Influence of the Ancient Port of Massilia on the Contemporary Port of Brisbane

Rowe in Collage City wrote a very condensed summary of the ideas developed within the Urban Design studio he taught at Cornell. He wrote about an autonomous apparatus containing formal strategies of typology,

The achievements and contributions of ancient Romans are extensively present in many aspects of modern day society. The impact that Roman inventions have in areas like science, philosophy, politics, military strategy, architecture, engineering, law or art is broad and full of detail. The aim of this paper is to cover a little portion of the Roman heritage. Through this pages the author will expose some of the Roman contributions to civil engineering and architecture. The paper intention is to illustrate how this advancements helped and contributed to enhance the life of Roman society. With this purpose in mind the author selected the Segovia aqueduct and the road system developed by romans as illustrative examples for his research.

In order to add value to a city and fix any mistakes regarding a decline in the quality of living, different forms of development must be consistently undertaken for example civic improvement, slum clearance, urban renewal, urban consolidation, regeneration, brownfields and waterfront development (Freestone R., 2010). Due to ignoring the issues of urban expansion until the mid-twentieth century, cities have consequently been forced to transform and redevelop dramatically. Part of this process as seen in Sydney in 1836 was understood as the most fundamental action in the ‘civic development’ of the city (Freestone R., 2010). The plan involved the relocation of the Government House, re-development of Circular Quay, connection of the city street

The developments in planning and design of urban cities inform the argument surrounding the unsuitability of grids to carfree cities, whose medieval patterns provided efficient radial routes for centrally located goods, services, and transport. The emergence of city planning as a profession borrows significantly from the long and complex history of planning, whereby all cities display variations in forethought and conscious designs that define their layout and functioning. The paper uses Rome as a case study to analyse and critique the concepts and principles in the history of urban planning and design, and their

Mary Madden and Joel Russel in their article “Part 1: What Is a Form-Based Code?” talk about renewing communities’ zoning ordinates and different ways of their achievement. A form-based code (FBC) is a way to control building form and use, with the purpose of accomplishing an appropriate built environment. Zoning itself was created as a result of the Industrial Revolution. During the 20th century, people started separating cities and towns into zones. There are different parameters and requirements which influence building forms such as “dwelling units per acre” and “floor area ratios”. However, the authors remark that such regulations are too broad, they do not specify the height of the building or how it will relate to the street and other

This historical study will define the gentrification and social disruption of medieval Paris in the modern urban design of Georges-Eugene Haussmann’s renovation of Paris in the 19th century. Haussmann’s urban design was founded on the revolutionary leadership of Emperor Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte III in the late 1840s to renovate the massive slums and overcrowded tenements of Paris. The modernity of this massive urban project was founded on making wider streets, demolishing slums, and providing better sewage for an ever-increasing population. The destruction of the “medieval” structure of Paris was extremely influential in the design of the modern European city, yet it also brought about the problem of gentrification that alienated and marginalized

“An inhabited Bridge – in addition to its primary function of surmounting natural or man-made obstacles, be they rivers or canals, railways or motorways – serves as an organic link between two urban areas by connecting them to each other with a development of buildings erected on the bridge deck to form permanent accommodation for various social and economic activities. Thus, every inhabited bridge consists of two elements: the platform that spans the obstacle and an architectural superstructure. In contrasts to a purely vehicular bridge, the inhabited bridge provides a continuity within the urban fabric that is not only social and economic but also cultural, emotional and symbolic at a point where a natural break would otherwise exist. Indeed, it is both seductive and functional.”

Modernism vs Neo-Traditionalism: A debate on the merits and failures of two major competing paradigms in architecture and urban planning.

In the modern world, human civilization has seen many changes from earlier points in our history. In the more developed countries in the world, human civilization is broken up into two main categories known as “Urban Sprawl” and “New Urbanism”. In the interactive, Urban Sprawl and New Urbanism are broken down into five main branches: Regional Transportation, Parking, Street Plans, Shops, Civic Buildings, & Workplaces, and Residential Distribution. These branches reflect many of the places that we live in and see every day, and explains their purpose in depth.

As the saying goes “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” however long it took to build the capital, the days, months, years, centuries of work can be viewed as a long lasting landmark which paved the way for new and challenging architecture to come (How Roman architecture influenced modern architecture [sa]). According to Tony Rook (2013: [sp] ch.2) the typical Roman temple shows the Etruscan tradition combined with the Greek one. Although some of their premature concepts were acquired from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, Roman architects transformed the body of architecture for all time to come, offering buildings and structures that has never been before, along the side of public buildings and infrastructure that could be used by

Some of the permanent aspects that are defined by default are key circulation and public spaces, height limitations of buildings as well as the site’s density and scale. Materials of the buildings were also accounted for too. However, important elements such as the programmatic function of the place is still loosely defined. The principles of a human city such as “Creating a lasting new place” as shown in Figure 1 only supports the changing economic patterns of King’s Cross and does not address the social behaviour of the local residents living

The purpose of selecting this program is to deepen my studies in sustainability in-detailed. Nowadays, sustainability is a topic which research is still maturing, and designs are relatively new. The intent of this study emphasises in ruralisation of current urban cities by creating an environment that would allow the residents to benefit from its geographical and urban function stressing the creation of one system. Cities in the US and around the world have developed significantly that much of the land has transformed into Metro areas. In addition to 3 million people or greater living in these cities, people have exhausted their options and had no alternative but to rely on high-rise architecture. Many architects and landscape architects, focus their careers trying to create sustainable cities but are still limited by the maximum space they can utilise. Others emphasise the incorporation of biophilic mediums to solve the problem, then again, these are very restricted to the site. As land in some countries are finite and are reaching their maximum capacities, this will potentially become a problem that must be solved.

During the Industrial Revolution around 19th century to 20th century, people were trying to build an “Ideal City” based on the notion of socio-economical class of citizens. Starting from the middle-class to the high-class of society, townhouses were built all over the place that even stretches out to Australia. The planning of these townhouses, were also based on function and class. Higher class spaces are separated from the lower class spaces. The separation can be recognized through the position of stairs, work spaces and living quarters. Hence, what happens to building the “Ideal City”, also happens to the interior planning of townhouses.

Urban planning lays the foundation for the new buildings and public spaces that shape our lives. Traditionally, urban planning process consists of a sequence of phases that may vary or overlap to suit the project nature. During the conceptual design phase, a complex set of objectives and requirements are addressed regarding certain factors such as land use, site considerations, circulation, and environmental issues. To respond to

Contemporary architecture and urbanism is addressing the social demand via new principles of parametric design techniques. However, the research will be faced with a new style rather than just with a new set of techniques. The techniques are the employment of animation, simulation and form-finding tools, as well as parametric modelling and scripting have inspired a new collective movement with new determinants and values. Consequently, this opens up new connected design problems that are