The Digital Image of the City
Digital & Computational Studies
Bowdoin College
September 8, 2014
Professor Gieseking
Lecture Slides "An Introduction to The Digital Image of the City"
The concept of knowledge-based urban development has first come to the urban planning and development agenda during the very last years of the 20th century as a promising paradigm to support the transformation process of cities into knowledge cities and their societies into knowledge societies
Kevyn introduced a concept of planning that was the base for understanding and visualising The Planning Aspects; important for the budding planners.
The presentation initiates the same understanding and invokes a means for better understanding of 'Planning'.
Urban design considerations aim to provide guidance for designers to create buildings and public spaces that are easy to navigate, stimulate public activity, and support various uses. Key factors include spatial patterns, street networks, how space is used, and balancing consistency with variety in the urban environment. The goal of urban design is to create places that can be enjoyed by diverse people now and in the future.
This document provides information on different types of mapping, including cognitive mapping, behavioural mapping, and activity mapping. It discusses cognitive mapping as the process of encoding, storing, and manipulating experienced spatial information. Behavioural mapping is described as an objective method to observe and link human behavior to built environment attributes. Activity mapping involves recording the patterns and types of activities that people engage in within a space on a map. The document provides details on how to approach and represent each type of mapping to understand human spatial behavior and perceptions.
Additional characteristics of an Urban Space urban morphologySomesh Siddharth
This document provides information on urban morphology and urban design techniques from a course at Amity School of Architecture and Planning. It defines key characteristics of urban spaces like permeability, variety, and legibility. It also outlines the process of urban design, including problem identification, goal setting, situational analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and implementation. Finally, it discusses components and techniques for conducting a visual survey of an urban area, including mapping physical features, activity patterns, and problem areas.
The document discusses the history and definitions of urban design. It began as a field in the 1950s to bridge the gap between architecture and city planning. Urban design is defined as "that part of city planning which deals with the physical form of the city". The document then explores different "spheres of urbanistic action" or approaches to urban design, including its relationship to architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, and as a form of public policy. It also discusses urban design's role in place-making, addressing issues like sprawl, integrating transportation, and ensuring community participation. The conclusion is that urban design is less a technical discipline and more of a mindset among professionals seeking insights about community form.
Urban design is the multi-disciplinary process of shaping the physical setting of cities, towns, and villages through design to create quality public spaces and places. It involves architecture, town planning, and landscape architecture working together to address issues like industrial decline, modernist planning approaches, and creating responsive environments for communities. Key figures like Jane Jacobs and Gordon Cullen helped establish urban design as a field focused on the human experience of urban areas through qualitative approaches.
The concept of knowledge-based urban development has first come to the urban planning and development agenda during the very last years of the 20th century as a promising paradigm to support the transformation process of cities into knowledge cities and their societies into knowledge societies
Kevyn introduced a concept of planning that was the base for understanding and visualising The Planning Aspects; important for the budding planners.
The presentation initiates the same understanding and invokes a means for better understanding of 'Planning'.
Urban design considerations aim to provide guidance for designers to create buildings and public spaces that are easy to navigate, stimulate public activity, and support various uses. Key factors include spatial patterns, street networks, how space is used, and balancing consistency with variety in the urban environment. The goal of urban design is to create places that can be enjoyed by diverse people now and in the future.
This document provides information on different types of mapping, including cognitive mapping, behavioural mapping, and activity mapping. It discusses cognitive mapping as the process of encoding, storing, and manipulating experienced spatial information. Behavioural mapping is described as an objective method to observe and link human behavior to built environment attributes. Activity mapping involves recording the patterns and types of activities that people engage in within a space on a map. The document provides details on how to approach and represent each type of mapping to understand human spatial behavior and perceptions.
Additional characteristics of an Urban Space urban morphologySomesh Siddharth
This document provides information on urban morphology and urban design techniques from a course at Amity School of Architecture and Planning. It defines key characteristics of urban spaces like permeability, variety, and legibility. It also outlines the process of urban design, including problem identification, goal setting, situational analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and implementation. Finally, it discusses components and techniques for conducting a visual survey of an urban area, including mapping physical features, activity patterns, and problem areas.
The document discusses the history and definitions of urban design. It began as a field in the 1950s to bridge the gap between architecture and city planning. Urban design is defined as "that part of city planning which deals with the physical form of the city". The document then explores different "spheres of urbanistic action" or approaches to urban design, including its relationship to architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, and as a form of public policy. It also discusses urban design's role in place-making, addressing issues like sprawl, integrating transportation, and ensuring community participation. The conclusion is that urban design is less a technical discipline and more of a mindset among professionals seeking insights about community form.
Urban design is the multi-disciplinary process of shaping the physical setting of cities, towns, and villages through design to create quality public spaces and places. It involves architecture, town planning, and landscape architecture working together to address issues like industrial decline, modernist planning approaches, and creating responsive environments for communities. Key figures like Jane Jacobs and Gordon Cullen helped establish urban design as a field focused on the human experience of urban areas through qualitative approaches.
The document provides a review of Kevin Lynch's book "The Image of the City". It summarizes the key points of each chapter, including Lynch's analysis of how people perceive and navigate urban environments through mental maps containing paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. It also analyzes Lynch's writing style, praising the logical flow of ideas, focus on the central topic of a city's image, effective use of illustrations, and coherence. The review evaluates Lynch's influential work on urban planning and how understanding human perception can influence city design.
