City Edge

Urban design has emerged as a key if not the key topic in architecture today. Architecture practices are increasingly moving into areas of work traditionally covered by urban planners in providing coherent designs for a number of buildings on the same site in order to provide buildings that are multi-purpose, mixed developments. In addition, students are being encouraged to think not only about individual buildings, but their context and their surroundings. This growing demand on the skill of the architect has created a need for information on urban design that is communicated in a way that architects can understand. This title illustrates the fundamentals of various approaches to urban design, through high profile, large scale, case studies. The series of essays included outline a number of case studies from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia. These case studies provide a pragmatic assessment of the challenges and constraints posed by cha