ADIGRAT UNIVERSITY

COLLAGE OF ENGINERING AND

THECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

URBAN PLANING

By Dawit Tesfay
1.What are some key similarities in the perspectives of these books
on urban planning and design?

 Urban design focuses- more on the shape and form of spaces,

as well as people's experiences of a place. Urban planning
focuses- on how these spaces function in an effective way to
make people's lives better.
2. What are some notable differences in their perspectives and
focus?
Both are concerned with the arrangement, functionality and
appearance of urban spaces. Both conduct urban design
projects. In fact, the field of urban design is commonly defined
as the intersection of architecture and planning.
3. Which book provides the most practical principles or
guidelines for designing urban spaces?
It provides The death of life of great Americans
 Urban design involves the design of buildings, groups
of buildings, spaces and landscapes, and
establishing frameworks and procedures that will
deliver successful development by different people
over time.
 These include increasing subsidized housing, reducing
the number and use of automobiles by improving public
transportation, enhancing the visual order of cities without
sacrificing diversity, salvaging housing projects, and
revamping governing and planning districts.
4 Which book would be most relevant for policymakers?

 The death of life of great American it's relevant for policymakers

 Because Jacobs theory argued that the buildings in a district should
be mixed with regard to age and form in order to ensure diverse
economic activity. A diversity of building types will allow for a diverse
range of jobs, including high-, medium-, and moderate-income jobs.

5. Which of the books makes the most compelling case against modernist
planning?
 Jacobs' polemic against urban planning would become its orthodoxy.
Death and Life has been required reading for students of urban
planning for decades. Today they learn of the failed spaces created by
modernist planners and the geographies of single-use enclaves and
far-flung highways they spawned.
6. If you had to choose one of the books as required reading,
which would you recommend and why?

Because This is one of the most remarkable books ever

written about the city Planners may dispute the
conclusions- many could hardly do otherwise-but they're
going t have to think about them. For this is a primary
work. The research apparatus is not pretentious-it is the
eye an the heart-but it has given us a magnificent study
of what gives life and spirit to the city. It is an antithesis
we very much need, for the elements Mrs. Jacobs
perceives and precisely the elements we seem bent on
eliminating in conventional redevelopment.