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Urban
Planning
What do urban planners do?
Determine the best uses of land and resources for homes, businesses, and recreation.
Urban planners design new communities and develop programs to revitalize and expand existing cities.
Relevance of presentation
Major aim of planning is to make society a better place to live and work especially for cities and towns, yet this is lacking in most cities, specially those in the developing world, URP can be an effective regulatory tool in balancing economic, social and environmental acpects arising from both local and global interests.
Evolution of Planning Theory & Practice
Planning with a geographical component, in which the general objective is to provide for a spatial structure of activities which in some way is better than the pattern that would exist without planning.
Shift in planning from detailed blue prints to include broader principles.
Overview of presentation
Towns and cities are the result of centuries of decision-making by individual owners and developers, and of government intervention. Whilst topography and geography do play a part, they do not absolutely determine development. The nature of towns and cities, to a considerable extent, is dependent on who shouts the loudest, and who has the greatest influence over policy
Introduce students to the practical aspects of planning.
Planning and its influence over policy.
Learning about new building concept.
Presentation outline
Introduction
Overview of presentation
Relevance of presentation
What do urban planners do?
What is Planning?
Introduction
Urban Planning is a process of guiding the use and development of the land with the aim of making the city a better place to live and work.
Cities, towns and other urban forms are therefore the sites for most of mankind’s activities. Yet in most cities and towns, land and access to basic resources and services are usually scarce and unevenly distributed.
What is Urban & Regional Planning?
Evolution of Planning Theory & Practice
Specially at the present time, as more than one-half of the world’s population now resides in urban places.
Evolution of Planning Theory & Practice
Traditional view of planning: the art and science of ordering land uses and seting buildings and communication routes so as to secure the maximum level of economy, convenience and beauty (Keeble, 1969 in Greed, 1996).
What is Planning?
Planning involves an attempt to (re)shape prevailing social and economic dynamics to achieve particular developmental ends.
Planning is ‘a general activity…the making of an orderly sequence of action that will lead to the achievement of a stated goal or goals’.
What is Urban & Regional Planning?
Yet may be interpreted as a highly political and economic process.
URP is simply a special case of general planning which incorporates a spatial component.
Understood as a rational, highly technical and systemic process of forethought set in motion by the need to resolve urban and regional problems.