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2_ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN.pdf
1. Topic
review
1. Five things that made the city
2. Cities are grown in two ways
according to the history
3. Urban transformation
“Evolution of cities”
a) Neolithic settlements
b) Classical Planning - Urban Beginning
c) Medieval Planning (The Dark Ages)
d) Medieval planning (European recovery)
e) Renaissance Cities
f) Industrial Cities
g) Early 20th Century
Lesson 1.1: Historical background
and Theories
4. I. The Role of Urban Design
Help support the plan’s overall goals and connect to other planning
components. Making meaningful places and art of making places.
1. Land use
2. Housing
3. Transportation
4. Urban design
5. Environment
6. Infrastructure and services
5. I. The Role of Urban Design
In relation to Community Architecture, urban design component of an
urban plan can help strengthen other features of the community.
a) Functionality
b) A sense of community
c) Sustainability
6. I. The Role of Urban Design
The urban design component of an urban plan addresses the
physical form of the city and typically includes detailed designs for
various elements of the city.
These elements weaves together into a coherent and organized
designed structure.
7. II. Design
Elements
Elements of Urban design
involves the design and
coordination of all:
1. Buildings
2. Public space
3. Streets
4. Transportation
5. Landscape
8. II. Design
Elements
Elements of Urban design
involves the design and
coordination of all:
1. Building
2. Building blocks
3. Streets
9. II. Elements of Urban
design
A. Building
A city is made up of lots of different pieces
and can be designed at different scales,
from buildings to neighborhoods to entire
cities.
1. Lot coverage and placement
2. Building form
3. Appearance
4. Accessory elements
10.
11. II. Elements of Urban
design
B. Building blocks
A streets and neighborhoods that
help give entire areas a distinctive
look and feel.
Groups of lots and buildings that are
surrounded by a common boundary,
usually streets.
1. Block size
2. Coverage and placement
3. Appearance
12.
13.
14. II. Elements of Urban design
C. Streets
It’s a challenging task because streets serve two functions that are
sometimes at odds with each other. Street design considers some
diverse elements, including the following:
1. Traffic flow and layout
2. Appearance
3. Streetscape elements
15. II. Elements of Urban design
C. Streets
3. Streetscape elements
Good streetscaping helps
encourage greater use of
sidewalks by pedestrians and
creates streets that are more
attractive.
16. Designing Streets for Kids
“If you design a street that works for kids,
you’ve designed a street that works for
everyone,”
Janette Sadik-Khan, NACTO and GDCI Chair
and Principal with Bloomberg Associates.
https://www.childhealthinitiative.org/
24. II. Elements of Urban design
Buildings + Building blocks + Streets
Calle Crisologo - in Vigan, Ilocos
Sur province, is one of the most
beautiful streets in the
Philippines.
It boasts a dense concentration of
centuries-old stone houses, lovely
tungsten lamps, and antique
cobblestone, where horse-drawn
carriages or calesas still to this day
are used for transport.
