Urban Design

1. Lecture: December 11, 2009
Prof. Ar. Nick K. Latogan. MS Arch.,
UAPCor.

2. I. Introduction
II. Terminology
III. Urban Design Benchmark

3. • In urban design, the primary concern
involves with public issues may it be
new design proposal of a park, repair
or improvement projects where here it
includes a broadly defined group of
clients with diverse interests. And as
it is, urban designers cannot satisfy
100% of its stakeholders.

4. • This lecture is theoretically intended
to be a guideline for making
association between people and
places, movement and urban form.
But we need to acknowledge that
there may be local practices/criteria in
other place that may differ from those
presented herein.

5. • The principles/criteria presented
herein are subject to change as new
information becomes available in the
near future. Depending on the type or
magnitude of any particular change in
criteria, the impact on projects could
be significant; therefore, every
reasonable effort to incorporate the
most current criteria should be made
when designing and constructing,
repair or improvement projects.

6. • Criteria - something that is used as a
reason for making a judgment or
decision.
• Criteria are presented with languages
such as “must,” “shall,” is prerequisite,
and “needs to.” These and similar
terms are considered to be
compulsory.
• Guidance is presented with the word
“should.” Guidance is a

7. • Holistic Approach means relating to or
concerned with wholes or complete
systems rather than with the analysis
of just one part.
• Design Assessment means the
elements of evaluation on the basis of
the respective standards to be applied
for the assessment.

8. Q. What is Urban Design?

9. “The city is a people’s art, a
shared experience, the place
where the artist meets the
greatest number of potential
appreciators.”
Edmund Bacon

10. “The art of shaping the
interaction between, people
and places, environment and
urban form, and nature and
built fabric, and influencing the
process which lead to the
successful villages, towns and
cities.”

11. III. Urban Design
Benchmark
(The Key Decisive Factors)

12. • Having the right understanding about
the functions of urban designer will
give us the importance of WHO the
users (pluralistic public clients), WHAT
& HOW the level of design that deals
with the relationships between the
minor and major elements of the
fabric and WHEN distributed in space
and constructed at different times by
different persons.

13. • Since urban design is essential in
creating community identity, an
effective planning in the broadest
sense is a must in order to aid and
deliver better public services.
• The following slides will give an
overview of Holistic Approach for
Urban Design Assessment.

14. 1. People
2. Laws/regulations
3. Activities
4. Time
5. Automobiles
6. Physical Natural Environment
7. Political
8. Accessibility
9. Resources
10. Design Plan
11. Space

15. “Too often in seeking a geometric purity or,
alternatively the opposite, visual richness of
places as a works of art, designers have lost
sight of what the public realm can afford.
They think of it primarily as a display that
photographs well in certain lights at certain
times of the year. Hence the behavioral
dullness of many so called ‘signature-
designs’ by architects and landscape
architects of high repute! We have the
knowledge to do better now.” (Lang. 1987).

16. • The people identifies the entire body
of the citizens of a jurisdiction (ex.
City, community, Barangay, Sitio). The
stakeholders, residents are the users
and client/s (population) that the
urban designer needs to satisfy in
terms of their commonality ( history,
socio-economic, culture etc.).

17. • Central issues of interest to people
are essential in understanding their
human condition and the meaning of
life, and survival.
• Other concerns such as religion,
philosophy, and science display or
signify ways and aspects of analysis
which attempt to investigate and
understand the nature, behavior, and
purpose of people.

19. Q. Does the design reflect the people –
their society and inherent culture,
values, belief and aspirations?
Q. Do the planners provide only a
partial
solution to the whole community and
ignore the entirely the people who
live

20. • The mechanisms of social order and
cooperation governing the set of rules that
specify the minimum standards. The main
purpose is to protect public health, safety
and general welfare as they relate to the
construction and occupancy of buildings
and structures. Republic Acts, House Bills,
Presidential Decrees, National Building
Code (NBC) and Ordinances. For Ex. The
Signage's.

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25. Q. Are there any applications of Eco-
friendly principles?
Q. Are goals and policies attainable?
Q. Will the law/regulation can be
applied
for all? (No discrimination).

26. Q. Is there a strict minimum standards
with
regard to environmental
performance
and health standards?
• These should include the use of
renewable energy sources, an overall
reduction in energy and water
consumption, measures to reduce
waste, environmental policy setting

27. • Anything that is done as work or for a
particular purpose that is done for
pleasure and that usually involves a
group of people in a specific place.
These activities interrelate with the
user (human-environment
equilibriums).

28. • Human factors involves the study of
all aspects of the way humans relate
to the environment around them, with
the aim of improving safety, through
life costs and/or adoption through
improvement in the experience of the
end user.

29. Q. In the urban design plan, will the
activity
directed toward assisting urban
communities to meet their needs
over a
period of time?
Q. Do all the possible activities
consider
the following such as parade, road

30. • An event that occurs every February
of the year that ends at the first week
of March.
Q. How would this event affect the
urban
design of the city?