Here is the full set of notes as in topics of urban designing. this work is done by 2013-2018 architecture batch (SDPS college of architecture). hope it will help you find yours.
The document summarizes Kevin Lynch's book "Image of the City". Lynch studied how people perceive and understand cities based on mental maps. He identified 5 key elements that shape a person's mental map of a city: paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. Lynch also coined the terms "imageability" and "wayfinding". The book was influential in urban planning and psychology. It provided a framework to evaluate a city's form and image from a resident's perspective.
This document discusses environmental cognition and cognitive mapping. It begins by defining environmental cognition as the process of acquiring, storing, organizing, and recalling information about locations, distances, and arrangements in spaces. It then defines cognitive mapping as the process by which individuals acquire, code, store, and recall information about the relative locations and attributes of phenomena in their everyday spatial environment. The document goes on to discuss cognitive maps as mental constructs of environments that integrate parts into a whole. It notes several factors that influence cognitive map formation, including age, personality, experience, and familiarity with an area. Finally, the document discusses Kevin Lynch's theory of the image of the city and his five elements of urban legibility: paths, edges, districts
Urban design criteria the holistic approach for design assessmentNik Latogan
The lecture discusses key concepts and principles of urban design. It emphasizes taking a holistic approach that considers various factors such as the people, laws and regulations, activities, time, transportation, physical environment, politics, accessibility, resources, design plans, and space. The lecture also stresses the importance of understanding user needs and involving stakeholders in the design process. It provides guidelines for assessing urban design projects based on established criteria and benchmarks.
Urban design aims to understand urban form and the core values that support creating places with sustainable opportunities. It seeks to maximize choices for empowerment through the layers that make up urban form, including landform, public spaces, plots, and buildings. Good urban form is permeable with integrated networks and active interfaces between places to support vitality.
Lecture 12 Theories of Urban Spatial Designrohayah3
Three main theories of urban spatial design are discussed:
1. Figure and ground theory examines the relationship between solid urban masses (buildings) and open voids (spaces). It aims to establish a hierarchy of enclosed spaces through manipulating the pattern of solids and voids.
2. Linkage theory is based on "lines" that connect urban elements. It focuses on designing networks of paths, streets, and linear open spaces.
3. Place theory combines the above by giving contextual meaning to spaces based on cultural and human factors. A place is complete when architecture achieves a sense of unity and is visually appropriate for the context. Together, the theories aim to comprehensively understand and design urban form and spaces.
The document discusses six students' analyses of Liverpool and Barcelona using various urban theorists, including Kevin Lynch, Jane Jacobs, Gordon Cullen, and Christopher Alexander.
Natalia Kaminska analyzes three districts in Liverpool (Liverpool One, Ropewalks, and The Waterfront) using Kevin Lynch's theory of paths, nodes, edges, districts, and landmarks to understand how people navigate the city. She describes each area and applies Lynch's elements to examine individual perception and wayfinding.
The other students will similarly apply theories from Lynch, Jacobs, Cullen, and Alexander to analyze various neighborhoods in Barcelona, examining aspects like safety, movement through space, and formation of public spaces. The goal is to
This document summarizes characteristics of urban design presented by Nguyen Dang Phuong Linh at Hanoi Architectural University in 2014. It discusses three main characteristics: 1) spatial orientation and human scale in design, 2) time orientation and how buildings represent different eras, and 3) people and landscape environment, including the importance of social factors, green space, and public spaces that are accessible to all.
Urban Design at different levels of PlanningYajush Sonar
This document provides guidelines for urban design in several areas:
1. It discusses the basics of urban design including its multi-disciplinary nature and focus on designing places for people.
2. Guidelines are given for massing and intensity in urban fringe and rural areas, including respecting the natural environment and providing linkages between urban and rural spaces.
3. Recommendations are made for development height profiles including stepping down heights from city centers to edges and maintaining view corridors.
Urban design is a problem-solving activity that shapes the physical form of cities at all scales. It considers how to create an appropriate physical framework for human activities in cities. The scope of urban design has expanded in response to changes in culture, politics, society and the environment. It draws from theories in urban planning, architecture, and human perception and behavior. Key figures like Jacobs, Lynch, and Rossi influenced urban design to consider aspects like density, land use, collective memory, and the user experience within the built environment. Urban design aims to thoughtfully structure urban form.
urban design principles in CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbaiayan baraniya
It is the study of Urban Design principles by Kevin Lynch in CBD of Belapur. All the elements and principles have been followed wisely. It is the small case study to study features and elements of Urban Design.
The document discusses various topics related to town planning and planning concepts including:
- Definitions of town planning and the role of planners
- The planning process including identification of problems, data collection/analysis, forecasting, implementation, and review
- Types of surveys including regional, town, land use, density, and traffic surveys
- Different types of plans including structural, comprehensive, and developmental plans
The document discusses several functional dimensions of urban design including the use of public spaces, density, mixed uses, and privacy considerations. It describes how public spaces should provide comfort, relaxation, passive and active engagement, and discovery opportunities. Higher densities are preferred to lower densities as they support more sustainable development patterns with efficient use of land and resources. Mixed uses that blend residential, commercial and other functions are also highlighted as important for urban vitality.
Perception of Urban Space Shape of an Urban FormSomesh Siddharth
This document provides an overview of key concepts for understanding urban morphology, including:
- Perception of urban space is determined by factors like urban form, massing, and scale. Massing influences how space is perceived, and scale relates to human vision and modes of movement.
