1st Edition

Spatial Complexity in Urban Design Research Graph Visualization Tools for Communities and their Contexts

By Jamie O’Brien Copyright 2019
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers state-of-the-art ‘tools for thinking’ for urban designers, planners and decision-makers. Thematically it focuses on the contexts of problems in urban design and places community spaces at the heart of urban design research. The book provides practicable tools for network modelling and visualization in urban design research. Step-by-step examples take readers through methods... Read more

Acknowledgements. List of figures. List of tables.
1. Design research in the built environment  2. Design thinking and spatial complexity  3. A case-based approach to design research  4. Building on the past  5. Community network toolkit I  6. Community network toolkit II  7. Building and representing knowledge  8. Cases in urban community formations. Epilogue.
References. Index.

Biography

Jamie O’Brien is a design research specialist at URBED, working with spatial data analysis and visualization. He was a Research Fellow at Salford University’s School of the Built Environment, and Senior Research Associate at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London (UCL). He holds a EPSRC doctorate in design from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and is Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, member of the Design Research Society, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.