Analysis of Visual Impacts in Compact City’s Form

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Nima Mouhebati ¹

1 - Ph.D.Candidate, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2012-04-11 Accepted : 2012-05-28 Published : 2012-07-01

Keywords: Urban form, Compact form, Visual impact, Physical form,

Abstract :

Desired physical form of cities has been noticeable since the beginning of urbanization, from old patternsof early civilizations to the latest urbanism’s theories, which offered to build better cities. The opinions in recent decades haveexpressed that compact physical form of cities is a better form than sprawl form to achieve urban sustainability. The form of thecity is the embodiment of its physical form so in compact and sprawly form of city, it will be created various visual effects forthe residents. In this paper, visual impacts of cities’ form, which it caused by compression of their forms, examined withutilizing method of content analysis of texts. For this purpose, review the comments, which presented in the form of city,proving that the more compression the city is desirable for its better form. Among these theories, we used the elements of“Lynch’s” theory for a better cognition of the city. Finally, this article shows the desirability of the compact physical form ofcities for achieving better cognition of its form.