Urban Design: Explaination of Words (45-50) of Urban Vocabulary

URBAN DESIGN ARC- 423
EXPLAINATION OF WORDS (45-50)

OF URBAN VOCABULARY
8 SEMESTER
DEPTT OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
MANIT, BHOPAL
• Urban blocks are the space for buildings within the street
45. URBAN BLOCK: pattern of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban
fabric or it is the smallest group of buildings that is
surrounded by streets.
• Urban blocks in a broader sense can work as the
essential settlement form of the urban tissue and
organization scheme of a city. Along with streets they
define the urban layout and influence the way a city
works.
• They may be subdivided into any number of smaller land
lots usually depending on public or private ownership, or
on the basis of land use pattern though in some cases, it
One big cluster(city) may be other forms of tenure.
• Additionally, they can be flexible enough to adjust to
different built forms as well as to distinct socio-cultural
Different small blocks environments. Moreover, an urban block can generate a
mixed-use economy while it creates social mixture of
different users.
46. URBAN CONSERVATION
• Urban conservation is concerned with those parts of the built
environment that are of architectural or historic significance.
This includes buildings (individually or in groups), localities
(streets, blocks, environments or precincts), special gardens or
landscapes, and other structures.
• Cities are often an important focal point for urban
conservation because they provides the single concentration of
several heritage and economical assets.
• Conservation does not mean preservation of buildings,
localities or other features for all time. Only a few buildings
are so highly significant that they should be retained in a
wholly original form. Many more buildings of character can
be retained if they are adapted to allow continued economic
occupation. This may mean a changed form of their original
use or an entirely new use.
Urban design involves the arrangement and design of
buildings, public spaces, transport systems, services, and
amenities. Urban design is the process of giving form, shape,
47.URBAN DESIGN: and character to groups of buildings, to whole neighborhoods,
and the city. It is a framework that orders the
elements into a network of streets,
squares, and blocks. Urban
design blends architecture,
landscape architecture, and city
planning together to make urban
areas functional and attractive.
Urban design is about
making connections
between people and
places, movement
and urban form, nature
and the built fabric.
• Urban ecology is the scientific study of the
48. URBAN ECOLOGY relation of living organisms with each other
and their surroundings in the context of
an urban environment.
• The term “urban ecology” was coined in the
1930s by sociologists Robert Park and Peter
Burgess, who were ap-
plying ecological concepts and theory to
human behavior.
• It the study of ecosystems that include
humans living in cities and urbanizing
landscapes. It is an emerging,
interdisciplinary field that aims to
understand how human and ecological
processes can coexist in human-dominated
systems and help societies with their efforts
to become more sustainable.
Its all about
balancing of green
ecology with
modern
urbanism………………
…..
49.URBAN FORM • The term “urban form” is used to describe a city’s
physical characteristics.
• It refers to the size, shape, and configuration of
an urban area or its parts.
• How it will be understood, structured, or
analyzed depends on scale of the urban area.
• Characteristics of the urban form range from, at
a very localized scale, features such as building
materials, facades, and fenestration to, at a
broader scale, housing type, street type, and
their spatial arrangement or layout.
• The concept of urban form encompasses also
nonphysical aspects such as density.
TRANSITION OF URBAN FORM
Urban form with introduction of skyscrappers
Urban form with

Urban form with small housing introduction of tall
buildings.
50.URBAN GRAIN
• Urban grain is a key part of
the urban form of all places
• Urban grain is essentially a description
of the pattern of plots in an urban block
and when this pattern is dominated by
Example of urban grain with fine and coarse street layout small plots it is described as fine urban
grain.
• The word 'granular' is used to describe
something that is made up of multiple
elements. If the elements are small, we
call it "fine-grained," and if the elements
are large, we call it "coarse-grained.“
Example of urban grain with fine and coarse residence layout

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• SUBMITTED BY:
1. MAHIMA VISHWAKARMA 171110010
2. SUNIDHI VERMA 171110226
3. HIMANI SURYAVANSHI 171110211
4. DEVRAJ VERMA 171110047
5. ADARSH 171110213 ( absent) • REFERENCES:
6. NIKHILANANDAN 171110228( absent) 1. www.britannica.org
2. www.urbanplanning.org
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EXPLAINATION OF WORDS (45-50)

Urban form with introduction of skyscrappers

Urban form with

Example of urban grain with fine and coarse residence layout

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