Jon lan
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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.
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Dr. Lang also taught in {hewban Design pro-
gram at the University of Pennsylvania from
1970 to 1990, chairing the program during the
eighties.
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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 Indiathank you