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DEFINING URBAN SITES

The author describes the Definition of urban Site as relational constructs. She tells us that
an urban site has a relation with its surroundings as well as the whole city. And while
defining an urban site we should consider various aspects of the sites relation to the
urban situation. She uses the examples from New York City, to define the process of
defining an urban site where the definition of a site depends on what a site does to a
city than where it is located.

She takes the examples of city Palmanuova with a physical boundary built during the
16
th
century for security reason where the city is discreet from the outside. But Da Vincis
sketch of Milan shows that there is a number of interrelation which extends outward
from the center making it impossible to locate the edges. This shows that Da Vincis
sketch tells us about an urban site having different layers of inter relations which
captures the complexities in real urban situation.

Urban sites are represented as dynamic with boundaries extending toward its relation
with surrounding spaces beyond physical boundary. An urban design action leads to
urban relation and structuring urban process, a space of progression and continual
revaluation where diverse realities trip over into and out of each other.

The scale of an urban site depends on the context of approach due to the presence of
a number of deferent layers of interrelation and linkage to different extend of the
geographical area. The reach of a site depends on the special and operational extend
of those associations and connections that tie it to other places. The Design of an urban
site have a number of influence over the city making it unbound sites and urban
constellation.

SHARIN_TP
M.arch 1
st
YEAR
Sushant School of art and architecture

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