Mee Kam NG

Urban Studies Programme

Department of Geography and Resource Management

WHAT & WHERE?

Urban form
(morphology)/ urban
development processes:
Urban ecology
Land use distributions
Economic space
Lived space
Public space
Redevelopment/
renewal
Gentrification
Social polarization

WHY?

WHO?

Government
Market
Private sector
Community

Governance: How do
they (not) work
together?

Underlying values:
Values
Exchange value
Use value
Aspirations:
World city ranking
Competitiveness
Social justice
Just city
Utopia/ Dystopia

HOW & WHEN?

Urban planning, urban design, urban re- (reform, revolution, revitalization)

We have come to the end of this journey

Our cities are created environment
The question is who has a role to create itWE ALL DO!
Who plans? Who designs? On what values? How?

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governancevaluesprocessthe urban form

Utopian vision? Dystopian vision?

Utopian?

Dystopian?

For people
With common
land
Environmentally
friendly
With nature: trees,
green spaces
Not crowded
Modern and great
architecture
Wide roads and
well-planned
Technology for
efficient living

No people outside and not for living, no community, no interaction

Air Pollution, serious pollution
Traffic congestion
With factories
No green spaces, not natural
High rise, packed and dense development/ concrete jungle, dark and
dull
Oppressive-looking buildings
Cold materialsenergy intensive
Rubbish
Ruined/old/no one cares/abandoned
Public or recreational spaces separated from other buildings
Only working spaces
A wall separating different worlds, enclosed setting, not accessible
No fair right to land
Monotonous citiscape
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Not pedestrian friendly

Making places: some principles

Class activity

PLACE MAKING PRINCIPLES

Place is endowed with values and meanings through

interactions between people and their environment
A centre of felt values (Madanipour, 1996, p.23)
A moment in the network of ever-changing social relations
at all scales (Massey, 1994, p.5)
Place: a product of time (Mumford, 1940, p.4); a
historical creation (Benevolo, 1980, p.5), the embodiment
of history (Olsen, 1986), a historical process (Blumenfeld,
1982, p.51)
A contested space: need for more diverse, denser human
contacts in place making (Madanipour, 1996, p.24)
Only USE VALUES can produce a place?

MACRO level- image of the city

Natural Setting island/ peninsular harbour/ ridgeline

District - Topography > Functions and Characters

INTERMEDIATE level buildings and space

Streetscape , View Corridors, Open Spaces and Squares

Massing, Height, Texture and Design of Buildings
Landmarks and Focal Points
Pedestrian Linkages and pedestrianized streets

MICRO level user environment

Human scale, material, pattern, colour and texture of Finishes

Street Furniture and landscaping
Signage and signals, advertisement

Tang, 2007

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Free Download:
Vol. One:
http://webapps.stoke.gov.uk/u
ploadedfiles/Urban%20Design
%20Compendium%201.pdf

Vol. Two:
http://www.staffordbc.gov.uk/
live/Documents/Regeneration
/Design%20Training/UrbanDesign-Compendium-2.pdf

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English Partnership & Housing Corporation (2007) Urban Design Compendium Volume 1, Llewelyn-Davies, London, p.13

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Integrate the various needs of the

new development
Identifies possibilities that the site
offers (solar potential, rain, drainage,
wind, reduce energy demand)
Recognises the sites limitations
(should the site be developed? Which
part? What development?...)
Reuse and repair brownfield land
Strengthen the identity and structure
of the landscape

English Partnership & Housing Corporation (2007) Urban Design

Compendium Volume 1, Llewelyn-Davies, London, pp.25-6.

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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

analysis
Initial concept ideas and strategic options:

Design for ease of walking

Connect with existing network
Types of grid
Mixing uses (development forms, land use, density, tenure and
market segments)
A patchwork of different activities
Compatible uses

English Partnership & Housing Corporation (2007) Urban Design Compendium Volume 1, Llewelyn-Davies, London, pp.35-45

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Initial concept ideas and strategic options:

Centres (on public transport nodes)

Edges: bring them to life!
Transition zones (rich mix)
Energy and resource efficiency

English Partnership & Housing Corporation (2007) Urban Design Compendium Volume 1, Llewelyn-Davies, London, pp.35-45

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Initial concept ideas and

strategic options:
A variety of open space types:
greenway, water way, meadow,
playing field, cemetery, park,
green, square, plaza, playground
Landmarks?
Vistas, focal points?
Blocks, block size, shape
Pedestrian environment, cycling,
public transport, streets as social
places
Buildings and setback
Enclosure

English Partnership & Housing Corporation (2007) Urban Design Compendium Volume 1, Llewelyn-Davies, London, pp.35-45
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CLASS ACTIVITY

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IDENTIFY:
Urban form
Public space

Land uses
Exchange values
Use values

Transportation
Social justice
Spatial justice, etc.

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STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

OPPORTUNITIES

THREATS

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