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4. Urban Design is in essence the process associated with creating better places for people.

5. Urban activity can be defined as creating better places for people in which things are happening or being done. Urban activity can be defined as creating better places for people in which things are happening or being done.

6. The more time people spend outdoors, the more frequently they meet and the more they talk. Chart plotting the relationship between the number of outdoor activities and frequency of interactions. Need for creating PLACES

7. An ordinary day on an ordinary street. Pedestrians pass on the sidewalks, children play near front doors, people sit on benches and steps, the postman makes his rounds with the mail, two passers-by greet on the sidewalk, two mechanics repair a car, groups engage in conversation. This mix of outdoor activities is influenced by a number of conditions. Physical environment is one of the factors: a factor that influences the activities to a varying degree and in many different ways.

9. Necessary Activity

10. Optional Activity

11. Social(resultant) activity

12. Illustration based on chart from Jan Gehl, Cities for People, 2011

13. The main question to answer is how do you design places that advance from ‘Low’ quality to ‘High’ quality?

19. 1. Busy movement 2. Leisure B A a b

20. Urban Plazas & Optional Activities ~ High quality built environment

24. TRANSITIONAL NECCESSARY

27. TRANSITIONAL NECCESSARY

31. TRANSITIONAL NECCESSARY SOCIAL

32. TRANSITIONAL

34. SOCIAL

35. NECCESSARY

36. “Necessary Activity” takes place due to infrastructure and does not necessarily depend on the built Environment

37. “Optional Activity” takes place due to public social realm and does depend on the built Environment

38. “Social(resultant) Activity” is in direct relevancy to Optional Activity and hence is related to the built Environment

39. These modules can be replicated in Urban Design to enhance spaces promoting Optional Activities and thereby creating better “PLACES”

40. For creating better Urban Spaces in our cities, there is a need to build spaces which promote “Optional Activities”

41. Increasing “Optional Activities” will itself lead to the increase in Social Activity.