Planning - Urban Design - Architecture

Abstract

Urban design activities, thus designated, fall into three categories: 1) public aspects of architecture and landscape architecture that should normally be a routine part of the practice; (2) analytical and budget preparation aspects of the formulation of metropolitan and regional policies that provide for design without being designed; and 3) the current modeling and design of what is unprecedented, large-scale units that increasingly dominate the urban scene.The third category, the unique aréa of urban design, requires skills and responses to different determinants to omit both the first category (architecture) and the second category (analysis and urban planning).Specialization in each field is required.