Programs,Paradigms,Architecture,City Planning,and Urban Design

Abstract

It has often been asserted that urban design became a recognized area of professional practice as the professions of architecture and city planning diverged in the foci of their concern with cities and the built environment This divergence can be said to have begun during the 1960s and to have completed its course in the mid 1970s While this is generally interpreted as a divergence in the nature and scale of operation (i e , planners with city-wide social and economic policies and architects with individual buildings) and, possibly, a commitment to social change, it can also be seen as a divergence in the normative procedural theories of the two fields.