- Shape of an urban form is defined by characteristics like size, density, pattern, grain, texture, voids, and routes. Districts, activity structures, orientation, vistas, skylines, and details further shape the urban environment.
- Learning objectives are to understand how to perceive urban environments through determinants of urban form like space, mass, and scale. Key aspects that influence the perception of urban space are discussed.
This document discusses urban morphology and the determinants of urban form. It begins by defining key terms like form, urban form, and urban morphology. It then describes the two main types of urban form - organic and grid oriented. The main determinants that shape urban form are described as natural (e.g. topography, climate) and man-made (e.g. political, religious, economic). Specific examples of each determinant are provided with images to illustrate how the determinant influenced the urban form. The document also includes a glossary defining terms commonly used in urban design like urban block, public realm, grain, and density.
Urban design is concerned with designing the physical environment of cities and towns. It involves designing buildings, public spaces, and infrastructure networks, and considering how people interact with and use the urban environment. Urban design operates at multiple scales, from entire cities down to individual buildings and public spaces. The goal of urban design is to create places that are functional, socially vibrant, and environmentally sustainable through a collaborative process that considers both the physical form and social impacts of design. The document discusses key principles of urban design like context, character, connections, choice, creativity, and custodianship. It also outlines how urban design is implemented through statutory planning documents and development assessments in local governments.
Design tips for complex forms, a presentation at the Clarity 2010 conference in Lisbon. Gives some ideas for how to improve difficult, lengthy forms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The Image of the Data City: Perception in Shared Information SpacesComplex Fields
Presentation from the workshop People Centered Smart Territories: Design, Learning and Analytics, - October 16, 2013 - at the Smart Cities Exhibition, Bologna Italy
The document provides a review of Kevin Lynch's book "The Image of the City". It summarizes the key points of each chapter, including Lynch's analysis of how people perceive and navigate urban environments through mental maps containing paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. It also analyzes Lynch's writing style, praising the logical flow of ideas, focus on the central topic of a city's image, effective use of illustrations, and coherence. The review evaluates Lynch's influential work on urban planning and how understanding human perception can influence city design.
Here is the full set of notes as in topics of urban designing. this work is done by 2013-2018 architecture batch (SDPS college of architecture). hope it will help you find yours.
The document summarizes Kevin Lynch's book "Image of the City". Lynch studied how people perceive and understand cities based on mental maps. He identified 5 key elements that shape a person's mental map of a city: paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. Lynch also coined the terms "imageability" and "wayfinding". The book was influential in urban planning and psychology. It provided a framework to evaluate a city's form and image from a resident's perspective.
This document discusses environmental cognition and cognitive mapping. It begins by defining environmental cognition as the process of acquiring, storing, organizing, and recalling information about locations, distances, and arrangements in spaces. It then defines cognitive mapping as the process by which individuals acquire, code, store, and recall information about the relative locations and attributes of phenomena in their everyday spatial environment. The document goes on to discuss cognitive maps as mental constructs of environments that integrate parts into a whole. It notes several factors that influence cognitive map formation, including age, personality, experience, and familiarity with an area. Finally, the document discusses Kevin Lynch's theory of the image of the city and his five elements of urban legibility: paths, edges, districts
Urban design criteria the holistic approach for design assessmentNik Latogan
The lecture discusses key concepts and principles of urban design. It emphasizes taking a holistic approach that considers various factors such as the people, laws and regulations, activities, time, transportation, physical environment, politics, accessibility, resources, design plans, and space. The lecture also stresses the importance of understanding user needs and involving stakeholders in the design process. It provides guidelines for assessing urban design projects based on established criteria and benchmarks.
Urban design aims to understand urban form and the core values that support creating places with sustainable opportunities. It seeks to maximize choices for empowerment through the layers that make up urban form, including landform, public spaces, plots, and buildings. Good urban form is permeable with integrated networks and active interfaces between places to support vitality.
Lecture 12 Theories of Urban Spatial Designrohayah3
Three main theories of urban spatial design are discussed:
1. Figure and ground theory examines the relationship between solid urban masses (buildings) and open voids (spaces). It aims to establish a hierarchy of enclosed spaces through manipulating the pattern of solids and voids.
2. Linkage theory is based on "lines" that connect urban elements. It focuses on designing networks of paths, streets, and linear open spaces.
3. Place theory combines the above by giving contextual meaning to spaces based on cultural and human factors. A place is complete when architecture achieves a sense of unity and is visually appropriate for the context. Together, the theories aim to comprehensively understand and design urban form and spaces.
The document discusses six students' analyses of Liverpool and Barcelona using various urban theorists, including Kevin Lynch, Jane Jacobs, Gordon Cullen, and Christopher Alexander.
Natalia Kaminska analyzes three districts in Liverpool (Liverpool One, Ropewalks, and The Waterfront) using Kevin Lynch's theory of paths, nodes, edges, districts, and landmarks to understand how people navigate the city. She describes each area and applies Lynch's elements to examine individual perception and wayfinding.
The other students will similarly apply theories from Lynch, Jacobs, Cullen, and Alexander to analyze various neighborhoods in Barcelona, examining aspects like safety, movement through space, and formation of public spaces. The goal is to
This document summarizes characteristics of urban design presented by Nguyen Dang Phuong Linh at Hanoi Architectural University in 2014. It discusses three main characteristics: 1) spatial orientation and human scale in design, 2) time orientation and how buildings represent different eras, and 3) people and landscape environment, including the importance of social factors, green space, and public spaces that are accessible to all.
