ENP Licensure Examinations June 16-17, 2009, MLQU, Manila
Deadline for Application: May 27, 2009
Requirements:
Bring to PRC
Birth Certificate on NSO paper,
original Transcript of Records, or Certificate of Grades, and photocopy
original Diploma and photocopy,
Certificate of Employment,
Certificate of Planning Experience from a licensed ENP,
Certificate of Good Moral Character from licensed ENP,
four 2X2 pictures with white background,
long white window envelope,
fee of P800
The United Architects of the Philippines usually hold seminars/review for this examination held at the UAP headquarters. I am one of the lecturers for history of planning. Below link is my presentation.
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MODULE 4: Planning 3 History Part 3
PLANNING IN THE PHILIPPINES:
PRE-COLONIAL TIMES:
Like other cities in the world the earliest Filipino communities developed out of the need for their inhabitants to band together.
They were formed for security, or to be close to critical resources like food and water. Most of the earliest towns were by the coast for the fisherfolk or were where there was abundant agricultural land for the farmers.
The basic socio-political unit was the barangay, consisting of 30 to 100 families; decentralized; located along coast lines and riverbanks; agricultural and fishing villages
SPANISH COLONIAL TIMES:
Manila became capital
1573 – Laws of the Indies pronounced by King Philipp II – Spanish town planning influenced by the Romans and the Piazza planning of Italian Renaissance
1596 – spatial segregation along racial and social lines – Indios and Chinese have separate districts; Parian or market – spatial concentration of merchants and artisans to regulate the exchange of goods
1600s to 1700s – process of Hispanization through the founding of cabeceras (poblaciones) and visitas (barrios); natives living on the unplanned fringes of the neighborhood; debajo de las campanas
Laws of the Indies:
- In 1573, King Philip II proclaimed the Laws of the Indies that established uniform standards and planning procedures for colonial settlements.
- These laws provided guidelines for site selection, layout and dimensioning of streets and squares, the location of civic and religious buildings, open space, cultivation and pasturing lands, and even the main procedural phases of planning and construction.
The Plaza Complex:
- a result of several ordinances of the Laws of the Indies.
- The plaza is surrounded by important buildings such as the Catholic church, municipal hall, Marketplace and merchant’s stores, elementary school, the homes of the “principalia”, and other government buildings
Intramuros - the walled City of Manila
- 1.2 sq. KM in area; perimeter is 3.4 KM
- home of the Spanish (except for the friars & the high ranking officials)
- decentralization occurred and settlements were built in Malate, San Miguel, and Paco, among other areas
early 1600s – Manila became the first primate city in Southeast Asia.
1650 – chapels or small churches in the cabecera were built to attract tenacious natives from the barrios (hinterlands) through fiestas and processions
1790s – opening of the Manila- Acapulco galleon trade; emergence of semi-urban places in the provinces
1850s-late 1800s – Chinese dominated central commercial business districts in al settlements; commercial shops on the ground floors of centrally located houses; no more spatially segregated peripheral clusters of Chinese.; decentralized residential pattern for Spaniards
THE AMERICAN PERIOD:
1890s – other port cities continue to become regional urban centers; bridges were built along postal routes facilitating transport in Luzon.
1903 – City of Manila was incorporated covering Intramuros and 12 fast-growing suburban towns.
The American Agenda:
- guide urban growth and physical development
- put more emphasis on other values such as sanitation, housing, and aesthetic improvements.
1905 – Manila and Baguio Plans of Daniel Burnham introduced the City Beautiful western type of town planning.
Burnham’s Design for Manila:
- Designed with grand avenues & a strong central civic core
- Included a civic mall to house national buildings (only the Finance
&Agriculture buildings were built)
- Fronted Manila Bay like most Baroque plans fronted a large body of water
1910 – rebuilding of settlements complete with hygiene and sanitary facilities and drainage systems called sanitary barrios.
1920s - Barrio Obrero or the working class district evolved as government response to the needs of low-income labor families in urban areas.
1928 – zoning ordinance for Manila promulgated but took effect only in 1940; zoning became popular in America in the 1920s.
