BENHA UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

AE1342-URBAN DESIGN(1)-LECTURE 2
INTRODUCTION TO URBAN DESIGN

Assoc. DR. MONA SHEDID

ASSOCIATED PROFESSOR , FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, BENHA UNIVERSITY
SPRING 2019 Dr. Mona Y. Shedid 1
INTRODUCTION TO
URBAN DESIGN

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CONTENT
• INTRODUCTION

• DEFINITIONS: Urban Design, Town Planning, Architecture

• UNDERSTANIG OF URBAN DESIGN

• ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN

• ASSIGNMENT #1

• SAMPLE OF STUDENT WORK

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INTRODUCTION….

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INTRODUCTION

WHY URBAN
DESIGN

IS SIGNIFICANT
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URBAN DESIGN is a key to making places that are:

1- Good to live
2- Attractive to visit
3- Creating community identity
4- Reduction in crime

5- Preserves the environment

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INTRODUCTION
URBAN DESIGN is a
key to making places
that are:

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INTRODUCTION

URBAN DESIGN is a key to making places that are:

Creating community identity

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INTRODUCTION

URBAN DESIGN is a key to making places that are:

Creating community identity

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INTRODUCTION

URBAN DESIGN is a key to making places that are:

Creating community identity

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DEFINITIONS….

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DEFINITIONS-URBAN DESIGN
Urban Design….
• Shaping villages, towns and cities in a
way to make them functional spaces
to live.

Is a complicated network of building

types, transport systems, people,
landscape and spaces.

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DEFINITIONS-URBAN DESIGN

Urban Design….
• Is concerned not just
with appearances and
built form but with
the environmental,
economic, social and
cultural
consequences of
design.
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DEFINITIONS-URBAN DESIGN

• Deals with groups of buildings and the urban spaces between

these buildings.

Open spaces like

“streets, paths,
gardens, squares,..

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DEFINITIONS-URBAN DESIGN

• Concerns with the aesthetics of the physical environment

Is the process of shaping

the physical setting for
life in cities and villages

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DEFINITIONS-URBAN DESIGN

social and aesthetics of

cultural the physical
aspects environment
functional
spaces

Economic
aspects THE ART OF
Environmental MAKING PLACES
aspects

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URBAN DESIGN V.S. TOWN PLANNING

Town Planning….
The design and organization of urban
space and infrastructure

New Capital City, Egypt

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URBAN DESIGN V.S. TOWN PLANNING
TOWN PLANNING is the act of planning URBAN DESIGN is the creation of city
the structures of a city, including its features based on plans. It includes
policies, infrastructure, neighborhoods, everything from public space to
building codes, and regulations. infrastructure, transportation, landscapes,
The “planning of city strategies, structures and community accommodations.
and policies.” The “design of city features.”

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URBAN DESIGN V.S. ARCHITECTURE

Architecture….
The art or practice of designing and constructing
buildings

Taipei / Taiwan, 2017

The shape of the river pebbles, developing
a unique aesthetic concept that conveys the
idea of roundness and elegance, as well as
strength and character.

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URBAN DESIGN, TOWN PLANNING,
ARCHITECTURE
Urban Design Scale:
City
City Planning Entire form

Urban
Design

Architecture Details
Building
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UNDERSTANIG OF URBAN
DESIGN….

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UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN DESIGN

URBAN
Suggests the characteristics
of towns or cities

DESIGN
Refers to activities as
sketching, planning, arranging,
coloring and pattern making

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UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN DESIGN

URBAN DESIGN
Is…..

A 'product' ?
or A ' process '

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UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN DESIGN
Madanipour (1996) identified seven areas of ambiguity in its definition:

1- Should be focused at particular scales or levels?

2. Should it focus only on the visual qualities of the urban environment?

3. Should it about deeply seated social and cultural relations between

spaces and society?

Are concerned with the 'product' of urban design

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UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN DESIGN
Madanipour (1996) identified seven areas of ambiguity in its definition:

5. Should be the province of architects, planners or landscape architects?

6. Should it be a public or private sector activity?

7. Should it be seen as an objective-rational process (a science) or an expressive-

subjective process (an art)?

Are concerned with the ‘process' of urban design

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UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN DESIGN
Madanipour (1996) identified seven areas of ambiguity in its definition:

8- Should the focus of urban design be its product (the urban environment)

or the process by which it is produced?

Are concerned with the ‘product - process' dilemma

(It is both a process and an outcome of creating localities)
We 'consciously SHAPE and MANAGE our built
environments'
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UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN DESIGN
Relationship in Urban Design….
People & Places

Movement &
Urban Form URBAN Good urban
DESIGN spaces to live
Natural & Built
Environment

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UNDERSTANDING OF URBAN DESIGN

Tibbalds (1988)
'Everything you can see
out of the window’
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ELEMENTS OF URBAN
DESIGN….

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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN

Elements of Urban Design

Buildings

Open Spaces

Landscape

Streets
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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN

Buildings they shape and articulate space by

forming the street walls of the city.

Well designed buildings and groups

of buildings work together to
create a sense of place.

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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN
Open space: is the space which geometrically bounded by a variety
of elevations
(it is the void in between the urban masses )

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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN
Open space: are the living room of the city – the place where people
come together to enjoy the city and each other.

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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN
STREET OR ROAD?
In urban theory, streets are usually lined with buildings and public spaces,
whereas roads do not necessarily have buildings on their margins, and can
be found within territories without any settlements.

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Streets can be places comfortably shared by transit, bicyclist,
pedestrian and cars.

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Streets and buildings: A positive relation

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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN
Relation between streets, buildings and open spaces: A positive
relation

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Elements of Streets
Streets are a public area made up of parts that vary according to activity and
function, so some may have a specific purpose for a particular group or an
individual privilege

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Elements of Streets

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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN
Elements of Streets

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Elements of Streets

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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN
Street Hierarchy
Main Streets (11m-22m)

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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN
Street Hierarchy Secondary Streets (9m-17m)

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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN
Street Hierarchy
Pedestrian Streets (2-30m)

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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN
Connectivity & Accessibility

To provide good connection and accessibility, streets should allow:

→ Easy movement: avoiding obstacles

→ Legibility: Easily recognizable through visual language
→ Safety: Providing a sense of security through high activity
→ Diversity: Including various possibilities and choices during a route as well
as providing equitable access to basic needs and essential services
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ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN
Landscape:
Is the art and science of planning and
design of outdoor spaces, to meet the
physical, economic and socio-
behavioral needs of users, respecting
and in harmony with the existing
contextual natural and man-made
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REFERENCES

The references to multiple sources are text & figures

(sketches, drawings, pictures, photos,..etc.)

ALL THE RIGHTS BELONG TO ORIGINAL

AUTHORS

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ASSIGNMENT #1….

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ASSIGNMENT #1

• Define the following scientific terms (through: definitions,

theorists, relations, examples, pictures,…):
1- Urbanization 4- Urban Planning
2- Urban Design 5- Community Design
3- Planning 6- Social Environment
• Assignment #1 submission is next week in a Hard-copy (A2)
format as well as Soft copy.
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SAMPLE OF STUDENT WORK….

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SAMPLE OF STUDENT WORK

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ANY QUESTIONS???
THANK YOU…
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