Urban Design at different levels of PlanningYajush Sonar
This document provides guidelines for urban design in several areas:
1. It discusses the basics of urban design including its multi-disciplinary nature and focus on designing places for people.
2. Guidelines are given for massing and intensity in urban fringe and rural areas, including respecting the natural environment and providing linkages between urban and rural spaces.
3. Recommendations are made for development height profiles including stepping down heights from city centers to edges and maintaining view corridors.
Urban design is a problem-solving activity that shapes the physical form of cities at all scales. It considers how to create an appropriate physical framework for human activities in cities. The scope of urban design has expanded in response to changes in culture, politics, society and the environment. It draws from theories in urban planning, architecture, and human perception and behavior. Key figures like Jacobs, Lynch, and Rossi influenced urban design to consider aspects like density, land use, collective memory, and the user experience within the built environment. Urban design aims to thoughtfully structure urban form.
urban design principles in CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbaiayan baraniya
It is the study of Urban Design principles by Kevin Lynch in CBD of Belapur. All the elements and principles have been followed wisely. It is the small case study to study features and elements of Urban Design.
The document discusses various topics related to town planning and planning concepts including:
- Definitions of town planning and the role of planners
- The planning process including identification of problems, data collection/analysis, forecasting, implementation, and review
- Types of surveys including regional, town, land use, density, and traffic surveys
- Different types of plans including structural, comprehensive, and developmental plans
The document discusses several functional dimensions of urban design including the use of public spaces, density, mixed uses, and privacy considerations. It describes how public spaces should provide comfort, relaxation, passive and active engagement, and discovery opportunities. Higher densities are preferred to lower densities as they support more sustainable development patterns with efficient use of land and resources. Mixed uses that blend residential, commercial and other functions are also highlighted as important for urban vitality.
Perception of Urban Space Shape of an Urban FormSomesh Siddharth
This document provides an overview of key concepts for understanding urban morphology, including:
- Perception of urban space is determined by factors like urban form, massing, and scale. Massing influences how space is perceived, and scale relates to human vision and modes of movement.
- Shape of an urban form is defined by characteristics like size, density, pattern, grain, texture, voids, and routes. Districts, activity structures, orientation, vistas, skylines, and details further shape the urban environment.
- Learning objectives are to understand how to perceive urban environments through determinants of urban form like space, mass, and scale. Key aspects that influence the perception of urban space are discussed.
This document discusses urban morphology and the determinants of urban form. It begins by defining key terms like form, urban form, and urban morphology. It then describes the two main types of urban form - organic and grid oriented. The main determinants that shape urban form are described as natural (e.g. topography, climate) and man-made (e.g. political, religious, economic). Specific examples of each determinant are provided with images to illustrate how the determinant influenced the urban form. The document also includes a glossary defining terms commonly used in urban design like urban block, public realm, grain, and density.
Urban design is concerned with designing the physical environment of cities and towns. It involves designing buildings, public spaces, and infrastructure networks, and considering how people interact with and use the urban environment. Urban design operates at multiple scales, from entire cities down to individual buildings and public spaces. The goal of urban design is to create places that are functional, socially vibrant, and environmentally sustainable through a collaborative process that considers both the physical form and social impacts of design. The document discusses key principles of urban design like context, character, connections, choice, creativity, and custodianship. It also outlines how urban design is implemented through statutory planning documents and development assessments in local governments.
Design tips for complex forms, a presentation at the Clarity 2010 conference in Lisbon. Gives some ideas for how to improve difficult, lengthy forms.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The Image of the Data City: Perception in Shared Information SpacesComplex Fields
Presentation from the workshop People Centered Smart Territories: Design, Learning and Analytics, - October 16, 2013 - at the Smart Cities Exhibition, Bologna Italy
Kevin Lynch defined imageability as the quality of a physical object that gives it a high probability of evoking a strong mental image in an observer. People's perception of their city is important for building its image. The city image is formed by its physical elements like paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks, and how they interact and are interrelated. An environment should satisfy the cultural and individual demands of its inhabitants to have a coherent image.
The principles of user interface design are intended to improve the quality of user interface design.
• The structure principle: Design should organize the user interface purposefully, in meaningful and useful ways based on clear, consistent models that are apparent and recognizable to users, putting related things together and separating unrelated things, differentiating dissimilar things and making similar things resemble one another. The structure principle is concerned with overall user interface architecture.
• The simplicity principle: The design should make simple, common tasks easy, communicating clearly and simply in the user's own language, and providing good shortcuts that are meaningfully related to longer procedures.
• The visibility principle: The design should make all needed options and materials for a given task visible without distracting the user with extraneous or redundant information. Good designs don't overwhelm users with alternatives or confuse with unneeded information.
• The feedback principle: The design should keep users informed of actions or interpretations, changes of state or condition, and errors or exceptions that are relevant and of interest to the user through clear, concise, and unambiguous language familiar to users.
• The tolerance principle: The design should be flexible and tolerant, reducing the cost of mistakes and misuse by allowing undoing and redoing, while also preventing errors wherever possible by tolerating varied inputs and sequences and by interpreting all reasonable actions.
• The reuse principle: The design should reuse internal and external components and behaviors, maintaining consistency with purpose rather than merely arbitrary consistency, thus reducing the need for users to rethink and remember.
