CONTENTS Introduction: An urban frame of mind / Alex Krieger vii Origins of an urban design sensibility3 The first urban conference : extracts The emergence of urban design in the breakup of CIAM / Eric Mumford 15 The elusiveness of urban design : the perpetual problem of definition and role / Richard Marshall 38 Perspectives on a half-century of urban design practice Urban design at fifty : a personal view / Denise Scott Brown 61 Fragmentation and friction as urban threats : the post-1956 city / Fumihiko Maki 88 The way we were, the way we are : the theory and practice of designing cities since 1965 / Jonathan Barnett 101 Territories of urban design practice Where and how does urban design happen? / Alex Krieger 113 Defining the urbanistic project : ten contemporary approaches / Joan Busquets 131 Beyond centers, fabrics, and cultures of congestion : urban design as a metropolitan enterprise / Richard Sommer 135 Debates about mandates and purpose The end(s) of urban design / Michael Sorkin155 Bad parenting / Emily Talen 183 Facts on the ground : urbanism from Midroad to Ditch / Michelle Provoost and Wouter Vanstiphout 186 Expanding roles and disciplinary boundaries A third way for urban design / Kenneth Greenberg201 Urban design after Battery Park City : opportunities for variety and vitality / Timothy Love 208 The other '56 / Charles Waldheim 227 Democracy takes command : new community planning and the challenge to urban design / John Kaliski 237 Challenges for the unprecedented phenomena of our new century Designing the postmetropolis / Edward W. Soja 255 Unforeseen urban worlds : post-1956 phenomena / Peter G. Rowe 270 Urban design looking forward / Marilyn Jordan Taylor 285 Urban design now : a discussion. 291 Contributors 327 Index 331