scholarly journals EXPANDING DEPTH AND MEANING WITHIN URBAN DESIGN PROCESSES THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF COMPLEXITY AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Marta Miguel ◽  
Richard Laing ◽  
Marianthi Leon ◽  
Seaton Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Specific System ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Cyclical Process

Previous research has established the value of regarding cities as complex systems, and as systems which will evolve over time. The research reported in this paper concerns the development of an approach to urban design and management which recognises the complexities of change resulting from design-led urban interventions. The research commenced with a study of urban design and urban management processes, and the manner in which they have been studied in an academic context. The system aims to guide the processes of urban design so that it can be implemented within a cyclical process of evaluation and application. The system aids communication across design teams and improves clarity within the design process for the designers themselves. The specific system also aspires to interconnect theory with practice, while supporting designers to be inclusive and holistic. The paper describes a case study where the framework was applied within an academic setting, related to real urban environments in Singapore. It validates the model’s ability to guide students through the design process, give depth to their analysis of urban systems and meaning to their designs. Action research was implemented, to reflect the need for a “practice-changing practice” methodology, that supports a greater understanding of the relationship between theory and practice.

scholarly journals Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments

2018 ◽  
pp. 808-824
Author(s):  
Nuwan Dias ◽  
Dilanthi Amaratunga ◽  
Kaushal Keraminiyage ◽  
Richard Haigh
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Urban Environments

scholarly journals Specific problems of media facade design

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna Cikic-Tovarovic ◽  
Nenad Sekularac ◽  
Jelena Ivanovic-Sekularac
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Border Areas

During the last years we have been facing a growing need of involving architects into processes of modern city medialization. Transposing contemporary media logic into architecture must be accompanied by qualitative answers within architectural theory and practice. The field of media facade is interdisciplinary - not only does it involve research within architecture and urbanism, but also within some border areas of technology, urban design, art, culture, media and marketing. Media facade design process involves analyses of some specific design aspects.

scholarly journals CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS OF A BOTTOM UP URBAN DESIGN PROCESS TO DELIVER SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGNS

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuwan Dias ◽  
Kaushal Keraminiyage ◽  
Dilanthi Amaratunga ◽  
Steve Curwell
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
The People

A sustainable urban environment caters for peoples’ need. When the needs of the people are addressed, it increases the property values and attracts investors. The current urban design process is top-down, i.e., Designers and planners play the key role and the community has less engagement. There are serious criticisms of this process as it may not touch the “ground” level requirements, and therefore, these projects will fail to create sustainable environments. Accordingly, to overcome the drawbacks of the current top-down process, researches have discussed implementing a bottom-up process in order to deliver sustainable urban designs. Based on this argument this paper discusses what are the positive and negative implications of a bottom up urban design process and what are the critical success factors which can be derived from a bottom-up urban design process in order to deliver sustainable urban environments.

scholarly journals Computational Approaches for Urban Design Within the MENA Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaouad Akodad ◽  
Mohammed Bakkali ◽  
Mounir Ghogho
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Efficient Solutions ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Computational Approaches ◽  
Data Driven Approach

This paper focuses on the use of computational tools to develop a data driven approach for an analytical study about different urban systems. This “framework” examines urban Big Data in the old medina of Sale in Morocco. The computational tools are more effective to provide insights within complexity, becoming a key to generate more efficient solutions throughout the design process. The findings of this study highlight the potential of a data driven approach to explore analytical aspects and move further to generative design using algorithms.

scholarly journals Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in the Urban Design Process: Towards a Multi-disciplinary Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Moureen Asaad ◽  
Marwa Khalifa ◽  
Ahmed S. Abd Elrahman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Living Organism ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Success Criteria ◽  
The City ◽  
City Form

