Design of Urban Space: An Inquiry into a Socio-Spatial Process

by Ali Madanipour

Written to bridge the gap that exists in the approaches to urban design, Design of Urban Space addresses both the physical and social dimensions of the built environment in an integrated way. The author offers a powerful analysis of the urban design process and the nature of its product, urban space. He confronts key issues involving the confusion concerning the nature and scope of urban design and convincingly argues for a better understanding of urban design and urban space by concentrating on the intersection between the urban development process and everyday life. Interdisciplinary in concept and broad in example, this well structured and clearly written text makes use of material from around the world to bring together ideas from social thought, human geography, urban sociology, architecture, and town planning.

Hardcover

First published November 18, 1996

About the author

Ali Madanipour has studied (MArch, PhD), practised, researched, and taught architecture, urban design and planning, winning design and research awards, and working with academic and municipal partners from around the world. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Persian and Spanish. His visiting positions include the City of Vienna Senior Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Vienna (2010), the Wits-Claude Leon Distinguished Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2011), and Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic of Milan (2015).

Forthcoming book:

Handbook of Planning Theory (2017, co-ed, Routledge);
Published books include:

Cities in Time: Temporary Urbanism and the Future of Cities (2017, Bloomsbury)
Planning Theory, Volume I, Planning with Creativity, (2015, ed, Routledge);
Planning Theory, Volume II, Planning with Efficiency, (2015, ed, Routledge);
Planning Theory, Volume III, Planning with Flexibility, (2015, ed, Routledge);
Planning Theory, Volume IV, Planning with Contingency, (2015, ed, Routledge);
Reconsidering Localism (2015, co-ed, Routledge);
Urban Design, Space and Society (2014, Palgrave-Macmillan);
Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe (2014, co-ed, Routledge);
Handboek Ruimtelijke Kwaliteit (2013, co-ed, ASP)
Knowledge Economy and the City (2011/2013, Routledge);
Whose Public Space? International Case Studies in Urban Design and Development (2010, ed, Routledge);
Designing the City of Reason (2007, Routledge);
Public and Private Spaces of the City (2003, Routledge);
Social Exclusion in European Cities (1998/2003, co-ed, Routledge);
Urban Governance, Institutional Capacity and Social Milieux (2002; co-ed, Ashgate);
The Governance of Place (2001, co-ed, Ashgate);
Tehran: the making of a metropolis (1998, Wiley);
Design of Urban Space: An inquiry into a socio-spatial process (1996, Wiley);
Managing Cities (1995, co-ed, Wiley).

Reviews

[Mohammad Awny Hamouda El-Mesallamy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good theoretical guide to urban design