Planning Theories presents in the city UJJAINPraveen Mukati
Ujjain, India is an ancient city situated on the Kshipra River. It has developed in a wedge-shaped pattern along major transportation routes like railroads and roads. The city follows Homer Hoyt's sector model of urban structure, with sectors emanating from the city center along transportation arteries. The old city lies north of the railroad, while the new area started developing south of the railroad in the 1930s. Ujjain has a rich cultural heritage and religious significance, with many historic temples that attract pilgrims and influence the city's growth pattern.
THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM PART BJ-Sern Phua
Klang's Little India in Malaysia is situated along Jalan Tengku Kelana near the prominent Klang River. It began in the 19th century as a business area for Indian money lenders and textile exporters and has since grown exponentially. The area is now dominated by Indian culture as evidenced by the saris, jewelry, textiles, and cuisine found throughout. Key landmarks include the Masjid India Klang mosque, the Lax Boutique Hotel, and the old Klang KTM train station. Applying Kevin Lynch's theories of the image of the city, the document analyzes Klang's Little India and identifies its paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks based on a site visit by the
The document discusses the relationship between people and the urban landscape. It explores how landscapes are shaped by natural and human factors and are perceived differently based on historical and cultural contexts. Various works of art depicting urban landscapes from different time periods and locations are presented, showing how landscapes have been represented and understood visually over time. The role of the urban landscape in shaping and reflecting the society that inhabits it is also examined.
1. The document discusses site planning considerations for different land uses including shopping centers, commercial strips, industrial districts, institutions, and open spaces.
2. It provides guidelines for locating shopping centers based on market analysis, accessibility, and population distribution. Common shopping center typologies like neighborhood, community, and regional centers are described.
3. Considerations for shopping center layout include general forms, vehicle and pedestrian circulation, parking requirements, landscaping, and interior mall design. Successful commercial strips and older shopping districts can integrate walkways and transit access.
4. Industrial district planning prioritizes flat land, inexpensive sites, access to highways and rail lines, and proximity to housing and services.
Kevin Lynch proposes criteria for evaluating good city form, including vitality, sense, fit, access, and control. He tests these criteria on issues of city size, growth, conservation, and planning practices. The book provides a comprehensive discussion of urban theory and a normative theory relating the value of a city to its spatial characteristics. Lynch argues that independent forces transform human settlements and that the first cities emerged after agricultural revolutions, developing new skills to serve new elites within carefully planned layouts.
The document discusses how simplicity does not necessarily mean ease, and that simple things can require hard work. It provides examples of simple ways to lose weight, save money, and pass a test by eating less, making a budget, and studying hard respectively. Breaking bad habits requires replacing them with good habits through a mindset change. Getting good at simple things involves eliminating distractions, focusing on one step at a time with full attention, and maintaining a positive outlook. Entering a state of "flow" comes from immersing oneself in an activity one is passionate about that is appropriately challenging, and helps clear the mind of stress and interruptions.
1. A schema describes how people organize information into categories and relationships to form mental images of urban environments.
2. Perception involves gathering, organizing, and interpreting sensory information through five steps like paying attention and assigning meaning.
3. Kevin Lynch studied how people navigate cities based on five key elements - paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks - that give cities structure and identity in people's mental images.
4. Clear paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks that connect to each other help form a legible urban image, while discontinuity and lack of identity can create an unclear image.
The document discusses elements of urban design that shape cities, including buildings, public spaces, streets, landscape, and their interrelationships. It also summarizes Kevin Lynch's book "The Image of the City", which examines how residents mentally map their city based on paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. Finally, it provides examples of these elements in Mysore, India, highlighting landmarks like the Ambavilas Palace, focal points like Chamaraja Circle, and the city's planned layout with vistas, public squares, and response of buildings to the street network.
The document discusses different types of city forms including the radiocentric, gridiron, and linear cities. It provides examples like Moscow as a radiocentric city with concentric rings radiating from the Kremlin. Chandigarh and San Francisco are discussed as examples of gridiron cities with orthogonal street grids. Navi Mumbai is presented as a linear city developing along transportation routes. The document also covers models of urban land use including the concentric zone, sector, and multiple nuclei models.
Kevin Lynch has discussed about how a kit of tools make more legible the city and how the inhabitants creat images of their environment through this tools, elements that form the city.
Urban design can significantly impact the economic, environmental, social, and cultural outcomes of a place. It influences factors like local business success, housing costs, transportation access, and how people interact. Key elements of urban design include buildings, public spaces, streets, transportation systems, and landscape features. Buildings define the streetscape while public spaces are where people come together. Streets connect places and their design impacts walkability. Transportation networks enable movement throughout the city. Landscape provides green spaces that enhance character and beauty.
Urban design is the process of shaping the physical setting of cities and villages. It deals with groups of buildings and the spaces between them, including streets, paths, gardens and squares. Urban design considers aesthetics and how the physical environment will be used. It requires input from multiple fields like engineering, ecology, history and transport planning. The best urban design involves interdisciplinary teams to create places that are good to live in, attractive to visit, establish community identity, reduce crime, and be socially and economically successful.
The document summarizes key movements in design history from the Victorian era to post-modernism. It provides an overview of each style including dates, origins, key characteristics, and highlights. Some of the major styles covered include Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, Modernism, and Post-Modernism. Each entry includes a brief description of the movement and bullet points outlining the defining features of the design style.
