Chapter 5- URBAN DIMENSIONS ones. Views into buildings provide interest to passers-by, while views output 'eyes on the street' and contribute to its safety. The number of doors/entrances generating activity directly visible from public space is a good indicator of the potential for street life. The public edge of buildings should also house activities that benefit from interaction with the public realm and contribute to vitality there. discussed the 'osmotic' properties of streets: the way activities within buildings percolate through and infuse the street with life. Some land uses have very little relation to people in the street, while others involve and engage people. The edge of the public space network provides the interface between public and private realms and needs to both enable interaction and protect privacy. the public/private interface, all developments should have a 'front' onto public space. In terms of layout, the public fronts should face onto other fronts and onto public space, while the private 'backs' should face onto private space and other backs. Used consistently, such a strategy reduces the need for blank walls (i.e. instances where private uses front onto public space).
5.4VISUAL DIMENSIONSAesthetic appreciation of the urban setting is primarily visual and kinaesthetic (i.e. involving awareness of movement of all elements of the body). Experiencing urban environments not withstanding involves all our senses and in some things, hearing, smelling and some thesis will be a lot of necessary than vision. spaces that we have a tendency to are planning, the smells that may be given off by the materials or the activities that will crop up there, the tactile expertise that they will arouse.' Visual appreciation of urban environments is additionally a product of perception that's, what stimuli we have a tendency to understand, however we have a tendency to understand them, how we have a tendency to method, interpret and decide the data gathered, and the way it appeals to our mind and emotions. Such info is inseparable from, and considerably influenced by, how we have a tendency to feel concerning the actual setting likewise as a major
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