Dear Mr. Schäfer, how would you define Urban Design?
Urban design includes all the efforts building a city and its community, all the planning to make cities liveable.

In your opinion, what are the goals of Urban Design?
Urban Design is constructing and designing the urban landscape. Urban Design brings together different and various disciplines like architecture and sociology, buildings and open spaces, infrastructure and culture.

Can you generalize about the contributions that Urban Designers bring to cities?
This means to describe precisely the jobs mentioned in the previous answer. How to design the city and parts of it to meet the needs of individuals and groups as well as of the whole community.

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