Talk:Urban design

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Borders between Landscape and Urban Planning

any borders are rather disappearing -> see the emergence of Landscape-Urbanism (coined in the mid-90ies in the USA)

Urban Design as a term has a clear origin. It was formally established in 1956 at Harvard University as a reaction to technocratic planning and the emergence of sprawl. The term was coined by Jose Lluis Sert and marked the formation of this new discipline.

I would like to see something about urban sociology added to this.

The section on Equalities includes references to legislation without indication of the country where it applies. I imagine that the easiest thing is to note the country in parentheses after any reference to an act, but as similar legislation exists in different places with differing titles and dates a more generic comment may be appropriate rather than reference to specific Acts and dates. R Jones 05:34, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Reiterating that urban design is an already developed term with courses and actual "urban design" graduate and undergraduate major and minor programs at some universities across the nation (ie: University of Washington, Seattle). I would doubt if urban design were to simply merge into landscape-urbanism. Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning have very specific focuses which are different from urban design. Urban design has a creative design goal such as accomplishing a certain feel or look of a street by manipulating multiple surfaces and their elements such as materials, colors, shapes, etc. You can reference definitions from various universities. Landscape-urbanism imo is about mitigating urban issues such as pollution and wind shearing by planning spaces for environmental conditions and adding elements such as vegetation. For now I also don't see a merge of the term landscape to mean site planning or design in general. Planning also will remain focused on frameworks, policies, and plans instead of micromanaging the design. Davumaya 12:28, 2 March 2007 (UTC)