Urban Planning, Urban Design & Architecture definitions with examples in Tripoli city “I’m trying to discover – invent, I suppose an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same things in a contemporary way. I started out of trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples” by ZAHA HADID

1.  Supervised by : Prof.Latifa Wafa
 Presented by : Ibtehal Ammar
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School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department of Civil & Architecture Engineering
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Definitions of Urban Planning, Urban
Design & Architecture
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 Introduction
 Definitions
 What is Urban Planning?
 What is Urban Design?
 What is Architecture?
 Conclusion
 References

3. “I’m trying to discover – invent, I suppose an
architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do
something of the same things in a contemporary
way. I started out of trying to create buildings that
would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want
them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape,
to flow together with contemporary cities and the
lives of their peoples”
by ZAHA HADID
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I n t r o d u c t i o n :

4. What is
Urban Planning ?
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 Urban Planning :is a technical and political process
concerned with the use of land, protection and use of the
environment, public welfare, and the design of the urban
environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure
passing into and out of urban areas such as
transportation, communications, and distribution
networks.
( by Wikipedia )

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Tripoli’s land use map 1980

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Tripoli’s transportation map

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 Urban Planning : is a profession that offers a wide
range of opportunities for people with many different
talents and aspirations, plan for the future of urban areas.
Planners work to ensure that cities have what they need to
grow and prosper.
( by Edward Abbey)

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Plan for the future of urban areas
Tripoli over view

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Planners work to ensure that cities have what they need to grow and
prosper.
Omar Almokhtar Street , Over view

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 Urban Planning : Effective planning provides
opportunities to choose the direction for the future of
community .
( by Olmstead )

12. What is
Urban Design ?
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 Urban Design: is the process of giving form, shape, and
character to group of buildings, to whole neighborhoods,
and the city. It is a framework that orders the elements
into a network of streets, squares, and blocks.
( by Daniel H. Burnham )

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the Martyrs Square

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It is a framework that orders the elements into a network of streets,
squares, and blocks
Al Kurnish road , Over view

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 Urban design: is the art of making places for people. It
includes the way places work and matters such as
community safety, as well as how they look. It concerns the
connections between people and places, movement and
urban form, nature and the built fabric, and the processes
for ensuring successful villages, towns and cities.
( by Nick Raynsford MP )

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Is the art of making places for people
Tripoli’s waterfront

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It concerns the connections between people and places
the Martyrs Square

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 Good Urban Design promotes how buildings are scaled
and oriented towards the street. Stops are landscaped to
buffer between pedestrians and vehicular circulation
( Design Hand Book )

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Cathedral Square

21. G A E
6 3 2Stops are landscaped to buffer between pedestrians and vehicular circulation
Independence Street

22. What is
Architecture?
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 Architecture: is an expression of values
( by Norman Foster )
 Architecture is the biggest unwritten document of history
( by Unknown )
 ALife is architecture, and the architecture is the mirror of
life
( by I. M. Pei )

24. Architecture is an expression of values
Tripoli International Exhibition
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25. Architecture is the biggest unwritten document of history
Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Tripoli old town
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26. Life is architecture, and the architecture is the mirror of life
Tripoli See View
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 Architecture: is the masterly, correct, and magnificent
play of forms under the light.
( by Le Corbuiser)
 We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings
shape us.
( by Winston Churchill)

28. play of forms under the light
Aura Café, Cathedral Square
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29. We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us
J.W. Marriot Hotel
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 Architecture: it is about creating buildings and spaces
that inspire us, that help us do our jobs, that brings us
together. and that become, at their best, works of art that
we can move through and live in. and in the end, that is
why architecture can be considered the most democratic of
art forms.
( by President Barack Obama )

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Galleria de Bono

32. G A E
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Galleria de Bono

33. C o n c l u s i o n :
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I. The best way to predict the future is to design it
II. If architecture is frozen music, then urban planning is
composition, and urban design is street performance.
III. Urban design is the discipline through which planning
and architecture can create or renew a sense of local pride
and identity.
IV. Design is not just what it looks like, Design is how it
works.

34. R e f e r e n c e s :
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 Tripoli Colonial Architecture Lec./by Ahmed Embess/Tripoli
University/Architecture & Urban planning department/Fall 2011.
 Urban Design Handbook/ City of Baton Rouge /January 2009
 Planning and Urban Design, American Planning Association, John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006
 http://planneronline.homestead.com/quotes.html
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning
 http://www.planetizen.com/node/7325
 https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-definition-of-urban-design