"Open To The Public": Cultural Institutions, Digital Labor, and Local Network...jkmcgrath
Slides from a talk I gave as part of the "Public Humanities In A Digital Age" panel (organized by Nicky Agate) at ACLA 2016 (Harvard University). Additional context will be provided via a blog post about this talk; I'll update info here with the link when it's up.
The MA in Digital Humanities at King's College London looks at how we create and disseminate knowledge in an age where so much of what we do is mobile, networked and mediated by digital culture and technology
It gives a critical perspective on digital theory and practice in studying human culture, from the perspectives of academic scholarship, cultural heritage and the commercial world
We study the history and current state of the digital humanities, and their role in modelling, curating, analysing and interpreting digital representations of human culture in all its forms.
For more information: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgt/madh/index.aspx
This document describes a project aimed at developing students' digital citizenship. The project's motto is that technology opens doors to the world but how we use it matters. The project exposes students to issues of digital rights, responsibilities, and behaviors. It also helps students understand what it means to be "digital natives." Through lessons, discussions, and videoconferences with international partners, students explore concepts like digital identity, citizenship on a national/EU/global level. The goals are for students to have a better grasp of active digital citizenship and to act as ambassadors helping others develop digital skills.
This document describes a project aimed at developing students' digital citizenship. The project's motto is that technology opens doors to the world but how we use it matters. The project exposes students to issues of digital rights, responsibilities, and behaviors. It also helps students understand what it means to be "digital natives." The goals are for students to reflect on being active and responsible digital citizens, and to widen their understanding of citizenship both nationally and globally in the digital era. Through lessons, discussions, and videoconferences with international partners, students learn about topics like internet safety and digital etiquette. The project has been successful in educating students and helping them become "digital ambassadors."
This document outlines efforts to envision the future of information education and prepare students. It discusses gathering input on needed skills like critical thinking and flexibility. It describes the Beyond the Stacks podcast promoting diverse careers. It also discusses building bridges across fields through collaborations like an artist-in-residence program. Pilot projects are proposed on a teaching library model and virtual field experiences to help faculty and students adapt to future changes. The overall goal is helping information professionals lead innovative changes.
Media making & critical digital citizenship: practice-research in actionDavid McGillivray
Presentation delivered a part of online seminar for Mobile Methods for Researching Bodies in Motion seminar, University of British Colombia, School of Kinesiology, 30th January 2017.
This document provides an overview of the College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM) at DePaul University. It discusses CDM's history, facilities, enrollment numbers, degree programs offered, partnerships with local high schools, and more. Specifically:
1) CDM was formed in 1981 as the Department of Computer Science and has since grown to include the School of Computing, School of Cinematic Arts, and School of Design. It is led by Dean David Miller who has been at DePaul for 35 years.
2) CDM has space in multiple buildings on DePaul's campus and enrollment of approximately 1,200 students pursuing degrees in various computing and digital media fields.
3) The college works
The document summarizes notes from an orientation meeting for the National Writing Project's Digital Is Project in 2009. The project aims to build an online knowledge base of effective digital writing practices and explore connections between digital media and learning. Key outcomes for 2009 include launching a website with curated teaching resources in September and hosting a conference in November.
This document describes a project aimed at motivating students to become digitally active citizens. The project exposes students to various issues related to digital citizenship and responsibilities in the modern digital world. It helps students understand digital rights and appropriate online behavior. The goals are for students to reflect on digital citizenship, broaden their understanding of this competency, and become responsible digital natives. The project has involved schools in Slovakia, Romania, and Italy. It uses lessons, videoconferences, and competitions to achieve these aims. The project has been successful in promoting digital citizenship.
Mary Beth Henry - Connecting to Our Future: The Digital Livable City - GCS16KC Digital Drive
The document discusses the role of local governments in promoting digital equity and accessibility. It provides two case studies of cities that have implemented broadband initiatives: Portland, Oregon launched a broadband plan and digital equity action plan to promote affordable high-speed internet access, while Sandy, Oregon started a municipal broadband utility called SandyNet that now provides gigabit speeds to 60% of residents. The document also discusses how cities can become more responsive by using technology to improve services and quality of life, as well as ensuring digital inclusion for all groups like youth and older adults.
My presentation at Mediated City Conference Bristol looking at how structured social media use can help enable new forms of public agency in the emerging Smart City, better City 2.0. Social Networks offer us strong ties & weak ties and Social change comes from an collaborative mix of string & weak ties/
Smart City Citizenship provides rigorous analysis for academics and policymakers on the participatory processes and practices of smart cities to help integrate ICT-related innovation into urban life. Unlike other smart city books that are often edited collections, this book focuses on the business domain and the technological disruptions themselves, also examining the role of citizens and the democratic governance issues raised from an interdisciplinary perspective. As smart city research is a fast-growing topic of scientific inquiry and evolving rapidly, this book is an ideal reference for a much needed discussion.
To cite this book: Calzada, I. (2020), Smart City Citizenship, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc. ISBN-10: 0128153008 ISBN-13: 978-0128153000
Further information:
ELSEVIER
https://www.elsevier.com/books/smart-city-citizenship/calzada/978-0-12-815300-0
AMAZON
https://www.amazon.in/Smart-City-Citizenship-Igor-Calzada/dp/0128153008/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1565528866&refinements=p_27%3AIgor+Calzada&s=books&sr=1-2
Digital Literacy: It's about more than accessBobbi Newman
Digital literacy is about more than just access to technology. It involves using technology well and the ability to learn, unlearn, and relearn skills. While many have access to technology, 66 million Americans still lack basic digital literacy skills. Digital literacy encompasses skills like attention, participation, collaboration, and network smarts. It also involves the ability to read, write, and interact across different platforms and media. Questions about digital literacy include its relationship to concepts like media literacy, visual literacy, and information literacy.
