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Urban Design Management

A Guide to Good Practice

Edited by Antti Ahlava, Harry Edelman

Published November 12th 2008 by Taylor & Francis – 244 pages

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    Description

    This is an introduction to the secrets of Urban Design Management (UDM). The book examines the roles of the players involved in land-use projects and describes good collaborative methods of practice in project-based urban design and planning, putting emphasis on the creative co-operative skills and the wide knowledge of the participants in a working group. The role of the architect is examined in relation to design, planning and project management with particular emphasis on collaboration and negotiation skills. Specific issues considered include:

    • The make-up of a good project team

    • Ways to make the project team function together

    • Objectives and benefits of project-orientated planning

    • The need to take local characteristics into account in project-orientated planning

    • The preparation required for a co-operative planning process and how initial information can be collected and used

    • How to define project content, and outlining the project itself

    • Partner-specific strategies

    Urban Design Management contains international examples and many diagrams and photographs, making it a useful and accessible guide for all built environment professionals working in the public realm and those studying architecture, urban design and planning at a graduate level.

    Contents

    Foreword Preface Introduction Part 1: The Perfect Match Part 2: Togetherness Part 3: Creating Attractiveness Part 4: Setting Things in their Context Part 5: Starting Slow in order to Go Fast Part 6:Project Tools Part 7: Fitting in a Player's Strategy Part 8: Urban Design Management

    Author Bio

    Antti Ahlava teaches urban design at Helsinki University of Technology and practices architecture at MOD Architects’ office. He was recently a Visiting Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark.

    Harry Edelman is a consultant in Urban Design Management at Edelman Group Ltd, Finland. He has conducted research internationally in conjunction with the recent affiliation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Research Scholar.

    Name: Urban Design Management: A Guide to Good Practice (Hardback) – Taylor & Francis 
    Description: Edited by Antti Ahlava, Harry Edelman. This is an introduction to the secrets of Urban Design Management (UDM). The book examines the roles of the players involved in land-use projects and describes good collaborative methods of practice in project-based urban design and planning, putting...
    Categories: Architecture, Planning, Urban Design