URBAN DESIGN_1

ARCH 2203

Course Tutor _ Shuva Chowdhury

Historical place and urban activity

Street life

Barcelona, Spain - Cerda 1858

Our Great Dhaka City

No gentrification No Organization No order Complex Highly metabolistic Lost efficiency

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

"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
Barcelona Athens Paris

Barcelona

Dhaka city satisfied..this statement

Kevin Lynch, 1981

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

Frederick Gibbered 1967

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

CITY

CITIZENSHIP

CIVIL

CIVILIZED

CIVILIZATION

WHAT IS URBAN?
Latin word urbs mean a city. Commonly understood as an environment in which natural surroundings have dominated by man-made surroundings. An urban area is a composite of cells, neighborhoods or communities where people work together for common good. Urban areas are locations where there is opportunity for a diverse type of living environment or life style.

WHAT IS DESIGN?
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 URBAN DESIGN?

An interdisciplinary are which is concerned with Design of Urban Space. Barnett, 1982 Urban design is the generally accepted term for the process of giving physical design direction to urban 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

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 of the public spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

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 need to be economically feasible. The visual expression of the city should be beautiful to look at-or must give pleasure to the users.

ROLE OF URBAN DESIGN

Is URBAN DESIGN a multidisciplinary activity, OR an interdisciplinary activity

Kevin Lynch Urban design as a branch of architecture. Michael Southworth Urban design as a branch of urban planning: Urban Design is definedas that branch of city planning that focuses on analysis, design and management of environments with particular attention of the experiential qualities of place..

Urban design is the interface between architecture and urban planning

Planning

Urban Design

Architecture

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

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

Mediative role Urban realm Different levels and scales

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

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

Landscape

Planning

Urban

Design

Architecture

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

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 104111)

IS URBAN DESIGNING URBAN PLANNING?

Urban Planning is aimed at fulfilling social and economic objectives that go beyond the physical 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 of the city.

Urban Planning provides program for the URBAN DEVELOPMENT. Urban Design proposes specific physical configurations in accordance with that planning program.

URBAN PLANNER URBAN DESIGNER ARCHITECT

Urban planners are engrossed in allocation of resources according to the projection of future need. They work in three phases: Survey, Plan, Implementation.

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.

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

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.

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 will be given for innovative arguments or insights. Marks will be lost for those who argue by assertion or summary lists of points rather than constructing arguments, narrative or prose (no dot points please!). Presentation: How well does your writing style communicate? Has the essay been well-edited and spellchecked, does it flow? Are the illustrations well-chosen and presented, properly sourced and captioned? (You must cite all sources of illustrations)

IMPORTANT NOTES: A Note on Plagiarism: Ideas, expressed in both words and

images, are valuable forms of intellectual capital; the authors of them must be acknowledged. Plagiarism is the act of claiming the ideas (words, images) of others to be your own work; it is a form of theft. You are encouraged to cite the ideas of others at will, but plagiarism will not be tolerated. Plagiarism can be defined as: the act of representing as one's own original work the creative works of another, without appropriate acknowledgment of the author or source. Never take notes or copy a quote without the quotation marks and source or you may later believe you have written it. Be particularly 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 possibly by failing the subject.

IMPORTANT NOTES: Special Consideration: Late submissions will be penalized

10% of the available mark for that assignment per calendar day after the due date if your late submission has valid reason.

Communications: Please raise day-to-day issues with

assignments, lectures and readings at the end of each lecture. In addition you can email the tutor asking for an appointment for further discussion, clarification or any related issues. Shuva Chowdhurys email is: <shuva@aiub.edu> and his office is Rm 819, Floor 18, Campus 7, he is available by email, by appointment and if the door is open. Class notices will be posted on notice board at 14th floor and emailed to all enrolled students.