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Responsive Environments
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Ian Bentleys
7 Levels of
Responsive
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Introduction
Planning should be a
product of progressive
social and political
attitudes
The built environment
should be able to
provide users with a
democratic setting,
enhancing the
degree of choices that
are available to them
Once this is achieved the
places are RESPONSIVE
IAN BENTLY
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Permeability
Places must be
accessible to people to
offer them choice
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Permeability
Places must be
accessible to people to
offer them choice
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Permeability
The challenge is to
improve the interface
between public and
private permeability
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Permeability
A decline in public
permeability is caused by
current design trends
Scale of development
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Permeability
A decline in public
permeability is caused by
current design trends
Scale of development
Hierarchical layout
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Permeability
A decline in public
permeability is caused by
current design trends
Scale of development
Hierarchical layout
Segregation of
pedestrian and
vehicular circulation
public
space
pedestrians
vehicles
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Permeability
A decline in public
permeability is caused by
current design trends
Scale of development
Hierarchical layout
Segregation of
pedestrian and
vehicular circulation
Security
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Variety
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Variety
Variety of experience
implies places with
varied forms, uses, and
meanings
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Variety
store
home
park
school
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Variety
range of activities
possibility of supply
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Variety
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Legibility
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Legibility
Legibility is important at
two levels:
physical form
activity patterns
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Legibility
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Legibility
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Legibility
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Legibility
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Legibility
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Legibility
SEGREGATION also
reduces legibility
pedestrians
public
space
vehicles
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Legibility
Legibility is strengthened
by IMAGEABILITY as
defined by Kevin Lynch
DISTRICTS
NODES
LANDMARKS
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Robustness
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Robustness
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Robustness
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Robustness
Comes in the form of
large scale and small
scale robustness
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Robustness
At the building level,
several factors support
long term robustness:
building depth
access
building height
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Visual
Appropriateness
Focuses on details
Visual appropriateness
is important because it
strongly affects the
interpretations people
put on places
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Visual
Appropriateness
A vocabulary of visual
cues must be found to
communicate levels of
choice and make the
environment
comprehensible
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Visual
Appropriateness
A vocabulary of visual
cues must be found to
communicate levels of
choice and make the
environment
comprehensible
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Visual
Appropriateness
Interpretations can
reinforce responsiveness
by :
supporting the places
legibility
supporting the places
variety
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Visual
Appropriateness
Interpretations can
reinforce responsiveness
by :
supporting the places
legibility
supporting the places
variety
supporting the places
robustness
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Richness
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Richness
TRAM LINE
ROAD
FOOTPATH
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Richness
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Richness
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Richness
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Richness
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Richness
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Personalization
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Personalization
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Personalization
Personalization is
affected by three key
factors:
tenure
building type
technology
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Synthesis
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Synthesis
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Permeability
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Variety
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Legibility
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Robustness
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Visual Appropriateness
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Richness
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Personalization
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SOURCES
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