١ Department of Urban & Regional Planning
College of Environmental Design King Abdulaziz University
URP 403: Urban Design
Spring Semester 142٤-142٥ H (200٤ G) Instructor:
Dr. Essam Mesbah Abdel Aziz
I. Course Objectives:
1. To familiarize participants with the key theoretical ideas and principles that undergird urban design practice today. Ideas and principles of urban design have come from theoreticians or urbanists (Lynch, Crane, Krier, etc.) or urban design practitioners (Wallace, Bacon, Jacobs, etc.). Some are old, and some are new (Post WWII). Some are European or American, and others are Asian or Middle Eastern in their origin. Origins, development, applications, influence and current significance of all principles shall be descussed and explained throught this course.
2. To discuss the evolving p lace of urban design among the professions of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning; and to explain where urban design – as a field of professional activity – belongs, and what should its relationships be to the other design professions.
3. Undertaking research and detailed description of some major urban design case studies throught the world.
II Course Outline:
The following subjects shall be covered during the course:
1. Urban design definition and place among the professions of environmental design.
2. Pre Industrial Era (Renaissance and 17th and 18th centuries).
3. The industrial revolution and the city beautiful movement.
4. Post Worl War II.
5. Postmodernism era.
6. The new urbanism.
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7. Urban design elements.
8. Urban design Criteria.
9. Case Studies.
IV Grading:
1. Assignments and exams 40%
2. Project / P aper 40%
3. Attendence & participation 20%
V Required Readings:
Alexander, Chris topher; Ishikawa, Sara; and Silverstein , Murray, A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Bacon, Edmund, Design of Cities. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
Banerjee, Tridib, and Southworth, Michael, eds., City Sense and City Design:
Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
Barnett, Johnathan, An Introduction to Urban Design. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1982.
Calthorpe, Peter, The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.
Krieger, Alex, et al., Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk: Towns and Town-Making Principles. New York: Rizzoli, 1991.
Lynch, Kevin, The Image of The City. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1960.