉佐（Danilo Palazzo），博士，曾任意大利米兰工业大学建筑与规划系副教授，现为美国辛辛那提大学规划学院院长、教授。 [美国]弗雷德里克•斯坦纳（Frederick Steiner），曾任美国得克萨斯大学奥斯丁分校建筑学院院长，现为宾夕法尼亚大学设计学院院长、教授，主要讲授景观分析、景观建筑理论和环境影响评价等课程。

This authoritative introduction to the study of human beings and their cultural institutions in cities offers twenty-six readings more than one-half new or revised for the Fourth Edition that form a rich blend of classic studies of enduring interest and important new research. Impressive in scope, the latest edition offers an entirely new section on globalization and transnatio...(展开全部)