Manila as the First Chartered City:
- On July 31, 1903, by virtue of Act No. 183, the city of Manila was incorporated
- Manila encompassed Intramuros, and the towns of Binondo, Tondo, Sta. Cruz, Malate, Ermita, Paco, and Pandacan.
- The population then was 190,000 people
Growth of Manila:
The Arrabales
Quiapo- the illustrado territory; the enclave of the rich and powerful. Also the manifestation of folk religiosity.
Binondo- the trading port developed by the Chinese and Arabs
Sta. Cruz- the main commercial district with swirls of shops, movie houses, restaurants, etc.
San Nicolas- also a commercial town built by the Spanish with streets of “specialized” categories (i.e. ceramics, soap, etc.)
Sampaloc- centered on two churches (Our Lady of Loreto and Saint Anthony of Padua). Also known as the first “University Town”.
FURTHER SUBURBANIZATION:
After the war - RA 333 designated Quezon city as new Capital and master planning it by the Capital City Planning Commission.
In 1939, Commonwealth Act No. 457, authorized the transfer of the capitol to an area of 1572 hectares
A master plan of Quezon City was completed in 1941 by Architects Juan Arellano, Harry T. Frost, Louis Croft, and Eng. A.D. Williams
“City beautiful” plan reflected the aspirations of an emerging nation and the visions of a passionate leader
Constitution Hill:
- In 1946, a search committee was formed to find a new site
- a 158 ha area in the Novaliches watershed was selected and called Constitution Hill and National Government Center
- The three seats of government were to form a triangle at the center of the complex
- It included a 20 hectare civic Space referred to as the Plaza of the Republic
1950s - National Planning Commission (later on as NEDA) was established.
RA 2264 – local Autonomy Act of 1959 empowered LGUs to enact zoning ordinances and subdivision rules; all towns and cities required to form planning boards to craft development plans under the guidance of the NPC
1987 Constitution and Local Government Code of 1991 – devolved powers to LGUs; local autonomy; developments plans under the supervision of NEDA.
HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS:
Philippine Homesite and Housing Corporation
- Precursor of the National Housing Authority
- Built homes for the masses (“the projects”, i.e. proj.4, proj. 6, etc.)
Philamlife Homes
- icon of middle class suburbanization
- Master Plan designed by Architect and Planner, Carlos P. Arguelles, based on suburban developments in California with modifications
BLISS (bagong lipunan sites and services)
- Walk-up developments for government sector
PRE-COLONIAL TIMES:
Like other cities in the world the earliest Filipino communities developed out of the need for their inhabitants to band together.
They were formed for security, or to be close to critical resources like food and water. Most of the earliest towns were by the coast for the fisherfolk or were where there was abundant agricultural land for the farmers.
The basic socio-political unit was the barangay, consisting of 30 to 100 families; decentralized; located along coast lines and riverbanks; agricultural and fishing villages
SPANISH COLONIAL TIMES:
Manila became capital
1573 – Laws of the Indies pronounced by King Philipp II – Spanish town planning influenced by the Romans and the Piazza planning of Italian Renaissance
1596 – spatial segregation along racial and social lines – Indios and Chinese have separate districts; Parian or market – spatial concentration of merchants and artisans to regulate the exchange of goods
1600s to 1700s – process of Hispanization through the founding of cabeceras (poblaciones) and visitas (barrios); natives living on the unplanned fringes of the neighborhood; debajo de las campanas
Laws of the Indies:
- In 1573, King Philip II proclaimed the Laws of the Indies that established uniform standards and planning procedures for colonial settlements.
- These laws provided guidelines for site selection, layout and dimensioning of streets and squares, the location of civic and religious buildings, open space, cultivation and pasturing lands, and even the main procedural phases of planning and construction.
The Plaza Complex:
- a result of several ordinances of the Laws of the Indies.
