The document summarizes key concepts from the paper "Making a city: Urbanity, vitality and urban design" by John Montgomery. It defines terms like promenade, imageability, nodes, urban amenity, and adaptability which are important principles of good city design. It also includes a short movie description on urbanization and effects on liveability and sustainability of cities. Finally, it provides examples of different walking experiences based on facade design and urban spaces.
The document summarizes key concepts from the paper "Making a city: Urbanity, vitality and urban design" by John Montgomery. It defines terms like promenade, imageability, nodes, urban amenity, and adaptability which are important principles of good city design. It also includes a short movie description on urbanization and effects on liveability and sustainability of cities. Finally, it provides examples of different walking experiences based on facade design and urban spaces.
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Understanding 5 basic Urban Design Terms using a Reference Journal Paper
The document summarizes key concepts from the paper "Making a city: Urbanity, vitality and urban design" by John Montgomery. It defines terms like promenade, imageability, nodes, urban amenity, and adaptability which are important principles of good city design. It also includes a short movie description on urbanization and effects on liveability and sustainability of cities. Finally, it provides examples of different walking experiences based on facade design and urban spaces.
The document summarizes key concepts from the paper "Making a city: Urbanity, vitality and urban design" by John Montgomery. It defines terms like promenade, imageability, nodes, urban amenity, and adaptability which are important principles of good city design. It also includes a short movie description on urbanization and effects on liveability and sustainability of cities. Finally, it provides examples of different walking experiences based on facade design and urban spaces.
PAPER TITLE | Making a city: Urbanity, vitality and urban design
AUTHOR | John Montgomery YEAR | 1998 JOURNAL | Journal of Urban Design
Parnika Goyal 17110020 Paper in brief The paper explains city as a phenomenon of Principles of Good City Design structured complexity. It talks about a place in terms of Activity, Form and Image, their characteristics and good practices in City design.
Aspects of Place making:
Promenade Promenade is a long, open, level area in a public space used for walking or strolling for pleasure and/or view.
It can be the main avenue of the city or can be next
to a river or a large water body or in a landscape area. Atlantic City, N.J., U.S.A. Promenade as a verb means to walk or ride leisurely for pleasure or for display and parade.
It is often used interchangeably with the word
Esplanade. The historical definition of esplanade was a large, open, level area outside fortress or city walls to provide clear fields of fire for the fortress's guns.
REF : [The successful street will have users on it fairly continuously, watching and being watched. There will also be a clear demarcation of public and private spaces, Marine Drive, Mumbai places to promenade and shelter from the wind.] Imageability Imageability is the measure of place’s capacity to create a strong visual image in the minds of an individual.
It is influenced by a city's legibility; the degree to
which the different elements of the city are organized into a coherent and recognizable pattern which allow people to create a clear mental map of the place.
Kevin Lynch was the first to use the word Imageability
for cities. He said that cities contain a key set of physical elements namely Paths, Edges, Districts, Nodes and Landmarks that people use to understand the environment, orient themselves inside of it and assign it meaning. Representation of a mental map of REF : [An individual's knowledge of a city is, according to Lynch (1960, 1981), a Mexico City by a person function of the imageability of the urban environment: that is, the extent to which the components of the environment make a strong impression on the individual.] Nodes Nodes are the strategic spots into which an observer can enter and which are the intensive foci to and from which he is travelling.
They are centers of public activities and gathering
and can be related to the spatial accumulation of economic activities or to the accessibility to the transport system or to a famous public space. Connaught Place, Delhi
“The nodes are the conceptual anchor points in our
cities and they have a form adequate to support his attention other than a certain concentration of activities." - Kevin, Lynch
REF : [In turn, imageability is influenced by a city's legibility: the degree to which the different elements of the city (defined as paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks) are organized into a coherent and recognizable pattern.]
St. Peter, Rome
Urban Amenity Urban amenities are understood as specific urban facilities that are linked to the daily life needs of residents and contribute to the urban living experience.
There are both public sector amenities provided by
councils, such as parks, public squares and recreational facilities, as well as private sector Amenity deck, Chicago amenities such as cafés, restaurants, retail and other goods or service providers.
Urban amenities are used as an indicator of liveability
of our urban environment.
[REF : Amenity generally means access to shops and other services required for daily living. This includes access to employment, health care, educational services, transport, cultural and leisure services, and green spaces.]
Shopping street, Athens
Adaptability Adaptability is the ability of a city (i.e. Urban buildings, neighbourhoods and public spaces) to fit itself to changing needs.
An adaptable city is one that can grow and change in
response to social, environmental and economic factors, while minimizing the disruption of the original systems.
Principles for an Adaptable City:
1. A Flexible Public Realm 2. Adaptable Building 3. Responsive Public Policy 4. Open Public Discussion 5. The Economy of Adaptability REF : [By extension, the successful urban area is one which offers in-built adaptability rather than in-built obsolescence.] MOVIE | Urbanized
“Cities are fluid and are ever changing as a response to Social, Cultural, Economic and Political processes and problems, and flux of Identity. The unprecedented rate of Urbanisation is raising new questions for the future liveability and sustainability of these cities which we need to address soon.” WALKING EXPERIENCE | Facades and Spaces A | Interactive Facades which slow me down and C | Facades/ Spaces which make me walk faster. capture my thoughts. Ex. Ashiana Greens, Indirapuram Ex. Construction Yard Boundary, Vasundhara
B | Continuous long Facades - Rhythmic Walk but do D| Facades/ Spaces which make me apprehensive not catch attention Ex. Olive County Road, Indirapuram Ex. Streets of Chandni Chowk
