Color_UrbanPlanning

Urban Planning and Color

I guess that color is very important in the whole world. First of all, the color can provide very meanings to things and also to all that we make.

Particularly, in urban planning the color can have many uses: as a tool, as an element of design and also as a very important part of the process of planning. Remember that urban planning is not only design is mainly planning and public policy.

Then we will see several examples of the use of color in urban planning.

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1. Colorful Cities:

//Guayaquil, Ecuador//

There are so many cultures, which the color is a important element to represent tradition. Particularly, in Latin America is very common to see the color in almost everything. In this picture we can see a colorful city, which is located in Ecuador. The color on the facades shows that color is fundamental in urban design. With very strong colors, the facades represent the joy of this culture; we also can see things like this in our country. A very meaningful example, that all we know is El Hatillo. In El Hatillo we can see the color present in all buildings. media type="file" key="color1picture1.wav"

2. Color in landscaping and urban design:



//Landscaping//

In this case, we can see that the color have been used as a tool to represent the reality in a landscape map. I mean to the client can really understand what we are designing we need to use the real colors in the map and in this way they can see what is vegetation and what is not. media type="file" key="color2picture2.wav"

3. Color as a Tool in planning



Now we can see a picture which contains technical information about Baruta-Piedra Azul. This has been toke of a Special Plan and it represents the uses of the land and the buildings. We also can see how color can be used as a tool to represent technical information that contributes with the process of planning.

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**In the following link you can read more about color and urban design.** []