UNIT III -THEORISING AND READING URBAN SPACE

Ideas of Imageability and townscape:

Cullen, Lynch- place and genius loci- collective memory-

historic reading of the city and its artifacts:

Rossi- social aspects of urban space: life on streets and between

buildings, gender and class, Jane Jacobs, William Whyte.

Ar.B.sivashankaree ------------------------------------------- 31st July 2019

 Gordon Cullen - Concise Townscape

According to Gordon Cullen - Townscape is a visual art contained in the arrangement

of buildings, roads, trees, nature and urban environment that decorate the space.

The townscape is one way that can be used in term of physical -visual to recognize the
physical form of a city.
GORDEN CULLEN

1. OPTICS

2. CONTENT

3. PLACE
SQUARE AS QUADRANGLE : COLLEGIATE SQUARE

MANCHESTER SQUARE
The quality of bringing one into direct and The fact of two things being seen or
instant involvement with something, giving placed close together with contrasting
rise to a sense of urgency or excitement effect.
KEVIN - LYNCH
-Districts:
Are medium to large sections of
the city – Characterized by
wealthy neighborhood.
Eg: Sub-urban.
Park street – Kolkata – Case study