Ddrawing for Urban Design

"Drawing for Urban Design" explores a range of ways to represent the city,from freehand sketching to the sophisticated interactive computer model ofthe city of the future. There are many ways to engage with images of thecity by exploring and considering what exists as well as imagining futureideas for the development of the city. Many professionals need to describecity environments in the course of their work. This can be done throughmaps, sketches, computer renderings or models. This book provides anintroduction to these techniques while explaining the processes associatedwith describing and designing urban environments. Following a briefintroduction the book is divided into five parts. Chapter one traces thehistorical context of urban design. Chapter two explores traditional andcontemporary methods of drawing and representing cities. Chapter threeintroduces and describes a range of tools and techniques for analyzing andmapping cities and urban spaces. Chapter four deals with the imagined cityof the future and the virtual city, and chapter five showcases eightmasterplanning projects from around the world by internationally renownedarchitects, ranging from the regeneration of a historic environment to thecreation of an entirely new city. This book is illustrated throughout withexamples of representations of the city created using a range oftechniques, from simple freehand pencil sketches through to the mostcomplex CAD visualizations and computer mapping techniques. This book willprovide the architecture and urban planning student with an invaluablevisual grammar for representing the contemporary city.