What qualifies as good urban design? It's an important (and thorny) question, and one that's important to the staff members at the English Partnerships organizations. They've created this website to serve as a clearinghouse for high-quality information on what constitutes good urban design. First-time visitors should click on over to the "Urban Design Principles" area. Here they will find a complete guide to urban design that includes such chapters as "Creating the Urban Structure", "Detailing the Place", and "Fundamentals". It is a solid document and it could certainly be used in a community development setting or with a group of urban planning students. The "Case Studies" area features over 100 case studies which explain how others have applied urban design principles to deliver quality places. Visitors can search the case studies by keyword, location, scale, or type. Finally, the site also includes a document titled "Aiming Higher" (Located under PDF Downloads) which discusses how future urban developments can draw on some of these basic principles and guidelines.
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