نبذة مختصرة : Over the years there have been few articles written about urban design education. Two general trends emerge: first, an attempt to establish , a priori, the basic skills required by urban designers; and secondly, to make up for the limitations of architectural and planning orthodoxy. The article reverses this process, suggesting for consideration a structure of educational principles and a coalition of theoretical ideas from the author's laboratory, namely the Master's in Urban Development and Design programme at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. This is done by analysing the experiences gained in four major international live projects (Bali, Cebu, Beirut and Hong Kong) abstracted from the portfolio of work carried out over the last 6 years. Leaning on ideas derived from George Soros's concept of 'reflexivity', and Foucault's ideas of 'the episteme' and its foundation in what he refers to as essential 'knowledges' which bear on the idea of genealogy and change in learning, cert...
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