Editing Urban design (section)

==Theory==
[[File:Aleksanterinkatu in Kluuvi, Helsinki, Finland, 2022 Christmas.jpg|thumb|250px|A [[Christmas lights|Christmas-lit]] [[Aleksanterinkatu|Alexander Street]] in [[Helsinki|Helsinki, Finland]]]]
Urban design deals with the larger scale of groups of buildings, infrastructure, streets, and [[public space]]s, entire [[neighbourhood]]s and districts, and entire cities, with the goal of making [[urban area|urban environments]] that are [[equity (economics)|equitable]], beautiful, performative, and [[sustainable development|sustainable]].<ref name="Rosenzweig">{{cite book |last1=Rosenzweig |first1=Cynthia |last2=Solecki |first2=William D. |last3=Romero-Lankao |first3=Patricia |last4=Mehrotra |first4=Shagun |last5=Dhakal |first5=Shobhakar |last6=Ibrahim |first6=Somayya Ali |title=Climate Change and Cities: Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network |date=29 March 2018 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-316-94456-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHhTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 |access-date=28 September 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Wheeler">{{cite book |last1=Wheeler |first1=Stephen M. |title=Planning for Sustainability: Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities |date=18 July 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-48201-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TDNgdHV6Kq8C |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Padmanaban">{{cite journal |last1=Padmanaban |first1=Deepa |title=How cities can fight climate change |journal=Knowable Magazine |date=9 June 2022 |doi=10.1146/knowable-060922-1|doi-access=free |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2022/how-cities-can-fight-climate-change |access-date=31 August 2022}}</ref>

Urban design is an [[interdisciplinarity|interdisciplinary]] field that utilizes the procedures and the elements of architecture and other related professions, including [[landscape design]], [[urban planning]], [[civil engineering]], and [[municipal engineering]],<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Van Assche, K. |author2=Beunen, R. |author3=Duineveld, M. |author4=de Jong, H. |year=2013 |url=http://plt.sagepub.com/content/12/2/177.short |title=Co-evolutions of planning and design: Risks and benefits of design perspectives in planning systems |journal=[[Planning Theory]] |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=177–98 |doi=10.1177/1473095212456771 |s2cid=109970261 |access-date=2015-04-08 |archive-date=2013-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130628061608/http://plt.sagepub.com/content/12/2/177.short |url-status=dead |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Moudon |first=Anne Vernez |title=A Catholic Approach to Organizing What Urban Designers Should Know |journal=Journal of Planning Literature |date=1992 |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=331–349 |doi=10.1177/088541229200600401|s2cid=143564034 }}</ref> while extenuating to the [[Spatial analysis|Spatial Sciences]]. It borrows substantive and procedural knowledge from public administration, sociology, law, urban geography, urban economics and other related disciplines from the social and behavioral sciences, as well as from the natural sciences.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of the City |last=Caves |first=R. W. |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2004|isbn=978-0415862875 |pages=692}}</ref> In more recent times different sub-subfields of urban design have emerged such as strategic urban design, [[landscape urbanism]], [[water-sensitive urban design]], and [[sustainable urbanism]]. Urban design demands an understanding of a wide range of subjects from physical geography to social science, and an appreciation for disciplines, such as [[real estate development]], [[urban economics]], [[political economy]], and [[social theory]].

[[File:Dubai Sports City Model Pict 5.jpg|thumb|250px|Model of [[Dubai Sports City]] in [[Dubai]], [[United Arab Emirates]]|alt=]]

Urban design theory deals primarily with the design and management of [[public space]] (i.e. the 'public environment', 'public realm' or 'public domain'), and the way public places are used and experienced. Public space includes the totality of spaces used freely on a day-to-day basis by the general public, such as streets, plazas, parks, and public infrastructure. Some aspects of privately owned spaces, such as building facades or domestic gardens, also contribute to public space and are therefore also considered by urban design theory. Important writers on urban design theory include [[Christopher Alexander]], [[Peter Calthorpe]], [[Gordon Cullen]], [[Andrés Duany]], [[Jane Jacobs]], [[Jan Gehl]], [[Allan Jacobs|Allan B. Jacobs]], [[Kevin A. Lynch|Kevin Lynch]], [[Aldo Rossi]], [[Colin Rowe]], [[Robert Venturi]], [[William H. Whyte]], [[Camillo Sitte]], Bill Hillier ([[space syntax]]), and [[Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk]].