- The plaza is surrounded by important buildings such as the Catholic church, municipal hall, Marketplace and merchant’s stores, elementary school, the homes of the “principalia”, and other government buildings
Intramuros - the walled City of Manila
- 1.2 sq. KM in area; perimeter is 3.4 KM
- home of the Spanish (except for the friars & the high ranking officials)
- decentralization occurred and settlements were built in Malate, San Miguel, and Paco, among other areas
early 1600s – Manila became the first primate city in Southeast Asia.
1650 – chapels or small churches in the cabecera were built to attract tenacious natives from the barrios (hinterlands) through fiestas and processions
1790s – opening of the Manila- Acapulco galleon trade; emergence of semi-urban places in the provinces
1850s-late 1800s – Chinese dominated central commercial business districts in al settlements; commercial shops on the ground floors of centrally located houses; no more spatially segregated peripheral clusters of Chinese.; decentralized residential pattern for Spaniards
THE AMERICAN PERIOD:
1890s – other port cities continue to become regional urban centers; bridges were built along postal routes facilitating transport in Luzon.
1903 – City of Manila was incorporated covering Intramuros and 12 fast-growing suburban towns.
The American Agenda:
- guide urban growth and physical development
- put more emphasis on other values such as sanitation, housing, and aesthetic improvements.
1905 – Manila and Baguio Plans of Daniel Burnham introduced the City Beautiful western type of town planning.
Burnham’s Design for Manila:
- Designed with grand avenues & a strong central civic core
- Included a civic mall to house national buildings (only the Finance
&Agriculture buildings were built)
- Fronted Manila Bay like most Baroque plans fronted a large body of water
1910 – rebuilding of settlements complete with hygiene and sanitary facilities and drainage systems called sanitary barrios.
1920s - Barrio Obrero or the working class district evolved as government response to the needs of low-income labor families in urban areas.
1928 – zoning ordinance for Manila promulgated but took effect only in 1940; zoning became popular in America in the 1920s.
Manila as the First Chartered City:
- On July 31, 1903, by virtue of Act No. 183, the city of Manila was incorporated
- Manila encompassed Intramuros, and the towns of Binondo, Tondo, Sta. Cruz, Malate, Ermita, Paco, and Pandacan.
- The population then was 190,000 people
Growth of Manila:
The Arrabales
Quiapo- the illustrado territory; the enclave of the rich and powerful. Also the manifestation of folk religiosity.
Binondo- the trading port developed by the Chinese and Arabs
Sta. Cruz- the main commercial district with swirls of shops, movie houses, restaurants, etc.
San Nicolas- also a commercial town built by the Spanish with streets of “specialized” categories (i.e. ceramics, soap, etc.)
Sampaloc- centered on two churches (Our Lady of Loreto and Saint Anthony of Padua). Also known as the first “University Town”.
FURTHER SUBURBANIZATION:
After the war - RA 333 designated Quezon city as new Capital and master planning it by the Capital City Planning Commission.
In 1939, Commonwealth Act No. 457, authorized the transfer of the capitol to an area of 1572 hectares
A master plan of Quezon City was completed in 1941 by Architects Juan Arellano, Harry T. Frost, Louis Croft, and Eng. A.D. Williams
“City beautiful” plan reflected the aspirations of an emerging nation and the visions of a passionate leader
Constitution Hill:
- In 1946, a search committee was formed to find a new site
- a 158 ha area in the Novaliches watershed was selected and called Constitution Hill and National Government Center
- The three seats of government were to form a triangle at the center of the complex
- It included a 20 hectare civic Space referred to as the Plaza of the Republic
1950s - National Planning Commission (later on as NEDA) was established.
RA 2264 – local Autonomy Act of 1959 empowered LGUs to enact zoning ordinances and subdivision rules; all towns and cities required to form planning boards to craft development plans under the guidance of the NPC
1987 Constitution and Local Government Code of 1991 – devolved powers to LGUs; local autonomy; developments plans under the supervision of NEDA.
HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS:
Philippine Homesite and Housing Corporation
- Precursor of the National Housing Authority
- Built homes for the masses (“the projects”, i.e. proj.4, proj. 6, etc.)
