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Lectures in Landscape and Urban Design

URBAN DESIGN

Urban design is concerned with the arrangement, appearance and
function of our suburbs, towns and cities. It is both a process and an
outcome of creating localities in which people live, engage with each other,
and engage with the physical place around them.

Urban design is concerned with a great variety of places: city centers,
residential neighborhoods, grassy fields on the edge of a village, down-at-
heel industrial estates, or the areas around local bus or train stations. Urban
design ranges from the setting of policies and processes to the design of
buildings and spaces themselves. It should inspire, illustrate and define how
a place could be improved, or remain unchanged, to bring benefits to
investors, developers and wider society.

Urban Design Dimensions:

• Visual Dimension
• Functional Dimension
• Morphological Dimension)
• Social Dimension
• Perceptual Dimension
• Environmental Dimension

Urban Designers:

Urban designers are typically architects, town planners or landscape
architects. Their skill is to bring together the ideas of developers, local
communities, other architects, planners, engineers, landscape architects and
many more and to resolve problems and conflicts in order to create better
places for all. Sometimes this will result in new places or rediscovered parts
of existing towns and cities.

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Dr. Sherein El-Shahat