Carmona, M;
(2020)
To truly 'live', urban design needs accessible interdisciplinary research.
Journal of Urban Design
, 25
(1)
pp. 5-9.
10.1080/13574809.2019.1706319.
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Abstract
I was honoured to feature in the first issue of the Journal of Urban Design some 25 years ago, and it has remained my journal of choice ever since. Today it is one of the foundations of urban design scholarship. But why is research in urban design important? If research in a subject does not seem important, then either we already know (or think we know) all there is to know about it, or we believe it to be so unimportant that it doesn’t justify the time and effort required to find out more. Such subjects are ‘dead’ or at least moribund as they have stopped developing. By contrast, for a discipline to live and prosper it needs a viable, indeed thriving, research base. The Journal of Urban Design is a key part of the infrastructure that makes this possible. Without it, the subject – theoretically, practically, methodologically and in its influence, would be immeasurably the poorer.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | To truly 'live', urban design needs accessible interdisciplinary research |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1080/13574809.2019.1706319 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2019.1706319 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10106207 |
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