Urban design as a specialised, evidence-based, coordinated educational and professional endeavour

IF 1.5 Q3 URBAN STUDIES
O. Romice, D. Rudlin, H. AlWaer, M. Greaves, K. Thwaites, S. Porta
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Urban environments are complex, impacting on climate change, social justice and health globally and locally. Their spatial, social, economic, environmental dimensions are interlinked and must be studied from a complexity viewpoint. Yet, whilst complexity has successfully entered urban scholarship and practice in many fields, urban form, a key component of urban environments, is not yet studied in these terms and consequently they are not yet designed as complex. This paper argues that the discipline of urban design should be (re)defined as the understanding and design of urban environments as places of organised complexity. It can become the discipline best placed to manage a useful global overview of sustainable placemaking. It does so by tracing urban design's historical relationships and attitudes towards the evolution of the city, contrasting definitions of complexity in science, with the deterministic way in which the early urban design practitioners viewed design. It then looks at urban design's relationship with other design professions in the UK and suggest its lack of clarity and efficiency is an enduring consequence of this historic trajectory. Finally, it proposes urban design as the discipline concerned with the understanding and design of complex-adaptive urban environments and advocate its establishment as an independent profession.
城市设计是一门专业的、循证的、协调的教育和专业努力
城市环境是复杂的,影响着全球和地方的气候变化、社会正义和健康。它们的空间、社会、经济和环境方面是相互联系的,必须从复杂性的角度来研究。然而,虽然复杂性已经成功地进入了许多领域的城市学术和实践,但城市形式作为城市环境的关键组成部分,尚未在这些方面进行研究,因此它们还没有被设计成复杂的。本文认为,城市设计的学科应该(重新)定义为理解和设计城市环境作为有组织的复杂性的地方。它可以成为最适合管理可持续场所营造的有用的全球概况的学科。通过追溯城市设计的历史关系和对城市演变的态度,对比科学中复杂性的定义,以及早期城市设计实践者看待设计的确定性方式,本书做到了这一点。然后,它着眼于城市设计与英国其他设计专业的关系,并指出其缺乏清晰度和效率是这一历史轨迹的持久后果。最后,它提出城市设计是一门关注复杂适应性城市环境的理解和设计的学科,并主张将其建立为一个独立的专业。
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