Color_Urban_Planning

Colors in Urban Planning In urban planning, colors are very important, mostly on urban planes of uses, flows or services.  In these planes the colors are used to differentiate zones, areas, an activity of another, or anything that is being studied in the different projects. The colors are used depending on how we associate in everyday life, so that the spectator can distinguish all the aspect of an easier way (also always helped by a graph legend) Then let's see some examples:

This plane describes the urban flow of a city. Red color expresses the areas of circulation and motion. black indicates filled areas, residential and occupational use. Green for vegetation and white for the gaps of the city.



The next map is an aereal perspective made ​​in AutoCad which uses lines of different colors to explain the city generally. Red line represents the driveways, blue represent water sources while the rest show other uses.



The next plane is a project of building a stadium, where each use of the area is identified in the legend.



From the beginning of urban planning, colors were used in the form of organization of the city. Harris & Ullman, Ernest Burgues and Homer Hoyt explain their theories with colors:



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