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Urban design Flashcards

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Two types of senses

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Selective (sight and tactile) and Non-selective (audial and smell)

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Key objectives of urban design

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  1. Open up choices
  2. Connect the past and future
  3. Merge humans and their natural environment
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provides more information than the other senses combined. Relies on distance, color, shape, textural and contrast, etc.

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Vision

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experience of texture comes through our feet and through our buttocks when we set down, rather than through our hands

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Touch

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all-surrounding, has no obvious boundaries, and emphasis space itself.

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hearing

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the human sense of small is not well developed. Nevertheless, while even more information poor than sound

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Smell

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The basic human needs of human settlements under BP220

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  • Water
  • Movement and Circulation
  • Storm Drainage
  • Solid and liquid waste disposal
  • Power
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a type of settlement where the buildings are grouped together

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nucleated settlement

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a type of settlement where settlement has developed along a line

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Linear shape

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a type of settlement where the buildings are spread apart

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dispersed settlement

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Five(5) Elements of Urban Design

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  • Buildings
  • Transport
  • Public Spaces
  • Landscape
  • Streets
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A type of road network that serves as the connections between spaces and places, as well as being spaces themselves.

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Street

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A type of Road Networks that is a wide street that leads to a house located off the main road. Also called a carriageway.

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Avenue

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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

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Esplanade

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a type of road network that is a wide and important landscaped street on its center and sides.

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Boulevard

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a type of road network that is a narrow passageway between or behind buildings.

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Alley

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a type of road network that is a main road, especially connecting major towns or cities.

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Highway

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6 principles of City Planning

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  1. Order and Variety
  2. Visible Life
  3. Compact
  4. Orientation and mystery
  5. Scale
  6. Local
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5 key Physical elements of the city

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  1. path
  2. Districts
  3. Edges
  4. Landmarks
  5. nodes
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A physical element of the city that channels along that the observer occasionally, intentionally or potentially moves

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path

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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.

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Districts

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A physical element of the city that serves as the linear elements-like rivers, buildings, railways, paths, that breaks the continuity and create boundaries.

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Edges

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A physical element of the city that serves as the point references, unlike nodes, the observer does not enter and are observed externally

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Landmarks

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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.

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Nodes

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Housing projects undertaken by the government for the underprivileged and homeless citizens

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Socialize Housing

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Housing standard designated for the middle income

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Economic Housing

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is a person traveling on foot, whether walking or running.

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Pedestrian

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connects the parts of cities and help shape them, and enable movement throughout the city

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Transport System

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a mode of transport for the public as regulated by the state

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Public transport

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Two types of landscape

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  1. Naturalistically
  2. Formally ordered

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