ASSIGNMENT: C DATE: DECEMBER 2020

TOPIC: ADDRESSING SOCIAL DISLOCATION ON STREETS BY

ENVIRONMENTAL UPGRADING
DUE DATE: 1st FEBRUARY, 2021. Please include your name and student number in your
report.

The Student’s firm has been assigned the following motivational planning tasks by the
Municipality. A report is to be drafted that will persuade the Municipality to proceed to the next
stage of engineering designs and putting the work out on tender. Layout plans are expected.

Each firm (student) has been assigned a different neighbourhood (same as for Assignment B) and
different land-use.

Please ensure you understand the locational requirements being tested in Part 2 before undertaking the
planning for Part 1.

PART 1: ROUTING

When townships are established and serviced, the needs of people on foot are too often
neglected. Inadequate or no provision is made for attractive, safe and convenient pedestrian
routes, facilities for public use, places for relaxation, shade, and recreational areas. In many
suburbs people are deterred from walking because of the lack of attractive features. A level of
social dislocation (social distancing) results.

In other suburbs, people must walk for lack of personal transport, but there is no provision to
make the walk pleasant for the pedestrian. The focus here is on all the publicly owned land
whether streets, or open spaces (parks). In particular there may be existing or possible new
routes that pedestrians may or do use from place of residence to important non-residential nodes
such as shops, bus stops, taxi ranks, parks, churches, etc. Something must be proposed to
upgrade these routes (the network) and spaces into attractive environmentally inviting places.
Take the trouble to walk around the Post Street Mall in Windhoek or some similar place
elsewhere, (Provide Proof that You did this using Photographs) or even a large shopping centre
and think about what makes this walk pleasurable, what makes this area special. Identify these
features. What makes for a safer and attractive pedestrian space? You need to decide what of
these aspects can be introduced by a local authority. First hand observation is best and should be
noted, but more ideas can be obtained from the internet. Read up on the lecture notes for
planning town centres, open spaces and transport as starting guides.

You are tasked with making proposals on the improvement of the living quality of a specified
neighbourhood. You are to design something that would be SPECIAL not just mundane.
Address the issue of social dislocation. Motivate your choice of street. A SWOT analysis
should be undertaken. Identify the nodes as well as the network. A spatial plan with supporting
photographs is required. Students who fail to produce a plan of their route with all the suggested
items along it will fail this assignment. Please provide measurements even if only approximate.
Do not say this is too wide or this is too narrow without stating how wide or how narrow. Be
visionary. Search for ideas and pictures on the internet. Explain what design standards you
recommend. Describe safe pedestrian street crossings, etc. Analyse the data collected; consider
alternative options and motivate your eventual recommendations.
Your recommendations should include, inter alia, identifying, describing and recommending
improvements to a pedestrian network of say 300 to 600 metres in length that could significantly
improve conditions for pedestrians in the suburb with which you are dealing. Your motivation is
important; this is a planning exercise not an engineering design.

Besides the Municipality itself, you should also think of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood as
being clients; they will be the recipients of any final upgrade. Ask whether they have any views
that you could incorporate into your design? How will the improvements you submit change the
environment and affect life-styles? Consider the cost implications and evaluate whether the
benefits are worth the likely expenditure and what might be too costly to either construct or
maintain.

You may include cycle routes but only if you think they will be useful.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that the more sidewalks you recommend the better since then
there is no need to specially motivate a particular route. Yes, all streets should have surfaced
sidewalks, but that is not your assignment.

PART 2: LOCATING ACTIVITIES

Each student has been assigned a particular land-use. The student must place this assigned land-
use on one of the erven within the assigned neighbourhood on the pedestrian route.
Additionally, the student must choose any one other land-use in the list and also assign it to an
erf within the neighbourhood on the pedestrian route. The student is welcome to add other non-
residential but supportive land-uses to the lie along the route but they should be limited to no
more than three more. All allocations and the zoning changes must be identified and motivated.

Each land-use may be assigned to one or two adjacent erven. Existing buildings may be
converted to the proposed new usage preferably or be demolished. Students must motivate
convincingly why they would choose to demolish an existing valuable building.

The land-use assignments must be motivated. Explain the town planning zone changes required
and what town planning zone or consent-use you recommend. Make use of the Windhoek Town
Planning Scheme. Remember scale of operation is important and can be controlled by proper
use of the Scheme. Do not overlook the obvious. If you refer to something make sure the
references like erf numbers, river crossings and street names are visible on your plans. Don’t
overlook necessities like north points and scales.

