The International Symbols of Directional Signs

Access (ISA)
Regulatory signs

Speed Signs

Restrictive signs Parking Signs

 involves streets radiating
outward from multiple
arcology would require about
central points, creating a star-
2% as much land as a modern
like configuration.
city of equivalent population.
Star Pattern

Miscellaneous Signs

A floating city project

designed by Belgian architect
Vincent Callebaut. The A floating city within a city A natural preserved area
project aims to create a self- that expands into the water available for recreation
sufficient and eco-friendly
habitat for climate refugees. Sea-Floating Arcologies Parks

The Lilypad

A site which upon residential

, commercial, industrial, or
A single-family attached
other land uses or any
dwelling containing three or All types of spaces between
combination thereof maybe
more separate living units buildings in the town which
authorized in a flexible
grouped closely together to include paths, squares,
manner so as to achieve the
form relatively compact squares and park
goals of municipal
structures.
comprehensive plan.
Urban Space
Cluster Housing
Planned Unit Development
(PUD)

American urbanist, American-Canadian

An Arcology's compactness
sociologist, wrote "The Social journalist, activist, authored
allows for 90% more land for
Life of Small Urban Spaces" "The Death and Life of Great
farming and conservation
(1980). American Cities"
than traditional urban and
suburban sprawl.
William H. Whyte Jane Jacobs
 An open space available for An open space which As a process, urban design
civic purposes and designed and equipped for the encompasses the dynamic and
commercial activities children. iterative series of steps
undertaken to conceptualize,
Plaza Playing Ground plan

Catering specifically to older

adults and retirees, age-
restricted communities offer
Bentley distinguishes
As a product, urban design maintenance-free living and
between two levels of
refers to the tangible outcome tailored amenities to support
legibility: physical form and
of the planning, organization, an active and social lifestyle
activity patterns.
Age-Restricted or Active
Adult Communities

Danish architect, urban

Consists of a complex Emphasizing luxury
design consultant, authored
network of interconnected amenities and recreational
"Life Between Buildings"
streets, alleys, and pathways. facilities
(1971).
Maze pattern Resort-style Developments
Jan Gehl

Encompassing multiple
neighborhoods and amenities
Five Important parts of Urban
on large-scale properties,
conservation
master-planned communities Feature concentric rings of
offer a balanced mix of streets around a central point.
Historical Preservation, Green
housing options and shared
Spaces, Sustainable
facilities within a thoughtfully Circular Pattern
Development, Public
designed framework.
Engagement, adaptation
Master-planned communities

He is the “Master Builder” of

He believes that “Cities are
Great public spaces are the New York, built most of the
created by and for traffic. A
living room of the city - the city’s highways, pools, and
city without traffic is a ghost
place where people come public housing and slum
town.”
together to enjoy the city and clearance projects.
each other.
Robert Moses
Robert Moses
 Integrating residential,
Includes both natural lacks,
commercial, and recreational
rivers, streams, which
In the 16th century, carts and spaces, mixed-use
represent rich wildlife
wagons became more developments create vibrant,
habitats and offer recreational
common in cities, marking a walkable neighborhoods with
value.
shift. diverse amenities.
Water ways
Mixed-Use Development

It is a citadel built by Spanish

It is a type of sign which
navigator and governor It is an updated version of the
indicates a potential hazard,
Miguel López de Legazpi for traditional bahay kubo of the
obstacle or condition
the newly established city of Christianized lowlanders
requiring special attention.
Manila in the Philippines.
Arquitectura Mestiza
Warning Signs
Fort Santiago

It is medium of Jacobs contested the

communication that convey traditional planning approach
information or instructions that relies on the judgment of
Jacobs approached cities as
regarding the physical safety outside experts, proposing
living beings and ecosystems
of people. that local expertise is better
suited to guiding community
Safety Signs development.

