Town Planning

Urban designs concerns the functionality of towns and cities

It is the shaping and uses of urban public space

• Urban planning, landscape architecture, urban economics, social theory are only a few of the disciplines involved in town planning.

Urban design theory deals with:

• The design and managment of public space.• The way public space is experienced and used

by people.

• Privately owned spaces or building facades and domestic gardens can also be considered by urban design theory.

Some facades-

Public spaces are subject to overlapping management responsibilities

• Sometimes public agencies and authorities are in competition one another.

• The design and management of public space typically demands negotiations between different subjects

University programs offer degrees in urban design, usually post graduate level