31. • http://www.philstar.com/ne
ws-
feature/2014/02/23/129331
1/photos-baguio-blossoms-
2014-panagbenga-festival

33. • Periodic events and periodic motion
have long served as standards for
units of time.
• As time pass by, needs becomes
bigger and design, laws might
become obsolete.

34. Q. To what extent are these activities
intended for? Short term? Long
term?
Q. What is the peak hour, peak day,
month?
Q. What is the time for service
delivery?
Garbage collection? Maintenance?
Q. Is there flexibility and balance of

35. garbage - rubbish - environment - ecology - wastage - waste.
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36. Spring
Autumn

37. • Any automobile, motor car or car
used for transporting passengers,
which also carries its own engine or
motor.
• The number of cars, vehicles, trucks,
buses or transit that enters the city
affects the people, activities and
space.

38. • The traffic congestion mb.com.ph

39. www.shanghairickshaw.com/history.html

40. Q. Do these vehicles conducive for
service in time
and place?
Q. How do the in flux of vehicles can be
manage
and guided for public convenience and
safety?
Q. To what extent these vehicles are not
allowed

41. • pinterest.com

42. • Resources that are already existing
before the eyes man.
• These are resources that when
depleted it will be gone forever.
Example: farm land conversion to
commercial use).

43. “What our cities will be like for our
children and our children’s children is
being shaped by our actions today.
Our cities’ sustainability depends on
decisions we as individuals and as a
society make. It depends on the
decisions made by various actors in
the urban development process and
the interrelationships of these
decisions’’.
Arch. Nathaniel von

44. Q. In urban design, will the proposed
plan
be directed toward assisting urban
communities to meet their future
needs?
Q. Are there conservation and
preservation for
the coming generation?

45. SM’s development expansion creates undesirable
and harmful to the environment… the sacrifice
cutting of 182 pine and alnus trees in Baguio City.

47. • Lang (2005) said: “Urban design
intervenes in the political arena to shape
capital investments decisions (particularly
with reference to the infrastructure of
cities) and in the legal process by
establishing guidelines within which
design decisions are made. The objective
is to shape the public realm of cities to
maximize the benefits, explicitly or
implicitly, for particular sets of people
within some concept of the public

48. • The politicians have vital roles to play
in the shaping of their city:
1. First they should have visions for their
communities or cities.
2. Secondly, they are municipal
campaigners
or muscular utopians.
3. Thirdly, they are governmental keeper
of
amenity. With these in mind, the duty
of

49. • The government represented by the
elected officials obviously has a major
role in the process through its
policies, plans and programs,
regulatory mechanisms, and its
capacity to implement these.

50. • The success of these policies leading
to a more sustainable future of our
cities in turn, depends on the
effectiveness of the actions taken by
the government and the private sector
both individually and collectively.

52. Q. First of all, do the elected officials fulfill
their role as head of the city?
Q. Do the local officials have effective
policies and programmes which are
formulated and implemented in a well
coordinated and synchronized manner?
Q. Do they fulfill their promises (On
environmental,
social, and physical development ) when
they

53. • Universal design should be a big
factor in the design plan. This makes
things accessible to all people. Place
or destination can be easy to enter or
reach physically for normal or
physically challenged (handicapped)
people.

54. Q. How can a destination be reach? Is
it
accessible through walking or riding
vehicle? Can people easily walk to
the
place?
Q. How is the width of street and
sidewalk,

58. • upupwithpeople.blogspot.com

59. A. Money: The purpose of
budgeting is to:
• Provide a forecast of
revenues and expenditures
ex. construct a model of how
our business might perform
financially speaking if certain
strategies, events and plans
are carried out.

60. • Allocation for budgeting (short term,
long term)
B. Materials
Q. Are the materials to be used readily
available? Is it local or imported?
• Local stone–and designed to better
blend in with their environment.
• Using of non toxic materials.

61. C. Manpower
Q. Who are the individuals who will
execute the plan/s?
Q. Do they have the Qualifications?
Q. Do the manpower/ personnel have
training and specialty?
D. Machinery
• Equipment or technology
Q. Do we have it locally?

62. • Design plan must be relevant to the
needs of the people.
• Designers must keep in mind that they
work not for themselves but for the
people. A mix of ages and ethnic
groups
must generally reflect the community
at

63. a. Time bound.
A good design can be completed within
a time frame stated. The shorter
completion of the project, the better.
b. Innovative.
New and creative, especially in the way
that something is done.
Q. Is it naturally or artificially designed?

64. Q. Is the design for the general public
or just
for the elite?
Q. Is the Design the consensus of
majority?
Q. Is the design only for the designer’s
self
recognition or popularity?

66. • Public space is a term used to define
areas of land as collectively owned by
the community and managed in their
name by delegated bodies; such
spaces are open to all while private
property is the land culturally owned
by an individual or company, for their
own use and pleasure.

68. Goggle earth image of Baguio City Philippines. June 23, 2015

70. Q. Is there any space forecasting
requirements
for the future generation’s advantage
and
benefits?
Q. Is there any analysis of the physical
resources?

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