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    Rob Krier

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    The document discusses the concept of urban space, describing it as the open, public space between buildings in towns. It notes that historically, urban spaces like squares and streets were arranged in ways that provided defense and control. However, the document argues that urban planning in the 20th century prioritized functions, construction, and traffic over people's needs, resulting in the erosion and loss of coherent urban spaces. It presents Rob Krier's proposals for reconstructing urban spaces in Stuttgart in a way that restores continuity and pedestrian priority.

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    Rob Krier

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    The document discusses the concept of urban space, describing it as the open, public space between buildings in towns. It notes that historically, urban spaces like squares and streets were arranged in ways that provided defense and control. However, the document argues that urban planning in the 20th century prioritized functions, construction, and traffic over people's needs, resulting in the erosion and loss of coherent urban spaces. It presents Rob Krier's proposals for reconstructing urban spaces in Stuttgart in a way that restores continuity and pedestrian priority.

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    The document discusses the concept of urban space, describing it as the open, public space between buildings in towns. It notes that historically, urban spaces like squares and streets were arranged in ways that provided defense and control. However, the document argues that urban planning in the 20th century prioritized functions, construction, and traffic over people's needs, resulting in the erosion and loss of coherent urban spaces. It presents Rob Krier's proposals for reconstructing urban spaces in Stuttgart in a way that restores continuity and pedestrian priority.

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    The document discusses the concept of urban space, describing it as the open, public space between buildings in towns. It notes that historically, urban spaces like squares and streets were arranged in ways that provided defense and control. However, the document argues that urban planning in the 20th century prioritized functions, construction, and traffic over people's needs, resulting in the erosion and loss of coherent urban spaces. It presents Rob Krier's proposals for reconstructing urban spaces in Stuttgart in a way that restores continuity and pedestrian priority.

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    URBAN SPACE

    – ROB KRIER
    The term ‘urban space’ can be simply
    described as external space in town. It is seen
    as open, unobstructed space for movement in
    the open air, with public, semi public and
    private zones.

    The ‘concept of urban space’ is to


    designate all types of space between buildings
    in towns and other localities as urban space
    SQUARES
    Producing by grouping of houses around an open space
    this arrangement provided control of the inner space and facilitated a rready defense
    against external aggression
    the influence of this can be seen in a lot of holy places

    STREETS
    Is the product of spread is settlements once houses have been built on all available
    spaces around its central square.
    Distribution of land and gives access to individual plots

    TYPOLOGY OF URBAN SPACE

    The spatial forms of urban space derive from the three


    basic geometric shapes: (square, circle and triangle).
    These three shapes are affected by modulating factors
    which are angling, segmentation, addition, merging,
    overlapping and distortion.
    INTERSECTION OF
    STREETS AND SQUARES
    4. Pleasing to human scale
    Morphological Series of Urban Space

    Gives various examples for a morphology of urban space within this chapter, there
    being an almost inexhaustible range of possible forms exists that are mostly from our
    historic town.
    EROSION OF URBAN SPACE

    The 20th century

    The erosion of urban space is an ongoing process which has been with us for the last
    fifty years in the guise of technological progress. This era has started with the invention
    of new military technology. New weaponry neutralized the defensive systems of cities.
    Consequently, city walls were demolished and allowed armies to simply walk through
    the city. The need of protection had imposed a new discipline on every town: its
    construction, rebuilding and expansion.

    Architecture was a low priority. Functional, constructional and capital concerns were
    being the most important issues of the day. Additionally, the influence of industrial
    building on the urban planning is another catastrophe.

    It leads to numerous misconceived developments which caused the impoverishment of


    present-day architecture. For example: The movements towards a purely functional or
    constructional orientation. The developing proposals of planners for new ideal cities
    during the 20th Century and 19th Century industrial building has taken away the control
    of the concept of urban space and architecture..
    Imaginary scheme for Ville De Chaux
    by Nicholos ledoux.
    ‘Destroyed the unity of the baroque
    town’

    spacial impression – overwhelming

    No coherent sense of urban space.


    PROPOSALS FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF
    THE DEVASTATEDURBAN AREAS
    -Station area
    -The university area
    -The Rotebuhiplatz
    -Johannesstrasse/Feuersee
    -The Osterreichische Platz
    -The Wilhelmsplatz/The Leonhardsplatz
    -The Charlottensplatz/The Schlossplatz
    -The Staatsgalerie
    -The Schlossgarten

    Krier has suggested possible approaches to reconstruction


    for various parts of Stuttgart. The former coherent urban
    structure of Stuttgart was destroyed to a catastrophic
    extent during the Second World War. The heart of the city
    was broken up into a large number of small islands
    battered by waves of heavy traffic. In Rob Krier’s schemes
    for Stuttgart, he tried to win back downtown of the city for
    pedestrians, without excluding the car in the process.
    In practical terms, this means using redevelopment to weld
    together seamlessly the isolated areas at those critical points,
    whose significance for the pedestrian’s spatial awareness was
    eroded during the post war years because of costly civil
    engineering programmes. Particular attention is paid in these
    studies to restoring the continuity of spatial experience
    within an urban context. Additionally, he designed streets
    and squares for pedestrians, harmonised as closely as
    possible with the existing structure and showing the utmost
    consideration for the legacy of the past.
    STATION AREA The Rotebuhiplatz
    The Osterreichische Platz
    The Wilhelmsplatz/The Leonhardsplatz
    The Charlottensplatz/The Schlossplatz The Schlossgarten
    CONCLUSION
    The rush of rebui` and the priority which is given to the traffic and to the other
    technologies rather than the people’s need resulted with scattered buildings with no
    proper spatial planning. This has proved the thesis of author that the traditional
    concept of urban space and its structure has been lost within modern cities.

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