Philamlife Homes
- icon of middle class suburbanization
- Master Plan designed by Architect and Planner, Carlos P. Arguelles, based on suburban developments in California with modifications
BLISS (bagong lipunan sites and services)
- Walk-up developments for government sector
MODULE 4: Planning 3 History Part 2
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:
The “Owenite Communities”:
- New Harmony, Indiana, USA by Owens, Jr.
- Brook Farm, Massachusetts, by a group of
New England Planners
- Icarus, Red River, Texas, by Cabet
(eventually, Cabet joined the Mormons in laying out Salt-lake City, Utah)
- Bournville, outside Birmingham built by chocolate manufacturer George Cadbury
- Port Sunlight, in the Mersy built by William Lever
Tony Garnier, 1868-1948 (Une Cite Industrielle )
- like Howard’s garden city, was to be a self- contained new settlement with its own industries and housing close by.
- Locational features may have been a precursor to modern zoning
- Ideas and theories adopted by Dutch Architect JJP Oud in the design of
Rotterdam
THE CONSERVATIONISTS AND THE PARK MOVEMENT:
Frederick Law Olmstead - Believed that cities should be planned two generations ahead; maintain sufficient breathing space, be constantly renewed and that suburban design should embrace the whole city.
- Use of open space as element of urban system; despoilment of land through landscape system; urban park as an aid to social reform.
THE GARDEN CITY MOVEMENT:
Ebenezer Howard –
Author of “Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform”
- “Garden City of Tomorrow” – one of the most important books in the history of urban planning.
cluster with a mother town of 58,000 to 65,000 with smaller “garden cities” of 30,000 to 32,000 each with permanent green space separating the cities with the towns serving as horizontal fence of farmland; rails and roads would link the towns with industries and nearby towns supplying fresh food.
Idea of Howard:
• all of the industry was decentralized deliberately from the city or at least from its inner sectors.
• new town was built around the decentralized plant.
• Combining working and living in a healthy environment.
• the first garden cities.
Who influenced Howard?:
EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD had advocated the planned movement of population.
JAMES SICK BUCKINGHAM- developed the idea of a model city.
ALFRED MARSHALL- invented the idea of the new town as an answer to the problems of the city.
Howard advocated the concept of ‘Social City’ – polycentric settlement, growth without limit, surrounded by a greenbelt; town grows by cellular addition into a complex multi-centered agglomeration of towns set against a green background of open country.
The 3 magnets in his paradigm depicted both the city and the countryside had a indisoluble mixture of advantages and disadvantages – the city has the opportunities offered through jobs and urban services of all kinds, which resulted in poor natural environment; the countryside offered an excellent natural environment but virtually no opportunities of any kind
Garden City combined the advantages of the town by way of access and all the advantages of the country by way of the environment without any of the disadvantages of either. Achieved by planned decentralization of workers and their places of employment thus transferring the advantages of urban agglomeration en bloc to the new settlement.
The Garden City Association
• established by Howard in 1899
Letchworth:
first Garden City designed by Raymond Unwin & Barry Parker in 1902
- Consisted of 4,500 acres (3000 for agriculture, 1500 for city proper)
Welwyn, 1920 (by Louis de Soisson) - brought formality and Georgian taste
Followers of Howard:
SIR FREDERICK OSBORNE
RAYMUND UNWIN
BARRY PARKER
- Hampstead Garden Suburbs opened in 1907
meant only for housing but with a variety of housing types lined along streets with terminating axes on civic buildings in a
large common green
- Wythenshawe - called the 3rd garden city meant only for housing but with a variety of housing types lined along streets with terminating axes on civic buildings in a large common green
Modifications on Howard’s principles:
- Background of open space instead of greenbelts (adaptation of inter-urban railway)
- Dividing the town into clearly articulated neighborhood units
Ernst May
Germany city planner and architect
Ernst May (1886-1970), developed a series of satellite towns (Trabantenstadte) on open land outside the built-up limits, and separated from the city proper by a green belt.
May combined uncompromising use of the then new functional style of architecture with a free use of low-ride apartment blocks, all set in a park landscape.
