Designing Cities is the first reader to be published in the thriving field of urban design. It has been assembled to appeal to a broad range of readers interested in how the design of cities comes about.

• Provides a complex and integrated perspective on the field of urban design.
  
• Carefully structured, so that students will gain an understanding of the theoretical context from which urban design has emerged.
  
• Includes work by Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Christian Norberg-Schultz, Peter Marcuse and others.