view on the public realm (space and place) | community life over public life (normalised without external ‘outside’ influence) | spaces with multiple characters, surrounded by transformative urbanism and architecture of the highest-order | understanding of cities as parts of spatial structure with their anchored dimension through sequence of places |
static and dynamic processes in space | community familiarity and shared values in dense traditional urban form and composition | continual transformations and mutations for globalised and nomadic processes and habitations with mixed cultures | contemporary urban design and architecture with contextualised understanding of historical precedents but also of modernity |
spatial and social dimensions | 3rd places, civic values, and mixed use and composition especially in the neighbourhoods | digital and media places and multiple levels of contact through iconic buildings | prescribed places of gathering, transport links and programed compositions on the urban scale |
market forces and real estate development | human scale oriented urban and suburban neighbourhoods with civic anchor centres, market demand driven | city branding, place marketing, decontextualised objects with highest real estate order & market driven | high density, compact city development, programmatic forms and compositions, city branding on large scale market driven |
role and character of civic spaces | dense and urban places with traditional places and images | places of expressions with flowing spaces and urban equivocalness | private use and public use – clear distinction with modern images |
dominant elements of urbanism | neighbourhoods given more weight than the public realm | weight given to architecture and spaces in between | equal weight to all the elements of urbanism in the composition |