Fabric for urban life

This unit examines the theoretical and historical foundations of urban design, emphasising the reciprocal relationship between physical form and social life. Central to the unit is the connection between urban forms, infrastructures, technologies, environments, and the communities - both human and non-human - they are designed to support. You will investigate how the physical fabric of cities - their form, organisation, grain, porosity, and texture - sustains social, cultural, environmental, and economic life.