Urban Design Made by Humans (PDF)

Anirban Adhya is Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Lawrence Technological University, USA. He focuses on highlighting underlying dimensions of architecture in the city that connects urban ecology, spatial typology, and everyday urbanism. His previous book, Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs: The Case of Detroit and Warren, Michigan (Palgrave, 2017) illustrated the ecology of problems and responses in metro Detroit. He has also written on evolving notions of publicness in The Public Realm as a Place of Everyday Urbanism (University of Michigan Press, 2008), and worked with communities in Buffalo, New York; Warren, Michigan; Seattle, Washington; and Monteverde, Costa Rica.

Philip D. Plowright is Professor of Architecture and Design Theory at Lawrence Technological University, USA. His interest focuses on developing clarity around foundational knowledge in the applied design disciplines for use in teaching and production environments. His previous book, Making Architecture by Being Human (Routledge, 2020), presented the cognitive building blocks of spatial semantics between individuals and spaces in relation to architectural values. He has also explored cognitive methodology in Revealing Architectural Design (Routledge, 2014), and embodied meaning in Qualitative Embodiment in English Architectural Discourse (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2017).