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.

1. ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN

2. OBJECTIVES
• To understand the nature of urban design
• To understand the nature of urban form
• To understand core values in urban design• To understand core values in urban design
• To understand the types of places that support these values

3. THE NATURE OF URBAN DESIGN

5. U b D iUrban Design
as a
Movement
seeking common ground

6. CONCLUSION 1
• Urban Design is a movement
U b D i i t f i• Urban Design is not a profession

7. THE NATURE OF URBAN FORM

8. • Landform
• Public Space
Network
• Plots
• Buildings
• Components• Components

9. CONCLUSION 2
Urban form is made from layers that change at different rates.

10. CORE VALUES IN URBAN DESIGN

11. Urban form as a political system
Empowerment: opening up choices

12. CONCLUSION 3
• ‘Choice is the supreme value’
U b f hi f i i t iti• Urban form as a machine for increasing opportunities
• But…with minimum energy inputgy p

13. THE TYPES OF PLACES THAT MAXIMISE
SUSTAINABLE OPPORTUNITIESSUSTAINABLE OPPORTUNITIES

14. PERMEABILITY

19. VITALITY

24. Permeability
Integrated network CONCLUSION 4
Th t f d b fThe nature of good urban form
The Admirable Types
Perimeter block
Vitality
Active interface
The Admirable Types
of
Responsive Environments

30. ANY QUESTIONS ?