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Urban design - meenal sogani - 11-07-2014

Urban design


The discipline that foster and promotes aesthetic and functional urban form in human settlements .
Organization of space, time, and communication/meaning (Amos Rapoport, 1977). Organization of space: for different purposes and according to different rules that reflect the needs, values, and desires of the groups or individuals Organization of Time: …….tempos and rhythms of human activity …… past versus future ……or linear versus cyclic; organization of communication: ……a way of controlling interaction – its nature, direction, rate, e.t.c….who communicates with who, when, where, and how…..how the built environment and social organization are linked and related…..social logic of space. organization of meaning: …..communicative and symbolic properties of space …… through signs, materials, colours, forms, landscaping e.t.c

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