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Components of Urban Space
1. Block
2. Square
3. Street

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Models of Urban Space and their Inter-relationship

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Models of Urban Space and their Inter-relationship

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 Classification
Interior Exterior
1. Room 1. Square
2. Corridor 2. Street
Urban Space

Internal / External Space

Street

Factors of Influence

Urban Block - House

Urban Structuret
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 Functions
of the Street
1. Artery of circulation
2. Social Rituals
3. Shopping
4. Travel
5. Houses Informal Shops
6. Recreation
7. Leisure
8. Poetry of space
9. Boulevard romanticism

Street as an artery / For Circulation

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Functions of the Street

1. Artery of circulation – Hierarchy of roads – 7V’s of Chandigarh

2. Social Rituals – Street as a social space, extension of the street as a semi-public space:Thinnai, as a shop, for
festivities, for interaction. Example – Mint / Sowcarpet in Chennai, Dharavi in Mumbai

3. Shopping – Informal activities, vendors and kiosks as small urban spaces with activity, Example – George Town
4. Shopping streets exclusive to either wholesale or retail activity (George Town, Purasawakkam, T.Nagar –
Ranganathan Street) with its supporting sensory and spatial elements as in banners / display, neon lights, awnings
that project onto the street.

5. Travel – The physical dimension of travelling as in movement / circulation from point At o point B is
transcended by the visual or sensory travel. The axiom of kinesthetics (moving throuh space over time / urban
environments and urban spaces are experienced in some form of dynamic, emerging, unfolding, and temporal
sequence, Tiesdell, 2011) and haptic sense are best explained in streets as an urban space. (Chandi Chowk,
Bazaars, Temple – Car Streets)

6. Houses Informal Shops

7. Recreation

8. Leisure

9. Poetry of space

10. Boulevard romanticism

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 www.urbansketchers.org

Street as networks
Street as commerce

www.leopoldlambert.net
Eityan Uliel, Impressions of Bombay (Travels in India, Chapter 12) Street as Boulevards / avenues - Paris
Street as a social space

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Street System affected by Planning Errors

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 SQUARE
Development of the Square

Functions of the Square

Evolution of the Square

Enclosure – Courtyard – Atrium
– Square - Model

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SQUARE AS INTERACTION OF 2 ROADS

FIXED POINT OF ORIENTATION

MEETING PLACE

FUNCTIONS OF A SQUARE
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 Square as an
intersection

Arcade running
around the square,
high narrow columns

Lower arcade

Lower arcade, wide

openings

Combination of
different facades

With Plants /
landscape

DIMENSIONS OF A
SQUARE
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 Object & urban space

Effect of material

Old – New –Green

Open spaces – Green –

Types of Tress

DIMENSIONS OF A
SQUARE
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 SPATIAL TYPES - INTERPRETATION

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 SPATIAL TYPES - INTERPRETATION

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BUILDING SECTIONS AFFECTING URBAN SPACE

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 BUILDING ELEVATIONS
AFFECTING URBAN
SPACE

Sources – from works of

Rob and Leon Krier
Urban Space
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