PLANNING PRELIM

URBAN DESIGN

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD THAT FOCUSES ON SHAPING THE PHYSICAL LAYOUT ORGANIZATION AND AESTHETICS OF CITIES INVOLVING STRATEGIC PLANNING AND ARRANGEMENT OF BUILDINGS TO CREATE FUNCTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS

KEVIN LYNCH

"THE SHAPING OF THE PHYSICAL SETTING FOR LIFE IN CITIES; THE ART OF MAKING PLACES; DESIGN IN AN URBAN CONTEXT"

JANE JACOBS

"THE BALLET OF THE GOOD CITY SIDEWALK NEVER REPEATS ITSELF FROM PLACE TO PLACE, AND IN ANY ONE PLACE IS ALWAYS REPLETE WITH NEW IMPROVISATIONS"

C.M. RAPOPORT

URBAN DESIGN IS A PROCESS WHICH DEALS WITH THE DESIGN OF THE OVERALL APPEARANCE OF AN URBAN AREA AND THE DESIGN OF INDIVIDUAL SITES SUCH AS PARKS HOUSING AREAS OR INDUSTRIAL AREAS

URBAN

AREAS THAT ARE DENSELT POPULATED

DESIGN

INTENTIONAL AND THOUGHFUL PROCESS OF PLANNING ARRANGING AND SHAPING THE PHYSICAL ELEMENTS

PRODUCT

TANGIBLE OUTCOME OF THE PLANNING

PROCESS

THE DYNAMIC AND ITERATIVE SERIES OF STEPS UNDERTAKEN TO CONCEPTUALIZE PLAN AND IMPLEMENT CHANGES

EFFICIENT LAND USE

FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY

QUALITY OF LIFE

CULTURAL IDENTITY

SUSTAINABILITY

ECONOMIC VITALITY

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

7 AREAS OF AMBIGUITY (URBAN DESIGN AS PRODUCT AND PROCESS)

EFFICIENT LAND USE

OPTIMIZE USE OF LIMITED URBAN SPACE

FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY

WELL-CONNECTED TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS, PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY STREETS, AND EFFICIENT PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS

QUALITY OF LIFE

ACCESS TO PARKS GREEN SPACES CULTURAL AMENITIES AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES

CULTURAL IDENTITY

CULTURAL HERITAGE AND IDENTITY OF A CITY PRESERVING HISTORICAL LANDMARKS

SUSTAINABILITY

INTEGRATES ECO-FRIENDLY PRACTICES

ECONOMIC VITALITY

ATTRACT BUSINESS TOURISTS AND INVESTORS

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

ENGAGES COMMUNITIES IN THE PLANNING PROCESS

URBAN DESIGN

DEALS WITH OVERALL ARRANGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF ENTIRE CITIES OR COMMUNITIES

ARCHITECTURE

FOCUSES ON THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF INDIVIDUAL BUILDINGS

URBAN DESIGN

BROADER CONTEXT OF THE CITY

ARCHITECTURE

SPECIFIC CONTEXT OF A BUILDING'S SITE

CAMILLO SITTE

USTRIAN ARCHITECT AND URBAN PLANNER WO WROTE CITY PLANNING ACCORDING TO ARTISTIC PRINCIPLES IN 1889

RAYMOND UNWIN

AN ENGLISH ARCHITECT AND PLANNER WHO WROTE TOWN PLANNING IN PRACTICE IN 1909

KEVIN LYNCH

AMERICAN URBAN PLANNER AND AUTHOR WHO WROTE THE IMAGE OF THE CITY IN 1960

JANE JACOBS

• American-Canadian journalist, author, activist well known for her influence on urban studies

Wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961)

WILLIAN H. WHYTE

AMERICAN URBANIST SOCIOLOGIST WROTE THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980)

JAN GEHL

DANISH ARCHITECT URBAN DESIGN CONSULTANT AUTHORED LIFE BETWEEN BUILDINGS (1971)

JANETTE SADIK-KHAN

AN AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION CONSULTANT AND FORMER COMMISSIONER OF THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

