Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 1K views

    Elements of Urban Design

    Uploaded by

    Divya Rath
    Urban design involves coordinating the elements that make up cities, including buildings, public spaces, streets, transport systems, and landscape. Buildings shape space and create a sense of place. Public spaces are where people come together and experience city life. Streets connect spaces and are defined by their dimensions and surrounding buildings. Transport networks enable movement throughout the city. Landscape provides green spaces that define character. Urban design weaves these elements together into a coherent structure that defines urban and building form through principles of order, unity, and other artistic concepts.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Elements of Urban Design

    Uploaded by

    Divya Rath
    1K views2 pages
    Urban design involves coordinating the elements that make up cities, including buildings, public spaces, streets, transport systems, and landscape. Buildings shape space and create a sense of place. Public spaces are where people come together and experience city life. Streets connect spaces and are defined by their dimensions and surrounding buildings. Transport networks enable movement throughout the city. Landscape provides green spaces that define character. Urban design weaves these elements together into a coherent structure that defines urban and building form through principles of order, unity, and other artistic concepts.

    Original Description:

    urban design

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Urban design involves coordinating the elements that make up cities, including buildings, public spaces, streets, transport systems, and landscape. Buildings shape space and create a sense of place. Public spaces are where people come together and experience city life. Streets connect spaces and are defined by their dimensions and surrounding buildings. Transport networks enable movement throughout the city. Landscape provides green spaces that define character. Urban design weaves these elements together into a coherent structure that defines urban and building form through principles of order, unity, and other artistic concepts.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    1K views2 pages

    Elements of Urban Design

    Uploaded by

    Divya Rath
    Urban design involves coordinating the elements that make up cities, including buildings, public spaces, streets, transport systems, and landscape. Buildings shape space and create a sense of place. Public spaces are where people come together and experience city life. Streets connect spaces and are defined by their dimensions and surrounding buildings. Transport networks enable movement throughout the city. Landscape provides green spaces that define character. Urban design weaves these elements together into a coherent structure that defines urban and building form through principles of order, unity, and other artistic concepts.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 2

    8/17/2016 ElementsofUrbanDesign

    URBAN DESIGN

    THE CENTER FOR DESIGN EXCELLENCE

    HOME

    ELEMENTS

    TOD ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN

    PROJECTS

    CONFERENCES UrbanDesigninvolvesthedesignandcoordinationofallthatmakesupcitiesandtowns:

    TRANSPORT

    HIGHSPEED
    Buildings
    RAIL
    Buildings are the most pronounced elements of urban design they shape
    and articulate space by forming the streetwalls of the city. Well designed
    CARFREE buildings and groups of buildings work together to create a sense of place.

    SUSTAINABLE

    CIVICART

    PUBLICSPACE Public Space


    DENSITY Great public spaces are the living room of the city the place where
    people come together to enjoy the city and each other. Public spaces
    THEREGION make high quality life in the city possible they form the stage and
    backdrop to the drama of life. Public spaces range from grand central
    plazas and squares, to small, local neighborhood parks.
    BOOKS

    FILMS
    Streets
    NEWDEAL2009
    Streets are the connections between spaces and places, as well as being
    SPEAKERS
    spaces themselves. They are defined by their physical dimension and
    BUREAU character as well as the size, scale, and character of the buildings that line
    them. Streets range from grand avenues such as the ChampsElysees in
    Paris to small, intimate pedestrian streets. The pattern of the street
    DESIGN network is part of what defines a city and what makes each city unique.
    SERVICE

    CONSULTANTS
    Transport
    UNIVERSITIES
    Transport systems connect the parts of cities and help shape them, and
    LINKS enable movement throughout the city. They include road, rail, bicycle,
    and pedestrian networks, and together form the total movement system of
    a city. The balance of these various transport systems is what helps define
    the quality and character of cities, and makes them either friendly or
    hostile to pedestrians. The best cities are the ones that elevate the
    experience of the pedestrian while minimizing the dominance of the private
    automobile.

    Landscape
    The 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.
    The landscape helps define the character and beauty of a city and creates
    soft, contrasting spaces and elements. Green spaces in cities range from
    grand parks such as Central Park in New York City and the Washington DC
    Mall, to small intimate pocket parks.

    UrbanDesignweavestogethertheseelementsintoacoherent,organizeddesignstructure

    http://www.urbandesign.org/elements.html 1/3
    8/17/2016 ElementsofUrbanDesign

    PARIS BATH ROME

    Theurbandesignstructuredefinestheurbanformandthebuildingform

    PARIS BATH ROME

    The creative articulation of space is the most


    prominent aspect of urban design. The following artistic
    principles are an integral part of creating form and spatial
    definition:

    order

    unity

    balance

    proportion

    scale

    hierarchy

    symmetry

    rhythm

    contrast

    context

    detail

    texture

    harmony

    beauty


    UrbanDesign| NewDeal| DesignService| Books| Films| CivicArt| PublicSpace| Density| CarFree| Transport| HighSpeedRail| Conferences

    UrbanDesign.org

    824KingSt.Suite103

    http://www.urbandesign.org/elements.html 2/3

    You might also like