The Urban Design of Old San Juan as a Response to Response to Functional Change: I. Introduction

Abstract

In the preface to his book Town Design, Frederick Gibberd describes the term that serves as a
the term that serves as the central theme for this publication as follows:
"Urban design encompasses architecture, landscaping, and street design, and these arts are so intertwined that they lose their identity. design, and these arts are so intertwined that they lose their individual identities and become individual identity to become something new, 'The Urban Scene'. It is with the creation of this scene that this book is primarily concerned with, and in particular with its visual qualities. The emphasis is on urban design as an art as an art; but as the appearance of the city arises from the work that it has to do the social, scientific and technical problems have been sufficiently examined to make the aesthetic ones intelligible".