'Drawing for urban design' explores a range of ways to represent the city, from freehand sketching to the sophisticated interactive computer model of the city of the future.

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Introduction : What is drawing? ; Drawing the city -- The city in context : Early views of the city ; The Renaissance and perspective ; Artists and their visions of the city ; Scale ; Twentieth-century precedents and realized urban ideas ; Representing the city in the twentieth century -- The city as object : Subject ; Drawing ; Observational sketching : Sketching the Duomo, Florence; Observational sketching on the go ; Characterization : Serial views through a city ; Types of drawing : Plan; Section; Axonometric ; Digital techniques ; Storyboard techniques : DeÌ?rive ; Painting and collage : Watercoloring a sketch -- The city as data : Analytical tools : Analysis through photos and drawing ; Diagrams : Massing analysis ; Visual notes ; Diagram sequences : Analyzing a site ; Outline and photography ; Mapping : Cognitive mapping: perception and knowledge ; Figure-ground mapping : Creating a figure ground ; Digital techniques : Enhancing digital photographs ; Models : Materials for modelmaking; Massing models; Process models; Abstract models; CAD modeling -- The city imagined : The image of the city ; Presentation drawing ; Abstraction ; Collage and photomontage ; CAD images and modeling : Enhancing a three-dimensional model ; Physical modeling : Making a physical model -- Masterplanning projects : A new quarter for a historic city: Art and Technology Quarter, Segovia, Spain / David Chipperfield Architects ; The city of the future: Vision 2030, Almere, The Netherlands / MVRDV ; The eco city: Eco City, LogronÌ?o Montecorvo, Spain / MVRDV ; Rebuilding a community: Arverne East, Rockaway Peninsula, Queens, New York / HOK ; The new Asian city: Lingang New City, China / von Gerkan Marg and Partners ; Sustainability in an extreme environment: Dead Sea Development, Jordan / Metropolitan Workshop ; The virtual CAD image / Kartal-Pendik Masterplan, Istanbul, Turkey / Zaha Hadid Architects -- Conclusion -- Glossary.