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URBAN DESIGN
Naciye Doratlı
Şebnem Hoşkara
The theoretical literature of western
architecture and search for a theoretical
understanding of urban design starts with
Vitruvious, the Augustan architect, and his
treatise De Architectura.
The new working middle class could not afford to live in the grand
houses and palaces of the old aristocracy and this led to the
development of ‘town houses’ and grand terraces (e.g. Regents Park,
by John Nash, London).
The development of science and rationalism influenced the
‘taste’ in architecture.
The architectural forms became more simple, refined and
rational. This was so called neo-classic planning.
RECENT APPROACHES TO
URBAN DESIGN
Two major themes were found in the Post-
modern reaction to the hegemony associated with
modern architecture:
New Rationalism - Neo-Rationalism concern for
public open space over a preoccupation with individual buildings and incorporates
strongly defined geometric spaces as ordering devices
ALDO ROSSI (ITALY)
LEON & ROB KRIER (LUXEMBOURG)
RICARDO BOFILL (SPAIN)
New Empiricism – Neo-Empiricism PERCEPTUAL
AND SPATIAL QUALITIES OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
KEVIN LYNCH
ROBERT VENTURI
GORDON CULLEN
COLIN ROWE