Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Investigating urban design -- Part I Philosophical approaches -- 2 The role of risk in urban design -- 3 Deconstructing and recalibrating urban design in the global south -- 4 The politics of space production: the case of Macau, China -- 5 Urban design in the realm of urban studies -- 6 Place-temporality and rhythmicity: a new aesthetic and methodological foundation for urban design theory and practice -- Part II Process investigations -- 7 Mixing methods / theorising urban design process -- 8 Link and Place - bridging stakeholder divides -- 9 Actor-network theory coevolution framework for urban design -- 10 Unlocking policy documents: policy analysis in urban design -- 11 Smart cities, social networks and the Internet of Things -- 12 Environmental masterplanning: defining an integrated approach -- Part III Physical explorations -- 13 Urbiculturalism, understanding the patterns of place -- 14 Space syntax as interdisciplinary urban design pedagogy -- 15 Thinking systems in urban design: a prioritised structure model -- 16 Explorations in generative street layouts -- 17 The relationship between density, built form and design -- Part IV Propositional experiments -- 18 London short stories -- 19 The siting of writing and the writing of sites -- 20 Design as research and research as design: mega-plans and mega-projects in Karbala and Hong Kong -- 21 Crafting a methodology for urban design in development: between research, pedagogy and practice -- 22 An evidence-based approach to designing new cities: the English New Towns revisited -- Part V Performance enquiries -- 23 Public space as lived -- 24 Historical exploration/explanation in urban design -- 25 The problem of scale.

26 Urban design as a tool in urban conservation, and urban conservation as a tool in urban design research -- 27 Does urban design add value? -- 28 A personal postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.