“A Catholic Approach to Organizing What Urban Designers Should Know”

Urban design is a holistic and integrative field whose practitioners must have a wide range of knowledge, including how people behave in physical environments, how people perceive places, how places came to be, dimensional natures of different urban forms, and how design proposals may relate to the natural, physical, and cultural environments in which they are situated. Because relevant research findings come from many different disciplines – urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, geography, sociology, the cognitive sciences, and art, to name a few – even in an electronic age it can be difficult for designers to know where to find them.