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。

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)

Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one volume, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism. It expl...(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)