Lecture 2a - Current Urban Issues
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SYED ZAINOL ABIDIN IDID : URBAN DESIGN & CONSERVATION RESEARCH UNIT URBAN DESIGN lecture notes YEAR2 SBP 3183
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UDCRUCURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES
by Chau Loon Wai
TO THINK OF URBAN DESIGN AS A SEPARATE SKILL IS A DIVERSION, A CONVENIENT SEPARATION OF THOSE DIFFICULT ARTS THAT ARE REALLY NOTHING LESS THAN TOWN PLANNING.
THE TOWN PLANNING PROFESSION – WHETHER IT ACCEPTS AND FACES UP TO THE FACT OR NOT – HAS HAD AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY, THROUGH THE DRAWING UP OF PLANS, THE CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSALS AND THE RECOMMENDATION OF
PERMISSIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT, FOR URBAN DESIGN.
IT IS AN ART TOWN PLANNING MUST ITSELF REVIVE, MUST TAKE AGAIN TO ITS HEART, AND LEARN, AGAIN TO DESIGN. FOR PLANNERS, URBAN DESIGN IS NOT AN OPTION, IT IS TOWN
PLANNING.BOB JARVIS
“THE LOST ART OF TOWN PLANNING”Urban Design Quarterly, Issue 43, July 1992 (pg. 29)
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Towns / cities (product of design) have become too big to be legible & easily understood, perceived and managed
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
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Towns / cities are becoming more influenced / being shaped (design process) by design concepts that are alien
to the local context and through development & design by people foreign to the local lifestyles.
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
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Local Communities have been sidelined in the development of towns / cities (design process); the local communities should actually be initialising development(designers, developers, politicians are just tools / means
to achieve community goals)
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
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Economic rationalisation / efficiency leads to predominantly mega-scale developments (product of design) that are unsustainable ecologically, socially, &
even economically in the long run
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Misconception of Urban Design as merely the placing of bollards; selecting materials for pedestrian ways;
initiating urban landscape; urban beautifications and image enhancements (design process).
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
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Lack of integration in city development (design process) across all administrative boundaries, disciplinary
boundaries, & spatial boundaries
Breaking into components:
predominantly town planning & architecture, which compete with engineering & pathetically balanced up by
“modern urban design”
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
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UDCRUCURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES
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Misconception of “BIG is Beautiful” &
“the Bigger the Better”; what we need is actually
“Better NOT Bigger” (product of design)
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Failure (or disinterest?) among built environment professionals to study, understand & appreciate the
“natural” process & good principles of City Building that created many timelessly beautiful, liveable & more
sustainable traditional cities; failure to learn from the past (design process)
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
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Urban Design is not emphasised at all in current town planning practice (design process); where is “Urban
Design” in the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (Act 172)?
CITY IMAGE?
View Shed?
CITY Comfort?URBAN QUALITY?
Hum
an Scale?
walkability?
LIVEABILITY?
Aesthetic?
People Plac
es?
genius loci?
inclusiveness?iDEntiTy?
Vitality?
Human Needs?
roBusTNess?
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
Buildin
g Mass
ing?
legibility?
Landmarks?Public-
Private Interface?
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Town planners / urban designers passively following trends (design process) without seriously questioning
their causes & effects; design should be a pro-active tool of change
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
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Current planning system promotes (design process)mono-functional zoning & segregation of land uses
imbalanced development; cities become solely landscape of consumption, hinterland / regions become
predominantly landscape of production (product of design)
urban sprawl uncontrolledrelatively low density (generally)
increased car dependencysocial segregation / disintegration
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
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Planning & Design for machinery-needs rather than for human-needs (design process) loss of identity of place,
genius loci, human scale, freedom to move about placelessness (product of design)
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
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Privatisation of public places(product of design)
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
Meadowhall Shopping Mall, Sheffield, UK
Mea
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hall
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all,
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Failure of town planners / urban designers to understand / visualise the implications of 2-dimensional plans &
policy statements onto the real 3-dimensional physical environment; failure to translate planning ideals into
physical realities (design process)
CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUESby Chau Loon Wai
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URBAN DESIGN &CONSERVATION RESEARCH UNIT
UDCRUCURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES
by Chau Loon Wai
TO THINK OF URBAN DESIGN AS A SEPARATE SKILL IS A DIVERSION, A CONVENIENT SEPARATION OF THOSE DIFFICULT ARTS THAT ARE REALLY NOTHING LESS THAN TOWN PLANNING.
THE TOWN PLANNING PROFESSION – WHETHER IT ACCEPTS AND FACES UP TO THE FACT OR NOT – HAS HAD AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY, THROUGH THE DRAWING UP OF PLANS, THE CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSALS AND THE RECOMMENDATION OF
PERMISSIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT, FOR URBAN DESIGN.
IT IS AN ART TOWN PLANNING MUST ITSELF REVIVE, MUST TAKE AGAIN TO ITS HEART, AND LEARN, AGAIN TO DESIGN. FOR PLANNERS, URBAN DESIGN IS NOT AN OPTION, IT IS TOWN
PLANNING.BOB JARVIS
“THE LOST ART OF TOWN PLANNING”Urban Design Quarterly, Issue 43, July 1992 (pg. 29)