Urban_Planning(design)

Urban Planning(design) An intergrative Theory of Urban Design by Ernest Sternberg attempts to unifiy the various schools of though within the urban design community and create a theory that looks at urban design from a broader characteristic and not just buy looking any one feature. His efforts begin with a critique of urban design saying that it “lacks cohesive theoretical foundations. Instead urban design focuses on how planners attempt to improve a community. Sternberg agues that a theory of urban design needs to fulfill five criteria: 1. It should not relie on one set of design approaches but should rather reveal the principles that underlie several of them. 2. It should be a substantive theory. 3. It should make us aware of the constituents of the human experience. 4. It should recognize the sources of urban form in both markets and plans. 5. urban, theory, design, sternberg, should, organic, create, market, economics, theories, sense, environment, sitte, role, lynch, good, form, community, building, attempts, yet, within, vitality, support, substantive, plaza, one, need, natural, ideas, human, free, critique, cannot, built