URBAN DESIGN

MODULE 1: GORDEN CULLEN

C E C O N S W A I N S E M E S T E R 7 B M S S C H O O L O F A R C H I T E C T U R E
• The title of the book is The Concise

Townscape and its author is Gordon

Cullen.

• He was an influential English

Architect and urban designer who

was a key motivator in townscape

movement.

• He had played a major role in

structuring townscape through this

book.

• First edition of book was first

published in 1961 by The

Architectural Press and its copyright

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CULLEN
Cullen liked to call his theory and approach to understanding and manipulating the

elements of townscape an “Environment Game.”

He presented his discovery of humanistic urban design in three “gateways”:

1.Motion (Serial Vision)

2. Position (Here and There)

3.Content (This and That).

• Townscape is a visual art contained in the arrangement of buildings, roads, trees, nature and urban environment that decorate the

space.

• The townscape is one way that can be used in term of physical visual to recognize the physical form of a city.

• The townscape can also be identified by the shape of arrangement that is by the design of buildings and roads that creates various

emotional levels to the observer.

• Physical form of urban space influenced and determined by the shape and mass of the building.

• The linkage is perceived psychologically and physically by the observer as well as the physical form of urban space and the shape of

the building mass.

• The relationship can also be seen visually on the quality of a city is determined by the shape and size of the shape and arrangement of

urban space.
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• The values should be added in the urban design of the city so that people can emotionally enjoy a good urban environment through

psychological and physical sense.

Four points that are emphasized in this book are

-serial vision

-place

-content

-the functional tradition.

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 SERIAL VISION

• Serial vision can be explain as the visual images captured

by an observer who happens when walking from one place

to another in a region.

• Recording by observers view the image into pieces which

gradually and forms an integral image recording area for

observers.

• Typically, there will be similarities or a marker of the pieces

of the view that gives certainty to the observer that he was

still in the same region.

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 PLACE

• Place are owned observers feeling emotionally at the time in

a certain place.

• For example a man on the edge of a cliff will have a very

lively sense of position where as a man at the end of deep

cave will react to the fact of enclosure.

• Place influenced by the boundaries that exist in such a

place.

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PLACE

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 CONTENT

• Content is the content of an area that affects one's feelings

toward the state of the city environment

(Fabric includes colour, texture, scale, style, character,

personality and uniqueness).

• Content depends on two factors, namely the level of

conformity and the level of creativity.

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CONTENT

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here is as a city forming the structure and
FUNCTIONAL TRADITION

Functional tradition is quality in the elements that make up the urban environment.

An urban environment is composed by two ways.

The first, the city as an object composed of outside planners as subjects.

Secondly the city that are constructed and then filled up by activities.

Both are a complementary continuity.

Townscape role here is as a city forming the structure and support the human activity

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FUNCTIONAL TRADITION
here is as a city forming the structure and

                         

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FUNCTIONAL TRADITION
here is as a city forming the structure and

                         

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throughout the whole of human civilization up to the twentieth century.

Closure Closure, may be differentiated from Enclosure, by contrasting ‘travel’ with ‘arrival’. Closure is the cutting up of the linear

town system (streets, passages, etc.) into visually digestible and coherent amounts whilst retaining the sense of progression. Enclosure

on the other hand provides a complete private world which is inward looking, static and self-sufficient.

Street Lighting Here we are concerned with the impact of a modern public lighting installation on towns and not, primarily, with the

design of fittings. Naturally it is impossible to disassociate the two since, as in all townscape, we are concerned with two aspects: first,

intrinsic design and second, the relationship or putting together of things designed.

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Outdoor Publicity One contribution to modern townscape, startlingly conspicuous everywhere you look, but almost entirely ignored

by the town planner, is street outdoor publicity. This is the most characteristic, and, potentially, the most valuable, contribution of the

twentieth century to urban scenery. At night it has created a new landscape of a kind never before seen in history.

Here and There The practical result of so articulating the town into identifiable parts is that no sooner do we create a HERE than we

have to admit a THERE, and it is precisely in the manipulation of these two spatial concepts that a large part of urban drama arises.

Man-made enclosure, if only of the simplest kind, divides the environment into HERE and THERE. On this side of the arch, in

Ludlow, we are in the present, uncomplicated and direct world, our world. The other side is different, having in some small way a life

of its own (a with-holding).

                       

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CONCLUSION

• Urban arrangement should be able to provide comfort to the people who occupy it.

• Urban environment influenced the development of society psychologically and physically.

• Therefore the art of the environment needs to be emphasized in urban design.

• In the arrangement of an urban environment should consider the logic of Atlas.

• It relates to the physical dimensions of the geometry, dimensions of time and the dimensions of ambience.

• In essence the urban townscape into a series of elements those are important in the urban design.

• With the townscape, people can recognize an area both physically and emotionally.

• Townscape should be arranged as its effects are quite an impact on the development of a community that occupy the region

• In addition the townscape the art of creating the environment that is important to a city.
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