Urban Design

Urban design, as we know it today, has developed in respond to the limitations of the philosophies and design paradigms, rationalists and empiricist, of the modern movement in architecture and city planning.
There were three points to the criticism of the way urban design was carried out under the aegis of the Modernists. They were : (1) that the models of people, human behaviour and the way people experience the environment used by designers were simplistic; (2) that the person-environment relationship was poorly understood and, as a consequence, (3) the paradigms and theory on which many large-scale urban development projects were based were inadequate for their purpose.