Rational description is the point of departure for discourse and science : thus this study is aimed to suggest a method of describing complex urban design information in a rational manner.
It is presupposed here that the future city centers will ex...
Rational description is the point of departure for discourse and science : thus this study is aimed to suggest a method of describing complex urban design information in a rational manner.
It is presupposed here that the future city centers will exhibit the physical structure of the ‘spatial city’ in which urban parts such as plots, streets, and buildings are interwoven together to form a three-dimensional whole, thus architecture become a small city, and vice versa. In such spatial cities, planners and urban designers must seek newer means to read, understand and control the complex central urban areas than those of today which regard the urban parts as separate entity. Thus the system of description of the urban design information(UDDS) proposed here is to be an alternative way to meet such demand in the future spatial cities.
This paper consists of three parts : the first part deals with the definitions of key concepts and precedent efforts in the related vein ; and the second, the method of constructing the UDDS on the basis of the “Morphologica Box method” ; and the third part demonstrates an exemplary definition of the UDDS and some descriptions thereby.
The eventual goal of the UDDS is to provide future urban professionals with new competence to communicate with and control urban design informations on the basis of the prospective network of urban information system ; it is however no more than an exploratory stepforth for this end, for practical application of the system must be preceded by further efforts of theorectical and practical verifications.