Urban Design
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- 1 Tasks and Challenges for Architects, Urban and Landscape Planners -- 2 Urban Design of Product and Process -- 3 Definition and Understanding: What Is Urban Design? -- 2: To Understand the Basic Terms -- 1 Sustainability -- 2 Urbanity -- 3 Identity -- 4 Aesthetics -- 5 Building Culture -- 6 The Interaction of the Basic Concepts -- Literature -- 1. Sustainability -- 2. Urbanity -- 3. Identity -- 4. Aesthetics -- 5. Building Culture -- 3: A Journey: From History to Theory -- 1 The History of Urban Development -- 1.1 The Origin of the City -- 1.2 The Medieval City -- 1.3 The City in Absolutism -- 1.4 The Gründerzeit City -- 1.5 Modern Age Urban Design -- 1.6 Reconstruction and New Models -- 2 Urban Design Theory -- 2.1 Ildefonso Cerd -- 2.2 Le Corbusier -- 2.3 Kevin Lynch -- 2.4 Aldo Rossi -- 2.5 Christopher Alexander -- 2.6 Gerd Albers -- 2.7 Thomas Sieverts -- Literature -- 1. History of Urban Development -- 2. Theory of Urban Development -- 4: The ``Grammar´´ of the City -- 1 Understanding the Place and the Code: Transformation of the Museum Quarter Vienna -- 2 Typologies and Layers of the City -- 2.1 Structural Levels and Structural Models -- 2.2 Urban Structure -- 3 City Logics -- 3.1 Perception of the Figure-Ground Relationship -- 3.2 Urban Morphology -- 3.3 Structure of Use -- 4 Urban Structure Types -- 4.1 Block -- 4.2 Court -- 4.3 Rows -- 4.4 Line -- 4.5 Solitaire -- 4.6 Clusters -- 5 Tradition and Change in Urban Structures -- 5.1 The European City -- 5.2 The US City -- 5.3 The Asian City -- Literature -- 1. Understanding the Place and the Code -- 2. Typologies and Layers of the City -- 3. City Logics -- 4. Urban Structure Types -- 5. Tradition and Change in Urban Structures -- 5: Urban Components of the City -- 1 Urban Component Open Space -- 2 Urban Component Public Space.