Pedagogies in urban design: Broadening the perspective
Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, no.6, pp.1-12, 2025 (TRDizin)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Publication Date: 2025
- Doi Number: 10.47818/drarch.2025.v6si188
- Journal Name: Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning
- Journal Indexes: Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS), Directory of Open Access Journals, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Page Numbers: pp.1-12
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- TED University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
This
editorial introduces a special issue that offers glimpses of formation,
evolution and the current state of urban design education in the international
scope. Bringing together Viewpoints, Research Articles and a Book Review from
diverse geographical and institutional contexts, the issue traces multiple
dimensions and pathways through which diverse pedagogies in urban design are
formed, challenged, and reconfigured. The contributions reveal urban design
pedagogies as contingent, adaptive, and shaped by shifting urban agendas,
institutional organizations, agency of academic communities, and technological
transformations. The synthesis foregrounds studio education as a key site where
disciplinary foundations, core competencies and professional capacities, and
working cultures are negotiated, and where enduring questions of legitimacy,
specialization, professional recognition, technological mediation, and ethical
formation concerning the future of urban design education are productively
challenged.