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The document outlines principles for urban structure, emphasizing the importance of integration, functional efficiency, and environmental harmony. It discusses the movement framework, walkable neighborhoods, and the design of streets and public spaces to enhance community interaction and safety. Additionally, it highlights the significance of adaptable buildings and thriving public realms to foster local identity and social engagement.

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Urban Structurebb

The document outlines principles for urban structure, emphasizing the importance of integration, functional efficiency, and environmental harmony. It discusses the movement framework, walkable neighborhoods, and the design of streets and public spaces to enhance community interaction and safety. Additionally, it highlights the significance of adaptable buildings and thriving public realms to foster local identity and social engagement.

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Urban structure

- Arrangement of development

- Interrelationship

Integration

Functional efficiency

Environmental harmony- energy efficient and ecologically sensitive.

A sense of place

Commercial viability

3.1 The movement framework

- provides the maximum choice

- Suits a large suburban site will be quite different from a pocket site in the inner city.

- providing the right kinds of route

- Countless factors

- The first step is to define the walkable catchment area to local facilities

3.1.2 The walkable neighborhood

Design for ease of walking

Reinforce community

Movement framework should be the walking distances from facilities

Walking priority

3.1.3 Street network

Connect with the existing network

Maximum number of direct connections to main streets

Which links are most important to extend

Define the limits of a development site or regeneration area

Forging links

Reducing severance.
5.1 positive outdoor space

Contribute to the public domain

The character of

The space came first

‘Left-over’

5.1.1 Positive and negative space

With clear definition and enclosure.

The facilities it contains

5.1.2 Building lines and setbacks

Interact with the public realm

Face up

5.1.3 Enclosure

To foster a sense of urbanism

A positive contribution to the public realm

5.2.1 Active frontage

Get the rhythm right

Making frontages ‘active’ adds interest, life and vitality to the public realm

Reach out to the street

Presence of others

Lively interior activities

Vertical rhythm

Concealed

5.2.2richness and beauty

Pastiche
Townscape

Scale and rhythms of adjacent buildings

Materials

Local identity

Vertical rhythm in particular and avoid exposing blank walls.

5.3 building size and scale

Legibility

Microclimate

Norm

Key locations

‘Wrapping’

‘Stepping’ a large mass down

Relevant to pedestrian experience

5.3.2 Building depth

Shallow

Versatile form

Prominent

Incorporating prominent

The apex

Asymmetrical

5.3.4 Building width

Vertical rhythms

Frontage

Extensions

Light and ventilation


5.4 building for change

Change in space and over time

Occupants

5.4.1multi-use buildings

‘Re-mixed’

Inherently flexible

Fringes

‘Backlands’

Hybrid building

Vertical mixed-use: make it stack up

Combinations including high-intensity activities

5.4.2adaptability and re-use

Flexible buildings

Prospective

Detailed design of the building/street interface

Conversion: Reveal the history of a place

Giving them new uses

5.5 A thriving public realm

Streets Ahead

5.5.1 Social spaces

Focus activity areas

Build in versatility

Routes through space: enable people to pass directly from A to B


Stimulate the senses

Sounds, smells and touch under hand and foot

[Texture

Intrusive sounds

Aromas]

Strengthen local identity

Historical associations

Local pavers

Plant local

Give direction or identity

Wildlife

5.5.3 Street furniture

Panoply

‘Sheep-pen’

Visual logic

Inspection boxes are unavoidable hidden in the landscape or building edge

‘Special’ and ‘off-the-shelf’

Pastiche

Fit art to the place

Major contribution

5.5.4 Signage

Major clutter problem and can often be misleading


Minimize

Nodal points

Paving type; installing art in the floorscape

5.5.5 Lighting

Illuminate the scene

Care given to vehicle/pedestrian conflict points

Night - time activities

5.6 safety and sense of safety

Good visibility and effective lighting

User-friendly

Easy to overlook and oversee

5.6.1 Build in safety

Front onto the public realm

Minimizing exposed blank facades

Mixing uses

Locating parking in front of buildings

Foster a sense of ownership

Mutual protection

5.6.2crime prevention and the public realm

Fence or grill, design it as a sculpture

Undermine civic quality

Watch the main entrance closely

overlooked
4 making connections

 What is meant by the Connections


Interaction
movement systems

 Why the Connections are Important


(1) Linking up
(2) Movement choices
(3) A sense of place
(4) Safe routes for all
(5) The parking problem
(6) Better traffic management

4.1.1 the pedestrian environment

 Pedestrians and cycle-friendly streets


 ‘Five C’ principles:
(1) Connections
(2) Convenience
(3) Convivial
(4) Comfortable
Obstructions
(5) Conspicuousness
segregated footpaths
subtle variations of material
positive, direct and barrier-free.

4.2.1 the cyclist environment

 Design for convenient cycling


 Passing parked cars

4.2.2 cycle lanes

 Streets that are safe for cyclists

4.3.1 Make it convenient to catch the bus

4.4 streets and traffic

 circulation of traffic
 multi-functional spaces

4.4.1 street types

 Define street types by capacity and character


 role of the street in the urban realm
4.4.2 main routes

Make the route go through

4.4.3 streets as social places

Streets for everyone

creating a network of spaces

Inevitably

Places not roads

bland, uniform developments

4.4.4 tracking

Put the urban space first

Carriageway

Kerb

sight lines

induce

4.4.5 junctions

Keep it tight

Junctions

enclosed corners

cutback corners

4.4.6 traffic calming and pedestrian crossings

How much traffic can the street take?

4.6 utilities infrastructure

4.6.1 services routing

Make services subservient to layout

Routing

Road frontage

Co-ordinate design development with service providers


Put services underground in shared strips

4.6.2 equipment boxes

Hide the boxes

proliferation of service

unobtrusive

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