May's "brigade" of German architects and planners established twenty cities in three years, including Magnitogorsk
successfully applied urban design techniques to the city of Frankfurt, "one of the most remarkable city planning experiments in the twentieth century".
THE CITY BEAUTIFUL ERA (1900 to 1945)
Daniel Burnham – Father of American City Planning
spearheaded the movement with his design for Chicago and his famous words: “make no little plans…”
- Influenced by the world fairs of the late 19th century, like the 1891Columbian Exposition in Chicago
- Emphasis was on grand formal designs, with wide boulevards, civic spaces, arts, etc.
- Also credited for the designs of San Francisco and Cleveland
Golden era of urban design in the US; according to Burnham, city was totally designed system of main circulation arteries., a network of parks and clusters or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers incl. City hall, a country court house, a library, an opera house, a museum, and a plaza
Total concentration on the monumental and on the superficial, on architecture as symbols of power, and an almost complete lack of interest on the wider social purposes of planning. Planning was intended to impress or for display.
Daniel Burnham wrote “Chicago Plan” but was heavily criticized & referred to as centro-centrist; based on business core with no conscious provision for business expansion in the rest of the city; planned as an aristocratic city for merchant princess; not in accord with the realities of downtown real estate development which demanded overbuilding and congestion; utopian
- castigated by Lewis Mumford as cosmetic, comparing Burnham’s approach with planning practiced in totalitarian regimes; approach ignored housing, schools & sanitation. According to Abercrombie, beauty stood supreme for Burnham, commercial convenience was significant but health and sanitation concerns were almost nowhere. Burnham’s plan devoted scant attention to zoning.
Baron George Eugene Hausmann- worked on the reconstruction of Paris- linear connection between the Place de Concord, Arc de Triomph, Eiffel Tower and others
THE URBAN THEORIST:
Constantine Doxiadis - Addressed problem of urbanization on a worldwide scale and his major designs have been made for countries where the economy and productive system can be coordinated by policy and decree such as the new developing countries of Africa and the MiddleEast.
Published his “Ekistics Grid” a system for recording planning data and ordering the planning process.
Approaches town planning as a science which includes planning and design as well as contributions from the sociologist, geographer, economist, demographer, politician, social anthropologist, ecologist, etc. all these he assembles into a total rational and human approach which he calls “Ekistics” – the science of human settlements.
THE NEW COMMUNITIES MOVEMENT (EARLY 1920s):
Clarence Stein, Lewis Mumford, Frederick Lee Ackerman –
- Piecemeal development of residential communities on endless gridiron tracts was wasteful & unnecessary; practice of laying out block pattern streets prevented clustered community design & the interspersal of open and built-up spaces.
- One of the aims of the group was the creation of neighborhood centers and the physical delineation of neighborhood groups
Christopher Alexander –
“a city is not a tree” - suggested that sociologically, different people had varied needs for local services & the privilege* of choice was paramount.
Alker Tripp –
- assistant commissioner of police at London’s Scotland Yard.
- published a book called TOWN PLANNING & TRAFFIC.
- idea that after the war, cities should be reconstructed in the basis of PRECINTS.
- hierarchy of roads in which main arterial or sub arterial roads were sharply segregated from the local streets with only occasional access and also were free of direct frontage development.
- influenced Patrick Abercrombie and Forshaw (called for application of the PRECINTUAL PRINCIPLE to London.)
Clarence Stein - The Radburn Idea or “new town idea” was to create a series of superblocks (an island of greens, bordered by homes and carefully skirted by peripheral auto roads), each around open green spaces which are themselves interconnected. The greenways were the pedestrian ways.
The basic layout of the community introduced the ff:
- "super-block" concept
- cul-de-sac (cluster) grouping
- interior parklands
- and separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic to promote safety.
Every home was planned with access to park walks.
TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING OF BRITAIN:
The Neighborhood Unit
-book by Clarence Perry (1929)
-the embryo of NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT AREA- certain services which are provided everyday for groups of population who can’t or do not travel far, should be provided at an accessible central place for a small community w/in walking distance.
