1st Edition

Urban Design Management A Guide to Good Practice

Edited By Antti Ahlava, Harry Edelman Copyright 2009
250 Pages 150 B/W Illustrations
by Taylor & Francis

250 Pages 150 B/W Illustrations
by Taylor & Francis

249 Pages 150 B/W Illustrations
by Taylor & Francis

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... Read more
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

Biography

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.