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INTRODUCTION

Book Name : Urban Design Reader

Editors: Matthew Carmona

Steve Tiesdell

Publisher : Architectural Press, 2007

ISBN : 0750665319,

9780750665315

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CONTENTS

Part 1:

Understanding urban design

This part presents a set of six chapters :

• exploring understandings of urban design

• discussing its precise nature and purpose.

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Part 2:

The morphological dimension

This part presents a set of three chapters :

• Exploring the layout and configuration of urban form

• Exploring The processes giving rise to them

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Part 3 :

The perceptual dimension

This part presents a set of five chapters :

• focusing on the experiential ‘sense-of-place’ and ‘lived-in’ experiences associated with the urban environment

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Part 4:

The social dimension

This part presents a set of five chapters :

• Exploring the relationship between space and social experience.

• Discussing the two way process of modifying space and being influenced by it

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Part 1:

The visual dimension

This part presents a set of four chapters :

• Exploring the spatial and visual character of urban environments/ design.

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Part 6:

The functional dimension

This section presents a set of five chapters discussing :

• how places ‘work’

• how people use spaces and environments

• how urban designers can make ‘better’ places.

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Part 7:

The temporal dimension

This part presents a set of three chapters exploring time impact :

• on the way places become imbued with meanings

• on how places last and adapt

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Part 8:

Implementing urban design

This part presents a set of six chapters concerned with:

• The Awareness of the development process

• the various public sector processes and available policy, regulatory and incentivizing tools

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Introduction

Walk throughVenice Analysis

Walk throughVenice Comparison

Conclusion

Introduction• the sense of movement can be read

and understood as a pictorial sequence combined with measured drawings such as maps, designers can learn important lessons about scale in city design.

• A designer who compares, for example, a plan view of a place with a pictorial sequence illustrating a walk through that place has a much better grasp of dimension.

• the Pictorial sequence has the desired effect of pulling the reader into the space, so the pictures must be read from bottom to top.

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“ IMAGES IN MOTION “

Venice Washington, D.C., the old city of Kyoto

A Walk through Venice Comparisons

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Venice San Francesco the Piazza Navona in Rome

A Walk through Venice Comparisons

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Venice Cairo University

A Walk through Venice Comparisons

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CONCLUSIONS

The perception of time is influenced by :• The scale and dimensions of the city and its Urban

Spaces

• Arranging and placement of urban elements

• the rhythmic spacing of recurring elements.

• Successive acts of apperception and recognition

• Designed textures, selected color, and manipulated light.

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THANKS …….