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Design for housing for a variety of users
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Create a variety of public spaces for different needs
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Communal shared resources e.g. urban agriculture, water recycling,
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Orientate buildings and spaces to maximize solar gain and wind.
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Emphasis on street design to promote walking
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Create a permeable network of streets
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Design for visually/physically impaired
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Intensification of density along transport routes (This is illustrated below)
Legibility and accessibility
Robustness
Diversity
Safety and surveillance
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A variety of dwelling types and tenure.
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Active frontages onto the public realm
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A distribution of landuses
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Mixed uses throughout the development
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Create pedestrian orientated, shared space
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Sense of ownership of private and public spaces
Urban design theories
From previous research of Issues 1
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Design the streetscape according townscape principles,
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Design flora for visual attraction, smell, food production.
Richness
Design code standards
In addition to the design principles the standards for design coding of the Urban Design Compendium and Design Council will also be used as a guide in order to meet the other criteria.
Click on the pictures to read more on these standards.
