URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Morphological AnalysisUrban Morphology

is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation. The study seeks to understand the spatial structure and character of a metropolitan area, city, town or village by examining the patterns of its component parts and the process of its development.

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Morphological AnalysisEvolution of Town

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Morphological AnalysisEvolution of Town

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Morphological AnalysisForm and Pattern

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Morphological AnalysisForm and Pattern

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Morphological AnalysisOld Structures/Elements

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Morphological AnalysisOld Structures/Elements

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Morphological AnalysisOld Structures/Elements

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisCity Profile

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisCity Image

A public image of any given city is the overlap of many individual images. It refers to physical forms and are classified into five types of elements: path, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks.

Old City of Sanaa

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisPath

Channels by which people move along roads, sidewalks, streets, rails

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisEdges

Dividing lines between two phases railway lines, seashores, river

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisDistricts

A medium to large sections of a city which are recognizable as having a common , identifying character.

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisLandmarks

Point of reference, it makes one orient oneself buildings, monument, signs

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisNodes

Area of strategic spots where extra focus are given popular city centre, busy intersections, parks, markets

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisEdges

Dividing lines between two phases railway lines, seashores, river

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisCity Form

general pattern of building height and development intensity" and the "structural elements" that define the City physically, such as natural features, transportation corridors (including the planned fixed rail transit system), open space, public facilities, as well as activity centres and focal elements.

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisCity Form

The arrangement of a built up area. This arrangement is made up of many components including how close buildings and uses are together; what uses are located where; and how much of the natural environment is a part of the built up area.

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisCity Form

It relates to imageability: visible, coherent and clear. To heighten the imageability of the urban environment is to facilitate its visual identification and structuring.

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisCity Form

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisCity Form

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisUrban Structure

The overall framework of a region, town or precinct, showing relationships between zones of built forms, land forms, natural environments, activities and open spaces. It encompasses broader systems including transport and infrastructure networks

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisUrban Structure

The urban design structure defines the urban form and the building form

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisMovement Pattern

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisMovement Pattern

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisMovement Pattern

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisBuildings

Buildings are the most pronounced elements of urban design they shape and articulate space by forming the the streetwalls of the city. Well designed buildings and groups of buildings work together to create a sense of place.

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisBuildings uses

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisArchitectural features

Architecture ties structural elements and spaces together to achieve cohesion. Architectural features are the unique details and component parts that, together, form the architectural style of houses, buildings and structures.

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisActive building frontages

street frontages where there is an active visual engagement between those in the street and those on the ground floors of buildings. This quality is assisted where the front facade of buildings, including the main entrance, faces and open towards the street.

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisLanduse characteristics

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Visual AnalysisMental Mapping

The act of finding places using visualizations based on an individual's known sense of direction.

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Townscape Appraisal Urban Fabric

The physical aspect of urbanism, emphasizing building types, thoroughfares, open space, frontages, and streetscapes but excluding environmental, functional, economic and sociocultural aspects.#

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Townscape AppraisalUrban fabric

Urban fabric is the physical form of towns and cities. Like textiles, urban fabric comes in many different types and weaves

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Townscape AppraisalUrban fabric

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Townscape Appraisal Serial Vision

To better convey movement through space, we can use a series of changing perspective views, as English architect and urban designer Gordon Cullen did when he coined the phrase Serial Vision to describe what one might see and experience as one walks through a sequence of spaces.

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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO LAN5600Townscape Appraisal Serial Vision

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