“Toward an Urban Design Manifesto”

In the early 1980s, Allan B. Jacobs and Donald Appleyard (1928–1982), following a seminar on urban physical form in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley that included strong criticism of the Le Corbusier-led CIAM design manifesto, were urged by their students to write a design manifesto that articulated a counter-position. They took the challenge and wrote “Toward an Urban Design Manifesto.” Initially rejected for publication by the Journal of the American Planning Association on the grounds that it was without scholarly merit because of its experiential methodology, Jacobs was later invited to have it included in a special urban design oriented issue of the same journal.