URBAN DESIGN

URBAN DESIGN

Maria Fernanda Gonzalez. 10-10308Adriana Mosquera. 10-10482Antonio Mesini. 10-10854

Urban design involves the arrangement and design of buildings, public spaces, transport systems, services, and amenities.

Urban design blends architecture, landscaping, and city planning together to make urban areas functional and attractive.

Urban design is about making connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric. Urban design draws together the many strands of place-making, environmental stewardship, social equity and economic viability into the creation of places with distinct beauty and identity.

Urban design is derived from architectural design, development economics, engineering and landscape, but transcends planning and transportation policy.

"The building of cities is one of man's greatest achievements." -Edmund Bacon

Urban design involves place-making This process is achieved by

establishing identifiable neighborhoods, unique architecture, aesthetically pleasing public places and vistas, identifiable landmarks and focal points, and a human element established by compatible scales of development and ongoing public stewardship.

Urban design practice areas range in scale from small public spaces or streets to neighborhoods, city-wide systems, or whole regions.

“ … Urban design is essentially an ethical endeavor, inspired by the vision of public art and architecture and reified by the science of construction." -Donald Watson

Urban design operates at3 scales:

the regioncity and

townThe

neighborhood

district and corridor

the blockstreet and

building

Elements of Urban Design Buildings: Are the most pronounced

elements of urban design - they shape and articulate space forming the street walls of the city.

Public Space: Is the place where people come together to enjoy the city and each other. Great public spaces are the living room of the city.

Streets: Are the connections between spaces and places, as well as being spaces themselves.

Elements of Urban Design

Transport: Transport systems connect the parts of cities and help shape them, and enable movement throughout the city. 

Landscape: Is the green part of the city that weaves throughout. It appears in form of urban parks, street trees, plants, flowers, and water in many forms.

The creative articulation of space  Is the most prominent aspect of

urban design.  The following artistic principles are an integral part of creating form and spatial definition:

•Unity•Balance•Proportion•Scale•Hierarchy•Symmetry•Rhythm

•Contrast•Context•Detail•Texture •Harmony•Beauty•Order

Examples of great urban design are all over the world:

Washington DC

Cartagena, Col

Salt Lake City, UT

Copenhagen, Denmark Portofino, Italy Strasbourg, France

Siena, Italy A new City Aleppo, Syria