ELEMENTS

OF
URBAN DESIGN
 Buildings are the most pronounced elements of
urban design - they shape and articulate space by
forming the streetwalls of the city. Well designed
buildings and groups of buildings work together to bui
RESIDENTIAL
create a sense of place. ldi
ng
TYPES OF BUILDINGS: • Storage Buildings.
• Residential Buildings. • Dangerous Buildings.
• Demolished Buildings.
• Educational Buildings. • Semi- circular
EDUCATIONAL • Institutional Buildings. Buildings.
• Assembly Buildings. • Multi-storey Buildings.
• Business Buildings. • Slum Buildings.
• Mercantile Buildings. • Unsafe Buildings.
• Industrial Buildings. • Special Buildings.

INSITUTIONAL
 ASSEMBLY BUSINESS MERCANTILE

INDUSTRIAL STORAGE DANGEROUS

TYPES OF PUBLIC SPACES • PARKS Public spaces are generally located on publicly
( OPEN SPACES) • PLAZA held land, are accessible to everyone and are
• WATERWAY • SQUARE managed and maintained by councils or other
• PLAYGROUND • public agencies. Some privately held land
STREET
provides for controlled public access and use
• GREEN AREAS
• PLAYING FIELD
as a public space, such as a building forecourt,
a walk-through, a shopping mall or a
Pu
communal open space. Public spaces are
created as part of a land subdivision or by
bl
reallocation of land uses in existing urban ic
areas.
Public spaces accommodate a diversity of
activities, and provide interest and amenity for
people. Critical factors for successful public sp
spaces are their location, size, dimensions and
the interfaces with adjacent properties, the
ac
paths and arrangement of activities within the
space. The area surrounding public spaces also
es
influences how they are used and perceived. A
functional system of public spaces offers direct
connections to the surrounding pedestrian
network and includes through-paths.
 CLOSED SPACES
MARKINA SPORTS CENTER LIBRARY CHURCHES

INTRAMUROS
TYPES OF STREET • HIGHWAY • ARCADES • CUL-DE- Streets are the
• STREET CANYON • TRAFFIC CIRCLE • WAY SAC connections between
• PUBLIC SQUARE • ONE WAY • PARKWAY • DRIVES & spaces and places, as
• AVENUE STREET • PEDESTRIAN well as being spaces
• BOULEVARD • DEAD END STREETS
CRESECENT
SHAPE
themselves. They are str
defined by their
• ESPLANADE
&PROMENADE
STREET
• LINEAR PARK
• LIVING STREET
• WALKWAY
STREET physical dimension and ee
• LADDER
STREET
character as well as the
size, scale, and t
• ALLEY character of the
• LANE buildings that line them.
Streets range from
grand avenues such as
the Champs-Elysees in
Paris to small, intimate
pedestrian streets. The
pattern of the street
network is part of what
defines a city and what
makes each city unique.
ROXAS BLVRD MANILA BAY ONE WAY STREET HIGHWAY

MARIKINA MARKET ILOILO LINEAR PARK WALKWAY

TYPES OF Transport systems connect
TRANSPORTATION the parts of cities and help
• BICYCLE shape them, and enable
• BICYCLE LANE movement throughout the
city. They include road, rail,
• MOTOR
/MOTOR LANE
bicycle, and pedestrian Tr
networks, and together
• TRICYCLE form the total movement an
• PRIVATE CARS
• TAXI
system of a city. The
balance of these various
s
• JEEP transport systems is what po
• UV/SUV helps define the quality
and character of cities, and
rta
• BUS
• LRT makes them either friendly t
or hostile to pedestrians.
• MRT
The best cities are the ones io
that elevate the experience
of the pedestrian while
n
minimizing the dominance
of the private automobile.
ILOILO LINEAR PARK
 TYPES OF The landscape is the
LANDSCAPE green part of the city L
• NATURAL
LANDSCAPE
that weaves throughout
- in the form of urban
a
• MAN MADE parks, street trees, n
LANDSCAPE plants, flowers, and d
water in many forms.
The landscape helps sc
define the character and a
beauty of a city and
creates soft, contrasting
p
spaces and elements. e
Green spaces in cities
range from grand parks
such as Central Park in
New York City and the
Washington DC Mall, to
small intimate pocket
NATURAL LANDSCAPE parks.
MAN MADE
LANDSCAPE
PRESENTED BY:

JUDY T. RAMOS