-defined as the physical environment wherein social, cultural, educational,
and commercial are within easy reach of each other
-he discussed the idea of organized towns into cohesive neighborhoods which was applicable not only to new towns but to large city areas.
- concerns self sustainability of smaller units
- Principle based on the natural catchment area of community facilities such as primary schools and local shops. the elementary school as the center of development, determines the size of the neighborhood
THE REGIONAL CITY:
Patrick Geddes - “Survey before plan”
- The answer to the sordid congestion of the giant city is a vast program of regional planning within which each sub-regional part would be harmoniously developed on the basis of its own natural resources with total respect for the principles of ecological balance and resource renewal. Cities in the scheme became subordinate to the region; old cities and new towns alike would grow just as necessary parts of the regional scheme.
- Planning must start with a survey of the resources of such a region and of human responses to it, and of the resulting complexities of the cultural landscape; emphasis on survey method.
- Wrote “Cities in Evolution” (1915); coined the term “conurbation” which meant conglomeration of town aggregates; describing the waves of population to large cities followed by overcrowding and slum formation, and the wave of backflow; the whole process resulting in amorphic sprawl, waste and unnecessary obsolescence; stressed social basis of the city – concerned with the relationship between people and cities and how they affect one another;
Stages in the creation of conurbation:
Inflow - build-up - backflow(central slums) - sprawling mass (central blight)
THE REGIONAL CITY:
Patrick Abercrombie
- most notable professional planner in Britain in the Anglo American period.
- most notable contribution to planning to a wider scale: the scale which region around it in a single planning exercise.
- did the Greater London Plan 1944
Lewis Mumford
- Geddes Follower
- wrote CULTURE OF CITIES, the Bible of regional planning movement
P.G.F. Le Play
-stressed the intimate and subtle relationship between human settlement and the land through the nature of local economy.
PLACE-WORK-FOLK
Le Play’s famous triad- was the fundamental study of men living and on their land; social-survey method of determining relationships of the family and worker to the environment.
MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING:
Charles-Eduoard Jeanneret - Popularly known as Le Corbusier.
- His most outstanding contribution as a thinker and writer was an urban planner on the grand scale.
- the most notable are his Unite’ d’ Habitation (1946-52) at Marseilles in France, a self-contained 'vertical city', with modular housing units for 1600 people, internal streets and community services.
In 1933, proposed “La Ville Radieuse (Radiant City)” anchored on objective to decongest the centers of our cities by increasing their densities by building high on small part of the total ground area. Accordingly, every great city must rebuild on centers
Le Corbusier also conceptualized Le Contemporaine, high-rise offices and residential buildings with a greenbelt for a population of 3,000,000 people
Last of the City Beautiful planners, he commented that it was hard to build a City Beautiful amidst the confusion of democracy and the market.
Chandigarh
Capital of Punjab province of India, and the only realized plan of Le Corbusier: criticized for shifting from a planning style to an architectural style, meaning a shift towards the preoccupation with visual form, symbolism, imagery, and aesthetics rather than the problems of the Indian population; plan was completely impervious to economic and human considerations.
- A regular grid of major roads for rapid transport surrounding residential superblocks or sections each based on the rectangle and measuring 800x1200 meters
- The whole plan represents a large scale application of the Radburn principle regularized by Le Corbusier’s predilection for the rectilinear and the monumental.
Two important books- The City of Tomorrow (1922) and The Radiant City;
small number of propositions:
- traditional city has become functionally obsolete, due to increasing size and increasing congestion at the centre. As the urban mass grew through concentric additions, more and more strain was placed on the communications of the innermost areas, above all the central business district, which had the greatest accessibility and where all business wanted to be.
- the paradox that the congestion could be cured by increasing the density. There was a key to this, of course: the density was to be increased at one scale of analysis, but decreased at another. Locally, there would be very high densities in the form of massive, tall structures; but around each of these a very high proportion of the available ground space- Corbusier advocated 95%- could and should be left open.
- concerned the distribution of densities within the city.
