Matthew Carmona - Explorations in Urban Design: An Urban Design Research Primer

To Barbara and Rafael Carmona

Edited by

MATTHEW CARMONA

Matthew Carmona is Professor of Planning and Urban Design at UCLs Bartlett School of Planning which he headed from 2003 to 2011. His research has focused on processes of design governance and on the design and management of public space. He was educated at the University of Nottingham and is a chartered architect and planner. Matthew has published widely in the areas of urban design, design policy and governance, housing design and development, measuring quality and performance in planning, the management of public space, and on design and planning processes in London. His books include: Capital Spaces (2012); Public Places Urban Spaces (2010), Public Space: The Management Dimension (2008), Urban Design Reader (2007), Measuring Quality in Planning (2004), Delivering New Homes (2003), The Value of Urban Design (2001), Housing Design Quality (2001), and The Design Dimension of Planning (1997). He is Director of The Bartletts Master of Research (MRes) Inter-disciplinary Urban Design.

Kinda Al-Sayed is a Teaching Fellow on the MSc Advanced Architectural Studies and the MSc Adaptive Architecture and Computation at The Bartlett. Kinda is an architect and artist by background and started pursuing scientific research in 2006. Her main research focus area is complexity modelling of urban dynamics although other areas of interest include modelling creativity and knowledge in the design process, and modelling behavioural dynamics in physical and cyber spaces. She has also worked on human-computer interaction on an urban scale and on modelling crime-space relationships in London.

Pushpa Arabindoo is a lecturer in Geography and Urban Design at UCLs Department of Geography, and a co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. She trained in architecture and urban design before completing her PhD in Planning at the London School of Economics. Pushpas empirical research involves ethnographic investigations of urban transformations in the Indian city of Chennai, ranging from slum evictions and middle-class politics to ecological imaginations. She has also been probing the interdisciplinary nature of urban studies and its tenuous link with allied disciplines from the arts, humanities and engineering through her engagement with the MSc Urban Studies programme at UCL.

Camillo Boano is Senior Lecturer in the Development Planning Unit, UCL, where he directs the MSc in Building and Urban Design in Development and co-directs the UCL Urban Lab. A qualified architect with an MSc in Urban Development and a PhD in Planning, he has over 18 years of experience in research, consultancy and development work in South America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and South East Asia. As an academic interested in practice, Camillo combines interests in critical architecture, spatial production, transformations, urbanism within the exceptional circumstances of disasters, conflicts and informality. More recently his work has been directed to the reconstruction of design through dissensus, calling for a deeper reorientation between politics and aesthetics, and drawing on the theoretical constructions of Lefebvre, Foucault, and Rancire

Iain Borden is Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Iain is also Vice-Dean for Communications for the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. His wide-ranging research includes explorations of architecture in relation to cities and public space, film and photography, critical theory and philosophy, and human bodies and spatial experiences. He has authored and co-edited a range of books including Drive: Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes (2012), Bartlett Designs: Speculating With Architecture (2009), Skateboarding Space and the City (2001) and InterSections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories (2000).

Elisabete Cidre is Senior Teaching Fellow in Urban Design and Director of Undergraduate Programmes at UCLs Bartlett School of Planning. Elisabetes research, practice and teaching interests focus on: urban design (policy, practice and education), urban heritage conservation, public space and place making, and on reflective learning practice and procedures in built environment academia. Her PhD in Town Planning & Urban Design looked at planning for public realm conservation in the World Heritage cities of Portugal. Elisabete was educated as an architect and urban designer in Portugal and as a planner in the UK.