Urban Design

2009 ‧ Urban Design ‧ Professor ‧ Kun-Hyuck Ahn

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering / Professor : Kun-Hyuck Ahn

Tel: 880-8200 / ahnkh@snu.ac.kr

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1. Course Name

◦ Urban Design 457.302

2. Course Summary

◦ Understanding Urban Design

◦ Learning design techniques for each urban design elements and case study

◦ Understanding institutional Urban Design

3. Details

A. Understanding Urban Design

◦ Background and development process of Urban Design

◦ Domestic and Foreign Theories of Urban Design

B. Space Theories

◦ Composition Principles of Beauty

◦ Measurement of Space

◦ Territoriality and Defensive Space

◦ Object and Background Theory

◦ Fundamental Philosophy of Urban Design

C. Design Techniques for Urban Design Elements and Case Study

◦ Urban Elements

① Urban Pattern and Land use  ② Building Forms and massing  ③ Circulation and parking

④ Open Space  ⑤ Pedestrian Circulation  ⑥ Supporting Street Activity  ⑦ Street signs and signboards ⑧ Conservation

D. Comprehensive Design of City

◦ Structures of city and green network

◦ Urban Center

◦ Design principles for the Residential Area, the Industrial Area, and the Green Space and Parks etc.

E. Understanding Urban Design as Institutional Guidelines

◦ Introduction, development and prospects of urban design regulation

◦ Domestic and Foreign Urban Design Cases

◦ District Unit Plan

4. Grade Assessment

◦ Mid-term Exam(30%), ◦ End-term Exam(35%), ◦ Attendance(10%),

◦ Exercise(20%), ◦ Reading(5%)

5. Student Notice

A. Reading

◦ Students must read the assigned reading materials before each class.

◦ For each class, appointed students must answer the questions about the reading materials.

B. Report

◦ Select important districts or spots(streets, buildings, etc.) from a city you live in or you know and analyze the composition of space and present an alternative plan for improving the city. (Include ①Present Status and Problem ②Analyze the cause ③Improvement Plan & etc.)

◦ 5~10 pages of A4 (Use explanations, sketches, maps, Power Point, etc.)

◦ Present during the given time and hand in the report after the presentation.

6. Books and Reference Materials

<Main Materials>

① Jongwon Joo, 「Urban Design」, Moonundang, 1998

⑧ Urban Design Institute for Korea, 「Urban Design」, Bosungak, 2001

<Reading Materials>

② Seungbin Lim, 「Visual Landscape Analysis」, Seoul National University Publishing Department, 1991

③ Hamid Shirvani, The Urban Design Process, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York 1985

④ Jon Lang, Urban Design : The American Experience, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York 1994

⑤ Roger Trancik, Finding Lost Space,  Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York 1986

⑥ Jonathan Barnett, An Introduction to Urban Design, Harper & Row, New York 1982

⑦ Ali Madanipour, Design of Urban Space, Wiley, New York, 1996

⑨ Jay M. Stein, edited Classical Readings in Urban Planning, McGraw-Hill,

<Reference Materials>

ㅇ Gibberd, Town Design, London, The Architectural Press, 1953

ㅇ J. Christoper Jones, Design Method, N.Y., John Willy & Sons, 1973

ㅇ Gordon Cullen, The Concise Townscape, The Architectural Press, 1973

7. Reading Assignment and evaluation

Date	Reading	Contents	Student/Evaluation
9/ 3	③ 6~8	The domain of Urban Design
	③ 141~155	Products
	⑥ 3~14	City can be designed
	⑦ Ch.4 (91~101)	Urban Design Process
	⑦ Ch.4 (102~109)	Urban Design Process
	⑦ Ch.4 (110~117)	Urban Design Process
9/ 8	② 53~66	Formal Esthetic Approach
9/10	② 140~146	Human Scale
	⑨ 208~226	Defensible Space
9/15	⑤ Ch.4 (97~106)	Three Theories of Urban Spatial Design
9/17	⑤ Ch.4 (106~124)	Three Theories of Urban Spatial Design
9/22	④ Ch.4 (105~117)	Basic Attitudes in Urban Design(Current Attitudes)
	④ Ch.4 (117~123)	Basic Attitudes in Urban Design(Past UD Attitudes)
	④ Ch.6 (135~145)	A Functionalist, Empiricist Urban Design
9/24	⑦ Ch.2 (31~48)	Structural Frameworks of Urban Space
	⑦ Ch.2 (48~62)	Structural Frameworks of Urban Space
9/29	③ 8~11	Land Use
	③ 37~40,	Activity support
	⑥ 155~162	Land-Use Strategies
10/ 1	③ 11~23,	Building form and massing
	⑦ 7~10	Space and mass
10/ 6	③ 27~31,	Open Space
	⑤ Ch.3 (60~86)	Urban Space Precedents
	⑤ Ch.3 (86~96)	Urban Space Precedents
	⑥ 163~186	A Public Open-Space Policy
10/ 8	③ 23~27,	Circulation and Parking
	⑥ 199~212	Transportation and Urban Design Policy
10/13	③ 31~36	Pedestrian ways
	⑥ 187~198	Standards for Street Furniture, Lighting, and Signs
10/20	② 81~93	Skyline Analysis
10/22	③ 40~44,	Signage
10/27	③ 44~48,	Preservation
	⑥ 37~53	Urban Design and the Preservation Movement
10/29	③ 69~99	The dimension of natural environment
11/24	③ 105~119	Design method/process
	④ Ch.20 (369~382)	The development process
	④ Ch.21 (383~392)	The Urban Design Designing Process
	④ Ch.21 (392~400)	The Urban Design Designing Process
11/26	④ Ch.22 (401~410)	Procedural Issues in Urban Design
	⑥ 27~36	Community Participation in UD Decisions
12/ 1	⑦ Ch.6 (155~165)	Regulating Urban Form
	⑦ Ch.6 (165~177)	Regulating Urban Form
	⑦ Ch.6 (177~182)	Regulating Urban Form
12/ 3	③ 167~183,	Implementation: legal mechanism
	⑥ 57~76	Zoning, Mapping, and Urban Renewal as UD Techniques
	⑥ 77~98	The Evolution of NY City's SZDs
	⑥ 99~124	Comprehensive Policies to Reㅔlace SZDs
	⑥ 125~136	The San Francisco Urban Design Plan
	⑥ 137~152	Design Formulations for Planned Communities