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This document discusses urban forms and their impact on sustainability. It describes three main urban forms: the radiocentric city, grid iron city, and linear city. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each. Next, it discusses how urban forms impact sustainable development in the Philippines by placing stress on natural resources and exacerbating issues like poverty. Finally, it provides context on Manila's urban form, noting its large population size and trends of suburbanization that have decreased population density in the city center over time.

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Planning 3-Assignment 3

This document discusses urban forms and their impact on sustainability. It describes three main urban forms: the radiocentric city, grid iron city, and linear city. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each. Next, it discusses how urban forms impact sustainable development in the Philippines by placing stress on natural resources and exacerbating issues like poverty. Finally, it provides context on Manila's urban form, noting its large population size and trends of suburbanization that have decreased population density in the city center over time.

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Far Eastern University

Institute of Architecture and Fine Arts


SY. 2019-2020

Planning 3: Assignment #3

Urban Forms
And its
Impact to Sustainability

Submitted by: Raynier I. Ligaya


Submitted to: Ar. Jeoffrey Cardenal
Urban Forms
Urban Forms. It is the arrangement or the layout of the larger functional parts of the city that
reflects the historical development of the city and its more recent planning history. It is also
defined as spatial patterning of the city such as commercial, residential, industrial, agricultural
land use. It also refers to the size, shape and configuration of an urban area that includes its parts.
There are characteristics of the urban form range from at the local scale into a broader scale. The
concept of urban form encloses the non-physical aspect such as density.
The factors that affects the Urban Forms are the geography, length of the development, impact to
natural environment, trade practice and economic, political, and social forces.
Radiocentric City
It is a form that radiates outward from a common center. It has an advantages such as:
 A direct line of travel for centrally
directed flows.
 Economics of a single-centralized
terminal or origin point.
It also has disadvantages such as:
 Central Congestions
 Local flow problems
 Difficult building sites.

The Grid Iron City


The Grid Iron City, it is a form that is characterized with straight streets that is crossing at the
right angle to create many regular blocks. It is a typical form of cities that are built after the
industrial revolution. During the industrial revolution, cities place such significance on economic
activity. Grid Iron City, it facilitates the flow of people and products throughout the city.
Advantages
 High accessibility
 Minimum Disruption of flow
 Expansion flexibility
 Proper psychological orientation.
Disadvantages
 It requires flow hierarchies it is limited adaptability to the terrain.
The Linear City
It a form that is proposed by Soria Y Mata. It expands the city along the spine transport.
Conscious Form of Urban Development with Housing and Industry along the highway between
the existing sites and contained by the continuous open space of rural countryside is the basis of
its concept.
Advantages
 High Accessibility
 Adaptability to linear
growth
 Useful to the limited edge
Disadvantages
 It is very sensitive to
blockage because it
requires control of
growth.
 It has less focus.
 The direction of flow are
much less than the other
forms.
Impact of Urban Forms to Sustainable Development.
Because of the expanding populace of the Philippines, there are reasonable advancements that
ought to be followed so individuals of the nation would endure less. In a nation where neediness,
defilement, joblessness, and such issues exist, its kin ought to improve in having maintainable
advancements like in lodging, wellbeing, and training emergency. Likewise, since individuals
ache for to make due from destitution our regular assets keep on diminishing in amount because
of flames, contamination, and human impacts. Loss of biodiversity has come about human
exercises, for example, deforestation and contamination. Perils created by society that sabotage
the built up security arrangement of the state's current hazard. Considering everything having an
economical improvement in the Philippines, it would be a test since it requires everybody's
interest. It would be a promise to all the individuals living in the Philippines, and everybody
should look for far reaching appraisals of social, financial, and ecological turn of events.
Environmental Impacts of Urban Forms
Cities have numerous diverse impacts on the environment. Moreover, diverse sorts of cities will
have diverse natural impacts. Here we consider a few major donors. As you studied almost these
supporters, think almost how they may well be interconnected with one another.
Philippines and its Urban Form
The Manila urban zone positions as the world's fifth biggest urban range (region of ceaseless
urban improvement) with a populace of around 21,000,000 covering a arrive zone of 1,425
square kilometers. The urban populace thickness sits at around 38,000 individuals per square
mile (14,500 per square kilometer).
Like about all major urban regions of the world, Manila has experienced significant
suburbanization over later decades and considerably falling urban populace densities. In 1950,
the center district of Manila had a populace of beneath 1 million individuals, and it spoken to
roughly 60 percent of the urban region populace. Over the mediating a long time, the center of
Manila developed by around 700,000 individuals, whereas the adjust of the urban range included
about 20,000,000 individuals.
Reference/s:
https://www.newgeography.com/content/002198-the-evolving-urban-form-manila

https://www.slideshare.net/vjspa/city-forms

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog30/node/370

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