Lecture 15

The street pattern is one of the most important

elements of a city.
It forms the base for the development of the land-
use pattern.
It determines the efficiency of other functional
parts of the city.
It also determines, to a large degree, shape, size,
orientation and character, efficiency and beauty
of all land uses (residential, commercial,
transportation etc)

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 To provide for the free movement of traffic
throughout city;
To Provide access to individual building sites;
To a great extent serve as the city drainage
system;
To provide the rights-of-way for citys utility systems;
and
To provide light & air to individual buildings

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 Rectangular grid Pattern:
The rectangular grid street pattern consists of a grid of
streets (equal width) laid over wide areas without regard
to topography.
It is simple to design
it is well suited for application in core commercial areas
It facilitates one way use of streets

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Rectangular grid Pattern

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 Curvilinear Pattern:
The use of curvilinear street pattern is generally confined
to the relatively smaller areas contained within the one to
one half mile spaced framework of a larger grid.
It is readily adjusted to the topography of an area,
minimizing grading and facilitating good drainage.
It is considered by some to be aesthetically pleasing,
providing good architectural settings particularly for
residential buildings
It prevents the shift of through traffic from arterials onto
collector and land access streets

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Curvilinear Pattern:

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 Circumferential and Radial Pattern:
Generally applicable only at area-wide
scale.
Some times used in larger urbanized areas in
the form of ring roads and radial arterials

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 Focal point and Redial Pattern:
Generally applicable only at an area-wide scale.
The patterns was introduced as the basis for Christopher
Wrens plan to rebuild London and for Pierre LEnfant;s
plan for development of Washington DC
The principal advantage of this pattern include directness
of movement and impotantly the provision of good
settings for monuments and impressive buildings

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Focal point and Redial Pattern

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Focal point and Redial Pattern

Focal point

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 Organic pattern:

This pattern evolves naturally, as cities develop

over time (Medieval European Cities)
This pattern is marked by segmented,
discontinuous, varying width streets with
frequently intervening, irregular-shaped open
spaces.

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Organic pattern

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 The grouping of highways by then
character of service they provide.

Motorway or Freeways: A divided

highway with full control of access and
two or more lanes for the exclusive use of
traffic in each direction.

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 Highways or Arterials: A street primarily
meant for through traffic with fully or
partially controlled access.
Collector streets: A street for collecting and
distributing traffic to and from local streets.
Local streets: A local street is the one which
is primarily intended for access to
residence, business or abutting property

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 Current thinking on street pattern design appears
to be divided between concern for the efficiencies
of infrastructure and traffic, and a consideration for
aesthetics.
Conventional suburban street layout evolved from
plans of early cities and suburbs.
These plans were shaped by the mode of
transportation of the day, the current models of
city planning and the recent explosion of city
growth.

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 City Planning for Civil Engineers, Environmental Aengineers
and Surveyors- by Kurt W. Baur
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_plan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_hierarchy
www.procedural.com:9099/help/topic/com...help/.../gro
wingsn.html
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/18538/1/18538.pdf

oldurbanist.blogspot.com/2011/09/coding-
emergence.html
www.urbanform.org/online_unlimited/um199901_28-41.pdf

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THANKS

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