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Urban Design definition

Urban Design means the actions of conceiving and managing the special and aesthetic characteristics of urban space between and around buildings including physical elements that make up the streetscape and the combined visual effect of building facades and other structures; and
Urban Design means the pattern of urban forms comprising a campus, neighborhood, city, town, or other municipality or the process of patterning such forms into a design.
Urban Design means a street design where adjacent property and right-of-way are graded to the edge of the pavement or to the top of a curb without need for ditch construction.

Examples of Urban Design in a sentence

  • Kent State’s College of Podiatric Medicine is located in Independence, near downtown Cleveland, and the university’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, is located in downtown Cleveland.

  • The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative is the combined home of the urban design graduate program and the public service activities of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design; the center offers architectural and urban design expertise to urban communities, design professionals, and nonprofit and academic partners in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.

  • The General Manager of Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability recommended approval subject to conditions set out in the summary and recommendation of the Public Hearing agenda.

  • The Area shall be subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws, ordinances, regulations and codes, including but not limited to, the City Building Code, Zoning District Regulations, and stipulations of the Planning and Urban Design Agency ("PDA") of the City.

  • The General Manager of Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability recommended approval subject to conditions set out in the summary and recommendation.


More Definitions of Urban Design

Urban Design means planning and architecture that gives regard to design elements such as building form and style, views and vistas, open space, and streetscape treatments to provide an urban context that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing.
Urban Design means the practice of giving form, shape and character to the arrangement of buildings, or whole neighbourhoods, or the city. At the more detailed level, it involves the shaping of the external spaces between buildings, and the design of their detail and finishes to respond to use, context, climate, and building form (Urban Design Framework, City of Calgary, 2011).
Urban Design means the design of aesthetic, scientific and orderly development of land building, spaces and amenities and the regulations thereof with view to securing physical, economic and social efficiency, health and well-being of settlements and city, towns, region, village and the Nation.
Urban Design means the pattern of urban forms comprising a campus, neighborhood,
Urban Design means the shaping of the interaction between people and places, environment and urban form, and nature and built fabric, and influencing the processes which lead to successful villages, towns and cities. (Campbell and Cowan)
Urban Design means the relationship between different buildings; the relationship between buildings and the streets, squares, parks and waterways and other spaces, which make up the public domain; the nature and quality of the public domain itself; the relationship of one part of a village, town or city with other parts; and the patterns of movement and activity which are thereby established; in short the complex relationships between all the elements of built and unbuilt space.
Urban Design means the actions of conceiving and managing the special and