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Jon lan : > jon lang is Currently Professor of Architecture at the University of New South Walés in Sydney, Australia, as well as Director for Urban Design of the Environmental Research Group in Phila- delphia, Pennsylyania. =r we? Dr. Lang also taught in {hewban Design pro- gram at the University of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1990, chairing the program during the eighties. ee) } He continued his association with Penn as a visiting Professor of City Planning through 1993. Dr. Lang has served as a consultant for UNESCO in Turkey and for the Ford Foundation in India. He is co-editor of the pioneering book Designing for Human Behavior: Architecture and the Behavioral Sciences, as well as author of Creating Architectural Theory: The Role of the Behavioral Sciences in Envi- ronmental Design. Urban Design: A typology of Procedures and Products. Urban Design: A typology of Procedures and Products. Illustrated with over 50 Case Studies will give the infor- mations regarding the typology of procedures and products with different case studies. The book deals with the following 3 aspects of urban design 1, the design and implementation procedure; 2, the product type; 3, the major concepts that structure the process and give form to the product. The first of these dimensions is divided into: 1 total urban design where one team is in control of the whole project; 2 all-of-a-piece urban design where one team cre- ates a master, or conceptual, plan and writes guide- lines for the development of individual sites within that plan by different entrepreneurs and their architects; 3 piece-by-piece urban design where proposals to get specific activities into an area are controlled by zoning codes and incentives and penalties; 4 plug-in urban design in which infrastructure ele- ments are used as catalysts for development. other dimensions are, The product type ,Lang defines as: new towns, pre- cincts, and infrastructure from the design of whole set- tlements to single one-off urban interventions. The final element — urban design paradigms — deals with the major movements in urban design in the 20th century. A Concise History of Modern Architecture in India Functionalism Revisited: Architectural Theory and Practice and the behavioral sciences Architecture and Independence Urban Design: The American Experience The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India thank you

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