ABSTRACT

This book is a discourse on the process of urban design for sustainable development and its method. It is not an exhaustive account of the techniques used in urban design. Where techniques have been included in the text they are used to illuminate the process and method. A short book of this type, inevitably, raises more questions than it answers. Readers are invited to consider for themselves some of the apparent contradictions and paradoxes raised by this text. The book makes no claim to be the definitive study of urban design method. It is an introduction to the subject and therefore requires the reader to consider, for himself or herself, the role and scope of method in urban design.