Reid Ewing
Measuring Urban Design
- ISBN 13:
- 9781610911948
- author:
- Reid Ewing
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Island Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 312
- Dimensions:
- 17.78 x 2.03 x 25.4 centimetres
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Architecture & Design, Buildings,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Measuring Urban Design Metrics for Livable Places is a practical guide to understanding and improving urban design. It provides clear methods to measure the qualities that make an area appealing, such as imageability, visual enclosure, human scale, transparency, and complexity.
The book offers a reliable field survey instrument grounded in constructs from architecture, urban design, and planning. A case study applying this instrument to 588 streets in New York City demonstrates its effectiveness in measuring the built environment's impact on social, psychological, and physical well-being.
Illustrated instructions and a scoring sheet make it easy for researchers, designers, planners, and laypeople to use the instrument and calculate urban design quality scores. This tool is particularly useful for urban policymakers and students in urban policy, design, and environmental health.
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