IDENTITY

DONE BY : P.ASWINKUMAR
WHAT IS IDENTITY?
“the collective aspect of the set of characteristics by w hich a
thing is definitiv ely recognizable or known”
Understanding and appreciating an area’s identity, including its
social and economic background and the way in which such
factors hav e shaped the urban fabric, should be the starting
point for making decisions about both its management and its
future
 IDENTITY CAN BE PERCEIVED THROUGH

FORM AND COLOR SPACES AND LINKAGES USES OF BUILDINGS

BETWEEN BUILDINGS

combine to produce a distinctive spatial and visual quality, helping to distinguish one place
from another and create local identity.
IDENTITY OF A TOWN IS A COMPOSITION OF

HUMAN LIVES
CULTURES
MATERIALS
POSITION OF BLOCKS
INNER ORGANIZATION OF PLOTS
FACTORS
AFFECTING
IDENTITY
GLOBALIZATION
 EFFECTS OF
GLOBALIZATION
URBAN REVITALIZATION
NEIGHBORHOOD DISPLACEMENTS
SLUM
CLEARANCE
AND
FORMATION
 MAXIMIZATION FINANCIAL
GAINS FROM RISING LAND
VALUES WHICH SUBVERT THE
IDENTITY OF THE CITY.
“THE CULTURES OF URBAN SPACES … ARE MOST IMMEDIATELY AND
DIRECTLY INFLUENCED BY GLOBALIZATION

CONSUMPTION
TASTES FASHION
PATTERNS

NEW FORMS OF
ARCHITECTURE MEDIA MATERIAL
ARCHITECTURE
CONSUMPTION
PATTERN
TASTE
FASHION
ARCHITECTURE
MEDIA
  The concept of identity is an elusiv e phenomenon
whose meaning has changed according to the
DEFINITION OF needs and requirements of different disciplines
such as urban morphologists, conservators,
sociologists, philosophers, phenomenalists and so
IDENTITY forth. Therefore, each discipline has defined the
sense of identity according to changing
parameters of their research areas through time.
 Kevin Lynch (1960)
"the image of the city has three
components always appearing together "

IDENTITY SRTUCTURE

MEANING
identity as “the identification of
an object, which implies its
distinction from other things, its
recognition as a separable
entity. It is not in the sense
of equality with something else,
but with the meaning of
individuality or oneness”
meaning as one of the
component of the image of
the city, he does not directly
point out the spatial
meanings of the city for
its residents.

His definition of identity refers

to the noticeable features of
the city,while the
term “structure” refers to
the spatial relations of those
features
 IDENTITY IN THE FIELD OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY

GENIUS LOCUS LOCUS SOLUS

important
concept of identity
linked with the form singular place relation within
SPI RI T OF A PLACE and the history of a of the city the place and
of a place.
place
ev ent.

the memory of
expressions of created through
society’s cultural history and is seen in place for the
differs from place to local identity.
place. interpretation of a particular place citizens of the
place of a town or a city. city.
 An Urban Conservation Project for the
Identification and Preservation of Local Identity

 The historic urban context, containing a

NATURAL ELEMENTS TOPOGRAPHY LOCATION
special character within itself, is actually
a cultural artifact, which has been
inherited by the process of historical
CUSTOMS OF
evolution. Therefore, every context has CURRENT USES
INHABITANTS
STREETS

a distinctive identity, formed from its

physical, socio-cultural, historical
aspects HEDGES
ARCHEOLOGICAL
AREAS
MONUMENTS

BUILDING NAMES PLACE NAMES

1: The Process
of an Urban
Conservation
Project
  As urban conservation projects are an
effective tool for defining a town’s unique
characteristics, their objectiveness and
comprehensiveness becomes important, and
CONCLUSION should include the socio-cultural, economic,
administrative, historical and physical features
of towns within study areas at the regional and
settlement scales, as well as at the building
scales
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