This document outlines the goals and framework of urban design. It discusses objectives of urban design such as creating character, continuity and enclosure, quality public realm, legibility, adaptability, and diversity. It provides examples of projects that achieve these objectives. The document also describes an urban design framework, which sets out a strategic vision for developing a place through principles and objectives to guide future planning.

1. URBAN DESIGN
G O A L S , O B J E C T I V E S A N D F R A M E W O R K

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
objective/goals of urban design
urban design framework

3. OBJECTIVES/GOALS OF
URBAN DESIGN

4. OBJECTIVES/GOALS
OF URBAN DESIGN
designing a meaningful relation
between people and spaces by creating
character,Continuity and enclosure,
Quality public realm,legibility,
Adaptability and Diversity

5. CHARACTER
a place with its own identity
design that promotes character in
townscape and landscape by
responding to and reinforcing
locally distinctive patterns of
development, landscape and
culture

6. A DESIGN BUILT ON THE PAST
OFFENBACHER HAFEN
Reconstructed from a polluted
industrial port, this ecologically
sensitive riverfront in Frankfurt
This project incorporates the city’s
history and brings character into
the newly developed area. It
represents the reinvention of a
lost connection with the city.

7. CONTINUITY AND
ENCLOSURE
a place where public and private
spaces are clearly distinguished
promote the continuity of street
frontages and the enclosure of space
by development which clearly defines
private and public areas.

8. QUALITY OF THE
PUBLIC REALM
a place with attractive and successful
outdoor areas
promote public spaces and routes that are
attractive, safe, uncluttered and work
effectively for all in society, including
disabled and elderly people.
•It should be safe, inclusive, comfortable and
aesthetically pleasing

9. WHERE SPACE BECOMES A PLACE
KLYDE WARREN PARK
An urban park constructed over an existing
freeway, it has immediately been welcomed
by the people because it offers a variety of
activities and amenities, such as a children’s
park with water features, the reading room,
the restaurant, and the event lawn.

10. LEGIBILITY
a place that has a clear image and is
easy to understand
promote legibility through
development that provides
recognizable routes, intersections
and landmarks to help people find
their way around.

11. ADAPTABILITY
a place that can change easily
promote adaptability through development
that can respond to changing social,
technological and economic conditions

12. DIVERSITY
a place with variety and choice
To promote diversity and choice
through a mix of compatible
developments and uses that work
together to create viable places that
respond to local needs

13. URBAN DESIGN
FRAMEWORK

14. URBAN DESIGN
FRAMEWORK
An Urban Design Framework (UDF) is a
strategic planning tool that sets out a design
vision for the future development of a place.
It includes aims for the future area which
may be brought into force by a planning
scheme amendment.

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URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK
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