REPORT OF URBAN DESIGN

TOPIC: URBAN INFRASTURE AND PUBLIC SPACES

SUBMITTED TO: AR.CHAROO KAPOOR SUBMITTED BY: RUPESH SHASHANK

URBAN DESIGN
Urban design deals with the larger scale of groups of buildings, streets
and public spaces, whole neighborhoods and districts, and entire cities,
with the goal of making urban areas functional, attractive, and
sustainable.
Urban design theory deals primarily with the design and management
of public space and the way public places are experienced and used.
Public space includes the totality of spaces used freely on a day-to-day
basis by the general public, such as streets, plazas, parks and public
infrastructure.
SUCCESSFUL PUBLIC SPACES NEED

• Diversity of uses:

 Means that the spaces reflect the local

character of the area and
have a variety of uses, built form, features,
colors and materials that
give the spaces and buildings their own
identity within the overall
character of the surrounding urban
environment.
• People use urban spaces without fear of tripping or
falling, or being attacked.
Connection between the ground level of the buildings, the
sidewalk and the street contributes to safety and the
attractiveness of urban design.
 

Active
neighborhoods and
buildings encourage
the use of public
spaces.
•  Lighting:
 Efficient and people-
oriented lighting facilitates
the occupancy of public
spaces at night, enhancing
safety. When installed on the
pedestrian and cyclist scale,
public lighting creates the
necessary conditions to
move more safely when
there is no natural light.
• Comfort: 
• comfort include:
• environmental factors (shading from sun,
wind, etc).
• physical comfort (comfortable and
sufficient seating, etc).
• social and psychological comfort (privacy,
etc)
• Enjoyable: 
Representing variety of pleasant events. Such as
concerts, art exhibitions, festivals, and other social
events
 Infrastructure
• Infrastructure usually refers to the built environment.

• The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads,
bridges, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth, and can
be defined as "the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities
and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions.“
• Infrastructure is a very wide ranging term. One example of a wide definition is:

• “The basic structure, the framework, the system which supports the operation of an
which makes economic development possible, the basic capital investment of a
country or enterprise” (Clark, 2004).
 Hard infrastructure

The built environment, meaning the physical connections between places that carry people,
materials, information and energy. These ‘fixed’ things include roads, railways, pipes, and cables.
They are frequently called hard infrastructure or fixed infrastructure.

SOFT INFRASTRUCTURE
"soft" infrastructure refers to all the institutions which are required to maintain the economic,
health, and cultural and social standards of a country, such as the financial system, the
education system, the health care system, the system of government, and law enforcement, as
well as emergency services.