A new paradigm for local development plans

Hall, A C

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“…These trends suggest that three issues contribute to the inadequacy of the current urban design format in the design control of the emerging 21st-century city urban form. First, the present format is constrained by thinking in terms of two-dimensional (2D) uniform landuse allocations and by the lack of a three-dimensional (3D) land-use notation (Hall, 2000). Second, a variety of tools are required to support designers in shaping and dealing with the scale and complexity of the emerging networked urban form in a hierarchical order (Hall, 2000;Worthington, 2006).…”

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“…First, the present format is constrained by thinking in terms of two-dimensional (2D) uniform landuse allocations and by the lack of a three-dimensional (3D) land-use notation (Hall, 2000). Second, a variety of tools are required to support designers in shaping and dealing with the scale and complexity of the emerging networked urban form in a hierarchical order (Hall, 2000;Worthington, 2006). Third, globalization and digitization have greatly increased the need for dynamic, transparent, and continually changing urban design models.…”

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“…What is really needed are plans and plan-making methods that are properly designed to deal with the scale and complexity of the decentralized multicentred urban form (Hall, 2000). Such plans and methods require an improved multidisciplinary and collaborative urban design process that employs analytical, communication, and dynamic visualization techniques (Batty, 2007a).…”

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Assessment of the Methods and Extents of the Usage of Urban Modeling in Urban Design Practice in US Cities

Al-Douri

2013

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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Literature suggests that present urban design plans and methods are inadequate to deal with the scale and complexity of contemporary urban form and multidisciplinary collaborative practice. Although recent developments in urban modeling technologies have brought about a wide range of different techniques and potential implementations that may help address this inadequacy, they have not yet made their desired impact on the design process. Failure to use these capabilities extensively in actual practice may result primarily from a limited understanding of the proper role these tools should play or the impact they may have. There is also hesitation about which are appropriate and effective applications, and little consensus on the methods with which these capabilities should be used in core design activities. More investigation is needed to understand fully their application in urban design practice. This research suggests a methodological framework underlying the methods of using various urban modeling functionalities. A questionnaire survey method was used to document the methods and assess the extents to which designers used urban modeling tools in developing eight urban design plans. The questionnaire survey flndings were compared with the theoretical premises. The flndings showed that design methodology is the main factor that affects the effectiveness of modeling to support design activities. The ñndings showed extensive, inconsistent usage and various degrees of support for design activities that resulted in various degrees of impact on urban design aspects. The flndings suggest the provision of dynamic visualization supported by efflcient networking may advance urban modeling to become a tool of public advocacy and design decision support which can advance urban design practice to informational, communicational, and representational systems.

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Al-Douri

2013

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“…Hall contends that a major problem in Great Britain is the failure of planning authorities to formulate explicit objectives for the design of different parts of urban areas. He also feels that the process of making local development plans allows insufficient consideration of urban form and design issues (Hall, 2000). In similar vein, Whitehand (1992a) concludes that, at the scale of the British streetscape, governmental influence is often less today than that of major nineteenth-century estate owners exercising control over the development of their land.…”

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The study of urban form in Great Britain

Larkham

2006

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This paper examines the history of the study of urban form in Great Britain, tracing its origins, the development of an ’indigenous’ strand of work, and the introduction of M.R.G. Conzen’s ideas. ’Urban form’ is defined unusually widely, as many disparate strands of work have an influence upon that definition as currently conceived, including the consideration of agents and agency in urban change. Methods and techniques are discussed, from Conzenian plan analysis to computers and fractals. The main disciplinary focus is geographical, but studies from a broad range of other disciplines are also considered.

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“…Such a system was proposed by urban morphologist and planner Karl Kropf, and since validated in planning and design practice (Hall, 1997(Hall, , 2000Kropf, 2002). Kropf's approach to the definition and subdivision of built form, based on the logical distinction between classes, relations and properties of built form and a synthesis of established urban morphological perspectives (Kropf, 1993), is taken as the starting point for the classification system presented here.…”

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The urban structural unit: towards a descriptive framework to support urban analysis and planning

Osmond

2009

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At the most fundamental level, a city represents a set of structured relationships between space, form and flows. This paper focuses on the description of urban space and form to propose a classification framework to support subsequent explanation and interpretation of the flows of materials, energy and information which characterize the city. Description of urban form in terms of type, number and arrangement of parts and part-to-part relations, rather than explanation in terms of land use or historical derivation, is identified as the basis for decomposition of an urban space into a set of relatively morphologically homogeneous entities, or urban structural units (USUs). To enable a rigorous definition of the USU, this paper introduces the notion of a parallel hierarchy of open space, complementary techniques derived from space syntax to describe the urban street network, and consideration of other civil infrastructure networks (water, electricity etc.). Land classification systems are examined to assess the role of geophysical properties in delineating USUs. These diverse elements are combined into an integrated classification framework with the potential to support urban analysis, planning and design across multiple scales of investigation.

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A new paradigm for local development plans

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Assessment of the Methods and Extents of the Usage of Urban Modeling in Urban Design Practice in US Cities

Assessment of the Methods and Extents of the Usage of Urban Modeling in Urban Design Practice in US Cities

The study of urban form in Great Britain

The urban structural unit: towards a descriptive framework to support urban analysis and planning

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