Journal of Urban Design

2011 - 2025

Current editor(s): Professor Taner Oc, Professor Michael Southworth, Professor Matthew Carmona and Dr Elisabete Cidre

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Volume 28, issue 6, 2023

Bridging the design / finance divide: adding ‘design strings’ to the finance of urban development pp. 597-622

Matthew Carmona, Tommaso Gabrieli and João Bento

Towards a movement-friendly city: lessons from activity scans of five neighbourhoods in Antwerp, Belgium pp. 623-644

Tim Devos, Maarten Van Acker, Jakob Vandevoorde and Stijn Rybels

Urban humanities as a framework for the study of public space during the pandemic pp. 645-662

Christopher Giamarino, Claire Nelischer and Andrés F. Ramirez

Informal extension of public housing estates in Nairobi – an appraisal of historical typologies and emergent spatial patterns pp. 663-681

Matthijs van Oostrum

Data and discourse: an assessment of Taksim urban design competition in terms of populism and participation pp. 682-698

Yiğit Acar, Gönülnur Demet and Melek Kaynar

Healthy cities? Design for well-being pp. 699-701

Nastaran Peimani

Cycling for sustainable cities pp. 701-703

Billy Fields

Volume 28, issue 5, 2023

Victor Gruen versus Jan Gehl – and the contemporary model of pedestrianization pp. 471-488

Kelly Gregg

Building Dodger Stadium: Walter O’Malley’s search for nature and modernism in Los Angeles pp. 489-505

Lorne Platt

Urban decline to green paradigm: learning from Dessau pp. 506-528

René Davids

Retracing reconstruction. An assessment method for urban metamorphoses following extreme events pp. 529-546

Mattia Bertin, Jacopo Galli and Francesco Rossi

Cities on the edge: how Bat Yam challenges the common social implications of urban regeneration pp. 547-569

Daphna Levine and Meirav Aharon-Gutman

The typological making of retail streets. Santa Ifigenia Street in São Paulo: origin 1850 – 1931 pp. 570-596

Pablo Coquillat Mora

Volume 28, issue 4, 2023

Gender-bias in the built environment: how young women’s experiences in public space are understood and addressed in London pp. 355-374

Anna Shaikly and Beatriz Mella Lira

Forms and patterns of mixticity in compact cities. Mixed-use synergies in the Sagrada Familia neighbourhood of Barcelona pp. 375-396

Eulalia Gomez-Escoda, Carles Crosas Armengol and Mikel Berra-Sandin

Design of virtual laneway infrastructure: community activation through augmented reality in underutilized spaces in cities pressured to densify pp. 397-425

Emil Jonescu, Eric Choh, Ahmed Hammad and Khoa Do

Implementation of the sustainable urbanization strategy in Malmö and Ostrava pp. 426-448

Karolina Weronika Cynk

The significance of public space governance in enhancing the quality of public space delivery and management in South Africa pp. 449-467

Sopna Kumar-Nair and Karina Landman

Just urban design: the struggle for a public city pp. 468-470

Ann Forsyth

Volume 28, issue 3, 2023

Dreamcatching: introducing a reflexive tool to facilitate situated complexity in urban co-design practices pp. 257-273

Minna Eronen and Åsa Wikberg Nilsson

Insights into wayfinding: urban design exploration through the use of algorithmic eye-tracking software pp. 274-295

Justin B. Hollander, Ann Sussman, Peter Lowitt, Neil Angus, Minyu Situ and Aliya Magnuson

Public art in cities: what makes it engaging and interactive? pp. 296-315

Caroline Milne and Dorina Pojani

Park access affects physical activity: new evidence from geolocated Twitter data analysis pp. 316-335

Chuo Li, Jing Zhao, Junjun Yin and Guangqing Chi

Illustrating shared features of students’ cognitive image of a university campus pp. 336-351

Vanessa Joy A. Anacta

Temporary and tactical urbanism: (re)assembling urban space pp. 352-353

Peter Bishop

Volume 28, issue 2, 2023

Mapping the importance of specific physical elements in urban space for blind and visually impaired people pp. 139-154

Annette Bredmose, Sidse Grangaard, Victoria Linn Lygum and Anders Rhiger Hansen

Increasing physical activity and active transportation in an arid city: Slow Streets and the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 155-173

Monica Landgrave-Serrano and Philip Stoker

Travellers’ perspectives on historic squares and railway stations in Italian heritage cities revealed through sentiment analysis pp. 174-198

Stefania Stellacci and Sérgio Moro

Typological index of alleyways: mapping the pattern of a forgotten urban form element pp. 199-224

Khaled Alawadi, Asim Khanal and Rawan Sohdy Abdelfattah

The big squeeze: maintaining the green infrastructure role of estuarine foreshores while adapting to sea-level rise pp. 225-253

