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Urban Design Reader Overview

This document summarizes the contents of the book "Urban Design Reader" by Matthew Carmona and Steve Tiesdell. It is divided into 8 parts that cover different dimensions of urban design: understanding urban design, morphological dimension, perceptual dimension, social dimension, visual dimension, functional dimension, temporal dimension, and implementing urban design. The selected chapter analyzed is "Images in Motion" from the temporal dimension section. It discusses how a pictorial sequence of photos from a walk through Venice compares to maps and plans in conveying a sense of movement, scale, and dimensions of a city. It includes documentation of the walk and comparisons to other cities. The conclusion states that the perception of time is influenced by the scale, arrangement of

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Urban Design Reader Overview

This document summarizes the contents of the book "Urban Design Reader" by Matthew Carmona and Steve Tiesdell. It is divided into 8 parts that cover different dimensions of urban design: understanding urban design, morphological dimension, perceptual dimension, social dimension, visual dimension, functional dimension, temporal dimension, and implementing urban design. The selected chapter analyzed is "Images in Motion" from the temporal dimension section. It discusses how a pictorial sequence of photos from a walk through Venice compares to maps and plans in conveying a sense of movement, scale, and dimensions of a city. It includes documentation of the walk and comparisons to other cities. The conclusion states that the perception of time is influenced by the scale, arrangement of

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INTRODUCTION
Book Name :
Reader

Urban Design

Editors:
Carmona

Matthew
Steve Tiesdell

Publisher :
Press, 2007
ISBN :

Architectural
0750665319,
9780750665315

Code:

CONTENTS
Part 1:
Understanding urban design

This part presents a set of


six chapters :

exploring
understandings of
urban design

discussing its precise


nature and purpose.

CONTENTS
Part 2:
The morphological dimension

This part presents a set of


three chapters :

Exploring the layout


and configuration of
urban form

Exploring The
processes giving rise to
them

CONTENTS
Part 3 :
The perceptual dimension

This part presents a set


of five chapters :

focusing on the
experiential sense-ofplace and lived-in
experiences
associated with the
urban environment

CONTENTS
Part 4:
The social dimension

This part presents a set of


five chapters :

Exploring the relationship


between space and social
experience.

Discussing the two way


process of modifying
space and being
influenced by it

CONTENTS
Part 1:
The visual dimension

This part presents a set of


four chapters :

Exploring the spatial


and visual character of
urban environments/
design.

CONTENTS
Part 6:
The functional dimension

This section presents a set


of five chapters
discussing :

how places work

how people use spaces


and environments

how urban designers can


make better places.

CONTENTS
Part 7:
The temporal dimension

This part presents a set of


three chapters
exploring time impact :

on the way places


become imbued with
meanings

on how places last and


adapt

CONTENTS
Part 8:
Implementing urban design

This part presents a set of


six chapters
concerned with:

The Awareness of the


development process

the various public sector


processes and available
policy, regulatory and
incentivizing tools

THE SELECTED CHAPTER


IMAGES IN MOTION
(CHAPTER 29 - PART 7: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION)

Introduction

Introduct
ion
the sense of movement can be read

Walk through
Venice Analysis
Walk through
Venice Comparison

Conclusion

and understood as a pictorial sequence


combined with measured drawings
such as maps, designers can learn
important lessons about scale in city
design.
A designer who compares, for
example, a plan view of a place with a
pictorial sequence illustrating a walk
through that place has a much better
grasp of dimension.
the Pictorial sequence has the desired
effect of pulling the reader into the
space, so the pictures must be read
from bottom to top.

THE SELECTED CHAPTER


IMAGES IN MOTION

A Walk Through Venice


Documentation

(CHAPTER 29 - PART 7: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION)

THE SELECTED CHAPTER


IMAGES IN MOTION

A Walk Through Venice


Documentation

(CHAPTER 29 - PART 7: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION)

THE SELECTED CHAPTER


IMAGES IN MOTION

A Walk Through Venice


Documentation

(CHAPTER 29 - PART 7: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION)

THE SELECTED CHAPTER


IMAGES IN MOTION

A Walk Through Venice


Documentation

(CHAPTER 29 - PART 7: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION)

THE SELECTED CHAPTER


IMAGES IN MOTION

A Walk Through Venice


Documentation

(CHAPTER 29 - PART 7: THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION)

IMAGES IN MOTION

A Walk through Venice


Comparisons

Venice

Washington, D.C.,

the old city of


Kyoto

IMAGES IN MOTION

A Walk through Venice


Comparisons

Venice

San Francesco

the Piazza Navona in Rome

IMAGES IN MOTION

A Walk through Venice


Comparisons

Venice

Cairo University

CONCLUSIONS
The perception of time is influenced
by :
The scale and dimensions of the city and its Urban
Spaces
Arranging and placement of urban elements
the rhythmic spacing of recurring elements.
Successive acts of apperception and recognition

Designed textures, selected color, and manipulated


light.

THANKS .

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