URBAN DESIGN  It denotes’ a delaminated surface characterized

 Planning concerned with the arrangement,
appearance and function of suburbs towns rural,
and cities
 It is both a process and an outcome of creating a
locality in which people live and engage with
each other and engage with the physical place
around them.
 It involves the design and coordination
URBAN SPACE
 Public spaces between cities created through
arrangement of buildings and other built
elements.
 Related to concept of public realm public spaces
available for free use.
 Focus on urban activity
 Self-contained island
 Either related to neighboring spaces or may
interconnected
 Example plaza
OPEN SPACE VS URBAN SPACE
 Open space- areas of greenery in or near the
city- natural park like
 Urban space- public spaces within cities,
created through arrangements of buildings and
other built elements
by an extended area lined with buildings on
either side.
SQUARE
 Static Spaces with less sense of movement
width: Length <1:3
 Planned open area in a city originally
rectangular in shape hardscape suitable for open
markets, music concerts, community gathering,
political rallies, and other events that require
firm grounds.
 Plaza- a Spanish word describe an open urban
public space. At times of crisis or celebrations it
was a space were the large crowd were
gathering. Piazza an open square in a city found
in Italy. The term is roughly equivalent to the
Spanish Plaza.
 Place- French equivalent of “plaza, piazza.
CLASSIFICATION OF SQUARES
 Closed Square- space self-contained

TYPES OF PUBLIC SPACES

 External public space- as a piece of land that
 Dominated Square- Space directed
lie between private landholdings such as public
squares, street, stretches, rivers. Open spaces lie
between the private land holdings.
 Internal public space- or public institution such
as libraries, museums, townhalls, train, bus
station, hospitals and post offices.
 External and internal “quasi-public spaces
such as university campuses sportsground,
restaurants also form part of the public realm, if
only nominally because their own owners and
operators
 Nuclear Square- space formed around the
TYPES OF URBAN STREETS, SQUARES, center
PRECINTS
STREETS
 spaces with sense of Movement width: Length
>= 1:5
 Grouped Square space units combined
 Amorphous Square- square unlimited