Research Handbook on Urban Design

Edited by Marion Roberts and Suzy Nelson, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, UK

With the UN-Habitat estimating that by 2035 the majority of the world’s population will be living in metropolitan areas, this cutting-edge Research Handbook explores the emerging field of urban design and its place in contemporary scholarship.

‘Urban design is a critical profession balancing imperatives for beauty, justice, and sustainability in today’s increasingly dynamic cities. The Research Handbook on Urban Design is a detailed, convincing, and broad-ranging look at empirical inquiry across the scales, sites, spaces, and settlements of urban design. Practitioners, scholars, and students will find the Handbook a valuable and attractive addition to their libraries.’
– Brent D. Ryan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US

“布林ging together contributions from an international team of urban design academics and professionals, this collection is a welcome addition to the literature on urban design research, enriching a key field in an urbanizing world.’
– Ali Madanipour, Newcastle University, UK

‘This carefully-curated collection demonstrates two things. First, the sheer diversity and interdisciplinarity of urban design as a focus for research. Second, the ingenuity of researchers faced with understanding the multiple wicked urban problems that this throws up. In doing so it offers a valuable guide for researchers in urban design at all levels and internationally.’
– Matthew Carmona, University College London, UK

‘This edited collection offers timely and important contributions to urban design as a global practice and an academic discipline – admirably bridging both while also balancing the physicality of space with public interests, contributions by established and emergent researchers, and geographic and cultural representations of the practice and study of urban design.’
– Luna Khirfan, University of Waterloo, Canada