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Abstract
Urban form, such as a main street or a district, arises from the interactions of many designers over time. To compose the city, one must not only be able to design a building, landscape or infrastructure, but also contribute to the emergent character of towns and districts. This paper outlines the importance of this relationship between individual acts of design and the collective design of the city, and delineates components of a civic design process.
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank the anonymous reviewers, his wife and his colleagues for their insightful critiques.
Notes
1. Diagrams such as Edmund Bacon’ s in Design of Cities, 1974; Leon Krier's in Leon Krier, Citation1992; or even Peter Eisenman's approaches to building analysis extended to the analysis of a building in the city (see Eisenman, Citation2008) could serve as models for such a graphic record of the architect's conception of the project's role in the city. However, it may take a government, professional body or other interested party to establish requirements and standards in order to induce architects to regularly publish such diagrams. Perhaps New York City's Art Commission, Seattle's Design Review Program or another body could pilot such a public design record.