The city is a complex living organism mostly affected by decisions taken whether they are political, organizational, or design decisions. Such decisions vary in scale starting with planning, urban design, and architectural scales. Urban design has been commonly agreed to occupy a hypothetical intersection between planning and architecture. It emerged to bridge the disciplinary gap between architecture and planning. Since 1960s urban design literature attempted to define what good urban design and good city form is, and the process to achieve it; yet in practice the end product doesn’t always achieve high quality in terms of urban design initial objectives. Over the last decades, the gap between disciplinary dreams in theory and real outcomes translated as urban design product of different practices has been growing in the field of urban planning and urban design. Since the urban design product does not meet its expected objectives in theory then something must be wrong with it, and a thorough investigation must come in order to perceive such gap. The Research aims to answer two main questions regarding urban design through examining the Urban Design Process; the first is whether the urban design process is capable to bridge the multidisciplinary gap? And the second question is with the little knowledge and lack of success criteria for the urban design process; how can the success of urban design be measured?

scholarly journals Theoretical Framework of Computer Cognition for Use in Urban Design Process

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Marko Lazić ◽  
Ana Perišić ◽  
Predrag Šidjanin
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Relationship

AIM: The purpose of this paper is to highlight a new paradigm in the urban design practice, assigning a possible role to computer cognition in architecture.MATERIAL AND METHODS: Computer cognition is a synthesis of theories of cognitive science and the latest artificial intelligence-based computer principles. First, the development of computer systems used in architecture and urban design has been examined with the emphasis that one of the most important representations of urban systems is based on the cognitive aspect of urban environment.RESULTS: Thus, the relationship between urban environment and cognitive science and computer science has been established. A framework of the implementation of computer technology into the urban design process has also been created.CONCLUSIONS: Through the research framework of the new urban design tool – named DesignTool – the paper presents the initial theoretical postulates concerning the urban environment from the aspect of cognitive perception and their genesis.

scholarly journals Designing Slow Cities for More Than Human Enrichment: Dog Tales—Using Narrative Methods to Understand Co-Performative Place-Making

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jane Turner ◽  
Ann Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Narrative Methods ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Future Evaluation

Designing for slow cities and the need to design for future urban environments that include the more than human is a major priority for our times. This position paper problematizes the nature–culture divide in research about place and place-making, where place is understood to be about the sense of meaning we layer on locations in the physical world. It emphasizes the importance of narrative identity and place-making in the context of designing for urban environmental futures and creation of slow cities. We present an overview of a methodology to re-emplace place-making with animals in the context of slow cities and designing for the more than human. The work discussed here explores the use of narrative inquiry with some early narrative data (in the form of stories) about dog walks and those moments where our companion animals demonstrate agentic place-based meaning-making. The problem of understanding “what animals want” and how they make might ”make sense” of an experience is approached via a focus on a rich exemplar case in order to distinguish between emplotment (narrative meaning-making as self) and emplacement (narrative meaning-making as an aspect of place). This is used to create a framework for future evaluation with a view to revealing how “more than human stories”—just like our own familiar human stories—are also about agency and meaning in place. This recognition has import for ways in which we might approach decentring the human when we frame urban design activities.

scholarly journals State of the Art in Open Platforms for Collaborative Urban Design and Sharing of Resources in Districts and Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4875
Author(s):  
Barry Hayes ◽  
Dorota Kamrowska-Zaluska ◽  
Aleksandar Petrovski ◽  
Cristina Jiménez-Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Local Community ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
The State ◽  
Smart Technology ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Technology Platforms

This work discusses recent developments in sharing economy concepts and collaborative co-design technology platforms applied in districts and cities. These developments are being driven both by new technological advances and by increased environmental awareness. The paper begins by outlining the state of the art in smart technology platforms for collaborative urban design, highlighting a number of recent examples. The case of peer-to-peer trading platforms applied in the energy sector is then used to illustrate how sharing economy concepts and their enabling technologies can accelerate efforts towards more sustainable urban environments. It was found that smart technology platforms can encourage peer-to-peer and collaborative activity, and may have a profound influence on the future development of cities. Many of the research and development projects in this area to date have focused on demonstrations at the building, neighbourhood, and local community scales. Scaling these sharing economy platforms up to the city scale and beyond has the potential to provide a number of positive environment impacts. However, significant technical and regulatory barriers to wider implementation exist, and realising this potential will require radical new approaches to the ownership and governance of urban infrastructure. This paper provides a concise overview of the state of the art in this emerging field, with the aim of identifying the most promising areas for further research.

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