CHARLES LANDRY

A BRITISH URBANIST AND AUTHOR WHO WROTE THE CREATIVE CITY: A TOOLKIT FOR URBAN INNOVATORS IN 2000

THE CULTURE OF CITIES

BOOK WRITTEN BY LEWIS MUMFORD

PROTECTIONN AND THE MEDIEVAL TOWN

COURT,PARADE, AND CAPITAL

THE INSENSTE INDUSTRIAL TOWN

RISE AND FALL OF MEGALOPOLIS

THE REGIONAL FRAMEWORK OF CIVILIZATION

THE POLITICS OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SOCIAL BASIS OF THE NEW URBAN ORDER

INDEX OF CITY HISTORY

viacemilitary

military streets

abbau

unbuilding

MODELS OF URBAN DESIGN

ARE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS AND APPROACHES THAT GUIDE THE PLANNING DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF CITIES AND URBAN SPACES

TRADITIONAL URBAN DESIGN

WAS CHARACTERIZED BY COMPACT MIXED-USE SETTLEMENTS WITH A FOCUS ON PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY STREETS AND PUBLIC SPACES

VENICE

PRIME EXAMPLE OF TRADITIONAL URBANISM

FEZ, MOROCCO

ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION OF TRASITIONAL URBANISM

GARDEN CITY

INTRODUCED PLANNED SELF-CONTAINED COMMUNITIES SURROUNDED BY GREENBELTS

LETCHWORTH GARDEN

ONE OF THE EARLIEST PLANNED GARDEN CITIES FEATURING GREEN SPACES TREE-LINES STREETS AND A FOCUS ON COMMUNITY WELL-BEING

RESTON, VIRGINIA, USA

DEVELOPED AS A GARDEN CITY IN THE UNITED STATES EMPHASIZING OPEN SPACES PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY DESIGN AND A MIX OF HOUSING AND COMMERCIAL AREAS

CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT

THIS MOVEMENT EMPHASIZED NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, GRAND CIVIC CENTERS, AND PARK DESIGN TO BEAUTIFY AMERICAN CITIES

WASHINGTON DC

WAS DESIGNED WITH NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND GRAND BOULEVARDS

CHIACAGO'S BURNHAM PLAN

FAMOUSE EXAMPLE OF ENVISIONING A BEAUTIFUL ORDERLY CITY WITH A FOCUS ON PARKS WATERFRONTS AND EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION

RADIANT CITY

MODEL PROPOSED HIGH-RISE MODERNIST RESIDENTIAL TOWERS SET IN GREEN SPACES

CHANDIGARH INDIA

DESIGNED BY LE CORBUSIER AS A MODERNIST CITY WITH HIGH RISE BUILDINGS AND GREE SPACES

BRASILIA, BRAZIL

FEAUTURES MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE AND A LAYOUT INSPIRED BY THE RADIANT CITY CONCEPT

CLARENCE PERRY'S NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT

FOCUSED ON SELF-CONTAINED NEIGHBORHOODS WITH LOCAL AMENITIES

RADBURN NEW JERSEY

A PLANNED COMMUNITY DESIGNED BY CLARENCE STEIN FEATURING NEIGHBORHOOD UNITS WITH LOCAL SCHOOLS PARKS, AND COMMUNITY CENTERS

CUMBERNAULD, SCOTLAND

AN EXAMPLE OF A NEW TOWN IN SCOTLAND THAT INCORPORATES NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT PRINCIPLES

NEW URBANISM

PROMOTES MIXED-USE WALKABLE COMMUNITIES WITH A STRONG SENSE OF PLACE

SEASIDE, FLORIDA

OFTEN CONSIDERED THE EPITOME OF NEW URBANISM

PORTLAND OREGON

EMBRACES NEW IRBANIST PRINCIPLES WITH ITS EMPHASIS ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE AND NEIGHBORHOOD ORIENTED PLANNING

SMARTH GROWTH

ENCOURAGES COPACT TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT TO COMBAT URBAN SPRAWL AND PROMOTE SUSTAINBILITY

VANCOUVER CANADA

HAS IMPLEMENTED SMART GROWTH STRATEGIES EMPHASIZING HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENT NEAR TRANSIT LINES

