Urban Design Theories-I

Rationalist and Structuralist Approaches Week5&6 Typology&Morphology: Concept URBAN SPACE The Arehiteture of Type and Typology as a Rationalistic tool for of the City analysing and conceptualizing built form as different from modern functional typology of buildings. Ideas of Typology in Durand, Rossi, Kricr. Urban Artefact , Focus and Fabric, Monument and Object and Locus Morphology as antithetical to Typology Core text:

1.Anthony Vidler Third Typology 2.Aldo Rossi Architecture ofthe City 3.Rob Krier Urban Space Week 7&8 Image Structure: The American GOOD CEFY methodof Five points of city structure Path Node FORM Landmark District edge as a convenient tool of analysis for Urban design Core Text:

1. Kevin Lynch Image of the City 2.Kevin Lynch Good city Form Unit3Wholeness A New Theory of Urban Design A Clty is Not a Tree:

Week9&10Holistic Scientific Approach:

Conceptualizing city with an eye to wholeness, sense of centre and sense of harmony. Seeking for a scientific mathematical and dobjectivemethod of holistic design. Learning from Christopher lagril Kiag Alexander's explorations. Salingaros's Core Text:

computational development following 1.Christopher Alexander A New Theory of Urban Alexander. Design 2.Nikos Salingaros Principles of Urban Structure