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The information collected by the urban design team creates a framework of knowledge from which the designer starts the preliminary design phase and concludes the analysis. Any further data collection and analytical investigation depends on such factors as the nature and dimension of the urban design task, the time and the information available, and the competencies of the design team.

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  1. Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Danilo Palazzo

  2. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Frederick Steiner

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Palazzo, D., Steiner, F. (2011). Synthesis. In: Urban Ecological Design. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-226-6_4

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