Urban Design

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Urban Design Planning Practice

• Design Control advantages disadvantages
• Disadvantages
• -conceived to be concerned with aesthetics
• -Quality design can be achieved only by designers
  with restraints
• -planning committees are guilty of imposing
  personal tastes and opinion
• -it wastes time and resources
• Advantages
• -it prevents outrages and stops bad building
• -it raises the standards of development
• -encourages architect to stand up to his client
  for better design
• -it is a democratic, it incorporates the view of
  the public
• -it is accountable since decisions are made by
  elected rep.
• -provides bridge between public and professional

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Legitimate design control concerns p.44

• Examples
• -access
• Building design
• -building line
• -bulk
• -car park
• -color
• -context
• Density
• -enclosure
• -energy efficiency
• -external appearance
• -good design
• -landscape design
• -layout
• -massing
• -materials
• -open space
• -orientation

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Non-legitimate design control concerns

• -detailed design - detailed access
• -internal space standards - gardens
• -location on plot -style
• -taste -outlook

4
Legitimate design control processes

• -appraisal valuable -area design guides
• -briefs on layout and design of residential roads
  ped. Support
• -briefs to identify goals/problems/opportunities
• -civic responsibility
• -decision-making criteria in plan policy
• -encourage innovation
• -good design the aim of all
• -landscape character analysis valuable
• -landscape implementation
• -phasing of development
• --importance of presentation
• -reject poor design
• -secure public acceptance
• -urban design analysis

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Design considerations into UD framework

• Major design considerations (legitimate
  non-legitimate) p. 49 table 3.5 p. 51 table
  3.6
• -spatial
• -morphological
• -contextual
• -visual
• -perceptual
• -social
• -Functional
• -Sustainable