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The area of a facade articulation feature shall be measured by determining a minimum imaginary rectangle parallel to the building facade that completely encloses the feature.
The facing wall of a building fronting a street, other than courtyard walls or carports and garages. The exterior wall of a building exposed to public view or that wall viewed by persons not within the building. A structure’s entire single elevation, including wall face, parapet, windows, doors, awning or canopy
Design elements of the exterior (architectural) window treatments such as patterns, rhythm, and ornamentation
The 15 minute city concept envisages that within 15 minutes on foot or bike from where they live that people should have the ability to access most of their daily needs.
The practice of building physical things such as buildings to a scale that is useful to people.
The quality of a place that makes it recognizable and memorable. A place has high imageability when specific physical elements and their arrangement evoke distinct images or positive feelings. Imageability is a measure of how easily a physical object, word or environment will evoke a clear mental image in the mind of any person observing […]
An object that provides “external points of orientation, usually an easily identifiable physical object in the urban landscape” (Lynch, 1960). In contemporary metropolises, such landmarks often comprise towers or high-rise buildings.
A tool in identifying the landscape features that give a locality its ‘sense of place’, including local patterns of geology, landform, land use, cultural and ecological features. An LCA describes the key characteristics and analyses, landscape condition and sensitivity to change.
The ease with which a person is able to see, understand and find their way around an area, building or development. A ‘legible’ layout is one that people find easy to navigate and move through. Legibility is one of the...
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The study of urban forms and of the agents and processes responsible for their transformation over time. Urban form refers to the main physical elements that structure and shape the city including streets, squares (the public space), street blocks, plots, and buildings, to name the most important.
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