Urban design Flashcards
(30 cards)
Two types of senses
Selective (sight and tactile) and Non-selective (audial and smell)
Key objectives of urban design
- Open up choices
- Connect the past and future
- Merge humans and their natural environment
provides more information than the other senses combined. Relies on distance, color, shape, textural and contrast, etc.
Vision
experience of texture comes through our feet and through our buttocks when we set down, rather than through our hands
Touch
all-surrounding, has no obvious boundaries, and emphasis space itself.
hearing
the human sense of small is not well developed. Nevertheless, while even more information poor than sound
Smell
The basic human needs of human settlements under BP220
- Water
- Movement and Circulation
- Storm Drainage
- Solid and liquid waste disposal
- Power
a type of settlement where the buildings are grouped together
nucleated settlement
a type of settlement where settlement has developed along a line
Linear shape
a type of settlement where the buildings are spread apart
dispersed settlement
Five(5) Elements of Urban Design
- Buildings
- Transport
- Public Spaces
- Landscape
- Streets
A type of road network that serves as the connections between spaces and places, as well as being spaces themselves.
Street
A type of Road Networks that is a wide street that leads to a house located off the main road. Also called a carriageway.
Avenue
a type of Road network that is a lane, open, level area, usually next to a river or a large body of water, where people may walk
Esplanade
a type of road network that is a wide and important landscaped street on its center and sides.
Boulevard
a type of road network that is a narrow passageway between or behind buildings.
Alley
a type of road network that is a main road, especially connecting major towns or cities.
Highway
6 principles of City Planning
- Order and Variety
- Visible Life
- Compact
- Orientation and mystery
- Scale
- Local
5 key Physical elements of the city
- path
- Districts
- Edges
- Landmarks
- nodes
A physical element of the city that channels along that the observer occasionally, intentionally or potentially moves
path
A physical element of the city that serves as the medium-to-large section of the city which the observer mentally enter “inside of” and which are recognizable as having some common identifying character.
Districts
A physical element of the city that serves as the linear elements-like rivers, buildings, railways, paths, that breaks the continuity and create boundaries.
Edges
A physical element of the city that serves as the point references, unlike nodes, the observer does not enter and are observed externally
Landmarks
A physical element of the city that serves as the conceptual anchor points, the strategic spot in a city into which an observer can enter, and which are the intensive foci to and from which he is travelling.
Nodes
