ARCH 551 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Urban Design, City, Canada

• School: McGill University
• Department: Architecture
• Course: ARCH 551
• Professor: Nikolas Luka

Document Summary

Defining a metropolitan landscape : of, belonging to, or constituting a metropolis. Metropolis: the chief town or city of a country (occasionally of a province or a district), especially one that is the seat of a government; a capital. Metropolitan district: an area of dense urban occupation. Metropolitan region: all agglomerations of 250,000+ inhabitants: designating a political association of individual cities within an urban agglomeration. Includes space for deliberative dialogue to ensure workable compromises among actors. Why should we be interested in urban form: to ensure new projects can be woven into existing contexts. Innovation is sometimes sacrificed for homogeneity: urban form as palimpsest of values and uses (has been altered over time but still shows traces of original form, to systemically understand patterns in terms of efficient distribution of resources. Cognitive : describing urban form, focusing on developments of the past and pre-existing structures b. ii. Normative : projecting, focusing on future developments/ visions of the urban form b. iii.