Abstract:
The urban structure of Sri Lankan cities is more far behind considering the attractiveness,
safety, competitiveness and its characteristics. Urban Planning process has been in Sri Lanka
least contributes to spatial design of urban settlements. Existing planning process has been
based on the land use activity approach which lacking behind the urban design of the
settlement. Existing process. potential for a good urban structure merely ignored in the early
stages of analysis and totally loosing the expected spatial form elements in the proposed
plan. Hence. to be concern key component of urban form as well as to incorporated urban
planning process of Sri Lanka.
Previously. many researches had been done on urban planning and urban design but all
studies had been adopted in western context. Those design strategies have not
accommodated directly in Asian countries like Sri Lanka and have not addressed directly the
urban form of the Asian Countries. This study attempts to give due consideration to shape
these elements in to Sri Lankan situation in the context of geographical setting. culture.
attitudes. behavior pattern, climate etc.
Therefore, the study attempts to develop general strategies for the urban form of the Sri
Lanka. It is based on the key elements of urban form namely, enrich the existing, make
connections, work with landscape and mix use & form in order to insert and blend it into the
present planning process and develop a conceptual framework based on the selected above
urban form principles.
Accordingly, It has been identified the general strategies through developing attributes into
mechanism to implement the model concept.
Ultimately, the study aims to construct a conceptual framework based on the above
mentioned selected urban form principles. Part of Negombo Municipal Council was selected
to experiment the spatial applicability of the strategies and demonstrate it as the case study.
