Lecture 2a - Current Urban Issues

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES
UDCRU
URBAN DESIGN & CONSERVATION RESEARCH UNIT
by Chau Loon Wai
TO THINK OF URBAN DESIGN AS A SEPARATE SKILL IS A DIVERSION, A CONVENIENT SEPARATION OF THOSE DIFFICULT ARTS THAT ARE REALLY NOTHING LESS THAN TOWN PLANNING. THE TOWN PLANNING PROFESSION WHETHER IT ACCEPTS AND FACES UP TO THE FACT OR NOT HAS HAD AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY, THROUGH THE DRAWING UP OF PLANS, THE CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSALS AND THE RECOMMENDATION OF PERMISSIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT, FOR URBAN DESIGN. IT IS AN ART TOWN PLANNING MUST ITSELF REVIVE, MUST TAKE AGAIN TO ITS HEART, AND LEARN, AGAIN TO DESIGN. FOR PLANNERS, URBAN DESIGN IS NOT AN OPTION, IT IS TOWN PLANNING.
BOB JARVIS THE LOST ART OF TOWN PLANNING Urban Design Quarterly, Issue 43, July 1992 (pg. 29) SYED ZAINOL ABIDIN IDID : URBAN DESIGN & CONSERVATION RESEARCH UNIT URBAN DESIGN lecture notes YEAR2 SBP 3183

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by Chau Loon Wai
Towns / cities (product of design) have become too big to be legible & easily understood, perceived and managed
SYED ZAINOL ABIDIN IDID : URBAN DESIGN & CONSERVATION RESEARCH UNIT URBAN DESIGN lecture notes YEAR2 SBP 3183

UDCRU
by Chau Loon Wai
Towns / cities are becoming more influenced / being shaped (design process) by design concepts that are alien to the local context and through development & design by people foreign to the local lifestyles.

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Local Communities have been sidelined in the development of towns / cities (design process); the local communities should actually be initialising development (designers, developers, politicians are just tools / means to achieve community goals)
www.usc.edu Gledok Chinatown, Jakarta www.usc.edu Jakarta skyline

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Economic rationalisation / efficiency leads to predominantly mega-scale developments (product of design) that are unsustainable ecologically, socially, & even economically in the long run

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Misconception of Urban Design as merely the placing of bollards; selecting materials for pedestrian ways; initiating urban landscape; urban beautifications and image enhancements (design process).

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by Chau Loon Wai
Lack of integration in city development (design process) across all administrative boundaries, disciplinary boundaries, & spatial boundaries Breaking into components: predominantly town planning & architecture, which compete with engineering & pathetically balanced up by modern urban design

UDCRU
by Chau Loon Wai
Misconception of the
Bigger the Better; what we need is actually Better NOT Bigger (product of design)
BIG is Beautiful &

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Failure (or disinterest?) among built environment professionals to study, understand & appreciate the natural process & good principles of City Building that created many timelessly beautiful, liveable & more sustainable traditional cities; failure to learn from the past (design process)

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by Chau Loon Wai
Urban Design is not emphasised at all in current town planning practice (design process); where is Urban Design in the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 (Act 172)? roBusTNe ss ? ty?
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by Chau Loon Wai
Town planners / urban designers passively following trends (design process) without seriously questioning their causes & effects; design should be a pro-active tool of change
www.sunway.com.my www.lasvegastourism.com

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Current planning system promotes (design process) mono-functional zoning & segregation of land uses imbalanced development; cities become solely landscape of consumption, hinterland / regions become predominantly landscape of production (product of design) urban sprawl uncontrolled relatively low density (generally) increased car dependency social segregation / disintegration

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Planning & Design for machinery-needs rather than for human-needs (design process) loss of identity of place, genius loci, human scale, freedom to move about placelessness (product of design)
York, UK Paris, France morning rush hour

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Privatisation of public places (product of design)

Meadowhall Shopping Mall, Sheffield, UK
Meadowhall Shopping Mall, Sheffield, UK

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by Chau Loon Wai
Failure of town planners / urban designers to understand / visualise the implications of 2-dimensional plans & policy statements onto the real 3-dimensional physical environment; failure to translate planning ideals into physical realities (design process)

UDCRU
by Chau Loon Wai
TO THINK OF URBAN DESIGN AS A SEPARATE SKILL IS A DIVERSION, A CONVENIENT SEPARATION OF THOSE DIFFICULT ARTS THAT ARE REALLY NOTHING LESS THAN TOWN PLANNING. THE TOWN PLANNING PROFESSION WHETHER IT ACCEPTS AND FACES UP TO THE FACT OR NOT HAS HAD AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE RESPONSIBILITY, THROUGH THE DRAWING UP OF PLANS, THE CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSALS AND THE RECOMMENDATION OF PERMISSIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT, FOR URBAN DESIGN. IT IS AN ART TOWN PLANNING MUST ITSELF REVIVE, MUST TAKE AGAIN TO ITS HEART, AND LEARN, AGAIN TO DESIGN. FOR PLANNERS, URBAN DESIGN IS NOT AN OPTION, IT IS TOWN PLANNING.
BOB JARVIS THE LOST ART OF TOWN PLANNING Urban Design Quarterly, Issue 43, July 1992 (pg. 29) SYED ZAINOL ABIDIN IDID : URBAN DESIGN & CONSERVATION RESEARCH UNIT URBAN DESIGN lecture notes YEAR2 SBP 3183

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by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

BIG is Beautiful &

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

Privatisation of public places (product of design)

Meadowhall Shopping Mall, Sheffield, UK

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

CURRENT URBAN DESIGN ISSUES

by Chau Loon Wai

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