Urban design and city form in redevelopment

Early environmental myths of the body and the sky have been instrumental in the emergence of prehistoric urban environments, and have continued to play an important role in urban design through history to this time. The notions of the body, as the absolutely immediate, and the sky, as the unreachably distant are shown here as precursors to the core proposition of mind-environment transactions, introduced by Walter Benjamin a century ago. Late prehistory and early antiquity manifest the idea of epochal and ongoing progression in mind-city interaction, specifically, as a gender-based configuration of edifice versus space, or volume versus void, in the built environment. The North Star, as a celestial feature representing permanency and solidity, was critical in the formation of masculine myths of the environment upon which the very notion of a designed edifice had been founded, and from which the early city had emerged. The feminine counterpart of the edifice is urban void, often the garden, the street or the city square. Whereas in Neolithic communities the open ritual space seems to have been the most important design element, city-form since antiquity has habitually accentuated the masculinity of edifices over designed voids. More feminine attituted drawing on prehistoric acumen can help refocusing the emphasis on urban volume, onto dynamic urban design of open public spaces for human movement in the city.

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

The Academic Research Community Publication ◽

10.21625/archive.v3i1.435 ◽

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?

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URBAN DESIGN International

10.1057/41289.1468-4519 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Urban Design

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Promoting urban design in development plans: typo-morphological approaches in Montreuil, France

URBAN DESIGN International ◽

10.1057/palgrave/udi/9000052 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 6 (3/4) ◽

pp. 157-172 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hichem Trache

Keyword(s):

Urban Design ◽

Development Plans

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An Immanent Criticism of Urban Design in Montevideo

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2019.02.399 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Washington MORALES

Keyword(s):

Urban Design ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Form Of Life ◽

Political Reality ◽

Applied Philosophy ◽

Points Of View ◽

Philosophical Frameworks

The debate about the so called “excluding design” has been a focus for applied philosophy for several years. The structure of this debate is constituted by deontological and consequentialist’s applied ethics and as well as agonistic democratic approaches. This paper asks for the applicability of these points of view to the particular socio-political reality of Montevideo. Examining this reality closer, I hold that we cannot comprehend the recent aestheticization of the excluding design there through these contemporary philosophical frameworks. As an alternative philosophical procedure, I analyze the aestheticization of excluding design in Montevideo from Rahel Jaeggi’s immanent criticism. I hold that this process of aestheticization implies an ideological regressive “form of life”. And I also argue that the Uruguayan democracy is affected by this ideological regression. Nevertheless, because this aestheticization is not an exclusive Uruguayan phenomenon, this paper intends to open one direction in applied philosophy of urban design.

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Book Review

BORDER CROSSING ◽

10.33182/bc.v6i2.503 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 386-389

Author(s):

Eduardo Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Urban Design ◽

Olympic Games ◽

City Image ◽

European Capital Of Culture ◽

The Arts ◽

The World ◽

The City ◽

The Olympic Games

Evinç Doğan (2016). Image of Istanbul, Impact of ECoC 2010 on The City Image. London: Transnational Press London. [222 pp, RRP: £18.75, ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7]The idea of discovering or creating a form of uniqueness to differentiate a place from others is clearly attractive. In this regard, and in line with Ashworth (2009), three urban planning instruments are widely used throughout the world as a means of boosting a city’s image: (i) personality association - where places associate themselves with a named individual from history, literature, the arts, politics, entertainment, sport or even mythology; (ii) the visual qualities of buildings and urban design, which include flagship building, signature urban design and even signature districts and (iii) event hallmarking - where places organize events, usually cultural (e.g., European Capital of Culture, henceforth referred to as ECoC) or sporting (e.g., the Olympic Games), in order to obtain worldwide recognition.

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