The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Practice brings together diverse voices in urban design, emphasizing the urgent need for innovative approaches to address shared challenges and offering actionable steps to empower practitioners, students, and academics in creating vibrant and sustainable cities. The three-part structure of the Handbook guides the reader from foundations in urban design practice to an exploration of the great challenges confronting cities and people today, closing with a consideration of the future of urban design.Part One: Urban Design Today offers a snapshot of historical influences, indirect design strategies, global perspectives, direct design strategies, and technological advances.Part Two: Urban Design Challenged includes perspectives on climate change and ecological design, public health, community change, social justice in urban design, economic resilience, and place quality.Part Three: Urban Design Tomorrow provokes deep thought on the state of the world