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Levels/Scale of Urban design/Parameters given Cullen Gordon

 Levels/Scale of Urban design/Parameters given Cullen Gordon
Scope / Level of Urban Design

Macro: City-wide
Me so: Zone/District/Fragment
Micro: Object
Meso- Settlement . Between traditional town &Conurbation
within which one Can commute daily ( Small polis, polis,
small metropolis,etc.
Macro- whose largest possible expansion is the Ecumenpolis
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On the macro level, what will the nations do to repair,

rejuvenate and revivify their many urban centres? What
can possibly be done with a New York City (the Big
Apple?!) or Tokyo, or Sao Paolo, or London and Paris
and Rome? Is this the quality of life we would want to
bring into a Golden Age?
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Scope / Level of Urban Design
Me so: Zone/District/Fragment

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Scope / Level of Urban Design

Urban Scale
System of measurement convenient
• In urban context, it self-referential ratio of
one distance to another distance or one size
to another size.
• City elements and their size are in some scale
ratio to the individual human being or to some
activity.
• Scale concerns to the ratios of distances people
can walk within given attention spans, distances of
visual recognition. Cept. Ahmedabad Amrinder Singh Batch 2006 Pass out

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Scope / Level of Urban Design
• A person 3’-10” from us is in “ close “ relationship, 8’-0” is
normal conversation distance- speak in normal voices, catches
voice and facial gestures.
• 40’-0” distance we can distinguish facial expressions
• 80’-0” distance – recognize a friend’s face
• 450’-0” we can discern body gesture,. Maximum distance at
which we can distinguish a man from a woman, or tell if
someone is waving for a taxi, catching ball , etc. ( Maximum
acceptable distance in athletic stadiums)
• 4000’-0” maximum distance for seeing people, beyond which
they are too small to be seen at all Inferences
• ‘Intimate scales ‘ of a city are usually not more than 80’-
0”across
• ‘ Urbane Spaces’ are generally around 450’-0”
• In monumental vistas ‘ greater than 4000’-0” human beings
cease to play a part Cept. Ahmedabad Amrinder Singh Batch 2006 Pass out

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Intimate Scale Human Scale Monumental Scale

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1. Serial Vision
Serial Vision is to
walk from one end
of the plan to
another, at a
uniform pace, will
provide a sequence
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of revelations
which are
suggested in the
serial drawings
opposite, reading
from left to right.
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Gordon Cullen
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2.Enclave

Gordon Cullen
The Concise Townscape

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3.Enclosure

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4.Closed Vista
a view or prospect, esp. one seen through a long, narrow
passage, as between rows of trees or houses.

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5.Deflection

Gordon Cullen
The Concise Townscape

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6. Punctuation

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The Concise Townscape

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7.Narrow

Gordon Cullen
The Concise Townscape

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