According to various self-depictions, Urban Design is about developing a methodology and form of knowledge appropriate to its object. Insofar as Urban Design wants to bring together a large number of established but heterogeneous academic disciplines under one roof – architecture, urban planning, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, geography, cultural studies, landscape architecture, ethnology are mentioned, among others – it is an extremely ambitious aim. In any case, the attempt to link theoretical and empirical knowledge with knowledge that follows from the practice of design itself is promising. We look at case studies and expand our repertoire of methods.