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

CONSISTENTLY RANKS AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST BIKE-FRIENDLY CITIES IN THE WORLD

SUSTAINABLE URBANISM

INTEGRATES ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY INTO URBAN DESGIN WITH AN EMPHASIS ON GREEN BULDING PRACTICES AND ECO-FRIENDLY INFRASTRUCTURE

MALMO, SWEDEN

KNOWN FOR ITS SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT INCLUDIG ECO-FRIENDLY ARCHITECTURE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND EXTENSIVE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

FREMONT, SEATTLE

INCORPORATES SUSTAINABLE URBANISM WITH ITS GREEN BUILDING PRACTICES

TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT

FOCUSES ON DESIGNING URBAN AREAS AROUND PUBLIC TRANSIT HUBS TO REDUE CAR DEPENDENCY AND ENCOURAGE HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENT

HONG KONG'S MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY

A MODEL FOR TOD

CURITIBA'S BUS RAPID TRANSIT (TRANSMILENIO)

HAS BEEN A CATALYST FOR TOD IN THE CITY

RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS

INCORPORATE TECHNOLOGY AND DATA DRIVEN SOLUTIONS TO CREATE ADAPTABLE AND EFFICIENT URBAN SPACES

DUBAI

KNOWN FOR ITS AMBITIOUS USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT

BARCELONA, SPAIN

HAS EMBRACED SMART CITY TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE URBAN MOBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY USING SENSORS TO MONITOR AND MANAGE TRAFFIC FLOW

SUPERBLOCKS

INITIATIVE AIMS TO CREATE CAR-FREE ZONES BY RECONFIGURING SEATS AND PUBLIC SPACES TO RPIORITIZE PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS

Robert Jacobs

Jane Jacobs is Married to architect _____

Downtown is for People

William H. Whyte invited her to write a

corresponding article in Fortune magazine, titled______

Urban sprawl

is a form of urban growth in which

low-density development (such as single-family

homes) of large plots of land takes place over a

large area, sometimes extending for miles

outside of the urban limits.

Robert Moses

He is the "Master Builder" of New York,

built most of the city's highways, pools, and

public housing and slum clearance

projects.

Jane Jacobs

She argued that governments should

encourage local policies for

neighborhoods to thrive on their own.

She was an advocate for a place-based,

community centered approach to urban

planning.

Signs

are used to convey information in pictorial form.

SEMIOTICS

the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.

Environmental graphic design (EGD)

is the use of graphic elements such as

typography, color, imagery, and textures to curate and enhance the experience

people have within a space.

MANDATORY SIGNS

They give a positive instruction.

used to set the obligations of all traffic which use a specific area of road.

These signs tell traffic what it must do, rather than must not do.

circular, may use white symbols on a blue background

THE INTERNATIONAL SYMBOL OF ACCESS (ISA)

also known as the (International) Wheelchair

Symbol, denotes areas where access has been

improved, mostly for those with disabilities.

consists of a usually blue square overlaid in white (or

in contrasting colours)

PROHIBITION SIGNS

a safety sign behaviour likely to cause a risk to health or safety.

generally use a black safety symbol in a red circle with a diagonal cross

through.

WARNING SIGNS

a type of sign which indicates a potential

hazard, obstacle or condition requiring special

attention.

they

usually take the shape of an equilateral

triangle with a white background and thick

red border.

SAFETY SIGNS

medium of communication that convey information or instructions regarding the physical safety of people.

usually have a symbol and text, although there are safety signs that have only one of the two.

DANGER SIGNS

signs warn of a particular hazard or hazardous

condition that is likely to be life threatening.

Its symbolic shape is the word DANGER in white on a

red oval, which is surrounded by a black rectangle.

Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)

Road signs in the Philippines are

regulated and standardized by the ____

Buildings

are the most pronounced elements of

urban design - they shape and articulate space

by forming the streetwalls of the city.

public spaces

are the living room of the

city - the place where people come together to

enjoy the city and each other.

Streets

are the connections between spaces and

places, as well as being spaces themselves.

TRANSPORT

connect the parts of cities and

help shape them, and enable movement

throughout the city.

landscape

is the green part of the city that

weaves throughout - in the form of urban parks,

street trees, plants, flowers, and water in many

forms.

helps define the character and

beauty of a city and creates soft, contrasting

spaces and elements.