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Terms and conditions applyKnowledge-Based Design: Developing Urban & Regional Design into a Science
Ina T. Klaasen
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Format: Book
Pages: 240
Publisher: Delft University Press
Date Published: Jun 2006
Stock Code: 59003
Binding: Paperback
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Knowledge-Based Design distinguishes two approaches to urban and regional design: a pattern-oriented approach which focuses on final processes regarding the physical urban system (transformation of urban areas) and a process-oriented approach focusing on (daily, weekly and annual) cyclic processes within the urban system. The former approach is characterised by its emphasis on the cultural and aesthetic aspects of experiential value, and by a scientific approach that is mainly historical-typological, while in the latter the use value is the primary focus of attention and experience of the physical urban system serves to support that. Thus in this approach a practical-scientific body of knowledge can be developed.
For practical-scientific theorisation in urban and regional design the research methodology of the philosopher of science Imre Lakatos offers a fruitful guideline, considering the importance it attaches to heuristics, creative abduction and the manipulation of spatial conceptual models designed to provide insight. For practical-scientific research one must not think in terms of each design being unique, it is necessary to dissociate the object of design from the specific design context. The activity of design then acts to serve research and has become a research method: research by design producing spatial organisation principles and theoretical models.
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