Open Data Seminar
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
D/Public Expenditure and reform, Government Buildings,
Merrion Street, Dublin 2
Conference Room 0.2, South Block
2.00pm, Wednesday 11 February 2015
Tracey P. Lauriault and Rob Kitchin
Programmable City Project, NIRSA, Maynooth University
Globalisation and Digital Citiesa talk on digital and place - perspectives
Luis Borges Gouveia (@lbgouveia)
University of East London
15th September 2010
This set of slides is from the Active Cities Summit, organised by Sustrans and Nike, and was delivered by Claire Craig.
Claire Craig is the Director for the Government Office for Science.
This presentation explores the Foresight Future of Cities study and active living in cities for economic success.
Humans of Lomé project: Traveling Circus of UrbanismMariko Sugita
A presentation slide to explain the collaboration project of Traveling Circus of Urbanism with WoeLab from 13 December 2021 til 31th January 2022 in Lomé, Togo.
This document outlines challenges and opportunities for decolonizing digital humanities. It discusses how digital humanities has traditionally focused on Western texts and excluded work by marginalized groups. It also notes concerns around a lack of diversity in who conducts digital humanities research and receives funding. The document advocates for recent efforts like #transformDH that center issues of race, class, gender and disability. It provides an example project on digitizing Chinese Canadian histories that highlights opportunities for community engagement and more inclusive digital scholarship.
This document discusses research on transgender communities on Tumblr. It begins by outlining the research questions around what can be learned from trans youth networks and how trans data can inform theory. It then describes the methods used to analyze over 1 million posts from the #ftm and #mtf hashtags on Tumblr. Key findings include Tumblr serving as an archive of experiences, a source of medical knowledge, and a site for cultural production and identity exploration. The document argues for an approach to trans data that recognizes its situated nature and holds binaries in tension. It suggests trans theory can benefit from understanding lived experiences and recognizing manifold identities.
We had a rousing conversation about the merits of open access (#OA) during Open Access Week at Trinity College. My presentation focused on how I came into OA and the key resources that make a busy faculty member or graduate student's entrée into sharing their research publicly as part of the open education movement. See jgieseking.org for the complementary handout. After an introduction from our digital librarian Amy Harrell, I was joined by my colleagues Jack Doughtery in Urban Education Studies, and Charles Lebel in Language and Culture Studies in brief individual presentations followed by a conversation with our faculty.
This document summarizes Jen Jack Gieseking's presentation on queer spatial methods. It discusses using mixed qualitative and quantitative data to have conversations across datasets. It also discusses using multiple tools from digital humanities and social data sciences to allow for more expression. The presentation outlines using mental mapping, GIS, interactive online maps, and mixed analytics to hold tension between data. It provides a case study of mapping lesbian and queer women's spaces in New York City from 1983 to 2008. The goal is queer interventions in mapping that challenge norms.
"Personal/Political/Feminist Maps: Reflections on Spatial Methods for Action Research"
Talk given at Feminist Social Justice Conference, a Workshop on Participatory and Feminist Research Methods
March 16, 2015
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
In _The Practice of Everyday Life_, de Certeau writes that "What the map cuts up, the story cuts across." But what if the everyday stories you seek are already cut up by centuries of structural inequality and oppression, such as those of lesbians and queer women? In this talk I investigate what can be gained for the study of women’s lives and spaces by bringing together the isolated but overlapping stories of lesbians and queer women in maps, from the hand-drawn to the most technologically advanced and interactive. Drawing upon qualitative and quantitative work on lesbians' and queer women's spaces and economies in New York City from 1983 to 2008—including multi-generational focus groups and mental maps, archival research and GIS—I work through three different types of mapping methods and platforms within a participatory action research framework. Through a close analysis of mental maps and GIS maps created using QGIS and TileMill/Mapbox, I suggest that while the spatial and verbal can both obfuscate and illuminate understandings of everyday life. It is the queer practice of holding these seeming binaries in tension that reveals the most rich and complicated knowledge.
Digital Image of the City - Infrastructure
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Roya Moussapour, Alex N'Diaye, Karl Reinhardt, Alexi Robbins, James Wang, Max Wolf
Presentation given on 12/10/14
Digital Image of the City - Infrastructure
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Rachel Barnes, Ezra Duplissie-Cyr, Ike May, Kote Mushegian, Luis Paniagua, Mingo Sanchez, Vivian Yang
Presentation given on 12/10/14
Digital Image of the City - Housing
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Annie Chen, Emma Chow, Jenny Ibsen, Eva Sibinga, Jackie Sullivan, Libby Szuflita
Presentation given on 12/10/14
Digital Image of the City - Housing
Bowdoin College
Fall 2014
Ben Miller, Peter Nauffts, Hannah Rafkin, Claudia Villar, Jonah Watt
Presentation given on 12/10/14
"Sustaining Difference during Gentrification: NYC & Berlin Since 2008"
Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking
Digital & Computational Studies
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA
BUKA 2010-2011, HU im Berlin
jgieseking.org
@jgieseking
Presentation from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bundeskanzler-Stipendium (BUKA) / German Chancellor Fellowship Kolloquium in Sankt-Petersburg, Russia.
