ABSTRACT
Andrea Kahn How does an urban site gain design definition? What delineates its boundaries? How does it engage its surrounds? What determines its scale? This essay works through the problem of site definition as a necessarily indefinite task, especially when looking at terms of site definition in urban design. As used here, urban site makes double reference to both the whole city and limited sites within it, since even the smallest urban design intervention always speaks to the project of city-building writ large, and defining applies to both a process and its outcomes. At issue are means of site definition in urban design as well as the site knowledge they produce.
