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Design Research for Urban Landscapes

Theories and Methods
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Design Research for Urban Landscapes explores the use of design-based research within landscape, architecture, and urban design. It fills a gap in spatial design disciplines by providing theories, methods, and applied processes for research through design. This book includes fully illustrated examples of international PhD projects, offering practical guidance to PhD candidates, supervisors, and practising designers.
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Ideal for PhD researchers, academic supervisors, and practising designers working in landscape, architecture, or urban design who seek to incorporate design research methods into their work.

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Within the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected. This book provides a much-needed companion to the theories, methods and processes involved in using design-based research in landscape, architecture and urban design.

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Within the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected. This book provides a much-needed companion to the theories, methods and processes involved in using design-based research in landscape, architecture and urban design.

Aimed specifically at researchers completing PhD projects, supervisors, and designers working in practice, it covers applied approaches to help you use design research in your work. With fully illustrated examples of original international design research PhDs from a variety of programme types, such as individual, structured, and practice-based, Design Research for Urban Landscapes offers PhD candidates and supervisors a clear foundational pathway.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138477612

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 June 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 47 Line drawings, black and white; 35 Halftones, black and white; 82 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Martin Prominski
  • Edited by Hille Seggern

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 526g

Pages: 218

About the Author

Martin Prominski is a full professor and chair of Designing Urban Landscapes at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. He has a PhD from TU Berlin (2003) and is a registered landscape architect. His current research focuses on design research strategies, enhancing urban landscapes and integrative concepts for nature and culture. He is a member of the Studio Urbane Landschaften, an interdisciplinary platform for research, practice and teaching on urban landscapes, and the co-founder of the Sino-German Cooperation Group on Urbanization and Locality Research.

Hille von Seggern is a landscape designer, artist, registered architect and urban designer. She works and advises on 'crossing-fields-projects' in Hille von Seggern & Timm Ohrt AlltagForschungKunst and Studio Urbane Landschaften cooperation projects. From 1995 to 2008 she held a full professorship at the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, and in 2005 founded, together with Julia Werner, the Studio Urbane Landschaften as a think tank for research, practice and teaching.

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