Plan 651 Urban Form and Design of Cities

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1 THE UNIVERSITY ofnorth CAROLINA at CHAPEL HILL DEPARTMENT of CITY and REGIONAL PLANNING Plan 651 Urban Form and Design of Cities Prof. Andrew H. Whittemore Spring 2015 Overview This course examines urban form as a product of environmental, political, cultural, regulatory, technological and social contexts. It considers urban form both as the product of self-conscious efforts to design cities and as a more organic outcome of various acts. This course will provide a historical survey of urban form as a frame for understanding the role of these environmental, political, cultural, regulatory, technological and social factors, and consider how the built environment also acts to impede or aid the life of the city. Students will complete the course with knowledge of the way in which traditional and modern urban forms evolved and their roles in urban functioning, an appreciation of historical and contemporary theories of urban design, and the ability to apply this knowledge in the design process. Logistics The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:45 at G201 Murray Hall. Class sessions will consist of lecture and discussion or student presentations. Readings All readings are available on the Plan 651 Sakai class website at Assignments and Grading Over the course of the semester, you will work with a partner to (1) analyze the history of the built environment of a city, including the development, specialization and decline of neighborhoods, (Historical Analysis due 17 February, words), analyze the current urban form, with attention to blocks, buildings, streets, open spaces, the overall civic structure, and lost spaces (Urban Form Analysis due 17 March,

2 words), and finally propose a solution to a design problem you identified through your previous analysis (Final Project due 28 April, also must include an introduction and final versions of your Historical Analysis and Urban Form Analysis). For the design solution you will need to use the modeling software Sketchup: present before and after 2D schemes showing streets and buildings, and explain this in words. All portions of your paper should be accompanied by abundant photographs and/or maps and/or diagrams (your own if you wish). Before each of the due dates you and your teammate(s) will be required to present your progress on one of the noted presentation dates. In addition, for one of the readings assigned during the semester you will be required to bring in three discussion questions. For the historical and urban form analysis, illustrative graphics chosen from primary or secondary texts and your ability to explain what they illustrate is very important. Your grade will be calculated as follows: 10% Class Participation 5% Discussion Questions 20% Historical Analysis 20% Urban Form Analysis 45% Final Project Computer Software No prior experience with SketchUp is required for the course, but you should familiarize yourself with software prior to our first lab session in March. The best resource for using SketchUp is available online at Many other online tutorials exist as well. One text on using SketchUp is Daniel Tal s SketchUp for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture (Wiley Interscience, 2009). You will need to download a free version of the application on your laptop for use at home and in lab sessions. The free version will be adequate for what is required in this class. Contact Information My office is located at 513 New East and my office hours are 10:30 to 11:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I can be reached via at awhittem@ .unc.edu, or by phone at Our TA, Mary Wolfe, may be reached at mkwolfe@live.unc.edu OTHER ACADEMIC BUSINESS The Honor Code represents UNC-Chapel Hill students' commitment to maintain an environment in which students respect one another and are able to attain their educational goals. As a student at Carolina, you are entering a community in which integrity matters--integrity in the work you submit, and integrity in the

3 manner in which you treat your fellow Carolina community members. We are committed to treating Honor Code violations seriously and urge all students to become familiar with its terms set out at If you have questions it is your responsibility to ask the professor about the Code s application. All written work, and other projects must be submitted with a signature that you have complied with the requirements of the Honor Code in all aspects of the submitted work. Missing Class: Students are permitted to miss class for EXCUSABLE absences only (for details about what an excused absence is, see UNC-Chapel Hill s attendance policy below). Students are allowed one unexcused absence without any questions from the instructors. If a student has two unexcused absences, their professionalism and collaboration grade will be affected. Disability: The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill facilitates the implementation of reasonable accommodations, including resources and services, for students with disabilities, chronic medical conditions, a temporary disability or pregnancy complications resulting in difficulties with accessing learning opportunities. All accommodations are coordinated through the Accessibility Resources and Service Office. In the first instance please visit their website call or accessibility@unc.edu. Please contact ARS as early in the semester as possible. Resources: Our purpose as professors is to help you to excel in this learning environment. Should you need further assistance beyond the help of the professor, please consult the following on-campus resources: The Writing Center: Academic Success Program (for students with learning disabilities (LD) and/or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Learning Center: Counseling and Wellness Services: UNC s Attendance Policy: SCHEDULE AND READINGS

4 8 JAN Course Introduction 13 JAN The Challenge of Urban Design Carmona, Matthew et al Public Places Urban Spaces Amsterdam: Elsevier. Urban Design Today, 3-19 Peterson, Steven "Urban Design Tactics. Roma Interrota." Architectural Design Profile 49, no. 3-4 Colquhoun, Alan "Twentieth-Century Concepts of Urban Space." In Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989, pp JAN The Challenge of Urban Design Jacobs, Allan B Looking at Cities. Cambridge: MIT Press. Excerpts from Chapter 3, Use of Buildings and Land, 49-53; Street Pattern and Layouts, and Building Arrangement, Trancik, Roger Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. What is Lost Space, 1-20; excerpt from Case Studies, JAN The Traditional City Europe Collins, George R. and Christiane Crasemann Collins, eds. (2006) CammilloSitte: the Birth of Modern City Planning. New York: Dover. The Relationship between Buildings, Monuments and their Plazas, ; That Public Squares should be Enclosed Entities, ; The Size and Shape of Plazas, ; Streets, Morris, A.E.J History of Urban Form before the Industrial Revolutions. New York: Longman Scientific & Technical. Excerpts from Greek City States, and 54; excerpt from Rome and the Empire, 69-70; excerpt from Medieval Towns, ; excerpt from The Renaissance: Italy Sets a Pattern, JAN The Traditional City Europe Braunfels, Wolfgang Urban Design in Western Europe. Chicago: U Chicago Press. Excerpt from Cathedral Cities, 12-25; excerpts from Seats of a Princely Court, ,

