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Urban design involves planning and shaping the arrangement of buildings, public spaces, and infrastructure in cities and towns. It aims to make urban areas functional yet attractive by blending architecture, landscape design, and urban planning. The goal of urban design is to create well-connected places that support environmental, social, and economic objectives through a coherent vision that coordinates various planning and development disciplines.

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Intro Scope and Objectives

Urban design involves planning and shaping the arrangement of buildings, public spaces, and infrastructure in cities and towns. It aims to make urban areas functional yet attractive by blending architecture, landscape design, and urban planning. The goal of urban design is to create well-connected places that support environmental, social, and economic objectives through a coherent vision that coordinates various planning and development disciplines.

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Urban Design

Need, scope and objectives


Urban Design
The art of creating and shaping cities and towns.

Urban
design
• 3d manifestation of
master plan
• Futuristic, both
planning and
• Two dimensional architecture • Single client
• Regional Planning:-Master • Multiple client – • Effective control and time
planning, development plans, population of an area bound
Town planning schemes • Less control, No • Smaller scale and defined
• Physical and Non-Physical fixed timeframe, area
planning continuing process • Determinant process
• Geographical area,
Planning no defined
boundaries, system Architecture
network with a set of
objectives
• Works with various
layers – human,
built/open,
Networking,
Communication and
their
Urban designer
 Convert the
regional planning
guidelines to
reality
 Determining the
appropriate land
uses, movement,
pattern, scale,
architectural level
details, openings
and visual aspects
 Maintaining the
character of the
city
 Areas designed
according to the
activity and life
pattern.
Objectives
 Establish a comprehensive spatial development framework and a
set of development policies.
 A direct response to people’s needs and creating a livable
environment. It covers all dimensions like visual, perceptual, social,
cultural, historic and symbolic resources of community.
 Increase the functional efficiency by relating the circulation, urban
activities and use of land to physical form.
 Accommodating urban growth and should be capable of adapting
variables of unpredicted growth.
 Economically feasible solutions, geared to incremental
implementation over a substantial time period.
 Solving the environmental deficiencies that exist in terms of physical,
visual, perceptual, social and psychological terms.
Functions
 Analytical function: provides survey and identification of visual and other
human sensory qualities, development qualities, functional qualities,
opportunities and limitations of a particular urban place.
 An explicit articulation of design objectives, design evaluation criteria.
 Generation of alternative concepts for future development as well as full
illustrative images of desirable and possible consequences.
 Development of standards, incentives, policies, control techniques and
priority programs to achieve the qualitative values proposal.
 Provisions for verbal statements, illustrative graphics and communication
media capable of engaging all levels of community and choice of options of
future form.
 Integration of all elements of planning process, continuous revision
possibilities to adapt to urban growth variables.
Scope

Urban
design • Applicability of UD can be classified
Regional according to elements of physical design like
residential areas, neighborhood planning,
circulation system, river front development.
Metropolitan
• Outcome of UD project may be a completed
project with detail design of building or it can
City level
be a framework for overall growth conceived
as self adjusting and continuously changing
process.
District level • Implications of Urban design – policy
framework guidelines for development and
detail implementary measures including
Sector level building and site.
• Includes public participation, decision
making, Research function.
Project level
Urban design at Regional level

• Classification of Natural and


Man-made things

• Topographic analysis

• Identifying developing regions

• Networks

• Wilderness , Flora and Fauna,


Landscape

• Tourism, Infrastructure

• Preservation, Conservation,
Revitalization of the region

Image source: Google,


Alba Iulia - Sebes - Teius, Territorial Development Project ~ Romania,
2008
Urban design at Metropolitan level
• Development plans,
Structure plans(workable
solutions), Transportation
networking, Activity and Land
use
• Overall form of the city –
open, built, green areas,
Infrastructure

• Hierarchy of spaces – (open


areas)
• Transporrtation – Nodes,
Links, Hierarchy of roads,
highways, modes of transport,
generators, new intrusions
Image source: Google,
• Approach to city and Six Urban districts of Tehran
Imageability
• Views and Vistas, Skyline
• Special sites- Typology,
development regulations,
Guidelines
Urban design at City level
• Planning for urban open spaces – Use, hierarchy, types
• Pedestrian circulation – Formal/informal/Processional/Casual, Activity,
Connecting other modes of transport, Accent, Event
• Landscaping – Preservation of natural resources, planting of trees
• Urban lighting – Quantitative and Qualitative aspects
• Street furniture
• Urban art and sculpture – Landmarks, sense of scale
• Street hardware

Image source: Google,


Mitchell street Central
Hermanus, Capetown
Urban design at City level
• Rehabilitating old Neighborhood
• Historic preservation
• Suburban Centers and development and New towns

Image source: Google,


Belfast City Centre Public Realm P
Urban design…

 Urban design involves the arrangement and design of buildings, public


spaces, transport systems, services, and amenities.
 Urban design is the process of giving form, shape, and character to
groups of buildings, to whole neighborhoods, and the city.
 It is a framework that orders the elements into a network of streets,
squares, and blocks.
 Urban design blends architecture, landscape architecture, and city
planning together to make urban areas functional and attractive.
 Urban design is about making connections between people and places,
movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric.
 Urban design draws together the many strands of place-making,
environmental stewardship, social equity and economic viability into the
creation of places with distinct beauty and identity.
 Urban design is derived from but transcends planning and transportation
policy, architectural design, development economics, engineering and
landscape. It draws these and other strands together creating a vision for
an area and then deploying the resources and skills needed to bring the
vision to life.
Content source: www.urban design.org
Elements of Urban design…

 Urban design involves the arrangement and design of buildings, public


spaces, transport systems, services, and amenities.
 Urban design is the process of giving form, shape, and character to
groups of buildings, to whole neighborhoods, and the city.
 It is a framework that orders the elements into a network of streets,
squares, and blocks.
 Urban design blends architecture, landscape architecture, and city
planning together to make urban areas functional and attractive.
 Urban design is about making connections between people and places,
movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric.
 Urban design draws together the many strands of place-making,
environmental stewardship, social equity and economic viability into the
creation of places with distinct beauty and identity.
 Urban design is derived from but transcends planning and transportation
policy, architectural design, development economics, engineering and
landscape. It draws these and other strands together creating a vision for
an area and then deploying the resources and skills needed to bring the
vision to life.
Conducting a Urban Design Survey
A. City as a whole
1. Shape of the city
2. Size of the city
3. Access to city
B. City as parts
C. Micro level analysis of each area
1. Topography – cliff, slope, hilly etc
2. Microclimate – Humidity, Sun, Rainfall, Wind etc
3. Shape – Physical outline in horizontal ( Radio-centric, Star, Linear, Ring,
Rectilinear, Branched)
4. Size – Population and Physical extent, Density
5. Pattern, Texture and Grain
6. Pathways or Roads, Landmarks, Districts, Nodes, Edges (Imageability
aspects)
7. Open spaces
8. Views and Vistas
9. Magnets, generators or Linkages
10. Special activity centres and Overall activity structure
Conducting a Urban Design Survey
11. Hubs of intense visual experience
12. Pedestrian areas
13. Urban Signage
14. Point of Conflict
15. Historic special districts
16. Community structure – ethnic groupings
17. Urban Blighted areas
18. Entry points
19. Non physical aspects like festivals, emotional aspects, intangible elements

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