Syllabus blurb for advanced seminar in urban design theory and practice, Iowa State University, Spring 2019 URB D 522: Contemporary … More
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Scales of Urban Design
Where does architectural design end and urban design begin? Where does urban design end and regional planning begin? Can architecture alone constitute urban design? Can certain hand-held technologies become central objects of urban design discourse and practice? If urbanization today has become planetary in scale, can we now consider the entire surface of the earth to be the object of urban design?