scholarly journals The Environmental Dimension of Urban Design: A Point of View

10.5772/62883 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Giovagnorio ◽  
Giovanni M. Chiri
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Environmental Dimension

THE ROLE OF URBAN AESTHETICS ON ENHANCING VITALITY OF URBAN SPACES

2021 ◽  
pp. xx-xx
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
Aesthetic Design ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Aesthetic

Several scholars have focused on the different approaches in designing convivial urban spaces, but literary evidence shows that the essence of aesthetic design in public urban spaces, by referring to the main dimensions involved in the shaping of urban vitality, has not been adequately researched. In this regard, this study, by hypothesizing that the quality of urban design leads to a vital urban environment, focuses on urban vitality from the aesthetic point of view. Thus, in using qualitative grounded theory as a main methodological tool and using a systematic review of the related literature as the main induction approach for collecting qualitative data, five main dimensions of urban vitality, which are necessary to attain a correlation with the aesthetic quality of urban design, were conceptualized. The study concludes that the aesthetic design of an urban setting has a direct effect on the active involvement of its users and that this, therefore, has a direct consequence on the level of public urban vitality, manifested. Integrating the complexity theory with the five main dimensions used for assessing urban vitality was suggested as a viable area for further research.

scholarly journals Szemléletváltás a budapesti bérházépítésben

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Körner Zsuzsa ◽  
Kissfazekas Kornélia
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Residential House ◽  
Attitude Changes ◽  
Shed Light

A budapesti bérházépítés során a volumenközpontú szabályozástól a korszerű lakóháztervezési elvek felé történő elmozdulás folyamata felölelte a 20. század első harmadát. A tanulmány ezt az időszakot kívánja megvilágítani, az átmeneti időszak általános városépítészeti szemléletváltásainak, főbb jellemzőinek, és az ezek nyomán kialakuló beépítési mód változásainak a bemutatásával. A folyamatot a városépítészeti szempontból példaértékűnek tekintett Újlipótváros néhány tömbjének részletesebb elemzése illusztrálja, melyek kutatási alapját eredeti térképi anyagok és korabeli szakmai publikációk képezik.In multi-storey rental housing in Budapest the first third of the 20th century was characterized by a transition from quantity-centered regulation to modern principles of residential house planning. The study seeks to shed light on this period by presenting attitude changes in general urban design in the transitional period, as well as their main characteristics and resulting development patterns. The process is illustrated by a more detailed analysis of some blocks in Újlipótváros considered exemplary from the point of view of urban planning, based on original maps and contemporary professional publications.

scholarly journals Post-Pandemic City: Historical Context for New Urban Design

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Veaceslav MIR
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Past ◽  
The City

Cities have been almost completely unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic. Urban history has known many epidemics and pandemics, and there are clear historical parallels between the 13th and 19th century plague pandemics and cholera epidemics and the 21th century COVID-19 pandemic, from an administrative point of view. However, the cities’ public administration did not take into account the experience of the cities of the past to be prepared for the future problems. This requires developing flexible pandemic strategies and focusing on the decentralization of urban space through an even distribution of population in the urban environment. The COVID-19 pandemic will change the city, as previous pandemics and epidemics did. Urbanism v.3.0. will emerge, combining a green vector of development and digital technologies to ensure the autonomy and sustainability of buildings, districts and cities. At the same time, the role of culture will increase, which will become an effective tool for consolidating the soft power of the city in order to attract new people as the opposition of nowadays trend for living in the countryside.

scholarly journals An approach to optimal architectural and urban design from the energy efficiency point of view

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Mirna Kapetina ◽  
Milan Rapaic ◽  
Jelena Atanackovic-Jelicic
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimization ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Pso Algorithm ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Swarm Optimization ◽  
Local Optima ◽  
New Approach

This paper presents a new approach to architecture and urban design that results in an increase of the energy efficiency of buildings set close to each other, which is set as the optimization problem. The main goal is to maximize the sunlight impact on objects, in a way to minimize inter-object shading on each building. The problem is solved by the PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) algorithm and its modifications, as well as the application of PSO algorithm with niches, which makes it possible to find a large number of local optima. It turned out that the PSO algorithm with niches is especially suitable for solving the described problems. The proposed methodology is illustrated by a few examples.

