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Web Urban Design!
Web Urban Design is a portal focusing on urban design. WUD offers a resource network of worldwide websites dealing with all about urban design. Web Urban Design provides an easy access to key websites focusing on fundamental aspects of urban design and architecture.
Web Urban Design aims to gather up-to-date information on theories, methods, researches, new approaches and basic resources on urban design. WUD also covers education programs, urban design awards, urban design jobs, blogs and videos.
«Urban design is the collaborative and multi-disciplinary process of shaping the physical setting for life in cities, towns and villages; the art of making places; design in an urban context. Urban design involves the design of buildings, groups of buildings, spaces and landscapes, and the establishment of frameworks and processes that facilitate successful development.» The Urban Design Group, London
«Good urban design contributes to the creation of positive and vibrant communities. It reinforces a sense of place, encourages neighbourhood interaction, and promotes the development of functional and meaningful places for the community. Urban Design integrates the processes and expertise of many related disciplines. It is a collaborative and multi-disciplinary design process that is concerned with the formation of public space and its interface with the built form, focusing on creating a desirable environment to live, work and play.»
«The definition of Urban Design has many interpretations amongst different professions, but essentially it is about therelationships and connections between the buildings, spaces, and places in our cities and towns, and the people that live in and use them.» Planning Institute Australia, PIA position
