Discipline specific OER for academics

Urban Design

This page is designed to support academics with teaching by providing a wealth of OER specifically for Urban Design.

Explore our curated collection of OER that highlights Australian OER, and resources on the following topics:

• Sustainability and Resilience
• Community Collaboration in Urban Development
• Gentrification and Globalisation

Sustainability and Resilience

• GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management: A Global Perspective by Martin van Maarseveen, Javier Martinez and Johannes Flacke (Eds.) (2019), OAPEN, is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
• Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2019 — Open Access Contributions by Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato, David Ludlow and Claudia Baranzelli (Eds.) (2021), OAPEN, is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Urban Blue Spaces: Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being by Simon Bell, Lora E. Fleming, James Grellier, Friedrich Kuhlmann, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen and Mathew P. White (2021), Routledge, is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
• A Workbook on Planning for Urban Resilience in the Face of Disasters : Adapting Experiences from Vietnam’s Cities to Other Cities by Fatima Shah and Federica Ranghieri (2012), Open Knowledge Repository, is licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO
• Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative by Ashley Scott Kelly and Xiaoxuan Lu (2021), OAPEN, is licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Urban Planning Against Poverty: How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South by Jean-Claude Bolay (2020), OAPEN, is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Community Collaboration in Urban Development

• Co-designing Infrastructures: Community collaboration for liveable cities by Sarah Bell, Charlotte Johnson, Kat Austen, Gemma Moore and Tse-Hui Teh (2023), UCL Press, JSTOR Open Access Books, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
• Engaged Urban Pedagogy: Participatory practices in planning and place-making by Lucy Natarajan and Michael Short (Ed.) (2023), UCL Press, JSTOR Open Access Books, is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

Gentrification and Globalisation

• Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City by Christoph Lindner and Gerard F. Sandoval (Eds.) (2021), Amsterdam University Press, JSTOR Open Access Books, is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
• Resisting Postmodern Architecture: Critical regionalism before globalisation by Stylianos Giamarelos (2022), UCL Press, JSTOR Open Access Books, is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
• Urban Re-Industrialization by Nawratek (Ed.) (2017), Punctum Books, JSTOR Open Access Books, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Where to find more OER?

There are many platforms available that contain OER, the platforms listed below are a good starting place to find openly available urban design resources.

• OER Commons (Architecture and Design)
  Open access courseware available for Architecture and Design subject areas.
• Wisc-Online
  Contains a variety of Architecture & Construction OER.
• Haithi Trust Digital Library
  Contains over 170,000 books under the search term "Urban Planning" available for free online. Type in Urban Planning and select Books from the left menu (very USA based).