Urban design involves arranging all elements of cities, including buildings, public spaces, transportation, and amenities. It considers urban patterns, building forms, streetscapes, connections within a city, movement systems, public open spaces, and infrastructure. The key elements of urban design are urban fabric, which is the physical form of cities made up of blocks and streets, building forms that define street walls and spaces, and connections within a city through visual lines and physical routes to facilitate movement.

1. ELECTIVE-II
URBAN DESIGN
LECTURE-4
Ar. Ananta Gautam

2. • Urban design involves arrangement of buildings, public spaces, transport systems, services
and amenities.
• Urban design involves design and coordination of all elements that make up cities and towns
1. Urban pattern and urban fabric
2. Building form, streetscape, roofscapes
3. Connections: Visual and physical
4. Movement structures and systems
5. Public open spaces: Streets, Squares, Spaces between buildings, Parks, Landscape
6. Public infrastructure and amenities
ELEMENTS OF URBAN OF DESIGN

3. • Urban pattern is the underlying geometry of city form
• Arrangement of built environment(mass and voids and their relationship)
• Pattern qualifies size and shape of a city
1. URBAN PATTERN AND URBAN FABRIC
Radial Grid Irregular

4. • Urban fabric is physical form of towns and cities
• Urban fabrics are coarse and fine grain
• Fine urban grain constitute a network of smaller blocks and streetscapes.
1. URBAN PATTERN AND URBAN FABRIC
Fine Grain Coarse Grain

5. • Building form shape and articulate space by forming the streetwalls of the city
• Well designed buildings and groups work together to create a sense of a place
2. BUILDING FORM, STREETSCAPE AND ROOFSCAPE

6. • Visual elements of street, including road, buildings, sidewalks, furniture, trees and
open spaces combine to form street’s character
2. BUILDING FORM, STREETSCAPE AND ROOFSCAPE

7. • High building and rise of drones permit city to be seen from above
• Presents opportunities for creative and decorative treatments of city
2. BUILDING FORM, STREETSCAPE AND ROOFSCAPE

8. • Visual: Creating vistas rather than blocked view allows people to move around easily by
linking their current location to destination
• Physical: a network of routes works best when the main streets are full of shops, offices,
public buildings and housing.
• Routes are also successful when they are connected with each other to provide alternative
ways of getting around.
3. CONNECTION: VISUAL AND PHYSICAL

9. • Interconnected system of streets, roads and paths accommodating pedestrians, cyclists, on-
road public transport, private and emergency vehicles
Good Movement Network are:
• Safe
• Connected
• Prioritize walking, cycling and public transport modes of transport
• Integrate convenient walking, cycling and public transport routes to local destinations
• Provide opportunities for planned and incidental physical activity
4. MOVEMENT STRUCTURE AND SYSTEM

10. • Streets, Square, Spaces between buildings, Parks, Landscapes
• Street dedicated for common use
• They are sites for celebration, rebellion and for expressing public dissent
• It is often said that urban design is about the space between buildings. Buildings can be seen
as a backdrop to the drama of public life which plays out in the squares and streets of our
towns and cities
• Park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment
and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats
• Landscapes are all the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their
aesthetic appeal.
5. PUBLIC OPEN SPACES

11. • Public infrastructure and amenities are facilities, structures, equipment, services and
institutions that are essential to the economy and quality of life of a nation, region or city.
• Quality of life is the well-being of individuals, communities and societies
• Heath, air, water & food quality, Education, Happiness, Safety, Freedom, Privacy, Public space,
Culture, Profession, Physical activity, Transportation, etc impact quality of life
6. PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURES AND AMENITIES

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