The New Companion to Urban Design

Tridib Banerjee, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

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English

Routledge
21 January 2023

City & town planning - architectural aspects; Reference works; Urban communities; Urban & municipal planning

The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of rich and critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011). With chapters from a new set of contributors, this sequel offers a more comparative perspective representing multiple voices and perspectives from the Global South.

The essays in this volume are organized in three parts: Part I: Comparative Urbanism; Part II: Challenges; and Part III: Opportunities. Each part contains distinct sections designed to address specific themes, and includes a list of annotated suggested further readings at the end of each chapter. Part I: Comparative Urbanism examines different variants of urbanism in the Global North and the Global South, produced by a new economic order characterized by the mobility of labor, capital, information, and technology. Part II: Challenges discusses some of the contemporary challenges that cities of the Global North and the Global South are facing and the possible role of urban design. This part discusses spatial claims and conflicts, challenges generated by urban informality, explosive growth or dramatic shrinkage of the urban settlement, gentrification and displacement, and mimesis, simulacra and lack of authenticity. Part III: Aspirations discusses some normative goals that urban design interventions aspire to bring about in cities of the Global North and the Global South. These include resilience and sustainability, health, conservation/restoration, justice, intelligence, access and mobility, and arts and culture.

The New Companion to Urban Design is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students interested in cities and their built environment. It offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across a range of disciplines including urban design, planning, urban studies, and geography.

Edited by: Tridib Banerjee, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.440kg
ISBN: 9781032475523
ISBN 10: 1032475528
Pages: 714
Publication Date: 21 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tridib Banerjee holds the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at USC’s Price School of Public Policy. His research and writings focus on the design and planning of the built environment and their human consequences. Urban Design: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies (a four-volumed edited collection, 2014) is his most recent publication. Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Professor of Urban Planning and Associate Provost for Academic Planning at UCLA. She is the author of multiple articles on urban design, coeditor of Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities (2006), Companion to Urban Design (2011), and Informal American City (2014), and coauthor of Urban Design Downtown (1998), Sidewalks (2009), and Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? (2019).

Reviews for The New Companion to Urban Design

"""This new collection takes us on a journey in two senses, first through the complexities, compromises and challenges that is contemporary urban design, and second, across the diverse approaches that we find globally to address these concerns. The result is a fascinating collage of contributions which attests to the growing richness of scholarship in our field. I warmly recommend the volume to practitioners, students and researchers alike."" - Matthew Carmona, Professor of Planning & Urban Design, The Bartlett, UCL, UK ""The New Companion to Urban Design is an essential follow-up volume to the Companion to Urban Design published in 2011. It opens two essential windows, one to the Southern Hemisphere, where urban design is facing other challenges than in the Anglo-American world, and one to the field of digitalisation that will definitively change the context of urban design. This widened scope and the well-balanced comparative perspective the volume offers will certainly win a wider readership. Particularly urban planners in China will benefit from the well-written essays of this wide-ranging companion."" - Klaus R. Kunzmann, Professor Emeritus, School of Planning, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany"