مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - COMMUNICATIONAL ASPECTS AND CULTURAL FRAMEWORK OF URBAN DESIGN

Abstract :

Urban entity should not be evaluated as a whole of functional results of absolute urban planning and design, activity of crafting, architecture or engineering, which is conducted by decisions of local authorities. There are semantic and aesthetic aspects as well as functional aspects of all human activities. From the point of view of this postulate, it is possible to suppose that there are three aspects of the design of urban sphere as function, semantics and aesthetics, and that the order of human consciousness reverberates through artefactual world with these aspects. Cultural mood and social ecology encircling the design tendencies disclose themselves as multi-dimensional human renditions through design objects while they become sources for teleological interference to the world of designed objects. Conceiver imagination that is shaped under the instruction of cultural procedures operates around the multi aspectual meanings which is consolidated by cultural patterns, social norms and structures. Hence, blending of meaning and aesthetics with function brings forth a communicational trait to urban sphere by executing a legible city image. But urban design is a multi-actor, eclectic and complex process. Therefore creative works concerning significations and usages of urban space are essentially different from the design of monic artefactual objects.