Friday, September 11, 2015

The Concise Townscape

Townscape is the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings, streets and spaces that make up the environment.  Concepts were first developed by Gordon Cullen in The Architectural Review and were later embodied in the book TOWNSCAPE (1961) which instantly established itself as a major influence on architects, planners and others concerned with what cities should look like. Its interest, however, goes far beyond the professional sphere. Some may see it as an important contribution to art and architectural history since, for the first time, it explores the fact that certain visual effect in the grouping of buildings were based on quite definable, if often spontaneous, aesthetic principles. Others may find that it teaches them to appreciate, as no other book has done, what it is that makes a town “work” architecturally. A third group wants to study it for Cullen’s superb drawings of city scenery-a skill at which he is the acknowledged master. The fascination of this book is endless for anyone who has any kind of visual sense.
In this shortened version the studies of specific towns have been left out and instead Cullen has contributed a new foreword and conclusion which set his ideas in the context of the seventies.

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7 comments:

  1. Thanks Dilshan for creating this Blog.

    Please check the spellings of the Heading.

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  2. Can you explain how planners use the serial vision in planning please?

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    1. In serial vision people can identify any place in a city. Actually, people remember any place or think from land marks.Planners crate any thing to people. so Before planners plan a town think about serial vision.I think serial vision very important to planners.

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    2. serial vision gives you idea about what is to be next.In Planning process it deals very closer for the planners as well as with the people.Through serial vision people can identify the places in a city.As well as it act as a land mark for people.and also we can describe a place for a person through this serial vision.

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  3. As a planner I think Townscape is most important to us because it is discuss the overoll in the city.

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