URBAN DESIGN THEORY

09.11.2020
 MODULE III
• Understanding Urban Design Projects through case studies:
Brownfield development (Urban redevelopment-revitalization-
renewal-regeneration-rehabilitation, Urban Conservation etc.)
• Greenfield development, urban water front development etc. Urban
design process, structure plan,
• development control guidelines -master plan/development plan -
zoning regulations-formulation of policies for landscape,
infrastructure & built-forms, relevant acts and regulations, Art and
Heritage commission, other government and non-government
agencies, Urban design project implementing agencies, financing
agencies etc.
BROWNFIELDS
History of Brownfields
History of Brownfields
History of Brownfields
LEGAL FRAME WORK
 Types of Brownfield land

• Vacant.
• Derelict.
• Contaminated.
• Partially occupied or utilized.
Benefits of Brownfield cleaning up and
redevelopment
GREENFIELDS
• A greenfield development is a real estate construction project on
previously undeveloped land. Examples of typical greenfield
development sites are:
• Agricultural fields.
• Forest land.
• Unused land parcels.
• A greenfield site is often at the edge of a city, town, or suburban area,
on a waterway, or near a highway off-ramp. Those locations make
them ideal spots to construct new commercial buildings to support a
region's growth.
Types of Greenfield Land

• Greenfield Land is open fields which lie between cities and towns or in
suburban areas. These are unfenced open fields which often have wild
natural vegetation growing unchecked and as per the climate of the region.
In dry areas, barren fields which are not used for construction or any
agricultural activities are also called as Greenfield lands.
• Restricted closed properties with no development often owned by the
government are also Greenfield lands. Governments of most countries own
vast areas of land in the country in the rural areas and the semi-urban and
urban areas.
• Private property with or without fencing is the land bought by the owner
and not used for any purpose or kept for future use is also Greenfield land.
COMPARISON
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
URBAN DESIGN PROCESS
1. Secondary study
2. Site visit
3. Defining the Site boundaries
4. Detailed site study and documentation
5. Stakeholder meetings

6. Site model
7. Site study analysis and stake holder analysis
8. SWOT, Issues and potential
9. Macro level structure plan(EXISTING)

10.Vision, Strategies, and objectives

11.Macro level proposed structure plan
12.Micro level proposed structure plan and demarcation of intervention areas
13. Detailed intervention areas
(Detailed site study) including Existing plan-sections, elevations and 3D massing
14.Proposed Plan section elevation and 3D massing.
ANALYSING THE CITY

1. REGIONAL CONTEXT
2. DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE
3. EVOLUTION
4. ECOLOGY
5. MORPHOLOGY
6. HOUSING
7. INFRASTRUCTURE
8. TOURISM
1. REGIONAL CONTEXT
2. DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE
• Literacy rate
• Work classification
• Economic base
• Growth pattern
• Potential elements
which influences the
future growth of the city
3. EVOLUTION
4. ECOLOGY
1. Ecological components of the city
2. Types of open spaces
3. Flood impacts
4. CRZ restrictions
5. Rainfall study
5. MORPHOLOGY
• Urban form and grain study
• Street character (identification of major streets – stitched elevations and
sections, transformations)
• Architectural heritage (transformations)
• Architectural character (influenced styles, style based elements)
• City planning (comparison with sister city, planning components, planning
principles and philosophies)
• Imageability (skyline study, major vistas and focal points, its transformations)
• Character districts(detailed study of each district, determinants of each districts)
• Cognitive mapping
• Activity ( identification of types of activity, detailed mapping of each zones in
different time intervals, )
• Activity mapping
6. HOUSING
• Community structure
• Cluster study
• Community
structure
• Occupational
structure
• Determinants
which shaped each
zones
• Transformations
and its impacts
• Typology analysis
7. INFRASTRUCTURE
• Physical infrastructure
8. TOURISM
• Tangible and intangible elements which defines the culture of the
place/
• Venice of East
• Annual tourist population
• Types of tourism – cultural, pilgrim, backwater etc
• Foreign and domestic tourism ratio
• Tourism calendar and tourist corridor
• Event calendar
List of maps
1. EVOLUTION LAYERS
2. BUILT AGE
5. BUILT USE
6. BUILT HEIGHT
7. FIGURE GROUND
8. OWNERSHIP
9. CHARACTER DISTRICTS
10. ACTIVITY MAPPING
11. COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
12. CLUSTER TYPOLOGY
13. ROAD HEIRARCHY
14. TRAFFIC NODE,PARKING AND CONJESTION POINT MAPPING
15. TOURISM CIRCUIT MAP
16. OPEN SPACE MAPPING
17. FIGURE GROUND – RELIEF OVER LAY
Structure plan
• A structure plan is a framework to guide the development or redevelopment of
an area by defining the future development and land use patterns, areas of open
space, the layout and nature of infrastructure (including transportation links), and
other key features and constraints that influence how the effects of development
are to be managed.
• Structure plans comprise one or more maps, plans or diagrammatic
representations of the proposed layout, features, character and links for areas
being developed or redeveloped.
• The maps or plans in structure plans do not typically go into such detail as to
define individual lot boundaries or the physical form of buildings and structures.
• The maps, plans or representations are usually supported by text explaining the
background to the issues that initiated the structure plan and the approaches to
manage those issues.
Issues that may be managed through a structure plan
include:
• urban consolidation and greenfield expansion
• the type and location of land uses that will be permitted, including development type, density and staging
• multi-modal transport links and connectivity (such as road, rail, sea and air links, public transport, cycle and
pedestrian access)
• the location, type, scale and staging of infrastructure required to service an area, including storm water,
water and sewerage
• integration of new development and growth with infrastructure and existing urban development
• landscape character and amenity
• reserves and open space networks
• natural hazards
• the provision of community facilities
• the protection of sites, features or values (which may be cultural, ecological, historical or amenity related)
• areas of contamination
• provision and location of network utilities.