- argued that this new urban form could be accommodate a new and highly efficient urban transportation system, incorporating both rail lines and completely segregated elevated motorways, running above the ground level, though, of course, below the levels at which most people lived.
- he did teach planners in general the importance of scale in analysis.
- his insistence on the elementary truth that dense local concentrations of people helped support a viable, frequent mass-transportations system.
BRASILIA
- capital of Brazil and a completely new twentieth-century city, the biggest planning exercise of the 20th century
- designed by Lucio Costa with a lot of influence from Le Corbusier, his plans or schemes did not include a single population projection, economic analyses, land use schedule, model or mechanical drawing, yet it was awarded to him; plan did not attempt to resolve pedestrian-vehicle conflicts. Unplanned city grew up beside the planned one.
• with two huge axes in the sign of the cross, one for gov’t, commerce, and entertainment, the other for the residential component
• Oscar Niemeyer was among the architects employed to design the buildings
Frank Lloyd Wright
In the 1930s, he wrote the “The Disappearing City” and later “Broadacres” – proposing that every family live on an acre of land and where the city would be built by its inhabitants using mass-produced components; this met difficulties in land supply and logistics as the population increased.
“Broadacres”
- it was desirable to preserve the sort of codependent rural life of the homesteaders.
- that mass car would allow cities to spread widely into countryside.
- homes would be connected by super highways.
Easy and fast travel by car to any direction.
- he anticipated “out- of-town shopping center”
Problems with lack of land lead to his design of the Mile High Tower.
• Proposed to house a significant amount of Manhattan residents to free up space for Greenfields
• 10 or more of these could possibly replace all Manhattan buildings
URBAN RENEWAL:
Jane Jacobs - Wrote the “The Death and Life of the Great American Cities” – one of the most influential books in the history of city planning.
- She argued that there was nothing wrong with high urban densities of people so long as they did not entail overcrowding in buildings. She prescribed keeping the inner-city neighborhood more or less as it was before the planners had got their hands on it. It should have mixed functions and therefore land uses to ensure that people were there for different purposes, of different time schedules, but using many facilties in common. Dense concentrations of people and residents, mixed blocks of different age and conditions resulted in the “yuppification” of the city.
RADICAL IDEAS:
The Arcology Alternative - the 3D city by Paolo Soleri
Motopia - proposed by Edgar Chambless (Vehicular traffic will be along rooftops
of a continuous network of buildings, while the streets will be for pedestrian use only)
Science Cities - Proposed by the “metabolism group”; visionary urban designers that proposed underwater cities, “biological” cities, cities in pyramids, etc.
The Floating City - Kiyonori Kikutake
The Barbican City - a 63 acre area. mixed used development that was built in response to the pressures of the automobile. An early type of Planned Urban development that had all amenities in one compound with multi-level circulation patterns.
The “Owenite Communities”:
- New Harmony, Indiana, USA by Owens, Jr.
- Brook Farm, Massachusetts, by a group of
New England Planners
- Icarus, Red River, Texas, by Cabet
(eventually, Cabet joined the Mormons in laying out Salt-lake City, Utah)
- Bournville, outside Birmingham built by chocolate manufacturer George Cadbury
- Port Sunlight, in the Mersy built by William Lever
Tony Garnier, 1868-1948 (Une Cite Industrielle )
- like Howard’s garden city, was to be a self- contained new settlement with its own industries and housing close by.
- Locational features may have been a precursor to modern zoning
- Ideas and theories adopted by Dutch Architect JJP Oud in the design of
Rotterdam
THE CONSERVATIONISTS AND THE PARK MOVEMENT:
Frederick Law Olmstead - Believed that cities should be planned two generations ahead; maintain sufficient breathing space, be constantly renewed and that suburban design should embrace the whole city.
- Use of open space as element of urban system; despoilment of land through landscape system; urban park as an aid to social reform.