5 Rasmussen, Steen Eiler Towns and Buildings. Cambridge: MIT Press. Excerpt from The Dutch Contribution, 88-93; A Tale of Two Cities, JAN The Traditional City Europe Bacon, Edmund Design of Cities. New York: Penguin. Pgs ; 42-45; ; ; Schorske, Carl E. "Museum in contested space: the sword, the scepter and the Ring." In Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998, pp JAN The Traditional City Asia & Africa Morris, A.E.J History of Urban Form before the Industrial Revolutions. New York: Longman Scientific & Technical. Excerpts from Islamic Cities of the Middle East, 379, ; Appendix B Japan, Abu-Lughod, Janet The Islamic City: Historic Myths, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance, in Richard T. Legates and Frederic Stout, eds. The City Reader London: Routledge, Bacon, Edmund Design of Cities. New York: Penguin. Peking, Onokerhoraye, Andrew Godwin Urbanism as an organ of traditional African civilization: The example of Benin, Nigeria. Civilisations 25: 3/4, FEB The Traditional City Latin America Moorish, William Rees Civilizing Terrains: Mountains, Mounds and Mesas. San Francisco: William Stout. Drawing 26. Morris, A.E.J History of Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolutions. Excerpts from Spain and her Empire, and , and Urban USA, FEB The Traditional City United States Bacon, Edmund Design of Cities. New York: Penguin. Excerpt from Vitruvius Comes to the New World,

6 Westfall, Carroll William. "Classical American Urbanism." In New Classicism: Omnibus Volume. Edited by Andeas Papadakis and Harriet Watson. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1990, pp Morris, A.E.J History of Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolutions. New York: Longman Scientific & Technical. Urban USA, FEB Historical Analysis Presentations 12 FEB Historical Analysis Presentations 17 FEB Historical Analysis Due In-Class Movie: The Naked City (1948) 19 FEB The Modernist Revolution Bacon, Edmund Design of Cities. New York: Penguin. Excerpt from Vitruvius Comes to the New World, and Le Corbusier and the New Vision, Howard, Ebenezer Author s Introduction and The Town-Country Magnet in Richard T. Legates and Frederic Stout, eds. The City Reader London: Routledge, Le Corbusier The City of Tomorrow. 3 rd ed. London: the Architectural Press. Foreward, 1-7; The Pack-Donkey s Way and Man s Way, 10-18; A Contemporary City, FEB The Modernist Revolution Trancik, Roger Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Development of Twentieth-Century Space, Southworth, Michael Eran Ben-Joseph Streets and the Shaping of Cities New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997: Streets for the Motor Age, FEB The Modernist Revolution Clay, Grady Close-Up: How to Read the American City. Chicago: U Chicago Press. Excerpt from Epitome Districts, Strips,

7 Jackson, Kenneth T Crabgrass Frontier: the Suburbanization of the United States Oxford: Oxford U Press. The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America, MAR Urban Form Analysis Presentations 5 MAR Urban Form Analysis Presentations *** SPRING BREAK *** 17 MAR Urban Form Analysis Due In-Class: Sketchup Lab New East MAR The Counter-Revolution Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City (MIT Press, 1960): "The Image of the Environment," 1-13; "The City Image and Its Elements," MAR The Counter-Revolution Jacobs, Jane The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage: "The Uses of Sidewalks," 29-73; "Mixed Primary Uses," ; "Small Blocks," MAR The Counter-Revolution Venturi, Robert Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge: MIT Press. Excerpt from A Significance for A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas, 3-18 Krier, Leon. July/August "Urban Components." Architectural Design 54: Gordon Cullen Townscape, Rheinhold, [2 nd edition]: "Introduction," 7-12; "Serial Vision," MAR The Counter-Revolution Gehl, Jan Life Between Buildings. Washington: Island Press. To Assemble or Disperse, and To Integrate or Segregate, Duany, Andres and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Capital City Renaissance. New York: Rizzoli. Capital City Renaissance, 70-73; The Codes, 96-97

8 2 APR The Counter Revolution Trancik, Roger Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Urban Space Precedents, 60-96; Three Theories of Urban Spatial Design, APR The Counter Revolution Condon, Patrick M Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities. Washington: Island Press. Introduction, 3-15; excerpts from Restore the Streetcar City, and Design an Interconnected Street System, Dunham-Jones, Ellen and June Williams Retrofitting Suburbia. Hobokien: John Wiley & Sons. Excerpt from Introduction, viii-xiii; Instant Architecture, Instant Cities, and Incremental Metropolitanism, 2-14; Mall Case Study: Belmar, Lakewood, Colorado, APR The Counter Revolution e-book: Anne Whitson Spirn, Ecological urbanism, in Banerjee, T. & Loukaitou-Sideris, eds., Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011): e-book: Elizabeth MacDonald, Streets and the public realm: emerging designs, in Banerjee, T. & Loukaitou-Sideris, eds., Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011): No Class: Conference 14 APR Workshop Day In Class: Sketchup Lab 16 APR Design Proposal Presentations 21 APR Design Proposal Presentations 23 APR Design Proposal Presentations 28 APR FINAL PROJECT DUE