Theory of Urban Design

Categories

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Le Corbusier’s Breakfast Table: placing

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Lacing Stitching Knitting Tying Patching Knotting Weaving

Carving Engraving Embedding Imprinting Palimpsest Layering etc

Camillo Sitte, Der städtebau nacj seinen künsterischen Grundsätsen, Vienna, 1889

Le Corbusier, L’Urbanisme, 1925

CIAM Athens Charter 1933

Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City, 1960

Edge (

Path =

Node *

Landmark !

District @

Gordon Cullen, Townscapes, 1961, London

Serial vision

Proscennium

JaneJacobs, The death and Life of Great American Cities, 1961

Yona Friedman, 10 Principles of Space Twon Planning, 1962

Aldo Rossi, Lárchitettura della cittá, 1966

Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, Learning from Las Vegas, 1972

Colin Rowe & Fred Koetter, Collage City, 1975

Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1978

Leon Krier, The Reconstruction of the European City, 1985

Rem Koolhaas: “Generic City”, SMLXL, 1995

Harvard Project on the city, Mutations 2001 & Harvard Guide to Shopping 2002.

Duany & Plater Zyberk, Seaside 1985

Raoul van Bunschoten Urban Flotsam, Stirring the City, 010, 2001

How to see: Proto Urban Conditions

How to see manifestations of global influences on local environments

Field work: Walking with prepositions

How to play: Game structure, Taschenwelt, Game Boards, Game rules, Taxonomy, Choices, Findings, discoveries

Frames

Processes:

1. Erasure
2. Origination
3. Transformation
4. Migration

Moving back and forth between perceived reality and modeled reality How to model: how to describe dynamic behaviour, diagrammatic abstraction

How to tell: scenarios of possibilities: Authors, Actors & Agents and Angels, Situation, What if? desire Plot and a dénouement (anagnorisis)

Taxonomies: difference, otherness, unfolding, connectivity

Diagrams: metaspace

Simulation

Icon formation: sign of larger whole

Echo/resonance: correlation between two independent systems

Micro-model:

Similarities and difference

Scale

density

How to act Liminal bodies

Branding: conditions of naming, marketing, identity creation, cultural production, memory, rememberance, creating values and communicating values, images, imaginary conditions, narration and scripting

Earth: contains conditions of the land, water, air, antural processes, ecological issues, biodiversity, land and land ownership, territory, rights , spatial organization

Flow: Contains all processes that create flow through the urban gallery

Exchange of money, value, traffic, displacement of people, goods, information, mobility, waste, sewage

Incorporation: includes political actions and constellations, institutions and institutionalization, community formation, organization, group formation, legal bodies, legal action

Urban curatorship,

Urban galleries