Urban Design: Street and Square - Tapa blanda

Review of first edition:
'Overall the book offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It includes the arrangement, design and details of these elements and the roles they play in city planning. Superb examples of streets and squares are examined in their historical context.'
Urban Design Quarterly

This book by Cliff Moughtin offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It includes the arrangement, design and details of these elements and the roles they play in city planning.

This second edition has been updated with the addition of a new series preface and a new chapter discussing the waterfront as a defining edge to an urban district and analyses the function of waterways as channels of movement.
Cliff Moughtin explores the street and square in terms of function, structure and symbolism and examines fine examples in their historical context. He sets these against the background of the laws of urban design composition culled from Renaissance and modern writers.
New paperback edition
Extra case study material
Part of Cliff Moughtin's Urban Design series