What is Urban Design?

Urban Design is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary process involving Landscape Architects, Planners, Communities, Urban Designers, Engineers, Architects etc. of whom all endeavour to enhance and create spaces in new and existing built environments.

Urban design is the process of arranging the physical setting for life in cities, towns and villages, in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space. It involves the design of buildings, groups of buildings, spaces and landscapes, and establishing the processes that make successful development possible. It has traditionally been regarded as a disciplinary subset of urban planning, landscape architecture, or architecture and in more recent times has been linked to emergent disciplines such as landscape urbanism.