PLANNING 2

“CITY FORM”
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DATE ISSUED: 11-06-24
DATE DUE: 11-11-24
DATE SUBMITTED: 11-11-24

NAME: bassig, jullianne

Cassandra j.
COURSE & YEAR: bs arch 4
CLASS CODE: 3451
“Theory of a good city form”

“Concept of ecology”

Every organism interacts in some way

with other species, the inorganic
environment, and other organisms of
its sort. The most accurate metaphor
for a colony is an ecology. Since they
lack consciousness, the elements and
organisms cannot fundamentally
alter the system. The energy is
depleted and rendered inaccessible.
Ecology as a learning system is a
Lynch provided five dimensions of suitable notion. It continuously alters
performance vigor, sense, fit, access, the game's rules and changes itself. It
and control. He also put out his own continuously rearranges itself,
idea of good city design, which can changing the direction of the energy
result in excellent settlements, flow.
attributes that allow "development,
within continuity, via openness and “PERFORMANCE DIMENSIONS & META
connection." He also introduced the CRITERIA”
"meta-criteria" of fairness and
1. Vitality-
efficiency. Efficiency and justice are
two meta-criteria that affect all five The degree to which the form of the
other aspects. settlement supports the vital
functions, the biological requirements
In this theory, he first looks at
and capabilities of human being, how it
three normative theories that view
protect the survival of the species.
the city as a living thing, a machine,
He mentioned three principals of it
and a model of the universe. In the
which are sustenance, safety,
end, it was determined that these
consonance.
hypotheses were insufficient and
could not withstand careful Sustenance- availability of all the
examination. Rather than assessing elements to sustain the life. There should be an
adequate supply of food, energy, water and
how settlements should function, the air at the same time availability of proper
goal of these theories is to merely disposal of wastes, i.e. the “throughput”.
explain how they do so. Cities are
Safety- it considers psychological
modeled in these theories as safety, social safety and physical safety.
ecological systems, fields of force, There should be safety from physical elements
linked decision processes, or sites of like hazards, poisons, and diseases, also social
class conflict. and psychological safety like defence against
violation attacks, the prevention of food and
Only the spatial form of the city fire, the resistance to earthquake.
may be used to gauge its Consonance- the environment should
performance. However, a place's consonance with the basic biological structure
quality is a result of both the of human being. It should support natural
rhythms, and should provide optimum sensory
location and the people that lives input.
there. This is crucial for researchers
who observe how the behavior of 2. Sense-
social groupings is mirrored in the
This is the joint between the form of the
morphology of metropolitan areas. environment and the human processes of
The researcher then chooses the perception and cognition. It depends on the
technique used to reveal this. form of the space, quality and human activity.
He said identity, structure, congruence,
legibility, transparency are the
characteristics of Sense.

Identity- it is the extent to which person

can recognige or recall a place as being
distinct from other places, having unique
character of its own.

Structure- which at the scale of small

place is the sense of how it parts fit together
an in large settlement is the sense of Certainty- the degree to which people
orientation. understand the control system, can predict its
scope, and feel secure with it.
Congruence- identification/
recognization of the place by form of city or 6. Efficiency-
building.
It is the balancing criteria; it relates
Transparency- one can directly
perceive the operations of the various the level of achievement in some
technical functions, activities, and social & performance to loss in some other.
natural processes that are occurring within There are certain interdimensional
the settlement.
conflicts like i. a vital environment
Legibility- inhabitants of settlement are will often conflict with decentralized
able to communicate accurately to each other user control, ii. the ideal of a vital
via its symbolic physical feature. environment will often conflict with a
3. Fit- well-fitted one, iii. Sense is frequently
in opposition to adaptability of fit, iv.
It is the match between place and Present and future fit are
whole patterns of behaviour . it is contradictory to each other.
linked to characteristics of the
human body and of physical system in 7. Justice-
general. Adaptability, manipulability, Justice is the way in which benefits and
reversibility excess capacity, costs of any one kind are distributed
improving accessibility, separation of between persons. It deals with all the
parts, modular and standardization, performance dimensions like vitality,
reduction of recycling costs are the sense, fit, access and control.
characteristics of fit.

4. Access-
A good city
It is the extent to which goods, form should
services, place and information are be vital
accessible with minimum time and (safe,
efforts. (least path of resistance) It consonant,
is classified as access to other and
people, access to human activities, sustainable),
access to services, access to sensible
material resources, access to
natural environment, access to
information.

5. Control-

It refers to the pervasive phenomena

of territorial occupation of space
and time for discharging day to day
activities. It depends upon ownership.
There are some spatial right like (recognizable, structured,
right of presence, right to be in congruent, transparent, legible,
place, right of use and action, rights unfolding, and significant), well-fied
of modification, right of disposition. (manipulable and resilient),
accessible (diverse, equitable, and
Following aspects are comes under locally manageable), and well-
Control controlled (congruent, certain,
responsible, and intermittently
Congruence- the extent to which the
actual user or inhabitants of a space control loose), all of which are accomplished
it in proportion to the degree of their with justice and internal efficiency.
Permanente stake in it. User congruence allows
for better fit and greater security, References:
satisfaction and freedom as a consequence of
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it.
Lynch- Review. International Journal of Innovative Research in
Science, Engineering and Technology.
Responsibility- is a balancing criteria [Link]
and supposes that those who control a place
Suresh, S. (2023, July 17). Book in Focus: The Theory of a Good City
should have motives, information and power to
form by Kevin Lynch - RTF: Rethinking the future. RTF | Rethinking
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