Julian Bolleter, Bill Grace, Nicole Edwards, Sarah Foster and Paula Hooper

Working cities: architecture, place and production (1st ed.) pp. 254-256

Francesca Froy

Volume 28, issue 1, 2023

Street design preference: an on-line survey pp. 1-24

Emily Talen, Kyoung Whan Choe, Gaby N. Akcelik, Marc G. Berman and Kim L. Meidenbauer

Which architectural style makes an attractive street scape? Aesthetic preferences among city centre managers pp. 25-43

Henrik Loodin and Ola Thufvesson

Designing thermally sensitive public spaces: an analysis through urban design media pp. 44-65

Ignacio Requena-Ruiz, Daniel Siret, Xenia Stavropulos-Laffaille and Thomas Leduc

Design-led solution for curbing crime: the case study of a major entertainment precinct in Perth, Western Australia pp. 66-94

Emil E. Jonescu, Oluwole A. Olatunji and Jason Foo

The form of social life: seeing beyond informality in emergent design qualities, the case of Yüksel Street in Ankara pp. 95-113

Duygu Cihanger Ribeiro

Myths and imaginaries in architectural competitions pp. 114-135

Aleksander Bern

The caring city: ethics of urban design pp. 136-137

Angelika Gabauer and Sabine Knierbein

Volume 27, issue 6, 2022

Research through design in urban and landscape design practice pp. 617-633

João Cortesão and Sanda Lenzholzer

‘Creation of a better urban environment’: Sydney’s Civic Design Society 1962–1984 pp. 634-648

Robert Freestone

Baltimore and the Neighborhood Design Center. Participatory approaches to urban design under conditions of urban shrinkage (1968–2000) pp. 649-668

Gonzalo José López Garrido

Pedestrian access to transit in evolution: unfolding the spatialization of rapid-transit planning pp. 669-691

Caterina Villani, Gianni Talamini and Charlie Qiuli Xue

Livable streets for schoolchildren: a human-centred understanding of the cognitive benefits of Safe Routes to School pp. 692-716

Bruce Appleyard

Urban playground: how child-friendly planning and design can save cities pp. 717-718

Neil Galway

Smart design: disruption, crisis, and the reshaping of urban spaces pp. 718-720

Hoon Han

Design with Nature Now pp. 720-722

Gareth Doherty

Natura Urbana: ecological constellations in urban space pp. 722-724

Henriette Steiner

Volume 27, issue 5, 2022

Do welfare states need privately owned public spaces? The relevance of and need for such spaces in German cities pp. 513-527

Dahae Lee and Nele Scholten

Analysing the influence of a farmers’ market on spatial behaviour in shared spaces pp. 528-545

Mariana Batista and Bernhard Friedrich

A history of New York City’s bonus incentive programme and the changing role of the planning department from 1961 to 2019 pp. 546-562

Te-Sheng Huang and Karen A. Franck

Pluralist production of urban form: towards a parametric development control for unity in diversity pp. 563-588

Olgu Çalışkan and Yavuz Baver Barut

Urban co-creation taxonomy pp. 589-604

Bruno Seve, Ernesto Redondo and Roberto Sega

Public places urban spaces: the dimensions of urban design pp. 605-607

Hooman Foroughmand Araabi

Urban morphology. An introduction to the study of the physical form of cities pp. 607-609

Szymon Piotr Nogalski

Dream city: creation, destruction, and reinvention in downtown Detroit pp. 609-611

Xiao Hu

New Towns: the rise and fall and rebirth pp. 611-613

Will Cousins

In the images of development: city design in the Global South pp. 613-615

Sanjeev Vidyarthi

Volume 27, issue 4, 2022

The political economy of streetspace reallocation projects: Aldgate Square and Bank Junction, London pp. 397-420

Robin Hickman and Katy Huaylla Sallo

The role of planners in public open space production in contemporary African cities: a reinjection of the social agenda in planning practice pp. 421-440

Kundani Makakavhule and Danielle Hill

Morphological and physical characteristics of the historic urban fabric and traditional streets of Xiguan in Guangzhou pp. 441-458

Daria Lisaia and Chunyang Zhang

The assessment of the attractiveness of memorials in historic urban landscape pp. 459-482

Anna Długozima and Kinga Rybak-Niedziółka

Smart city place-based outcomes in India: bubble urbanism and socio-spatial fragmentation pp. 483-503

Deepti Prasad, Tooran Alizadeh and Robyn Dowling

Planning wild cities: human–nature relationships in the urban age pp. 504-506

Hélène Frichot

Concrete cities: why we need to build differently pp. 506-508

Phil Hubbard

Better by Design? Architecture, Urban Planning and the Good City pp. 508-509

Paul Jones

Mapping urban spaces: designing the European city pp. 510-512

Amra Salihbegović

Volume 27, issue 3, 2022

Walkability analyses of Delft city centre by Go-Along walks and testing of different design scenarios for a more walkable environment pp. 287-309

