ABSTRACT
The designers see urban design as an art form that must be judged by artistic standards, using principles of structure, focus, sequential experience, meaning, and affect. Urban designers are necessarily more concerned about user needs than are sculptors, but they tend to follow a similar design process. Donald Schon refers to this as "reflective practice." Schon and Peter Rowe, in separate studies, have recorded how designers imagine a solution to a problem, and then challenge and refine it through a series of sequential iterations. This chapter shows that a unified and expressive physical design can result in a place and a community becoming known by the same name; they will be connected in people's minds so that like- minded residents will be attracted to move there, new residents will be encouraged to behave in community-relevant ways, and outsiders will see and treat all residents as a group.