Do not cite, reprint, or quote this presentation without express permission of Dr. Jen Jack Gieseking.
The Digital Image of the City
Digital & Computational Studies
Bowdoin College
October 8, 2014
Professor Gieseking
Lecture Slides "Race, Ethnicity, Immigration"
This document discusses the production of urban space and the concept of smart cities. It references works by James Merrill, Dolores Hayden, and Anthony Townsend on how space is produced and for whose benefit. Examples are provided of Hayden's work documenting spaces created by marginalized communities in East Harlem and Little Tokyo. The document also references a study visualizing taxi pickups and dropoffs in New York City. Readings by Debord, Bauman, and Lynch are assigned for an upcoming field trip, with a blog post due before the trip.
Ruben Martinez '16 is a student of Bowdoin College. He created this presentation as a part of the Data Driven Societies course (Spring 2014) taught by Drs. Gieseking and Gaze. His analysis draws upon one month of #wearable data scraped from Twitter in February of 2014.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
How to Fix the Import Error in the Odoo 17Celine George
An import error occurs when a program fails to import a module or library, disrupting its execution. In languages like Python, this issue arises when the specified module cannot be found or accessed, hindering the program's functionality. Resolving import errors is crucial for maintaining smooth software operation and uninterrupted development processes.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
বাংলাদেশের অর্থনৈতিক সমীক্ষা ২০২৪ [Bangladesh Economic Review 2024 Bangla.pdf] কম্পিউটার , ট্যাব ও স্মার্ট ফোন ভার্সন সহ সম্পূর্ণ বাংলা ই-বুক বা pdf বই " সুচিপত্র ...বুকমার্ক মেনু 🔖 ও হাইপার লিংক মেনু 📝👆 যুক্ত ..
আমাদের সবার জন্য খুব খুব গুরুত্বপূর্ণ একটি বই ..বিসিএস, ব্যাংক, ইউনিভার্সিটি ভর্তি ও যে কোন প্রতিযোগিতা মূলক পরীক্ষার জন্য এর খুব ইম্পরট্যান্ট একটি বিষয় ...তাছাড়া বাংলাদেশের সাম্প্রতিক যে কোন ডাটা বা তথ্য এই বইতে পাবেন ...
তাই একজন নাগরিক হিসাবে এই তথ্য গুলো আপনার জানা প্রয়োজন ...।
বিসিএস ও ব্যাংক এর লিখিত পরীক্ষা ...+এছাড়া মাধ্যমিক ও উচ্চমাধ্যমিকের স্টুডেন্টদের জন্য অনেক কাজে আসবে ...
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
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You will hear from Liz Willett, the Head of Nonprofits, and hear about what Walmart is doing to help nonprofits, including Walmart Business and Spark Good. Walmart Business+ is a new offer for nonprofits that offers discounts and also streamlines nonprofits order and expense tracking, saving time and money.
The webinar may also give some examples on how nonprofits can best leverage Walmart Business+.
The event will cover the following::
Walmart Business + (https://business.walmart.com/plus) is a new shopping experience for nonprofits, schools, and local business customers that connects an exclusive online shopping experience to stores. Benefits include free delivery and shipping, a 'Spend Analytics” feature, special discounts, deals and tax-exempt shopping.
Special TechSoup offer for a free 180 days membership, and up to $150 in discounts on eligible orders.
Spark Good (walmart.com/sparkgood) is a charitable platform that enables nonprofits to receive donations directly from customers and associates.
Answers about how you can do more with Walmart!"
1. An Introduction
to The Digital
Image of the
City
The Digital Image of the City
Digital& Computational Studies Initiative
Bowdoin College
Jack Gieseking
2. How can we see the future from the past?
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1960
10. DIOTC
At this moment in the technological revolution
and intensified urbanization, you will learn the
core concepts of urbanization and cutting-edge
approaches to smart urbanism in order to think
critically and act as educated citizens to
produce cities for the common good.
11. A smart city though, like a class, is made up of people.
Who are these educated citizens?
i.e.,
time for introductions
15. DIOTC Research
Question
What are the best ways forward for Portland,
Maine, to join the smart city revolution while
developing as a city for the common good?
Research Groups
!
•Housing - gentrification, public housing, smart buildings
•Infrastructure - ICT, public wifi, transportation
•Public Space - access, design, use
16. DIOTC Literature
Debacle
Smart cities are so new that there is little literature on them.
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Instead, how can we see the future of the cities
nearby from the leading cities at a distance?
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Comparative urbanisms: NYC & Portland
18. 1. Café ethnography
2. Collect 4 mental maps from Portland residents
3. Conduct a transect walk with a peer while focusing
on your research topic
DIOTC Research
Model
4. Geocode & use this data and other datasets to
create maps using GIS
19. What is your mental map of Portland?
!
Take five minutes and draw one.
21. DIOTC Research
Contributions
•Ideas for smart urbanist next steps around issues of housing,
infrastructure, and public space
•Creation of new datasets for the City of Portland and for other
students to build upon
•Develop the literature on Portland, Maine
•Extend smart city thinking on small cities
•Collect data from the public to shape the future of a city
•Further relationship between the City and the College
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23. Reading and video for Wednesday:
Hayden, Townsend
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Assignments:
Blog Post #1 due Friday, Sept. 12th
(day before field trip)
DIOTC
FORTHCOMING