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(Ap) Planning 3: Introduction To Urban and Regional Planning

Urban planning concepts aim to improve quality of life through comprehensive master plans addressing land use, environment, infrastructure, and public welfare. Early concepts like Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities and Le Corbusier's City of Tomorrow proposed suburban communities balancing urban and rural living. Frank Lloyd Wright's Broad Acre City distributed land evenly among families. Constantinos Doxiadis's Ekistics emphasized optimizing human contact and environmental balance at all settlement scales. Kevin Lynch's psychogeography captured the subjective urban experience through citizen maps. Overall, planning works best when involving the public, committed to implementation, and considering social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors holistically.

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(Ap) Planning 3: Introduction To Urban and Regional Planning

Urban planning concepts aim to improve quality of life through comprehensive master plans addressing land use, environment, infrastructure, and public welfare. Early concepts like Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities and Le Corbusier's City of Tomorrow proposed suburban communities balancing urban and rural living. Frank Lloyd Wright's Broad Acre City distributed land evenly among families. Constantinos Doxiadis's Ekistics emphasized optimizing human contact and environmental balance at all settlement scales. Kevin Lynch's psychogeography captured the subjective urban experience through citizen maps. Overall, planning works best when involving the public, committed to implementation, and considering social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors holistically.

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(AP) PLANNING 3

INTRODUCTION to URBAN and REGIONAL PLANNING

URBAN PLANNING CONCEPT

URBAN PLANNING CONCEPT


Urban Planning Concept
Is a planning concept with a technical and political process
concerned with the use of land, protection and use of the
environment, public welfare, and the design of the urban
environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing
into and out of urban areas such as transportation,
communications, and distribution networks. It is also referred to
asurban and regional,regional,town, city,rural
planningor some combination in various areas worldwide.
Urban planning takes many forms and it can share perspectives
and practices withurban design.

The concept of urban planning vary depending on the context,


experience and practice of urban planning in particular places and
time. Urban planning was conceived as an activity that produced
comprehensive master plans, design of neighborhoods, garden cities
and utopian ideals for cities. Later on as urban planning profession
developed and with the influence of social scientific methodology. the
focus of urban planning shifted from a prominently physical design
exercise to the rational Planning activities include the preparation of
development plans and the conducting of planning studies that can be
used as guides for planning decisions. The preparation of development
plans involves not only urban planners but also other various agencies
and the public. The decision to adopt a particular plan and approval of
development proposal is made by the state or local authority
concerned. Development control is one of the important mechanisms
in planning to ensure that the proposed urban development complies
with planning guides.

GOALS OF URBAN PLANNING

REDUCE POVERTY AND IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE MOST PEOPLE.
DISTRIBUTE BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT FAIRLY.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
CULTURAL AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION
PROVIDE A PREDICTABLE PROCESS FOR DECISION MAKING THAT IS INFORMED BY
THESE GOALS.

VARIOUS URBAN PLANNING


CONCEPT

THE GARDEN CITY CONCEPT


BY EBENZER HOWARD

This diagram was published in Howards 1903 treatise


Garden Cities of To-Morrow.Howard wanted to design an alternative to
the overcrowded and polluted industrial cities of the turn of the century,
and his solution centered on creating smaller garden cities (with 32,000
people each) in the country linked by canals and transit and set in a
permanent greenbelt. His scheme included vast open space, with the aim
of giving urban slum-dwellers the best of both city and country living. He
captioned the above diagram A Group of smokeless, Slumless Cities.

The GARDEN CITY


CONCEPT

CITY OF TOMMOROW
BY LE CORBUSIER

He believe that people to live in suburbs rather than in city.


Thus he concluded that the center should be for commerce,
commercial and surrounded by 2 belts of residential areas. His
concept suggested that the center of a great city should consist
mainly of skyscrapers exclusively for commercial use and
occupied by these. The surrounding of center should be belt of
residential buildings, in the form of those zigzag blocks with
setbacks.

CITY OF TOMMOROW
CONCEPT

BROAD ACRE CITY CONCEPT


by Frank Lloyd Wright

Urban, Suburban development concept. It was both a


planning statement and a socio-political scheme. Each
family would be given 1 acre(4000sqm)of plot of land. Frank
Lloyd Wright took the geometry of this rural grid even
further in his vision for a utopia with each family living on an
acre of its own. That level of density would have essentially
spread suburban over the entire country.

BROAD ACRE CITY CONCEPT

THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN SETTLEMENT


BY CONSTANTINOS A. DOXIADIS

The concept termed as EKISTICS, meaning a science of human settlement.


This includes regional, city, community and dwelling designs. Ekistics aims to
encompass all scales of human habitation and seek to learn from historic
records, as much as possible, at the total settlement pattern.
The key principles are:
OPTIMIZATION OF POTENTIAL CONTACTS
MINIMIZED EFFORTS TO MAKE CONTACTS
TRY TO MAKE THINGS EASY & EASY ACCESIBILITY

WASTE BALANCE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT


SYNTHESIS OF ALL PRINCIPLES

THE CONCEPT OF
HUMAN

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY
by Kevin Lynch

Situationist artists and architectsfrom the 1950s sought to


capture the city as it was experienced by actual people, not as
it was designed from the top down by architects and planners
(at the time, they were revolting against modernist urban
renewal plans). Their approach helped give way to a new
emphasis in planning on bottom-up citizen experience and
input. The above 1961 map from MITs Kevin Lynch resulted
from a project asking people to map the city of Boston from
memory, revealing essentially the most memorable parts of
the city. Maps today built fromFourSquare checkins,
Twitter trafficorbikeshare usagestem from this same
tradition.

THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY

CONCLUSION

URBAN CONCEPTUAL PLANNING SHOULD INVOLVED


PEOPLE IN THE PROCESS TO BE MORE
COMPREHENSIVE.
PLANS ARE USELESS WITHOUT A COMMITMENT TO
LAW AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN.
PLANNING SHOULD BE COMPREHENSIVE INCLUDE,
SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENT, CULTURAL, AND
SPATIAL HARMONY.

END OF PRESENTATION

THANK YOU

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