Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses is a new departure in the town planning series under the editorship of Clara Greed. The dynamic new subject and profession of urban design straddles the fields of town planning, architecture, landscape architecture and transport planning. This book recognises that a key feature of modern urban design practice is the ability to integrate a concern with the visual and aesthetic aspects of urban form, with a strong social awareness of the need of user groups, plus a sensitivity to wider environmental and sustainability issues. In this it continues the themes already introduced in earlier volumes, such as the changing nature of the profession, social problems and the means of implementing policy. Written by a team of eminent urban designers, architects and planners under the joint editorship of Clara Greed and Marion Roberts, the book introduces the reader to the subject through a discussion of current issues, approaches and user responses. Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses is an ideal resource for undergraduate courses in town planning, architecture, landscape architecture, estate management and housing studies. It is also suitable as an introductory text for first year diploma and masters programmes in urban design and suitable for RTPI, RICS, CIOH, CIOB, ASI, ISVA and RIBA courses and will be of interest to professional practioners in the urban design field.

This book is aimed at students on town planning and related courses, as well as practitioners who want to locate their practice within the broadening activity of town planning. It is written by practising town planners and academics with practice experience, and the chapters include many case studies which make connections for the reader between theory and practice. The book does not aim to be comprehensive, but to lay out the terrain in the key areas. It is a gateway to the exciting and varied world of town planning, which should stimulate the reader to want to find out more. It should heighten the appreciation of practice in all its forms and widen the horizons of the world of the professional town planner.

This book introduces the concept of `social town planning' to intergrate planning policy and practices with the cultural and social issues of the people they are planning for.

Introducing Planning presents the student reader with the broadest overview of planning available today. The new edition of this best-selling textbook (previously called Introducing Town Planning) has been entirely updated, as well as considerably revised and restructured. New material on the environment, Europe, social issues, the politics and theories behind planning, as well as a wealth of new illustrative material have all been included. The reader is taken through the structures of planning, the development process, the history of Planning, the main contemporary issues as well as the social, political and theoretical dimensions of Planning. A wide range of illustrations, boxed case material, chapter guides to further reading and questions for revision and further analysis, as well as an extensive bibliography are all provided.