scholarly journals On the condition of urban and architectural design

ESTOA ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Francisco Fuentes Farías
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Levels Of Reality ◽  
New Space ◽  
Meaning Theories

Postmodern architecture, across the 1960 and 1970 decades, was concerned to semiotic and meaning theories, including the existential and phenomenological philosophy. Build space’s perceptual experiences took relevance under new space-thinking view, shared by another same matter researching disciplines in a phenomenological frame, but constructivist, poststructuralist, and deconstructivist too, which drives the stream of architectonic and urban design forward to today. The importance of a revision and critique of key concepts such as identity or urban imaginaries, which refer to the point of view of the city's actors, is raised as an indispensable factor in understanding the "complex nature of design". The result is a change of theories and concepts to understand both the complex reality faced by design and one of its levels of reality: the significant dimension of urban actions, interactions, and imaginaries.

scholarly journals Quantitative Methods of Urban Morphology in Urban Design and Environmental Psychology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irem Erin ◽  
Alessandro Araldi ◽  
Giovanni Fusco ◽  
Ebru Cubukcu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Quantitative Approaches

Irem Erin¹, Alessandro Araldi², Giovanni Fusco2, Ebru Cubukcu1, ¹City and Regional Planning Department. Dokuz Eylul University.  Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi-Mimarlık Fakültesi Tınaztepe Kampüsü, Doğuş Caddesi No:209, 35160 Buca- IZMIR, Turkey ²Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, UMR ESPACE. 98 Bd Edouard Herriot, BP 3209 06204 NICE cedex 3, France E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] number: +905363341475 Keywords (3-5): Morphological analysis, quantitative methods, urban design, environmental psychology Urban morphology investigates “how cities are built and why, how cities should be built, what should be built and what has actually been built?” (Moudon 1997). Together with the qualitative analysis, the founding fathers of urban morphology also proposed quantitative measures of urban fabrics. Allain's methodological work (2004) presents an overview of these quantitative analyses of topological, dimensional and geometrical relations among form elements in urban fabrics. However, urban morphologists have traditionally resisted computer-based geoprocessing of urban form and their calculations were mainly carried out manually. Thanks to technological developments, the number of quantitative studies in urban morphology has increased and fully integrated geoprocessing. More sophisticated computer-aided analyses have increased the potential applications in urban design and in environmental psychology research. Space Syntax (Hillier 1998) and Multiple Centrality Assessment (Porta et al. 2006) are configurational, multi-scale approaches to the analysis of the urban street network, but miss the interplay between streets, building and parcels composing urban fabric. Space Matrix (Berghauser Pont and Haupt 2010) and, more recently, Multiple Fabric Assessment (Araldi and Fusco 2017) are geoprocessing quantitative approaches to the analysis of urban fabric morphology. This study has two aims; (1) classify quantitative urban morphology methods and (2) discuss how these methods could be applied in urban design and environmental psychology. First, the evolution of these methods along with the theories in urban morphology from qualitative to quantitative approaches will be discussed. Methods will be classified by combining their goals, as well as the morphological objects and the scales on which the analyses will focus. Finally, we will discuss how these methods could be combined and used in two different research perspectives: urban design and environmental psychology. References Allain, R (2004) Morphologie urbaine: géographie, aménagement et architecture de la ville, Paris, Armand Collin Araldi A., Fusco G. (2017) Decomposing and Recomposing Urban Fabric: the City from the Pedestrian Point of View, ICCSA 2017 Proceedings (in press) Berghauser Pont, M., Haupt, P. (2010). SPACEMATRIX, Space, Density and Urban Form. Rotterdam, NAi Publishers. Hillier, B. (1998) Space is the machine: A configurational Theory of Architecture, Cambridge University Press. Moudon, A. V. (1997). Urban morphology as an emerging. Urban morphology,1, 3-10. Porta S., Crucitti P., and Latora V. (2006) The network analysis of urban streets: a primal approach. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 33(5):705-725. 

