Urban Design

BAES 4136

Naziaty Mohd Yaacob

www.rekabentukbandar.wordpress.com

Questions

• What is a good city?• How does it come to

be?

Issues in the Urban Environment

• Physical• Management• Economic• Political

• Sustainability• Cultural• Social• Design

What is Lost Space?

• Inquiry with reference to Trancik’s “Finding Lost Space”.

• Malaysian Issues

• Discussion from the book on theories

• Summaries

Theories

• Figure-ground Theory: relationship between building mass and open space; analyse textures and patterns of urban fabric; and spatial order.

• Linkage Theory: Dynamics of circulation as generators of urban form; connection and movement.

• Place Theory: Importance of historic, cultural, and social values in urban open space; contextualists angle.

Figure Ground Theories

Linkages Theory

Place Theories