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Darbo idėja kilo, stebint architektūrinio urbanistinio komplekso dešiniajame Neries krante plėtrą. Šis kompleksas yra realizuotas vadinamosios aštuntojo dešimtmečio „architektūrinių kalvų“ idėjos fragmentas. Nepaisant skeptiško ar net priešiško paveldosaugininkų požiūrio į šį kompleksą, akivaizdu, kad tai yra sėkminga didelio užmojo urbanistinės koncepcijos realizacija. Kita vertus, rezultatas seniai neatitinka pirminės idėjos, nes užima kelis kartus didesnį plotą miesto topografijoje, t.y. išsidėstęs abipus Konstitucijos prospekto, be to, realizuota iš principo kitokia aukštybinių akcentų sistema ir t.t. Vis aiškiau pradedamos identifikuoti miesto urbanistinių branduolių vizualinio dominavimo zonos užduoda klausimą, ar minėtieji branduoliai sudaro bendrą kompozicinę sistemą, ar jų plėtra paremta tik lokalios kompozicinės idėjos principais. Pagrindinis šio darbo tikslas – pateikti metodinius urbanistinės struktūros tobulinimo principus, įvertinus nagrinėjamos teritorijos erdvinės kompozicinės sistemos specifiką. Darbas yra tam tikro tyrimo rezultatas, kurio metu buvo įvertinti nagrinėjamos teritorijos urbanistinės struktūros pasikeitimai, nagrinėjamos teritorijos kompozicinė reikšmė miesto vizualiniam identitetui bei suformuota perspektyvinė teritorijos urbanistinės plėtros strategija. darbą sudaro: darbo pradžia, parengiamasis etapas, koncepcijos rengimo etapas, išvados, koncepcija, detalizacija, išvados. / The idea of an article emerged of an observation of architectural – urban complex developement in the right coast of river Neris. This complex is partly materialized 70’s idea of “architectural hills”. Despite of sceptical or even opponential heritage guard’s attitude about this complex, evident that it is successful realization of considerable dimension urban conception. On the other hand, the result contravene primary idea, because it takes considerably bigger area of cities topography, i.e. situated on both sides of Konstitucijos avenue, thuthermore, practical realized changed system of altitude accents, and so on. Distinctly identified visual zones of urban cores in the city raise a question if the mentioned cores organize common compositional system, or if it’s development is based only on local principles of compositional idea. The main aim of this article – suggest methodical development principles of urban structure, considered on territories spatial compositional systems particularity. An article is the result of certain research, in which were evaluated transformations of territories urban structure, compositional importance to visual identity of a city, and structurised perspective strategy of territories urban development. The article consists of: start, the preparatory phase, concept development phase, the findings, design, detailing, and conclusions.

Univ., Diss.--Freiburg, 2003.

Thesis (doctoral)-Universität, Tübingen, 2003. / Folded plate in pocket. Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-427; 691-692).

In the last few decades, new centers have emerged at the edges of traditional cities and pre-World War II suburbs. As these evolve, do they converge towards the urban forms of traditional cities? This question is explored based on a study of urban areas in the Atlanta Metropolitan Region. Atlanta Downtown, Decatur and Marietta, are compared to the new centers in Buckhead, Cumberland and Perimeter. The evolution of the street network of Buckhead is examined in detail. The morphological history of a particular urban block in Buckheadâ "the Tower Place blockâ "is documented. Morphological analysis, focusing on street patterns, block shapes and sizes, property boundaries and building footprints, is complemented by Space Syntax, focusing on the structure of street networks and connectivity. It is shown that new urban centers tend to grow on very large blocks accessed through major transportation infrastructure, but situated in otherwise sparse and fragmentary street environments. As these centers grow and as the density of land use increases, a secondary private road system is created, to take advantage of development potential and provide access to major building investments. The effective fragmentation of the large blocks suggests a pattern of metric convergence towards an optimum block size. In traditional cities, however, the street network is stable over time and acts as the framework for changes in architecture and land use. In the new centers, the secondary road system serves to access particular private investments without regard to the creation of a public framework of connections. From a syntactic point of view, the new centers are spatially unintelligible, thus substantially diverging from traditional cities, even as they accommodate dense mixed use developments. The thesis points to the need of developing and using subdivision regulations and zoning classifications in order to better regulate the spatial structure of new urban centers in the future.