ARCH 562 | Course Introduction and Application Information

• Will be able to comprehend the approaches towards analysing the urban environment by morphological and sensory analysis methods.
• Will be able to understand the components and dynamics of a place.
• Will be able to develop an understanding of the material and immaterial qualities of place across different scales.
• Will be able to acquire techniques of recording and representing what is observed and enhance the ability to communicate their findings graphically, visually and through written form.
• Will be able to evaluate architecture in the broader context of its relationship with the urban environment
• Will be able to acquire an understanding of the ways of reading, looking and understanding of place in order to provide the knowledge to design the place.

The course consists of four phases; observing, reading, interpreting and representing the place.  The lectures given at the beginning of each phase will constitute the course notes.

Carmona, M., Heath, T., Oc. T. and Tiesdell, S. 2003. Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design, Oxford, Architectural Press.

• Calvino, I. 1972, “Invisible Cities”, translated from the Italian by William Weaver.  London :Vintage, 2002
• Carmona, M., Heath, T., Oc. T. and Tiesdell, S. 2003. Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design, Oxford, Architectural Press.
• Fleming, Ronald Lee. "Questions to Ask a Space." Places 6, no. 4 (Summer 1990): 12-13
• Gehl, Jan. Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.
• Gehl, J. and Svarre, B. 2013. How to Study Public Life. Island Press, Washington, DC.
• Greenbie, Barrie B. Spaces, Dimensions of the Human Landscape. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1981
• Jacobs, Allan B. "Clues." In Looking at Cities. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985, pp. 30-83.
• Jacobs, Allan B. "Starting to Look." In Looking at Cities. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985, pp. 1-13
• Madanipour,  A.,  2004.  Marginal  Public  Spaces  in  European  Cities,  Journal  of  Urban Design. Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 267-286.
• Madanipour, A., 1996. Design of urban space: an inquiry into a socio-spatial process. John Wiley & Son Ltd., Part 1, pp3-28
• Mehta, V., 2009. Look closely and you will see, listen carefully and you will hear: Urban design and social interaction on streets. Journal of Urban Design, 14(1), 29-64
• Montgomery, J. 1998,  'Making a city: Urbanity, vitality and urban design',Journal of Urban Design,3:1,93 — 116
• Pallasmaa, J., 2005, “The eyes of the skin: Architecture and the Senses”, Chichester :  Wiley-Academy
• Zardini, M. 2005, “Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism”. Canadian Centre for Architecture

Resource for Urban Design Information

www.rudi.net

Project for Public Space

http://www.pps.org/

Urban Public Space

http://urban.cccb.org/

Urban Sketchers

http://www.urbansketchers.com