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    URBAN DESIGN

    A city is an assemblage of buildings and streets, system of communication


    and utilities, places of work, transportation, leisure and meeting places.
    The process of arranging these elements both functionally and beautifully
    is the essence of Urban Design
    OBJECTIVE OF URBAN DESIGN
    To establish a comprehensive spatial framework

    Increase functional Efficiency

    Accommodate urban Growth

    Economically achievable

    Identify & Ameliorate Deficiency


    SCOPE OF URBAN DESIGN
    Various Scale of Urban Environment

    Applicability according to Elements of Physical Urban Environment

    Outcome – Detail Design/ Framework

    Policy & Strategy Formulation


    Scale of Urban Design Projects

    City Design

    System Design

    Project Design
    Urban Form

    Urban Form

    The arrangement of a built up area. This arrangement is made up of many


    components including how close buildings and uses are together; what
    uses are located where; and how much of the natural environment is a
    part of the built up area.

    Urban Structure

    The overall framework of a region, town or precinct, showing relationships


    between zones of built forms, land forms, natural environments, activities
    and open spaces. It encompasses broader systems including transport and
    infrastructure networks.
    Urban Pattern, Urban Grain and Urban Texture

    Urban Pattern

    The pattern of the city is the way how different functions and elements of
    the settlement form are distributed and mixed together spatially. It can be
    measured by the size of its grain.

    Grain is fine when similar elements or functions are widely dispersed


    throughout the district without forming any large clusters.

    On the other hand, grain is coarse if different elements and functions are
    segregated from each other in a way that extensive areas of one thing are
    separated from extensive areas of other things
    Urban Pattern, Urban Grain and Urban Texture
    Urban Grain
    The balance of open space to built form, and the nature and extent of
    subdividing an area into smaller parcels or blocks.

    For example a ‘fine urban grain’ might constitute a network of small or


    detailed streetscapes.

    It takes into consideration the hierarchy of street types, the physical


    linkages and movement between locations, and modes of transport

    FINE: composed of small sized street blocks


    COARSE: with fewer larger blocks

    TEXTURE: Degree of Fineness/ Coarseness – Even/Uneven


    Visual Survey of a City/ Part of a City

    1. Topography
    2. Microclimate—sun, wind, and storm directions
    3. Shape
    4. Patterns, textures, and grains
    5. Routes
    6. Elements of Urban form – Kevin Lynch
    7. Open spaces
    8. Vistas
    9. Magnets, generators, and linkages
    10. Special activity centers and overall activity structure
    11. Hubs of intense visual experience
    12. Strong and weak areas of orientation
    13. Sign areas
    14. Points of conflict
    15. Historic or special districts
    16. Community structure
    17. Areas for preservation, moderate remodeling, and complete overhaul
    Kevin Lynch – Image of the City
    Imagibilty and Legibility
    Legibility means the extend to which the cityscape can be ‘read’. People who move
    through the city engage in way-finding. They need to be able to recognize and organize
    urban elements into a coherent pattern. “In the process of way-finding, the strategic link is
    the environmental image, the generalized mental picture of the exterior physical world
    that is held by an individual. This image is the product both of immediate sensation and of
    the memory of past experience, and it is used to interpret information and to guide
    action”

    Elements of Urban Form

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