What is Urban Design?
Urban design is the process of shaping the space in which we live. It means bringing together all the specialist skills required to develop a master plan with the objective of creating better cities, towns, villages and a sustainable and useable infrastructure that can be enjoyed by current and future generations.The term Urban Design covers a mass of specialist skills to deliver a successful plan. It also allows these skills to work more closely together with a clear objective of sharing these skills and give a better result than doing otherwise.
Architects and planners do not always see eye to eye. This is why Urban Design has developed extensively over the last 25 years; it is a platform for bringing all the diverse professions together in a way that allows effective communication between them.
By looking at existing places and by learning about the complex relationship between the community and the infrastructure, we can learn to recognise the things that are required to create a rich and stimulating urban environment.
