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Living on the edge a study on the socio-physical formation of urban edges as an image-defining element of city form: with special reference to Colombo downtown

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dc.contributor.author Mahawatta, T
dc.contributor.editor Wijesundara, J
dc.contributor.editor Dayaratne, R
dc.date.accessioned 2024-09-03T03:56:05Z
dc.date.available 2024-09-03T03:56:05Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation Mahawatta, T. (2016). Living on the edge a study on the socio-physical formation of urban edges as an image-defining element of city form: with special reference to Colombo downtown. In J.Wijesundara, & R.Dayaratne (E.ds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016. (pp. 295-320) Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa
dc.identifier.isbn 2845-9530
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/22783
dc.description.abstract Cities are one of the most comprehensive representations of a society and its culture. Most urban built environments in the past have spontaneously responded to ever evolving socio-cultural values as well as political and functional needs of its population. A city is a combination of identified elements that play a crucial role in liveability. In a way, the individuals that come into contact with the city as the hometown or the destination of work or passers-by have attachments with those elements that shape the city character emerging the “image of the city”. With numerous examples from all corners of the globe, it is a general acceptance that the city’s liveability is directly related to its own city image. Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka has seen many changes throughout the last few decades as a common fact in all Asian and South East Asian countries face. With the introduction of the Post-Colonial Administrative structures on the one hand, and the open economy based financial cultures on the other hand, the city of Colombo is increasingly fragmented into socially, culturally and economically diverse sub-cities or functional districts. Under this notion this study looks at the subsequent formation of urban edges and the possible role of these edges could play in defining the city image to make the city liveable having the ultimate target of sustainable urbanization. The study is mainly bases on the Kevin Lynch’s study on the city image and its examines the Downtown of Colombo. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Architecture University of Moratuwa en_US
dc.subject Urban Edges en_US
dc.subject Liveability en_US
dc.subject City Image en_US
dc.subject Functional Districts en_US
dc.subject Colombo. en_US
dc.title Living on the edge a study on the socio-physical formation of urban edges as an image-defining element of city form: with special reference to Colombo downtown en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.year 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.conference Fourth International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 295-320 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.email harindumahawatta@hotmail.com; en_US
dc.identifier.email tharindumahawatta@hotmail.com; en_US


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