Representational practices have the ability to generate distinctive ideas and places. There is a relationship between a designer's ability to represent certain concepts or aspects of a place and the resulting design of a place. Representing Place in Urban Design highlights the nature of this relationship theoretically, historically and practically. Using contemporary international case studies, the book provides practical insights into different approaches to representational place making practice.
Key topics addressed include:
- Categories of drawing, model making and film and how these express urban design concepts
- A theoretical framework to explore how individual urban designers think and practice reflectively and creatively
- Understanding how forms of representation are selected and shaped by and for a wider design and development context such as local urban development, professional cultures and the political economy through which different places emerge
- How contemporary place making thinkers have represented their ideas geographically and how practitioners today use graphics and why.
Representing Place in Urban Design provides students and practitioners of urban design with foundational knowledge and guidance about the affective use of various forms of representation in place making practice. It is recommended for urban design students from first year to thesis and is especially useful in visual communications and planning and design studios.
- ISBN13 9781138935372
- Publish Date 15 June 2017
- Publish Status Withdrawn
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English