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Review by RUDI (Resource for Urban Design Information)

January 2006

Review by: Roger Simmonds, senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University

The dictionary is already popular with students, providing concise and useful definitions about concepts such as 'community', 'identity', or 'place'. It gives quoted examples and one can tell how much the dictionary is being used by the frequency with which certain quotes turn up in essays. References are also given and these are often chased up in the library by readers. In a design field, beginning with a dictionary of this kind is often as good as you are going to get from students.