Drawing for urban design / Lorraine Farrelly

Includes index.

Introduction : What is drawing? ; Drawing the city -- The city in context : Early views of the city ; The Renaissance and perspective ; Artists and their visions of the city ; Scale ; Twentieth-century precedents and realized urban ideas ; Representing the city in the twentieth century -- The city as object : Subject ; Drawing ; Observational sketching : Sketching the Duomo, Florence; Observational sketching on the go ; Characterization : Serial views through a city ; Types of drawing : Plan; Section; Axonometric ; Digital techniques ; Storyboard techniques : Dérive ; Painting and collage : Watercoloring a sketch -- The city as data : Analytical tools : Analysis through photos and drawing ; Diagrams : Massing analysis ; Visual notes ; Diagram sequences : Analyzing a site ; Outline and photography ; Mapping : Cognitive mapping: perception and knowledge ; Figure-ground mapping : Creating a figure ground ; Digital techniques : Enhancing digital photographs ; Models : Materials for modelmaking; Massing models; Process models; Abstract models; CAD modeling -- The city imagined : The image of the city ; Presentation drawing ; Abstraction ; Collage and photomontage ; CAD images and modeling : Enhancing a three-dimensional model ; Physical modeling : Making a physical model -- Masterplanning projects : A new quarter for a historic city: Art and Technology Quarter, Segovia, Spain / David Chipperfield Architects ; The city of the future: Vision 2030, Almere, The Netherlands / MVRDV ; The eco city: Eco City, Logroño Montecorvo, Spain / MVRDV ; Rebuilding a community: Arverne East, Rockaway Peninsula, Queens, New York / HOK ; The new Asian city: Lingang New City, China / von Gerkan Marg and Partners ; Sustainability in an extreme environment: Dead Sea Development, Jordan / Metropolitan Workshop ; The virtual CAD image / Kartal-Pendik Masterplan, Istanbul, Turkey / Zaha Hadid Architects -- Conclusion -- Glossary.

Drawing for urban design' explores a range of ways to represent the city, from freehand sketching to the sophisticated interactive computer models. Architects and urban planners need to describe cities in the course of their work, be it through maps, diagrams, sketches, computer renderings or models. Drawing for Urban Design explores a wide range of ways to represent the city, from freehand sketching to sophisticated computer models. This book provides an introduction to these techniques while explaining the processes associated with describing and designing urban environments - it is an invaluable visual grammar for representing the contemporary city.