Urban Design

Practice and definition of Urban Design has been varied and diverse but has continued to gain prominence across the world during recent years. In essence, it combines key principles of Urban Planning and Architecture that helps to extend the different aspects of these disciplines. Practitioners of Urban Design help to provide shape and even texture to city blocks, metropolitan areas and districts while expressing urban plans in a four dimensional manner that includes space, time and how it relates to our experience within its confines. The methods and concepts identified with Urban Design provide people with an appreciation of how space is utilized in correlation to out daily lives.