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URBAN DESIG
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INTRODUCTION
Book Name : Urban Design Reader
Editors: Matthew Carmona
Steve Tiesdell
Publisher : Architectural Press, 2007
ISBN : 0750665319,
9780750665315
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CONTENTS
Part 1:
Understanding urban design
This part presents a set of six chapters :
• exploring understandings of urban design
• discussing its precise nature and purpose.
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Part 2:
The morphological dimension
This part presents a set of three chapters :
• Exploring the layout and configuration of urban form
• Exploring The processes giving rise to them
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Part 3 :
The perceptual dimension
This part presents a set of five chapters :
• focusing on the experiential ‘sense-of-place’ and ‘lived-in’ experiences associated with the urban environment
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Part 4:
The social dimension
This part presents a set of five chapters :
• Exploring the relationship between space and social experience.
• Discussing the two way process of modifying space and being influenced by it
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Part 1:
The visual dimension
This part presents a set of four chapters :
• Exploring the spatial and visual character of urban environments/ design.
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Part 6:
The functional dimension
This section presents a set of five chapters discussing :
• how places ‘work’
• how people use spaces and environments
• how urban designers can make ‘better’ places.
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Part 7:
The temporal dimension
This part presents a set of three chapters exploring time impact :
• on the way places become imbued with meanings
• on how places last and adapt
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Part 8:
Implementing urban design
This part presents a set of six chapters concerned with:
• The Awareness of the development process
• the various public sector processes and available policy, regulatory and incentivizing tools
THE SELECTED CHAPTER“ IMAGES IN MOTION “(CHAPTER 29 - PART 7: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION)
Introduction
Walk throughVenice Analysis
Walk throughVenice Comparison
Conclusion
Introduction• the sense of movement can be read
and understood as a pictorial sequence combined with measured drawings such as maps, designers can learn important lessons about scale in city design.
• A designer who compares, for example, a plan view of a place with a pictorial sequence illustrating a walk through that place has a much better grasp of dimension.
• the Pictorial sequence has the desired effect of pulling the reader into the space, so the pictures must be read from bottom to top.
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Venice Washington, D.C., the old city of Kyoto
A Walk through Venice Comparisons
“ IMAGES IN MOTION “
Venice San Francesco the Piazza Navona in Rome
A Walk through Venice Comparisons
“ IMAGES IN MOTION “
Venice Cairo University
A Walk through Venice Comparisons
CONCLUSIONS
The perception of time is influenced by :• The scale and dimensions of the city and its Urban
Spaces
• Arranging and placement of urban elements
• the rhythmic spacing of recurring elements.
• Successive acts of apperception and recognition
• Designed textures, selected color, and manipulated light.
THANKS …….