r/urbandesign

8.2K archived posts · Oct 2011 – Sep 2026

A place for Urban Design Geeks!

r/urbandesign

For everything that is about design mixed with urbanism! The design of urban furniture, the design of roads, of pedestrian areas, the design of traffic calming measures,...

Created Jun 15, 2009

345KMembers (last snapshot)

8.2KArchived posts

Great insights:

William H. Whyte - Social Life of Small Urban Places

Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA - Designing Healthy Communities

Suggested Reading:

The Life and Death of American Cities - Jacobs

Walkable City - Speck

Suburbanation - Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck

The Image of the City - Lynch

Cities for People - Gehl

Walking home - Greenberg

The nature of urban design - Washburn

Further reading:

Related subreddits:

r/Architecture
r/UrbanPlanning
/r/UrbanStudies
r/LandscapeArchitecture
r/CityPorn
r/AmateurRoomPorn
/r/LEED
[r/Urbanhell] (/r/urbanhell)
r/TinyHouses
r/Design
r/GIS
r/grencity

Useful online tools

[Street Design Tool] (https://usdm.upc.gov.ae/usdm_online_tool/USDM_Online_Tool.html)
[Flood Map] (http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=43.3251,-101.6015&z=13&m=7)
[CAD Maps ] (http://www.archdaily.com/535628/free-cad-files-of-241-major-world-cities/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)
[Map Customization Wizard] (https://mapstyle.withgoogle.com/)

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