CARLISLE CITY:COMPONENTS OF

PUBLIC REALM
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INTRODUCTION
This section of the document sets out the materials palette for Carlisles public realm and gives guidance on its application to the key streets and spaces. These proposals are an enhancement of existing standards as utilised throughout the City by both Carlisle City Council and Cumbria County Council and both parties are being fully involved in the development of these proposals

DILLI HAAT INA MARKET:A CASE

STUDY
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DILLI HAAT:INA MARKET

THE VARIOUS SIGNAGES

AND THE PLAY AREAS PUNCTUATING THE WHOLE ARENA OF THE URBAN HAAT

THE
CURVACEOUS BOUNDARY AT THE FRONT GROUNDS OF THE HAAT DOUBLES UP AS THE SITTING AREA

SITTING SPACES

BENCHES:SITTING
SPACES ON THE EITHER SIDE OF THE LANDSCAPED AXIS

CENTRAL SIT OUT FEATURE

THE RAMPS

CENTRAL LANDSCAPED AXIS

ART FEATURES ADDED AS ASCENT POINTS

THE SIGNAGES

LAMP POSTS PANORAMASIGNAGES IN BACKGROUND

CITY IMAGE
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AN AREAL REPRESENTATION OF A CITY

The image of a city: peoples impression of a building ,a particular environment or the whole city are more than just being visual. Within the city many connotations, memories experience smells hopes ,places ,building make us remember them Normally the image of a city is that which the memories of a particular place makes us in a mental mapand everyone perceives things differently hence memory maps of each individual are bound to overlap. hence we assume a collective image map or impression map as the extractof image from physical reality and that forms the city image

THE KEVIN LYNCH THEORY

Every work of architecture affects physical detail So here is some points from the study of great urban designer PROF. KEVIN LYNCH..who worked on these points of extracting physical reality of city image from the mental pictures which are chaotic in aspects Paths ,landmarks nodes, district and edges are the skeletal framework This forms the basis on which the other embellishments are embedded to form the city personality.

PATHWAYS
these are major and minor routes about which the people move City has a network of major routes and neighbourhood network of minor routes College pathways.. Urban highways Footpaths Walkways

DISTRICTS
A city is composed of component neighborhoods or districts, Train yards, suburbs.college campuses, residential areas, uptown , midtown downtown all come under these districts. These are undistinguished in character sometimesno distinct limits

EDGES

The termination of a district is its edge some districts have no distinct edges at all but gradually taper off and blend into another district

LANDMARKS

Distinct visual features Visible from large distance, EMPIRE STATE BUILDING Harmonious with their urban settings.. Some are small like statue in a park..fountain etc

NODES
Similar to landmarks but are centres of activity Activity hubs Like city square Times city square