CITB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Urban Design, Social Science, Garden City Movement
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Of different interests: mediator is the last posting of a planner at this time. Scale: garden city: the utopian model, creating a city at the regional scale. How individual parts are related to one another. The focus is on the design of a site larger than an individual building. Urban design looks at the interplay between streets, parks, open spaces and building s: most of the creative professionals are there. Urban design professionals are usually trained in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture or urban planning. Urban designers develop designs at multiple scales: sites that include one or more buildings and surrounding open space, street blocks, neighbourhoods/communities, parks and public spaces, and entire new towns. The design of green spaces and buildings around. Legibility: readable, people need to understand what the place is for. Sense of place: changing an abstract place to a place for the people, we attach meaning to it, it is experiences, gender dimensions.
