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Art/Literary - Architecture

French term or phrase: composition urbaine

La complexité des situations se comprime abstraitement en quelques grands objets, qui prennent en charge les valeurs séculaires attachées à la composition urbaine...

I have translated 'composition urbaine' as arrangement of urban spaces. I know it doesn't mean town-planning (urbanism) but has any one heard of a particular technical term used to translate this term.

Sarah Robertson KudoZ activity Questions: 24 (1 open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 0 United Kingdom
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3 +4

urban fabric

Emma Paulay

3 +2

urban landscape

Helen Shiner

urban grain

Bourth

townscape

Wordeffect

urban composition

Constantinos Faridis

Summary of reference entries provided

A definition.

kashew

Discussion entries: 2

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urban composition

Explanation:
urban composition. ... I think it's a splendid example of abstract urban art at it's best. All the best, Mike Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink ) ...
www.flickr.com/.../2916158651/ - Προσωρινά αποθηκευμένη - ΠαρόμοιεςUrban composition - WestminsterResearch - [ Μετάφραση αυτής της σελίδας ]
7 Apr 2008 ... Roberts, Marion (2001) Urban composition. In: Roberts, Marion and Greed, Clara, (eds.) Approaching urban design: the design process. ...
westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk/1168/ - Προσωρινά αποθηκευμένη - Παρόμοιες
από M Roberts - 2001 - Όλες οι 2 εκδοχέςthe urban composition - [ Μετάφραση αυτής της σελίδας ]
Just over a year ago I set out to start the 'The Urban Composition' blog. My aim was to do a series of test posts and play with how I could use the ...
www.theurbancomposition.com

Constantinos Faridis
Greece
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Greek
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peer agreement (net): +4

urban fabric

Explanation:
I think they mean the traditional urban make-up - the components of a town.

Reference: http://www.google.com/search?hl=fr&q=traditional+views+on+ur...

Emma Paulay
France
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English
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peer agreement (net): +2

urban landscape

Explanation:
Another suggestion which I meet all the time. For me urban fabric refers rather more to the materials used, rather than the design or visual make-up.

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http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/en2/index.php?page=2.3.0

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
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Specializes in field
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English
PRO pts in category: 54

2 hrs confidence:

townscape

Explanation:
this was the term used amongst architects & planners when I did my degree in architecture (also the title of book by Gorden Cullen)

Google the term to check if it fits the style of your piece.

Example sentence(s):

This book pioneered the concept of townscape. ’Townscape’ is the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings, streets and space that make up the urban environment. It has been a major influence on architects, planners an

Wordeffect
France
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English

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urban grain

Explanation:
From my notes:

Environnement urbain Urban grain (Guardian Weekly)
The pattern of the arrangement of street blocks, plots and their buildings in a settlement. The degree to which an area's pattern of blocks and plot subdivisions is respectively small and frequent (fine grain), or large and infrequent (coarse grain). [Web]

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The design of the URBAN GRAIN (PATTERN AND ARRANGEMENT OF STREET BLOCKS AND PLOTS) ... The URBAN GRAIN is illustrated in Design Code 12 p45, and outlined ...
www.aylesburyvale.gov.uk/GetAsset.aspx?id...

Urban Grain. The urban grain of streets, blocks and plots is largely based on continuing the ... The proposed URBAN GRAIN of new streets, ...
www.doncaster.gov.uk/Images/Renaissance 3_4_tcm2-8166.pdf –

Urban Grain
The URBAN GRAIN of streets, blocks and plots is largely based on continuing the historic pattern of development within the masterplan area.
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This is illustrated in the plan opposite and is based on the following principles:
• The promotion of a FINE GRAIN DEVELOPMENT along the main pedestrian dominated routes. This involves proposals for plots no wider than 12 metres along these routes. This reinforces the FINE GRAIN quality of the existing Baxtergate main street and sets up a pattern of mixed use and a rhythm of different facades that provide a friendlier urban environment. This pattern of sub-division extends to the frontages to the Basin Square. Where proposals emerge for larger developments along these routes, the designer must show how these facades are broken down to achieve a FINE GRAIN frontage of development.
• A COARSER GRAIN of development is permissible along the Waterfront Wall where longer views of the development are experienced. In this instance the plot widths extend to 24 metres as a general rule. The onus still remains on the designer to show how the facade is sub-divided to avoid long, monotonous developments.
http://www.doncaster.gov.uk/Images/Renaissance 3_4_tcm2-8166...

Bourth
France
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Works in field
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English
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