Introduction to Human settlements and Urban Design
In this course we will learn about Introduction to Human settlements and Urban Design.
Introduction to Human settlements and Urban Design
We are going to learn urban design – urban planning in this subject. So what is urban? How do you define Urban? What do you study when we say urban?
In regular practice, we may call it a city or the antonym – not rural??
When we try to define urban, it is – of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city.
Frequently includes dealing with the results of large numbers of people living close together.
What is “Urban”?
Urban areas are densely-settled / built-up dense settlements, or places characterized by an urban way of living, urban ways of relating to other people, of urban economic activities, of urban forms of identity and social organization.
The relation of Urban planning and Urban Design is with these settlement form like A city – a town – a village. There us Urban and there is Rural. There are various scales of populations that categorize these settlements into city or town or village. There also exists a category like Rurban which has a mix of both.
An urban area is a composition of buildings. It can be considered assimilation of architecture
What are urban Spaces?
We can relate it to buildings – architecture.
When we say Urban – We are talking about spaces between two buildings. The interaction between buildings. The periphery or the edge of the architectural envelope. In the case of campus design, we have explored these in-between spaces and their importance. In campus design, the spaces used is by varied users. But like-minded same category or the ones with similar agenda at one point of time. In spaces beyond your private boundary, it becomes more complex as it is used by varied users of varied thought process, various economic and religious backgrounds. So understanding the user for designing these spaces becomes very important.
But here we are talking about a much larger sphere. Probably with multiple owners where these in-between, spaces become even more crucial to study. Vice versa, from an architectural point of view also, we always study the immediate context to respond sensitively. The scope expands beyond buildings.
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