Abstract:
Desired physical form of cities has been noticeable since the beginning of urbanization, from old patterns of early civilizations to the latest urbanism’s theories, which offered to build better cities. The opinions in recent decades have expressed that compact physical form of cities is a better form than sprawl form to achieve urban sustainability. The form of the city is the embodiment of its physical form so in compact and sprawly form of city, it will be created various visual effects for the residents. In this paper, visual impacts of cities’ form, which it caused by compression of their forms, examined with utilizing method of content analysis of texts. For this purpose, review the comments, which presented in the form of city, proving that the more compression the city is desirable for its better form. Among these theories, we used the elements of "Lynch’s" theory for a better cognition of the city. Finally, this article shows the desirability of the compact physical form of cities for achieving better cognition of its form.
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Analysis of Visual Impacts in Compact City’s Form (Based on Lynch’s cognition theory) Nima Mouhebati Ph. D.
2012 Desired physical form of cities has been noticeable since the beginning of urbanization, from old patterns of early civilizations to the latest urbanism’s theories, which offered to build better cities.
The opinions in recent decades have expressed that compact physical form of cities is a better form than sprawl form to achieve urban sustainability.
Urban Theories and Compact form of City Trancik says according to the "concept of space- mass and the relationship between these two concepts ", to define the minimum amount of space required is proportional to the mass.
He says Kevin Lynch has expressed in the theory of good city form, much earlier than Brundtland Committee refers to the main factors urban sustainability (Johns, 2004).
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION In this section analysis of visual characteristics in the compact city will do based on Lynch’s theory in urban form.
CONCLUSION The result of the analysis carried out based of Lynch’s constructive theory in urban form and cognition of city images, showed that better definition and achievement to these characteristic factors, need to have a continuous urban physical form in compact urban pattern.
In Urban form Table 2: Visualized Analysis of Lynch’s city form factors in compact urban form factors based on lynch, s theory Path Edge District Node Factor,s specifications M u s t b e s p e c i f i e d S h o u l d b e continued.
(1996),"The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form?" Oxford University, UK Jenks, M.