urban design reader：the visual dimension

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1、Prelims-H6531.qxd11/7/061:40PMPageiCh20-H6531.qxd11/7/061:56PMPage177SectionFiveThevisualdimensionTEAMLinGCh20-H6531.qxd11/7/061:56PMPage179Thevisualdimension179ArchitectureandurbandesignareamongtheverySpaceinUrbanEnvironments(ArchitecturalMediafewtrulyinescapa

2、ble–and,therefore,public–artLtd,Tallahassee).LikeCullen’swork,Whitepresentsforms.Withmovementssuchas‘CityBeautiful’inawell-illustrateddiscussionofthekeyvisualandtheUSand‘Townscape’intheUKestablishingaspatialqualitiesoftheurbanenvironment.Thislittlepredominantly

3、visualperspectiveondevelopment,knowncontributiontotheurbandesignliteraturethevisualdimensionofurbandesignwasperhapsisusefulinthewayitsuccinctlysummarisestheseitsdominantdimensionuntilatleastthe1960s.keyconcepts.Thearticle’svalueisitsthree-partEventheModernMovem

4、entcanbecriticisedforitsstructure,focusingon‘path’,‘portal’and‘place’.preoccupationwiththevisualexpressionofmanyofPathequatesto‘street’andmayberegardedasaitskeyconceptsratherthanwiththeessenceofthemoremovement-orientedspace.Placeequatestoconceptsthemselves.Thee

5、xpressionoffunction,‘square’and,inturn,mayberegardedasamoreforexample,wasoftenmoreimportantthanbuild-staticspace.Portalreferstothresholdsandtransi-ingsorplacesactuallybeingfunctional.Whilethetionsbetweenspacesandbetweenthepublicandvisualcompositionofbotharchite

6、ctureandurbanprivaterealms.spaceisavitallyimportantcomponentoftheurbanTheurbanenvironment’svisual-aestheticcharac-designremit,andprofoundlyaffectsthehumanqual-terderivesfromthecombinationofitsspatialanditiesofplaces,itneedstobeunderstoodalongsidevisualqualities

7、.Thevisualqualitiesderivefromthetheotherdimensionsdiscussedinthisbook.surfacesthatdefinethespace–thatis,thedesignofThissectionpresentsasetoffourchaptersexplor-surroundingbuildings(i.e.thewallstotheurbaningthespatialandvisualcharacterofurbanenvi-space);thedesign

8、ofthefloor;andthedesignoftheronments/design.Chapter20isGordonCullen’sarrayofstreetfurniturewithinthespace.Chapters22introductiontothefirstedition(1961)ofhisbookand23bothconc