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Contextualization of Urban Design & Community Architecture

This document discusses urban design and community architecture. It defines urban design as the process of designing and shaping the physical setting of towns and cities, including public spaces like streets, plazas, and parks. Urban design focuses on understanding the relationships between neighborhoods, buildings, and spaces in terms of scale, appearance, uses, and how people interact and move through an area. The goals of urban design and community planning are to create a distinctive built form, access and movement, a high quality public realm, a sustainable urban environment, adaptable growth, and a cohesive community.

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Contextualization of Urban Design & Community Architecture

This document discusses urban design and community architecture. It defines urban design as the process of designing and shaping the physical setting of towns and cities, including public spaces like streets, plazas, and parks. Urban design focuses on understanding the relationships between neighborhoods, buildings, and spaces in terms of scale, appearance, uses, and how people interact and move through an area. The goals of urban design and community planning are to create a distinctive built form, access and movement, a high quality public realm, a sustainable urban environment, adaptable growth, and a cohesive community.

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1/24/2021

Contextualization
of Urban Design
& Community
Architecture

Prepared by,
Arch. Mela
FAR 411
Planning 2
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Urban Design
• Design doesn’t only concern the physical
form, color, texture, size, or shape, but
also concerns function.

“an art of architecture & its relationship with


the environment”

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Urban Design
• Process of designing and shaping the
physical setting of life in towns, cities, and
villages.

• Urban design theory deals primarily with


the design and management of public
space

Public Space
• the totality of spaces used freely on a day-
to-day basis by the general public,such as
streets, plazas, parks & public infrastructure.

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Urban Design = Urban Planning

“ if you can tell a man by his shoes,


you can tell a city by its pavements”
- Rowan Moore

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“ In a successful modern city, the car must


no longer be king”
- Patricia Brown

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Community Planning
• a forward planning process, which
identifies human and material resources
and puts in place potential response
system

• The plan is a list of activities community


people agree to follow

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Urban Design

Urban Design focuses on understanding:


• spaces and connections between
neighborhood and buildings

• relationship between buildings and spaces


in terms of scale, appearance and uses

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Urban Design

(continuation)
• how the various parts of a town or
neighborhood work together, focusing on the
public realm

• how people interact and move through an area


or place

• what makes a place distinctive and how it


contributes to local character and identity
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Urban Design
FRAMEWORK:
1. Historic preservation
and urban
conservation
2. Design for pedestrians
3. Vitality and variety of
use
4. The cultural
environment
5. Environmental context
6. Architectural values
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Urban Design & Community Planning

GOALS:
1. Distinctive built form
2. Access and movement
3. High quality public realm
4. Sustainable urban environment
5. Adaptable growth
6. Cohesive community

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