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URBANDESIGN_1ARCH 2203

Course Tutor _ Shuva Chowdhury


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Barcelona, Spain - Cerda 1858Street life

Historicalplace andurban

activity


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No gentrification

No Organization

No order

ComplexHighly metabolistic

Lost efficiency

Our Great Dhaka City


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Introduction to Urban Design

What is Urban Design?

Objectives of Urban Design

Role of Urban Design

Is Urban Designing Urban Planning?

Rise of Urban Design


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"The building of cities is one of man's greatest achievements."

" The city is a peoples art, a shared experience, the place where the

artist meets the greatest number of potential appreciations. "

Edmund N. Bacon

BarcelonaAthens

Paris

Barcelona


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City is a large , relatively dense settlement of heterogeneous people.

City is a place in which citizens with rights of citizenship, live a civic life.

Kevin Lynch, 1981

Frederick Gibbered 1967

Dhaka city satisfied..this statement


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CITY

CITIZENSHIP

CIVIL

CIVILIZED

CIVILIZATION


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WHAT IS URBAN?

Latin word urbs mean a city.

Commonly understood as an environment in which natural surroundings have dominated byman-made surroundings.

An urban area is a composite of cells, neighborhoods or communities where people worktogether for common good.

Urban areas are locations where there is opportunity for a diverse type of living environment or life style.


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Archer 1965

Goal directed problem solving activity.

Alexander 1963

Finding the right physical components of a physical structure.

Design is a willful act, a purposeful endeavor.

WHAT IS DESIGN?


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WHAT IS URBAN DESIGN?

An interdisciplinary are which is concerned with Design of Urban Space.

Barnett, 1982Urban design is the generally accepted term for the process of giving physical design direction tourban growth, conservation and change. It is understood to include landscape as well as buildings,

both preservation and new construction and rural areas as well as cities


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The art of creating and shaping cities and towns.

Making connections between people and places, movement and urban form,nature and the built fabric.

The design of the public realm, its central concerns are the quality and usefulness ofthe public spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.


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OBJECTIVES OF URBAN DESIGN

The city must work/function with least possible friction.

The city must be economically sound-all decisions behind the city design needto be economically feasible.

The visual expression of the city should be beautiful to look at-or must givepleasure to the users.


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ROLE OF URBAN DESIGN

Is URBAN DESIGN

a multidisciplinary activity,OR

an interdisciplinary activity


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Urban design as a branch of architecture.

Kevin Lynch

Michael Southworth

Urban design as a branch of urban planning: Urban Design isdefinedas that branch of city planning that focuses on analysis,

design and management of environments with particular attentionof the experiential qualities of place..


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Urban design is the interface between architecture and urban planning

Architecture directly tackles the physical built form in unitary particles.

Planning manages more abstract notions such as zoning, functions,

transport networks and economy.

Urban Design

Figure 1. Urban design as the interface between planning and architecture ( Source: Urban design and the Quantum worldview p

104-111)

Planning Architecture


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Mediative role

Urban realm

Different levels and scales

Urban Design


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To fulfill the role of a interdisciplinary interface ,URBAN DESIGN should be thought of and taught

as a multidimensional activity.


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Urban design can and should form the interface between all therelevant specialties that deal with the human and the humanenvironment, both objective and subjective.

Figure 1. Urban design as multidisciplinary interface ( Source: Urban design and the Quantum worldview p 104-111)

Urban Design

Landscape

ArchitecturePlanning

Geography


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Urban design should thus function as a multidimensional

interdisciplinary interface, with the responsibility to manage

and transform the interface of the different aspects of

urban life into a physical and usable form.

Urban Design

Figure 1. Urban design as multidimensional interdisciplinary interface ( Source: Urban design and the Quantum worldview p 104-

111)


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IS URBAN DESIGNING URBAN PLANNING?

Urban Planning is aimed at fulfilling social and economic objectives that go beyond thephysical from and arrangement of urban elements.

It is concerned with public policy and programs of action of urban development.

It is not exclusively architectural, but is much concerned with economics and social issues.

Urban Design is more closely related to architecture by focusing on the physical form ofthe city.


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Urban Planning provides program for the URBAN DEVELOPMENT.

Urban Design proposes specific physical configurations in accordance with thatplanning program.


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Urban designers take the process one step further by developing generic plans.

Recommendations and regulations into specific design solutions for streets, districts,neighborhoods and public spaces.

Urban planners are engrossed in allocation of resources according to the projection of

future need.They work in three phases: Survey, Plan, Implementation.

URBAN PLANNER URBAN DESIGNER ARCHITECT

Architect is concerned for building design within site focusingspace, form and function.


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RISE OF URBAN DESIGN

Urban design initially evolved at the end of 1960s, as a critique of the built environment

produced by modernist architects, urban planners, landscape architects and the other related

professionals involved in the making of public realm.

The majority of writings on urban design are the product of post modern thinking.

The first usage of the term Urban design was in 1956 in urban design conferences at Harvard.

It gradually spread mainly through the work of Kevin Lynch and Jane Jacobs in the 1960s and

Christopher Alexander , Leon and Rob Krier, and Robert Venturi , amongst others, in 1970s and

1980s.

The last decade of the last century saw urban design colored by the views and counter views of Charles

Jencks and Sir Richard Rogers , HRH the Prince of Wales and Rem Koolhaas, to name but a few.


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Assessment rationale:

Research: This includes both library and field research

how far beyond the required reading have you explored

Argument: Is there a well-structured argument? Marks willbe given for innovative arguments or insights. Marks will

be lost for those who argue by assertion or summary listsof points rather than constructing arguments, narrative orprose (no dot points please!).

Presentation: How well does your writing stylecommunicate? Has the essay been well-edited and spell-checked, does it flow? Are the illustrations well-chosenand presented, properly sourced and captioned? (Youmust cite all sources of illustrations)

IMPORTANT NOTES:


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IMPORTANT NOTES:

A Note on Plagiarism: Ideas, expressed in both words andimages, are valuable forms of intellectual capital; the authors of

them must be acknowledged. Plagiarism is the act of claimingthe ideas (words, images) of others to be your own work; it is aform of theft. You are encouraged to cite the ideas of others atwill, but plagiarism will not be tolerated. Plagiarism can bedefined as:

the act of representing as one's own original work the creativeworks of another, without appropriate acknowledgment of theauthor or source.

Never take notes or copy a quote without the quotation marksand source or you may later believe you have written it. Beparticularly careful in downloading material from the web.Plagiarism will be taken very seriously - plagiarism will be dealt

with by failing the assignment, and major plagiarism possiblyby failing the subject.


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Special Consideration: Late submissions will be penalized10% of the available mark for that assignment per calendar dayafter the due date if your late submission has valid reason.

Communications: Please raise day-to-day issues withassignments, lectures and readings at the end of eachlecture. In addition you can email the tutor asking for anappointment for further discussion, clarification or anyrelated issues. Shuva Chowdhurys email is:

and his office is Rm 819, Floor 18,Campus 7, he is available by email, by appointment and if thedoor is open. Class notices will be posted on notice board at14th floor and emailed to all enrolled students.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

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