Lack a strict geometric

Large areas you can enter,
structure, and the layout Notably, Alberti, a key figure
serve as the foci of the city,
evolves more organically over in the Baroque city,
neighborhood, district, etc.;
time. differentiated between main
and subordinate streets.
Nodes
Irregular Pattern

Offering enhanced security

and privacy through restricted
Oslo is making substantial
access, gated communities
Oslo holds the title of the sustainability progress with
provide residents with a sense
"Fairtrade Capital" about 60% of its energy
of exclusivity
consumption
Gated Community

Road signs in the Philippines

Points of reference person
Public and private spaces are are regulated and
cannot enter into;
not independent but rather standardized by the
complementary. Department of Public Works
Landmark
and Highways (DPWH).
She argued that governments
should encourage local She suggested that over time,
Symbols should be
policies for neighborhoods buildings, streets and
graphically distinct from each
to thrive on their own. neighborhoods function as
other
dynamic organisms
Jane Jacobs

The Baroque city's crucial

Symbols should be of a size The Condominium Act
symbol
that does not dominate or
confuse the figure RA 4726
Avenue

The degree of permeability is

The Lilypad can influenced by how the
The Urban Development and
accommodate 50,000 people network of public spaces
Housing Act
and has a central lagoon, divides the environment into
artificial mountains, and blocks.
RA 7279
renewable energy sources.
Block Division

The members of the guild

would hold meetings and The period between the 15th
The first type, termed discuss the organizing and and 18th centuries witnessed
"Viacemilitary" or military controlling of the town as a the emergence of new cultural
streets, required straightness. whole. traits influenced by
mercantilism.
The merchant guild

The practice of safeguarding

and managing urban spaces
The quality of adaptability The responsiveness of an
to enhance their social,
and flexibility in environment is define by the
economic, and environmental
environments is described as interconnection between
sustainability.
"robustness." them.
Urban Conservation

These are open spaces

The social-usage tradition
dedicated to playing sports They give a positive
focuses on urban social
such as football, basketball, instruction
interactions, behaviors
golf courses.
Mandatory Signs
The Social-usage Traditions
Playing Field
 This floating pyramid city
This movement emphasized
combines large-scale living
This means a safety sign neoclassical architecture,
with unique architectural
behaviour likely to cause a grand civic centers, and park
stability, featuring housing,
risk to health or safety. design to beautify American
hotels, retail, and more.
cities.
Prohibition signs
New Orleans Arcology
City Beautiful Movement
Habitat

To conserve existing Transit-Oriented

This tradition emphasizes city (sometimes historic) Development (TOD) creates
aesthetics, focusing on artistic buildings or districts by walkable, mixed-use
and design elements putting them to good communities around public
contemporary use. transport stations.
the Visual-Artistic Tradition
Revitalization TOD

an Austrian architect and

an American urban planner an English architect and
urban planner who wrote City
and author who wrote The planner who wrote Town
Planning According to
Image of the City in 1960. Planning in Practice in 1909.
Artistic Principles in 1889.
Kevin Lynch Raymond Unwin
Camillo Sitte

are designed specifically for are intentional communities

older adults, offering designed to minimize are large city areas which
clustered housing with shared environmental impact and observer can mentally go
amenities and services promote sustainable living inside of.
tailored to their needs practices.
Districts
Senior Cohousing Ecovillages

are mixed-use developments

are the boundaries between are the connections between
located near public
two phases, linear breaks in spaces and places, as well as
transportation hubs.
continuity. being spaces themselves.
Transit-Oriented
Edges Streets
Development (TOD)
 are the ecosystems within
agricultural landscapes that
are the routes along which an
are affected by different are the most pronounced
individual moves through the
farming practices and can elements of urban design
environment.
have a significant
environmental impact. Buildings
Paths
Farmland Arcologies

concept focused on self-

contained neighborhoods with
are the unique ecosystems
are used to convey local amenities, emphasizing
that exist on the sides of
information in pictoriaI form walkability and community
cliffs.
cohesion.
signs
Cliffside ecologies
Clarence Perry's
Neighborhood Unit

concept of mental map, not

concept of mental map, each concept of mental map, not
necessary has real distance or
individual has/her own covering the whole city
direction
Unique Partial
Distorted

connect the parts of cities and consist of small clusters of

concept of mental map,
help shape them, and enable homes arranged around a
omitting a great deal of
movement throughout the shared courtyard or pedestrian
information
city. pathway.
Simplified
Transport Pocket Neighborhoods

