Urban design can be expressed as the three-dimensional relationship between buildings, open spaces, and streets within a given area. This visual expression of urban zones (combined with a specific plan that details where and what kind of development...

Urban design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space. It has traditionally been regarded as a disciplinary subset of urban planning, landscape architecture,...

BOOK Urban Design Futures Edited by Malcolm Moor and Jon Rowland. Routledge, 2006. £30 The Anglo-American discipline of Post-Modern urban design is now around 40 years old. Begun in opposition to the Modernist orthodoxies of planning and architecture, it had to struggle for...

Architecture firms in the Oklahoma City area may be best known for the buildings that they design, prominent landmarks that can stand for decades. But some area architects say their role is beginning to take on a new flavor. While they are not necessarily...

It'll take more than public service campaigns to solve the nation's obesity problem, according to fitness experts who say neighborhoods must be designed so people can get around without their cars. Virtually everything American society has done for...

Architect Frank Gehry, renowned for his daring and whimsical urban designs, will create his first playground _ at the historic Battery public park in Lower Manhattan.The playground will be part of a larger redevelopment of Manhattan's southernmost tip that includes the four-acre Battery Bosque Gardens;...