Urban design- principles of design with examples

1. Principles Of Design
Repetition | Scale | Variety | Monotony | Contrast
Elements from cityscapes that depict importance of
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2. REPETITION
• Plantation along and as divider on State
Highway from Vijaywada to Hyderabad
• Plantation along any road or on the
dividers that are repeated; i.e., the same
plants are planted all along the path
• Row housing also is ‘repetition’
where the facades of buildings,
plot size and shape, etc. are the
same

3. SCALE
• Caltrans building in Los Angeles. Seen
from the plaza of the Art Deco City Hall
complex across the street
• Huge building that appears much more
striking because of surrounding houses.
• Ooty, India
• Where a hill is prominently seen
and houses surrounding it are
single or double storied.

4. VARIETY
• Budapest, Hungary in Europe
• A variety of facades of buildings
with no two buildings that look
alike
• Clifton Heights, England
• The wide variety of sizes in this street of
bungalows, with a variety of trees in
front of them and a variety in cars
parked outside them

5. MONOTONY
• Neighbourhood along the Hudson River and
across from the World Trade Center.
• Similar streetscape, but no repetition gives a
feeling of monotony
• Halprin parks in Portland
• The only colour prominently visible
is green, all along the street

6. CONTRAST
• Motisons Tower, Motisons
jewellers Jaipur, India
• In a dull street, a building as
colourful as this
• Chandigarh, India
• There are large informal settlements in
the area where people live in extreme
poverty.Satellite images show a sharp
contrast between planned and
unplanned territories.