Thursday 7 October 2010

T1 Glossary 1

1. Planning - Coordinated attempt to rationalise the development of the built environment. 1a. Rationalise - Make according to certain guidelines/the prevailing rational.

2. Spatial Planning - Purposeful arrangement of objects within a given space. Often, with varying consideration to the relationship between object, space and use. Sadly mostly fixed when in situ.

3. Design - Exploring new possibilities in creation/reworking an object for a given purpose.

4. Urban Design - re-modeling the built environment. 4a. Urbanity - One road in isolation is no different from another, whether it be in a city or countryside; all built things have some sense of urbanity.

5. Dissemination - Taking ideas and proposals to those who will be affected by them to develop ways to put them into practice; also, to receive a critical response.

6. Pilot Projects - Smaller scale testing’s of larger design principles.

7. Public Art - An attempt at focusing of the perception of an area and the attention of its inhabitants to a given identity. 7a. Inhabitants - Those who occupy/have a bearing on the use of, a given space. Could be considered that wider society and therefore everyone is included.

8. To Consider - Make a judgment on an appropriate course of action relative to the objectives, opinions and principles of those who consider. Flawed.

9. Masterplan - Collection of studies which are brought together and conclusions made for the continued development of an area.

10. Map. A specific description of an area using symbolism.

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