Improving Communication and Changing Attitudes in Architectural Practices: Digital Architectural Education Tools for Non-Experts

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Matevz Juvancic ◽  
Marjan Hocevar ◽  
Tadeja Zupancic
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Education Tool ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Fine Tune

The persistence of difficulties related to communication of the stakeholders in the architectural and urban design process is mainly due to the diversity of interests, different perspectives, representation problems and the abilities of visual communication. The paper delves extensively into communication abilities and divides between experts and non-experts, exploring their epistemological origins and possible solutions. One of them, education about spatial issues for general public, is argued for and supported by in the form of a digital education tool. It builds on the idea that non-expert public should be approached with both: adaptation to its abilities and with additional teaching to improve these abilities. The experiment puts the prototypical architectural educational interface to the test in primary schools and observes the effect the level of interactivity has on learning outcomes. The results show possible ways of enhancing the efficiency of such tools and help developers and designers evaluate and fine-tune them for the process of non-professional architectural learning. The communication and attitude-changing topics are discussed from the specific architectural and from broader social science point of view.

Interakcje z architekturą. Społeczne sprawstwo zabudowy

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (52) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Magdalena Łukasiuk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
Architecture And Design

The article describes the role of urban design in the theoretical prospect of the sociology of architecture. I argue that the architecture and design select people (user and tenants) using aesthetic parameter. The process of social segregation as a result of gentrification and modernization is often hidden behind the discourse around design and serves the contemporary elites. I present the point of view elaborated by Project for Public Spaces as an example of place-centered (and not design-centered) approach.

scholarly journals Improving Sustainability in Architectural Research: Biopsychosocial Requirements in the Design of Urban Spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Santi ◽  
Emanuele Leporelli ◽  
Michele Di Sivo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Recent Contribution ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
Architectural Research ◽  
The City

There is an ever increasing interest in identifying the links between architecture and public health and in how urban design can positively influence the latter. The psychology of sustainability and sustainable development represents an innovative research area as a recent contribution to sustainability science and its trans-disciplinary configuration. The research topic deals with the importance and the centrality of the user-centered approach in the observation of the relationships among mankind, technological systems, and built environments, for projects that guarantee the conditions of physical, mental, and social well-being. Starting from the plurality of different disciplinary sectors, from anthropometry and sociology to psychology, “human experience” and user’s expectations are explored, understood, and systematized. The analysis of the relationship between health and urban design has allowed researchers to identify design strategies to improve the level of urban livability. The city of Pisa is the case study; mobility within the city is redefined through various levels of the use of space so that paths and areas of inclusion and socialization are re-valued, while new scenarios for some urban spaces open up. In this perspective, the design strategies synthetically follow two main directions: the re-appropriation of these places by the citizens and, at the same time, the promotion of their well-being from both a physical and psychological point of view.

scholarly journals O conflito entre a natureza humana e a condição humana no contexto atual das ciências sociais

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Ricardo LEIS
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Specialized Knowledge ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Dimension ◽  
Abstract Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Cultures

O conhecimento é marcado por duas culturas distintas: uma que promove a interação entre os diferentes objetos de estudos e outra que os exclui, marcada por especializações e que caracteriza a Modernidade. O trabalho inter e transdisciplinar sobre problemas preementes do presente momento possibilita romper com essa última perspectiva. Várias são as proposições apresentadas para a sua efetivação, sendo que no presente texto a abordagem ressalta a perspectiva das ciências sociais na construção interdisciplinar do conhecimento. A dimensão ambiental do conhecimento permeia a reflexão aqui elaborada. Conflict between human nature and human condition in the current social sciences context Abstract Knowledge is marked by two different cultures: one promoting interaction among different study-objects and another one that excludes them, is marked by specialized knowledge, and characterizes Modernity. Inter- and trans-disciplinary work on pressing problems of the present day makes it possible to break away from the latter perspective. Several propositions are presented for accomplishing it, and in this text, the approach highlights the social sciences’ point-of-view in the interdisciplinary construction of knowledge. Knowledge’s environmental dimension permeates the reasoning developed here.

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