developments incorporate a
range of housing types and emphasizes the process of
consists of everyday buildings price points within a clustered place-making and the role of
layout. community involvement
Vernacular heritage
Mixed-Income cluster the Making Places tradition
housing
 feature private dwellings
encourages compact, transit- features a central point from
clustered around shared
oriented development to which streets radiate outward,
facilities such as kitchens,
combat urban sprawl and creating a spoke-like
dining areas, and recreational
promote sustainability. arrangement.
spaces
Smart Growth Radial Pattern
Co-Housing communities

focuses on designing urban integrate agriculture into

incorporate technology and
areas around public transit residential developments,
data-driven solutions to create
hubs to reduce car with homes clustered around
adaptable and efficient urban
dependency and encourage working farms or community
spaces.
high-density development. garden
Responsive Environments
Transit-oriented Dev. (TOD) Agrihoods

integrates environmental involve the organization of

introduced planned, self-
sustainability into urban streets and structures along a
contained communities
design, with an emphasis on linear axis, often following
surrounded by greenbelts.
green building practices and natural features like rivers or
eco-friendly infrastructure. topographical contours.
Ebenezer Howard's Garden
City
sustainable Urbanism Linear Pattern

is a form of urban growth in is a prime example of

which low-density traditional urbanism with its
development (such as single- is a multidisciplinary field narrow, winding streets,
family homes) of large plots that shapes cities canals, and mixed-use
of land takes place over a buildings dating back
large area Urban Design centuries.

Urban Sprawl Venice, Italy

is known for its

is an individual's perception comprehensive approach to
is made up of lange-scale
of their surrounding TOD, integrating efficient
structures
environment, public transportation with
high-density developments.
Monumental
Mental Map
Singapore
 is the green part of the city
that weaves throughout - in
is often hailed as a pioneer in is one of the earliest planned
the form of urban parks, street
TOD. garden cities
trees, plants, flowers, and
water in many forms.
curitiba Letchworth Garden City, UK
Landscape

is the use of graphic elements

such as typography, color,
it refers to the detailed
is the measure of an imagery, and textures to
appearance of a place that
environment's accessibility to curate and enhance the
makes people aware of the
users. experience people have
choices available
within a space.
Permeability
Visual Appropriateness
Environmental Graphic
Design

means and includes returning

the existing fabric of a place
to known earlier state by promotes mixed-use,
maintaining the fabric of the
removing accretions* or by walkable communities with a
place
reassembling existing strong sense of place.
components without
preservation
introducing new materials. New Urbanism

Restoration

proposed high-rise, modernist

rank as the world's most ranked first in the 2022
residential towers set in green
sustainable cities Sustainable cities Index
spaces.
European Capitals Oslo
Le Corbusier's Radiant city

refers to a residential
development model where
ranks as one of the world's refers to clarity in physical
homes are grouped closely
most bike-friendly cities. form and activity patterns,
together on a smaller portion
of land,
Copenhagen, Denmark Legibility
traditional cluster Housing
 refers to the physical refers to the spatial
refers to the extent to which
structures and elements that arrangement and layout of
people can put their own
make up the built various elements within an
stamp on a place
environment of a city urban area.
Personalization
Built Heritage Urban Pattern

refers to the study and

streets intersect at right
analysis of the physical form, streets are arranged in a
angles, forming a network of
structure, and layout of urban staggered, diagonal manner.
squares or rectangles.
areas.
Echelon Pattern
Grid Pattern
Urban Morphology

the study of signs and

the ability to see alternative to retain its historical and lov
symbols and their use or
routes, is also significant. architectural aesthetic
interpretation
visual Permeability Conservation
Semiotics

was characterized by who said "The shaping of the

warn of a particular hazard or compact, mixed-use physical setting for life in
hazardous condition that is settlements with a focus on cities; the art of making
likely to be life threatening pedestrian-friendly streets and places; design in an urban
public spaces. context."
Danger Signs
Tradition Urban Design Kevin Lynch

who said Urban design

involves creating a well- "The Culture of Cities,"
Medieval age commonly
designed city that conserves written by Lewis Mumford, is
depicted as impoverished,
the natural environment one of his most acclaimed
brutal, and ignorant.
works.
Jonathan Barnett

“A city is a large human

settlement, it generally has
extensive systems for
Monasteries were urban Post-Roman Western Europe
housing, transportation,
progress centers, not isolated saw the church as a vital
sanitation, utilities, land use
markets. universal institution.
and communication”

Jane Jacobs