urban design
Urban Design represents the planning of urban environments - this comprises the physical, social, economic and environmental qualities of a place - whether a village, town, city, suburb, business park or even a cemetery.
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Any place - whether a city, a village, or a suburb - is like a machine. It is comprised of many different and interconnected parts that enable it to function correctly. Urban Design considers all of those parts both individually and together.
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WHAT IS An URBAN DESIGNER?
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If the city is a machine, then an urban designer is like an engineer. The role of the urban designer is to understand how the place should function, and to prepare a strategy that will achieve it.
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The urban designer also brings together the skills of specialists. A good urban designer will bring in the right specialist at the right point in the process for the right amount of time to get optimum results.
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At ARTSCAPE our urban designers are registered architects and landscape architects skilled at masterplanning and place planning.
ARTSCAPE'S urban design process incorporates a wide range of skills and tasks and could include:
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Detailed background study
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Place Visions
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Thematic Frameworks
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Contextual and Site Analysis
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Urban Morphology Analysis
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Master Plans
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Project Staging
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Community Engagement
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OUR APPROACH
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Urban Design is an essential part of strategically planning and designing a Place. We use urban analysis as the basis of all our projects - from Place Plans through to Public Art Strategies.
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Community and Stakeholder Engagement forms an integral part of our urban analysis process and helps ARTSCAPE to obtain a deeper understanding of a Place.
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ARTSCAPE uses collaborative teams to bring diverse skills to each project. Teams are unique to each project to solve the puzzle that needs to be solved.
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