Summarizing Urban Form Urban forms in History Urban forms of a few Indian cities

Amity School of Architecture and Planning
M.Arch Programme, II Semester
Urban Morphology
ARCH648

Contents
Summarizing Urban Form
Urban forms in History
Urban forms of a few Indian cities
Contents

Learning Objectives
By end of this session you will be able to
understand more about Urban forms
through examples.
Learning Objectives

Urban Form: Summary
Effective factors in formation of Urban
Form
Economy:
• City is a phenomenon in relation with its type of
livelihood
• Capital
• Work power (people, government, designer)
• Management
• Existing policies, rules and government bills
• Obstacles and restrictions (possibilities and
limitations)
• Sources and profit

Urban Form: Summary
Effective factors in formation of Urban Form
Society:
• City is a phenomenon in relation with its society
• Chronological and historical background
• Science and art
• Way of thought and cosmology
• Philosophy and ideology
• Technology and knowledge
• Mentality
• Population
• Language
• Race
• Religious, traditional and cultural glimpses
• Rites and rituals
• Value

Urban Form: Summary
Effective factors in formation of Urban Form
Nature:
• City is a phenomenon in relation with its nature
• Geographical specifications, location, topography
• Ecological and climatic features
• Water, rain
• Soil
• Wind
• Plant
• Sun
• Town scape

City Figure:
Evolvement of the city’s fabric in to the
spaces creates figure of the city.
The city figure is manifestation of
liveliness, power, collapse, density and
mysterious greatness.
Elements which define the city figure in
first glance are:
• Entrances and Exits
• Solid and Void
• Skyline
• Silhouette

Urban Forms in History:

Urban forms of a few Indian cities

Hyderabad:

The Fabric
around the
old city in
the area
around the
Charminar
stretching
across the
river Musi.
There is a
distinct
difference in
the fabric
along the
river with
large
institutions
that came
up in the
Nawab’s
period & the
old city with
the
Charminar
as a focal
point.
The Qutub Shahi rulers
strengthened the existing
Golconda fort and made it their
capital. The walled city of
Golconda became the
rendezvous of merchants,
soldiers, men of the world and of
religion and its population
increased to such an extent that
the further expansion of the city
was necessary thus creating a
need for establishment of a new
city.
The urban structure can be
described as a grid iron
hierarchy based on the
Islamic charbagh concept.
The four main roads from
different cardinal directions
interact at the square of the
Charminar. The positioning of
the royal palaces and
important institutions both
religious and social rendered
it as a nodal point.
Soon after India started
witnessing IT revolution, the
government realized the
need for infrastructure to
attract investments of
several IT companies. This
prompted the government
to start the projects with
private investments.

Ahmedabad:

This is the
historic city
centre with
Bhadra
towers,
Teen
darwaza,
Jami
masjid, King
and
Queens
tomb,
Gandhi
road and
manek
chowk, the
commercial
heart of the
city. The
plos
constitute
the very
dense
areas of the
fabric
The Delhi Darwaza area
makes an important
thoroughfare for Ahmedabad
as an important trade centre
in the 17th century. After the
city walls were destroyed in
1930s, a row of shops still exists
where city wall used to exist.
The difference in grain
between the inside and the
outside of the walled city is
evident
The Rajpur Gomtipur has the
mills, which were the
backbone of the city in late
19th century and 20th
century. Many of these mills
started closing down in the
late 20th century but some of
the mill structures still exist on
this side (east side) of the
river.
The fabric of the new
suburban residential
development (Vejalpur
Area) is one of the gated
communities. Based on the
model of cooperative
housing societies and
borrowing elements from
apartment building
typologies.

Bangalore:

This strip
demonstrate
s the stretch
between the
old Pettah to
the newer
developmen
t, with the
new fort
area in
between.
What one
can see is
how the size
of the built
and open
varied over
the time of
developmen
t of the city.
In 1537 Kempe Gowda-1, the
main streets were laid out also
forming nucleus. Thick jungle
covered the area which was
cleared to lay the town,
thereby the jungle acted as
the first layer of fortification.
He got the ground ploughed
and worked the four main
streets running in four
directions. This cross road was
the first point for establishment
of city
The growth in population &
changes in military technology led
to demolition of the old city walls.
News institutions and buildings
were introduced resulting in urban
renewal projects. In the suburb,
bungalows, villas and housing
societies were built. The newer
development had roads as major
axis which divided the area, all
heritage buildings were almost
abolished.
To accommodate
expanding population of
Bangalore new housing
schemes were planned
with the garden city
concept namely,
Chamrajpet,
Baswanagudi.

References;
1. Urban forms in planning and Design by Shashikant Nishant Sharma,
International Journal of Research (IJR), Volume-1, Issue-1,February 2014
2. Sennett Richard 1969, Classical Essays on the Culture of Cities, Prentice Hall,
New Jersey
3. The American City: What Works and What Doesn't
by Alexander Garvin (1995)

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