Urban Design Flashcards
Urban Design theory that refers to roadway standards and development practices that are flexible and sensitive to community values.
Believes design can balence economic, social, and environmental objectives.
Key Principles…
1. Balence safety, community, and environment.
2. Involves public and affected agencies early and continuously.
3. Use an interdisciplinary team tailored to project needs.
4. Apply flexibility inherent in design standards.
5. Incorporate aesthetics as an integral part of good design.
Context-Sensitive Design (CSD)
Type of zoning code that regulates development to achieve a specific urban form.
Relationship between building facades and public realm, form and mass of buildings, and the scale/type of streets/blocks.
Standards tied to diagrams and a regualting plan (ex. SmartCode’s transects).
Conventional Zoning = land use over form.
_____________ Zoning = form over land use.
Form-Based Code
Compact, Walkable, mixed-income principles at block, neighborhood, and region scales.
Formed as response to “modernist urbanism” - AKA Le Corbusier’s Radiant City (1922).
Various styles, neighborhoods have defined edges and centers.
Utilize transects from rural to urban continuum.
New Urbanism
AKA DIY urbanism, planning-by-doing, urban prototyping, or guerilla urbanism…
Low-cost, temporary changes to urban environement intended to demonstrate potential impact of change.
Tactical Urbanism
Mixed-Use development designed to maximize access to public transportation.
Light rail, bus, or transit station station at center of development.
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
Design that creates habitat for people as biological organisms directly or indirectly.
Incorporates direct experiences of/with nature.
Direct = light, air, water, plants, animals, natural landscapes/ecosystems, and weather).
Indirect = images, materials, colors, cultural attachment, simulations, shape and form, evoking nature, and biomimicry.