Arzu Erturan and Stefan Christiaan van der Spek

More than 300 teardowns later: patterns in architecture and location among teardowns in Naperville, Illinois, 2008-2017 pp. 310-327

Brian J. Miller

Road – gate – enclosure: elite securityscapes in London and Mexico City pp. 328-347

Emma R. Morales, Rowland Atkinson and Katie Higgins

Prioritization of influential factors for the pedestrian facility improvement in Indian cities pp. 348-363

Aromal V and Naseer Ma

Code as urban vision: a critique of the Buffalo Green Code pp. 364-385

Erkin Özay

A city is not a computer: other urban intelligences pp. 386-387

George R. Martin

Public space reader pp. 388-390

Patricia Aelbrecht

Designing the megaregion: meeting urban challenges at a new scale pp. 390-392

Christina D. Rosan

Gray to Green communities: a call to action on the housing and climate crises pp. 392-394

Elise Otto

Aesthetics of gentrification: seductive spaces and exclusive communities in the neoliberal city pp. 394-396

Günter Gassner

Volume 27, issue 2, 2022

Creativity-driven urban regeneration in the post-socialist context - The case of Csepel Works, Budapest pp. 161-180

Judit Taraba, Claudiu Forgaci and Arie Romein

Playful experience design: reactivating public space in Cyprus, a case study perspective pp. 181-204

René Carraz and Anna Merry

Urban space of recognition: design for ethno-cultural diversity in the German Colony, Haifa pp. 205-224

Efrat Eizenberg, Yosef Jabareen, Tamir Arviv and Dalya Arussy

Re-thinking public spaces at night through the plurality of nocturnal experience: a case study of Liberdade Square, Brazil pp. 225-244

Tatiana de Albuquerque Ferreira and Rodrigo Cury Paraizo

Using suitability analysis, informed by Co-Design, to assess contextually appropriate urban growth models in Gulu, Uganda pp. 245-269

Julian Bolleter, Richard Vokes, Anthony Duckworth, Grace Oliver, Tony McBurney and Paula Hooper

Multi-functional urban design approaches to manage floods: examples from Dutch cities pp. 270-278

Stefan Al

Reflections on Seaside: muses, ideas, influences pp. 279-280

John G. Ellis

New towns for the twenty-first century: A guide to planned communities worldwide pp. 281-283

Arthur C. Nelson

A history of design institutes in China: from Mao to market pp. 283-285

Jiawen Han

Volume 27, issue 1, 2022

The existential crisis of traditional shopping streets: the sun model and the place attraction paradigm pp. 1-35

Matthew Carmona

How to save traditional shopping streets: the place attraction paradigm by Matthew Carmona pp. 36-38

Stefan Al

Designing the humanity of place: from the human-centred to ecosystem scale pp. 39-43

Bruce Appleyard

Beyond high streets as we know them? pp. 44-47

Luca Bertolini

Commentary and reflections on, ‘The existential crisis of traditional shopping streets: the sun model and the place attraction paradigm’, by Matthew Carmona, with particular reference to the Australian retail milieu pp. 48-54

Paul Drechsler

Fight, flight, or adapt – the future of our commercial streets pp. 55-58

Conrad Kickert

Main street commons: from shopping street to neighbourhood commons pp. 59-62

Vikas Mehta

The existential crisis of traditional shopping streets: the SUN model and place attraction paradigm pp. 63-65

David Rudlin

Response to ‘the existential crisis of traditional shopping streets: the sun model and the place attraction paradigm’ by Matthew Carmona, University College London pp. 66-68

Emily Talen

Butcher, baker, candlestick-maker and… healthcare centre? pp. 69-72

Laura Vaughan

The influence of public spaces on emotional states pp. 73-90

Daniel Paül i Agustí and Montserrat Guerrero Lladós

The impact of the built environment on creativity in public spaces of Dutch university campuses and science parks pp. 91-109

Isabelle Soares, Viktor Venhorst, Gerd Weitkamp and Claudia Yamu

Reconnecting waterfronts and central neighbourhoods: the lessons to be learned from user behaviour for the redesign of public spaces pp. 110-129

Priscilla Ananian, Valérie Ebacher and Ariane Perras

Towards a systemic understanding of compact city qualities pp. 130-147

Jaan-Henrik Kain, Marco Adelfio, Jenny Stenberg and Liane Thuvander

The Block. A guide for urban designers, architects and town planners pp. 148-149

Ombretta Romice

The art of city sketching: a field manual, second edition pp. 150-150

Mike Biddulph

Architectural regeneration pp. 151-153

Alison McCandlish

Transnational architecture and urbanism – rethinking how cities plan, transform and design pp. 153-155

Alexander Cuthbert

Morphological research in planning, urban design and architecture pp. 155-157

Fei Chen

Feng Shui and the city: the public and private spaces of Chinese geomancy pp. 157-159

Francesca Piazzoni