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    Gordon Cullen was an influential urban designer who published the seminal work "Townscape" in 1961, which proposed analyzing cities based on how people experience movement through them. He believed cities could be better understood by considering the "drama of juxtaposition" created by vivid contrasts experienced during motion. Cullen referred to his theory of manipulating urban design elements to create a certain experience as the "Environment Game." He presented this theory through three "gateways" - serial vision experienced through motion, a sense of place created by contrasts of "hereness and thereness", and how the content and relationships between urban elements can be juxtaposed.

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    Gordon Cullen was an influential urban designer who published the seminal work "Townscape" in 1961, which proposed analyzing cities based on how people experience movement through them. He believed cities could be better understood by considering the "drama of juxtaposition" created by vivid contrasts experienced during motion. Cullen referred to his theory of manipulating urban design elements to create a certain experience as the "Environment Game." He presented this theory through three "gateways" - serial vision experienced through motion, a sense of place created by contrasts of "hereness and thereness", and how the content and relationships between urban elements can be juxtaposed.

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    GORDON CULLEN

    Reading the city based on


    - experience -
    of movement

    Townscapes in Urban Design


    Serial Vision
    Gordon Cullen, the humanist and urbanist designer, first published his
    seminal work “Townscape” in 1961, and a concise version of it was
    published ten years later (Cullen 1961, 1971).

    He considers that a town can become visible in a deeper sense if vivid


    contrasts can be felt, as “the human mind reacts to the difference
    between things,” or “the drama of juxtaposition” (Cullen 1971, p. 9).

    Cullen liked to call his theory and approach to understanding and


    manipulating the elements of townscape an “Environment Game.”

    He presented his discovery of humanistic urban design in three


    “gateways”:

     MOTION SERIAL VISION

     PLACE HERENESS AND THERENESS


     CONTENT THIS AND THAT
    MOTION
    SERIAL VISION
    MOTION
    SERIAL VISION

    In concerning
    “Optics,” Cullen
    calls a series of
    “jerks or
    revelations” that
    we may experience
    when walking
    through a town or
    city at a uniform
    speed as “Serial
    Vision”.
    MOTION
    SERIAL VISION
    MOTION
    SERIAL VISION
    PLACE HERENESS AND THERENESS

    • Possession
    • Occupied Territory / Possession In Movement
    • Advantage / Viscosity / Enclaves / Enclosure
    • Focal Point / Precincts
    • Indoor Landscape & Outdoor Room / Outdoor Room & Enclosure
    • Thereness / Here & There
    • Pinpointing / Truncation
    • Silhouette / Grandiose Vista / Division Of Space / Screened Vista
    • Projection & Recession / Incident / Punctuation / Narrows
    • Fluctuation / Undulation/ Closure
    • Infinity / Mystery / Anticipation / Continuity
    • Hazards

    Please refer “The Concise Townscape” - Cullen, Gordon -


    Page nos. 21 to 56
    CONTENT THIS AND THAT

    • Juxtaposition / Immediacy
    • Thisness / Seeing In Detail
    • Secret Town / Urbanity / Intricacy / Propriety
    • Bluntness & Vigor / Entanglement
    • Nostalgia / Exposure / Intimacy
    • Illusion / Metaphor
    • Telltale / Animism / Noticeable Absence / Significant Objects
    • Building As Sculpture / Geometry
    • Relationship / Scale / Scale On Plan
    • Distortion
    • Calligraphy / Lettering / Publicity
    • Railings / Fences
    • Texture

    Please refer “The Concise Townscape” - Cullen, Gordon –


    Page nos. 57 to 86

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