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"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 and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively revised and re-structured. Carmona advances the idea of urban design as a continuous process of shaping places, fashioned in turn by shifting global, local, and power contexts. At the heart of the book are eight key dimensions of urban design theory and practice-temporal, perceptual, morphological, visual, social, functional-and two new process dimensions-design governance and place production. This extensively updated and revised third edition is more international in its scope and coverage, incorporating new thinking on technological impact, climate change adaptation, strategies for urban decline, cultural and social diversity, place value, heathy cities, and more, all illustrated with nearly 1000 carefully chosen images. Public Places Urban Spaces is a classic urban design text, and everyone in the field should own a copy"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Investigating urban design -- Part I Philosophical Approaches -- 2 The role of risk in urban design -- 3 Deconstructing and recalibrating urban design in the global south -- 4 The politics of space production: the case of Macau, China -- 5 Urban design in the realm of urban studies -- 6 Place-temporality and rhythmicity: a new aesthetic and methodological foundation for urban design theory and practice -- Part II Process Investigations -- 7 Mixing methods / theorising urban design process -- 8 Link and Place - bridging stakeholder divides -- 9 Actor-network theory coevolution framework for urban design -- 10 Unlocking policy documents: policy analysis in urban design -- 11 Smart cities, social networks and the Internet of Things -- 12 Environmental masterplanning: defining an integrated approach -- Part III Physical Explorations -- 13 Urbiculturalism, understanding the patterns of place -- 14 Space syntax as interdisciplinary urban design pedagogy -- 15 Thinking systems in urban design: a prioritised structure model -- 16 Explorations in generative street layouts -- 17 The relationship between density, built form and design -- Part IV Propositional Experiments -- 18 London short stories -- 19 The siting of writing and the writing of sites -- 20 Design as research and research as design: mega-plans and mega-projects in Karbala and Hong Kong -- 21 Crafting a methodology for urban design in development: between research, pedagogy and practice -- 22 An evidence-based approach to designing new cities: the English New Towns revisited -- Part V Performance Enquiries -- 23 Public space as lived -- 24 Historical exploration/explanation in urban design -- 25 The problem of scale

This book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to urban design, whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within its study and practice. It informs users who are grappling with urban design research problems, but who need the inspiration to move from idea to methodological approach. Through the work of 32 urban researchers from the arts, sciences and social sciences, it demonstrates a wide range of problems and approaches and shows how the diverse range of complementary approaches can come together to provide a holistic understanding to the design of cities.

The use and nature of public space -- Public space through history -- Contemporary debates and public space -- Models of public space management -- One country, multiple endemic public space management problems -- One country, twenty innovative public space management authorities -- Eleven countries, eleven innovative cities--the context for open space management -- Eleven innovative cities, many ways forward--the practice of open space management -- One iconic civic space--managing times square, new york -- Two linked iconic civic spaces managing leicester square and piccadilly circus, london -- Theory, practice and real people

This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders.In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the important role of the planning system in helping to raise design standards. Housing Design Quality

ch. 1. Public space : is it really that bad? -- 2. A city of squares, opportunity and neglect -- 3. A city of growth, retrenchment and disjointed local action -- 4. The "new" squares of the renaissance city -- ch. 5. Spaces of the corporate city -- ch. 6. Spaces of the civic city -- ch. 7. Spaces of the consumer city -- ch. 8. Spaces of the community city -- ch. 9. Spaces of the domestic sphere -- ch. 10. Spaces from the in-between -- ch. 11. Creating and recreating public space in London -- ch. 12. Public space critiques, counter-arguments and conclusions.

The UK's House of Commons Public Services Committee has described the state of performance measurement across the public sector as being data rich and information poor. This reflects the fact that the performance of most public services is extremely complex to measure, and as a result, performance measurement is often limited to those aspects that can easily and expediently be measured. Examining this conundrum, and in particular the processes, impact, and future of performance measurement in planning, provided the basis for research reported in this paper. The research drew from and relates to a profound and complex discussion about how the quality of the planning process per se can be reliably and usefully measured. The paper begins by summarising the results of a wide-ranging literature review in the form of a series of conceptual dilemmas. The objectives and methods of the research are then established, before the key research tool—the analytical framework—is presented. Space does not permit a full examination of the empirical phases of the research, although the results from this work is summarised before the research objectives are once again revisited. These lead, finally, to a suggested new model for measuring performance in planning.