DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN URBAN
DESIGN AND URBAN
PLANNING
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 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN URBAN DESIGN AND URBAN PLANNING.
CRITERIA URBAN DESIGN URBAN PLANNING
Definition Design of city features. The planning of city strategies policies and
structure.
Level Features Strategy
Systems Structure
Policies
Focus Design Technical
User experience Politics
Scale Micro Macro
Designing focus is on built environment This is large scale involving all infrastructure
at the block/multi block scale. of roads, public areas, buildings etc.
Work Dimension 3D 2D
Inter-connected Fields Landscape Architecture Social science
Architecture Engineering
Civil Engineering Design Science
Municipal bodies Public Administration
And Urban Planning
Similarities Sustainability, Resilience ,Quality of Life
 CONSIDERATIONS OF URBAN DESIGN AND URBAN PLANNING.
URBAN DESIGN
• Pedestrian zones
• Incorporation of nature within a
city
• Aesthetics
• Urban structure – arrangement
and relation of business and
people
• Urban typology, density and
sustainability - spatial types and
morphologies related to intensity
of use, consumption of resources
and production and maintenance • Civil society – people are free to
of viable communities
• Accessibility – safe and easy
transportation
• Legibility and wayfinding
• Designing places to stimulate
public activity
• Function and fit – places support
their varied intended uses
• Complementary mixed uses –
Locating activities to allow URBAN PLANNING legislation.
constructive interaction between
them • Land Use-Optimizing the • Climate Change
effectiveness of a
• Character and meaning – community's land use and
Recognizing differences between
places infrastructure.
• Order and incident – Balancing • Economic, environmental
consistency and variety in the and social trends.
urban environment
• Planning culture- Taking into
• Continuity and change – Locating account the cultural fabric of
people in time and place, the city.
respecting heritage and
contemporary culture • Sustainability
• Existing and potential
interact as civic equals, important pollution and transport
for building social capital
• Congestion,
• Participation / engagement –
including people in the decision- • Crime
making process can be done at
many • Land values
• Economic development
• Social Equity
• Zoning codes and other
 EXAMPLE
COMMON GOAL: TO IMPROVE A RUN-DOWN
NEIGHBOURHOOD.
ROLE OF URBAN PLANNERS: Recognising the root of
problems and finding out the requirements. They then
make known that the neighbourhood needs 2 public
parks, 3 hospitals, and 1 public library as per the financial
feasibility of the area. They will also have an estimate
what the capacity of each should be. They shall know the
social and economic impact of the project, in year one,
year five, and year ten. They shall also highlight who’d
benefit from it.
ROLE OF URBAN DESIGNERS: They can determine the
routes for transportation, the exits and entrances, how
the parks will be, the width of the streets, the look of the
buildings, and integrate the program with more accuracy.
Pedestrian traffic, density and character of
neighbourhoods, liveliness of streets, safety of streets,
location of car parks, and can design some buildings.
The limits of two disciplines intersect greatly and they can
act interchangeably from time to time. But methodwise,
urban designer tends to think as a designer, urban
planner as a planner.
References
1. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature Into Urban Design and Planning
2. Urban design and urban planning by John Spacey.(https://simplicable.com/new/urban-design-vs-urban-planning)
3. https://mcgill.ca/urbanplanning/planning
4. Orcun Tonyali, studied at Harvard University, Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning (via Quora)