The Neglect of Urban Design in the American Academic Succession

Abstract

The dramatic growth of American urban areas since the 1940s, which has come in ever-larger increments especially at the urban fringe, has helped architecture and planning to flourish but has failed to produce an urban design profession of compara ble size or repute. The answer may lie in the ways in which architecture and planning have chosen to recon cile their internal forces with the de mands of societal change. But to un derstand those choices we may need to look at professional education in these fields and how they have made their place in the academy.