urban design
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process of designing and shaping cities, towns and villages for specific outcomes
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- Category:Urban design
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- urbanism
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- Urban design
- studied by
- urban studies
- partially coincident with
- architecture
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Monumental Axis, Brasília designed by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa
Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes based on geographical location. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities, and regional spaces, urban design considers 'bigger picture' issues of economic, social and environmental value and social design. The scope of a project can range from a local street or public space to an entire city and surrounding areas. Urban designers connect the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning to better organize local and community environments' dependent upon geographical location.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “urban design” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.