This thesis reviews the role of environmental colour, that found on the large manmade surfaces of pavements, facades and roofs. In addition, it provides a conceptual framework for the planner 'to think through' urban colour, that is, to reflect fully upon as a basis for developing strategies and evaluating options. In the built environment, colour is an essential, ubiquitous, enjoyable, and, now, highly topical element. However, much of the available information is, to the planner, too specialized, complicated by unresolved debates or dated. Therefore, to clarify the subject concisely and creatively for the planner, this thesis reviews pertinent literature, with material mainly drawn from architecture, fine arts, geography, optics, psychology, and urban design. Examples of recent or renowned uses of environmental colour, primarily from the 'Western' world for reasons of similarity of culture and climate to Canada, supplement the literature review. As a result, this thesis reveals to the planner that environmental colour may be thought through in terms of 'Place' and 'Power' and that, far from playing one principal role, environmental colour has many precise parts. Each of the surfaces on which colour occurs offers different constraints and opportunities for colour use. At various scales of perception, different factors also influence such use. Colour's power is both spatial, to transform the appearance of our surroundings through changing light conditions, surface spectral qualities, angles of perception, and synaesthesia, and psychological, to influence our well-being, through arousal, pleasure, and control. With this 'Power in Place', colour's symbolic, aesthetic, and functional values modify its six main roles, Background, Meaningful, Timely, Ciruculatory, Illusory, and Pictorial, to produce the array of precise parts which range from 'Backdrop' to 'Advertizer'. To realize the importance of these parts, the planner promotes 'thought through' environmental colour through strategies of education, exemplification, encouragement and enforcement, and through the contributions of various professional roles. However, more research is still needed about colour's environmental potential and the public's preferences in order to develop clear colour policies, especially if, as Ellen Marx (1972) confidently predicts: La tâche de l'urbaniste futur sera sans doute d'approfondir les critères qualitatifs et quantitatifs de la couleur et de la lumière, en collaboration étroite avec des biologistes, des psychologues, et des socilogues qui auront défini les besoins fondamentaux de silence, de l'espace, d'information et de communication de l'être humain. (The task of the future urban planner will undoubtably be to deepen the qualitative and quantitative criteria of colour and light, in direct collaboration with biologists, psychologists, and sociologists who will have defined the fundamentals of silence, space, information, and communication needed to be human.) / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate

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Thesis (MArch(Prof)) -- University of Pretoria, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-80). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / Bibliography: leaves 41-42. / M.Arch.

Inaug.-Diss.--Cologne. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 210-212.

Original project of Skärholmen was composed of a system of public spaces, but this was `broken´  by the closure of the connection between the two squares in 1986. Street between shopping buildings became part of the shoping mall. The current situation is dominated by the activity of consumption, and Storholmsgatan is characterized by an atmosphere of anxiety and constant over-stimutation. The project aims to think through what form of ´restoration´ of this system of public spaces could take. How can we work with quite constrained, long, linear spaces as site for architecture? What is the role of rhythm in producing experience? A theme for design is to produce spacial hierarchy and make  a contemporary variation on modernism’s approach of the funcional color in design process.

Este estudo tem como objetivo entender o acontecimento cromático, desde a relação da cor com a luz, passando por fatores fisiológicos e cognitivos humanos, até a compreensão dos atributos que formam as cores, os contrastes e as sínteses cromáticas. Pretende-se, também, entender de que modo a utilização dos sistemas de notação cromática pode auxiliar na compreensão do cromatismo presente e como os métodos de leitura cromática, elaborados por Jean Philippe Lenclos e por Giovanni Brino, podem contribuir para o entendimento das cores existentes no local. Por fim, almeja-se compreender como os arquitetos podem se apropriar das cores de modo que sejam um instrumento eficiente na especificação cromática do projeto arquitetônico, definindo, de forma consciente e objetiva, um olhar inédito com relação ao colorido circundante. / This study aims to understand the chromatic occurrence, from the relationship of color with light, through human physiological and cognitive factors, to the understanding of the attributes that form colors, contrasts and chromatic syntheses. It also aims to comprehend how the use of chromatic notation systems can assist in understanding chromaticism and how the color reading methods developed by Jean Philippe Lenclos and Giovanni Brino can contribute in understanding existing colors on site. Finally, this study longs for studying how architects can use color as an efficient instrument in the chromatic specification of architectural design, setting, consciously and objectively, a unique look with a colorful surrounding.

Este estudo tem como objetivo entender o acontecimento cromático, desde a relação da cor com a luz, passando por fatores fisiológicos e cognitivos humanos, até a compreensão dos atributos que formam as cores, os contrastes e as sínteses cromáticas. Pretende-se, também, entender de que modo a utilização dos sistemas de notação cromática pode auxiliar na compreensão do cromatismo presente e como os métodos de leitura cromática, elaborados por Jean Philippe Lenclos e por Giovanni Brino, podem contribuir para o entendimento das cores existentes no local. Por fim, almeja-se compreender como os arquitetos podem se apropriar das cores de modo que sejam um instrumento eficiente na especificação cromática do projeto arquitetônico, definindo, de forma consciente e objetiva, um olhar inédito com relação ao colorido circundante. / This study aims to understand the chromatic occurrence, from the relationship of color with light, through human physiological and cognitive factors, to the understanding of the attributes that form colors, contrasts and chromatic syntheses. It also aims to comprehend how the use of chromatic notation systems can assist in understanding chromaticism and how the color reading methods developed by Jean Philippe Lenclos and Giovanni Brino can contribute in understanding existing colors on site. Finally, this study longs for studying how architects can use color as an efficient instrument in the chromatic specification of architectural design, setting, consciously and objectively, a unique look with a colorful surrounding.