ABSTRACT
Iam amused at the many times I have been with urban design colleagues and the definition of urbandesign enters the dialogue-no consensus and lots of viewpoints. And that is a good place to start because the term urban design represents a wide array of agendas, points of view, approaches, theory etc., and in short there is no one definition. So I begin this section with the basic premise that urban design, like architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design etc., is about making or comprising something physical-a composition with urban dimensions ranging from the residential community or hamlet scale to large metropolitan scales. And I discuss why urban design is more than a dimensional focus-in fact, it is a design process that translates the complex dimensions and relationships of urban meaning and functionality into physical compositions. There is our challenge.
