Variety-Urban Design

1. Variety
Mahmud Zaman
Jan 17, 2018 CE

2. A variety store (also pound shop, dollar
store) is a retail store that sells a wide
range of inexpensive household goods.

4. a house is a tiny city, a city a huge house

6. Why variety of a place is necessary?
• Permeability and Variety works side by side;
• Permeability makes a site more accessible i.e., physically and visually;
• Variety offers experiential choices to users.

7. Different levels of variety
- places with varied forms + uses + meanings
- place of varied uses = varied buildings types + varied building forms
- place of varied uses attracts = varied people at varied times for varied reasons
Promoting variety helps to increase choice for the users

8. Paradox between choice and mobility
- mobility bolster choices;
- highly mobile vehicle/ persons can take the advantages of mobility thus enjoy maximum choices.
Mobility/ Accessibility α Choices α Variety
Highly Mobile Less Mobile
Rich Poor
Young Elderly
Car Public Transport
Physically strong Physically/ psychologically challenged, Sick

9. Paradox between land use and variety
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10. Variety within blocks and buildings

15. How to maximize variety?

16. - Demand
- Supply
- synergy1
1n.
the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to
produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.
"the synergy between street and street activity"

17. How to maximize variety? (Demand)
- demand for the space;
- private entrepreneur is more conservative vs. public entrepreneur is more liberal;
- arbitration and mediation depends on the very quality of that urban planner/designer.

19. “A good city is like a good party.
People dont want to leave early.
- Jan Gehl (1936- )
Shared
Space
Brighton, England

20. eferences
McGlynn, S., Smith, G., Alcock, A., Murrain, P., & Bentley, I. (1985). Responsive Environments:
A Manual for Designers. London, UK: The Architectural Press.
Gehl, J., & Koch, J. (2011). Life between buildings: using public space. Washington, DC: Island
Press.