AWARDS

Marks will be awarded based on the following criteria:

• Identify the unique features of the assigned neighbourhood and its people; what
opportunities exist and what are the limitations and threats.
• Motivate of the value of an upgraded pedestrian route to that neighbourhood.
 • Discuss what alternatives were considered and why one was chosen.
• Choose features, facilities and amenities with a explanation of why they are appropriate
to the neighbourhood.
• Convincingly demonstrate that proposed facilities and upgrade will improve the
environment and attract pedestrians to its use.
• Motivate and propose feasible land-use allocations.
• Make correct interpretation of the Town Planning Scheme.
• Integrate the chosen land-uses into the pedestrian route and its facilities.
• Ensure there is a logical development of the report to reach its conclusions.
• Show effort and imagination.

The following will be penalised:

• Lists of poorly motivated items which add expense without commensurate benefits will
be penalised.
• Inadequate plans.
• An excess of theory taken from the internet or other sources.
• Generalisations such as “what-we-all-should-do” type phrases or “how-happy-we-will-
all-be-if-we-do-more-of-this”.

Marks to be awarded = 25 (represents 25% of final marks)

STUDENT LAND-USE SUBURB

0. AMADHILA Bicycle sales Auasblick South of H. Ndadi Street
1. AMUTENYA Photographer Cimbebasia East of Ondangaura St
2. AMWAALANGA Post Office Cimbebasia West of Ondangaura St
3. ASHIYANA Grocery store Wanaheda
4. BROCKMANN Butcher Rocky Crest
5. DE KLERK Plumbers Elisenheim
6. DE KOKER Dressmaker Goreangab
7. EMBULA Town planners Pionierspark Ext. 1
8. Garden Otjomuise North East of Bonn St
GARISEB maintenance
9. GOWASES Micro-brewery Otjomuise South West of Bonn St
10. HAIMBILI Optometrist Avis
11. Camping Kleine Kuppe East of Bandon St
HAINDONGO equipment
12. HAMUKWAYA Clothing repairs Kleine Kuppe West of Bandon St
13. Khomasdal South of Moses Garoeb and
HANGHOME Coffee shop West of Tarentaal St
14. Khomasdal South of Moses Garoeb and
ILOVU Tailor East of Tarentaal St
15. IMMANUEL Pharmacy Tauben Glen
16. IZAAKS Car hire Hochland Park East of H Witbooi St
17. KALULU Consulting Eros Park
rooms doctors
18. Khomasdal North of Florence
LANGENHOVEN Printers Nightingale St
19. Khomasdal South of Florence
Nightingale St and North of Moses
MAHELA Plant nursery Garoeb and East of Visarend St.
20. MAKANGA Khomasdal West of Visarend St
KANDJIMI Hardware store
21. Bed & Olympia South of Sean McBride St
MARTIN Breakfast
22. MATANDARE Eye clinic Olympia North of HW Ndadi St
23. Olympia between HW Ndadi St and Sean
MBAPHA Wine tasting McBride St
24. Conference Dorado Park West of H Witbooi St and
MUMBUU centre South of M Garoeb St.
25. MWAZI Attorneys Dorado Park East of H Witbooi St
26. NAKALE Photocopiers Dorado Park North of Moses Garoeb
27. NASHIMA Ladies fashions Academia Extension
28. NEKWAYA Baker Suiderhof South of LD Kabila St
29. Suiderhof between LD Kabila St and
NELUMBU T Dental surgery railway line.
30. NELUMBU U Film studio Windhoek West (of railway)
31. NEMBIYA Bank Windhoek North (west of railway)
32. NEUMANN Accountants Windhoek (Eros)
33. NUUYOMA Kitchen ware Windhoek Luxury Hill
34. NYANGARA Architects Pionierspark NE of Jordan St
35. Timber Pionierspark South of Jordan St and East
PETRUS suppliers of Hintrager St
36. Hardware Pionierspark South of Jordan St and West
RUFARO supplies of Hintrager St
37. RUKERO Printers Klein Windhoek North of Bowker St
38. Klein Windhoek South of Bowker St and
SHIMBALI Private school North of Hebenstreit St
39. Mouth Klein Windhoek East of Hebenstreit St
SHINDAMBI hygienist
40. Clothing Katutura South of Independence Ave
SHINDUME manufacturer
41. Katutura North of Independence Ave and
SIMON Nursery school West of Clemence Kapuuo St
42. Katutura North of Independence Ave and
Engineering
SISASENKOSI East of Clemence Kapuuo St
43. STRAUSS Legal Aid Academia
44.
45.