This textbook provides aspiring architects, urban planners, and landscape architects with assistance in tackling urban planning projects and designs. This edition has been expanded to include two chapters on informal urban development and regional urban planning. The presented content and its preparation are oriented towards the design process in practice and embed this within a theoretical framework of necessary background knowledge. As an introduction, an overview of the understanding of the city, urban structures, and the governing principles within them is provided. To make the complex structure of the city more comprehensible, it is broken down into different layers and building blocks. The approach to urban design is described using the "layer method" in the form of successive phases. Examples of urban planning are included.