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Concepts fail to define U.D. but establish nature and scope of U.D. and suggest
criteria for its definition.
The explict and implicit suggestion of these parameters and CONCEPTIONS relate
to.
It has been suggested that criteria for definition should ınclude the following:
(Bartholomew)
• INCLUDE CONCERN WITH PRIVATE & PUBLIC REALMS OF BUILT
ENVIRONMENT
• INCLUDE WORK IN SUBURBAN, RURAL AND URBAN CONTEXT
• IGNORE SIZE, SCALE OR COMPLEXITY AS THE DEFINERS OF SCOPE
OF URBAN DESIGN.
• DO NOT DISTINGUISH URBAN DESIGN BY METHODS OR PROCESS
APPLIED
• DO NOT DEFINE URBAN DESIGN BY GIVING IT A POSITION IN THE
SPECTRUM OF ESTABLISHED PROFESSIONS.
Some of the above statements, parameters and conceptions concerning the nature and
scope of U.D. carry important implicit and explicit reasons why a commonly – agreed
language of urban design is difficult to achieve.
places urban design “outside” the concern of the architects designing “private” buildings
of their clients.
The level of complexity / diversity and the broad scope of urban design necessitate an
equally complex and diverse “language” for design expressions, for communication of
ideas and ultimately for instructions and regulations for implementtation. On one hand, a
whole metropolitan area can be “shaped” and expresed in its macroform, upto the scale of
1/50.000; or, policies and strategies can be expressed in written form; or, a pavement or
city furniture, signs can be expressed in minute details up to 1/1 scale.
All these aspects suggest an “elusive”, indefinite nature of urban design conceptions and
challenge a straightforward interpretation of design ideas leading ultimately to an
“institutionalized” form of urban design “language” to be used for communication among
all parties involved (from students to professionals to general public) and for legally –
binding official documents of implementation.
Obviously, when a total design of an urban fabric, a large scale project is undertaken, the
question of the language approximates that of associated professions, i.e. architecture,
planning, landscape architecture.
However, since very large scale urban design projects are seldom undertaken and /or
require long time for implementation (and yet the city continues to be built) a means, a
“language” should be devised ensuring the conveyance of the design conceptions for the
building of the urban environment according to those conceived designs and images.