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B.Arch Programme, IX Semester

Theory of Urban Design

ARCH503
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History of Urban Design

Modernist approach
Post Modernism – New Urbanism

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Learning Objectives

By end of this session you will be able to

examine overall different approached
adopted for urban design.

Learning Objectives
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Modernist Post
History of Urban Design
Approach Modernist

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• Garden city (Ebenezer Howard),

• Artistic City Planning (Camillo sitte)
Modernist • Linear city (Soria Y Matta),
Concepts
of
Approach • Ideal industrial city (Tony Garnier) Cities
• Radiant City (Le Corbusier)
• Broadacre City (Frank Llyod Wright)

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• Neighbourhood (Henrietta Barnett

& Raymond Unwin),
Modernist • Conservation & the park movement
Concepts
of
Approach (Fredrick Law Olmsted), Cities

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Plan Voisin was a planned

redevelopment of central Paris
designed by French Swiss
architect Le Corbusier.
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In the 1930s, Le Corbusier

expanded and reformulated his
Modernist Plan Voisin 
ideas on urbanism, eventually
Approach publishing them in La Ville
radieuse (The Radiant City) in
1935.
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Brasilia

Brasília was developed
by Lúcio Costa, Oscar
Niemeyer and Joaquim
Cardozo in 1956 in a scheme
to move the capital from Rio
de Janeiro to a more central
location.
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In search
Post
of new
Modernist
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Post modernist propounded an influential view

of the late-twentieth century city as requiring a

response that recognises both its dynamic and

Post
indeterminate character in the face of global
Modernist
market forces and the continuing need to

impose minimum ordering principles.

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The post-modernist themes of technology,

flexibility, and indeterminacy derive from

Post
the urban concepts of a previous
Modernist
generation of architectural visionaries.
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A common theme in this period work

is the attempt to cater needs of Post

people evolving from social and Modernist
philosophical theories.
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They realised that built environment

practitioners are one of the agencies

contributing to human settlements.

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Due to contribution of

Jane Jacobs,

Kevin Lynch,

Gordon Cullen,

Christopher Alexander,

Aldo Rossi,

Ian Mc Hary,

Jan Gehl played

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Many more
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New
Urbanism

21st century
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New Urbanism approaches

emphasised on;

• diversity,

• pedestrian scale,

• public space,

• Urban structure
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New Urbanism approaches are re-

interpretation of traditional thinking
into new solutions while trying to
embrace the opportunities offered by
new technology.
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This is a re-interpretation of
traditional thinking into new
solutions while trying to embrace the
opportunities offered by new
technology.
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Adequate Size Varied Mix Of Uses And

Tenure

Compact Form
A Range Of
Alludes to land-efficient planning methods and Employment
sustainable neighbourhoods:
A Pedestrian-friendly
Environment
Leisure And Community
Facilities

Appropriate Urban
Density Ready Access To Public
Transport
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References;
1. Local Planning: Contemporary Principles and Practice Edited by Gary Hack, et al. (2009)
2. The American City: What Works and What Doesn't
by Alexander Garvin (1995)
3. Cuthbert Alexander R, 2006, The form of Cities Political Economy and Urban Design,
Blackwell, Oxford
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Thank You