The Largest Art Av Brent D. (associate Professor Of Urban Design And Public Policy And Head Of The City Design And Development Gr Massachusetts Instit

<b>Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners</b><p>Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In <i>The Largest Art</i>, Brent Ryan argues that urban design encompasses more than architecture, and he provides a foundational theory of urban design beyond the architectural scale. In a “declaration of independence” for urban design, Ryan describes urban design as the largest of the building arts, with qualities of its own.</p><p>Ryan distinguishes urban design from its sister arts by its pluralism: plural scale, ranging from an alleyway to a region; plural time, because it is deeply enmeshed in both history and the present; plural property, with many owners; plural agents, with many makers; and

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