URBAN DESIGN

1. URBAN DESIGN What does urbanmean?

2. URBAN DESIGN Urban means: relating to, or characteristic of a city or town

3. What Is Urban Design? • Devising a plan for change and/or development • Within a specific area • For a city subdivision • For a city, district or region

4. What Is Urban Design? • Blending the components within a development. • Relating sensory relationships between people and the environment • Being aware of how and what people think about the environment

5. What Is Urban Design? • Maintaining Community Character • Reflection of the history and traditions of the area or town • Conveys pride in ownership to inspire economic growth

6. What Is Urban Design? • Planning a development which • Is friendly to pedestrian traffic • Provides a means of blending automobile traffic with pedestrian traffic

7. What Is Urban Design? • Adapting Mix-use Places between commercial and residential • Horizontal model • Separate structures • for each

8. What Is Urban Design? • Adapting Mix-use Places between commercial and residential • Stacked Model • Both commercial (on lower levels) and residential (on upper levels) in same building

9. What Is Urban Design? • Pedestrian connections • Designing safe and comfortable projects with ease of access between clusters • Parking surrounded by clusters • Clusters surrounded by parking • Provide accessible walks

10. What Is Urban Design? • Traffic calming • Managing automobile traffic • Providing streetscaping • Plan for paving which promotes shared access • Pedestrian • Automobile • Bicycle • Provision of on-street parking

11. What Is Urban Design? • Dimension of sustainability • Economic sustainability • Environmental sustainability • Social sustainability

12. What Is Urban Design? • Protecting and creating economic value • Urban plans provide certainty • Developers, Land owners, City • Creates higher land values • Protection of economic opportunity

13. What Is An Urban Designer? • There is no set definition • No professional body decides what constitutes an Urban designer • Courses and content vary from college to college • No set body of knowledge • Broad body of knowledge • How planning systems work • How to conserve buildings, landscape and resources • How to involve people and communicate with developers, city officials, land owners and citizens • How to write policy • How to use computers • Plus many more skills and knowledge

14. What Is An Urban Designer? • What is the job like? • Planners work with cities, land owners, citizens and developers • Planners solve both vehicle and pedestrian traffic problems • Plan where cars should go and park • Plan how pedestrians get from place to place • Planners plan to save the environment • uses sustainable design • uses green technologies. • Urban planners know where everything is • People, streets, highways, water, sewers, libraries, museums, stores • Planners listen, gather information, develop plans, estimate costs and explain their plans

15. What Is An Urban Designer? • How Do I Get ready? • College is a must • Bachelor’s degree needed for apprentice job • Master’s degree required by most full-time employers • Work with an urban planning firm • Gain experience • Learn from professionals • Learn how to use the computer effectively • Take additional courses in computers and statistics • Study how to write and speak effectively

16. What Is An Urban Designer? • How much does the job pay? • 2008 average salary was $62,400 annually • How many jobs are there? • There were about 38,400 urban planners in 2008 • What about the future? • Number of jobs expected to rapidly increase through 2018 • Most jobs will be in rapidly expanding communities • What are some related jobs? • Architects, City Managers, Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, Landscape Architects and Social Scientists

17. Urban Design Project: New Water Park Place

18. Urban Design • Project: • New Water • Park Place • 1 Hotel • 10 Retail Stores • 3 Restaurants • Apartment Complex • Walkway to Water Park • River Walk • Parking