THE GARDEN CITY MOVEMENT:
Ebenezer Howard –
Author of “Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform”
- “Garden City of Tomorrow” – one of the most important books in the history of urban planning.
cluster with a mother town of 58,000 to 65,000 with smaller “garden cities” of 30,000 to 32,000 each with permanent green space separating the cities with the towns serving as horizontal fence of farmland; rails and roads would link the towns with industries and nearby towns supplying fresh food.
Idea of Howard:
• all of the industry was decentralized deliberately from the city or at least from its inner sectors.
• new town was built around the decentralized plant.
• Combining working and living in a healthy environment.
• the first garden cities.
Who influenced Howard?:
EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD had advocated the planned movement of population.
JAMES SICK BUCKINGHAM- developed the idea of a model city.
ALFRED MARSHALL- invented the idea of the new town as an answer to the problems of the city.
Howard advocated the concept of ‘Social City’ – polycentric settlement, growth without limit, surrounded by a greenbelt; town grows by cellular addition into a complex multi-centered agglomeration of towns set against a green background of open country.
The 3 magnets in his paradigm depicted both the city and the countryside had a indisoluble mixture of advantages and disadvantages – the city has the opportunities offered through jobs and urban services of all kinds, which resulted in poor natural environment; the countryside offered an excellent natural environment but virtually no opportunities of any kind
Garden City combined the advantages of the town by way of access and all the advantages of the country by way of the environment without any of the disadvantages of either. Achieved by planned decentralization of workers and their places of employment thus transferring the advantages of urban agglomeration en bloc to the new settlement.
The Garden City Association
• established by Howard in 1899
Letchworth:
first Garden City designed by Raymond Unwin & Barry Parker in 1902
- Consisted of 4,500 acres (3000 for agriculture, 1500 for city proper)
Welwyn, 1920 (by Louis de Soisson) - brought formality and Georgian taste
Followers of Howard:
SIR FREDERICK OSBORNE
RAYMUND UNWIN
BARRY PARKER
- Hampstead Garden Suburbs opened in 1907
meant only for housing but with a variety of housing types lined along streets with terminating axes on civic buildings in a
large common green
- Wythenshawe - called the 3rd garden city meant only for housing but with a variety of housing types lined along streets with terminating axes on civic buildings in a large common green
Modifications on Howard’s principles:
- Background of open space instead of greenbelts (adaptation of inter-urban railway)
- Dividing the town into clearly articulated neighborhood units
Ernst May
Germany city planner and architect
Ernst May (1886-1970), developed a series of satellite towns (Trabantenstadte) on open land outside the built-up limits, and separated from the city proper by a green belt.
May combined uncompromising use of the then new functional style of architecture with a free use of low-ride apartment blocks, all set in a park landscape.
May's "brigade" of German architects and planners established twenty cities in three years, including Magnitogorsk
successfully applied urban design techniques to the city of Frankfurt, "one of the most remarkable city planning experiments in the twentieth century".
THE CITY BEAUTIFUL ERA (1900 to 1945)
Daniel Burnham – Father of American City Planning
spearheaded the movement with his design for Chicago and his famous words: “make no little plans…”
- Influenced by the world fairs of the late 19th century, like the 1891Columbian Exposition in Chicago
- Emphasis was on grand formal designs, with wide boulevards, civic spaces, arts, etc.
- Also credited for the designs of San Francisco and Cleveland
Golden era of urban design in the US; according to Burnham, city was totally designed system of main circulation arteries., a network of parks and clusters or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers incl. City hall, a country court house, a library, an opera house, a museum, and a plaza
Total concentration on the monumental and on the superficial, on architecture as symbols of power, and an almost complete lack of interest on the wider social purposes of planning. Planning was intended to impress or for display.
Daniel Burnham wrote “Chicago Plan” but was heavily criticized & referred to as centro-centrist; based on business core with no conscious provision for business expansion in the rest of the city; planned as an aristocratic city for merchant princess; not in accord with the realities of downtown real estate development which demanded overbuilding and congestion; utopian
- castigated by Lewis Mumford as cosmetic, comparing Burnham’s approach with planning practiced in totalitarian regimes; approach ignored housing, schools & sanitation. According to Abercrombie, beauty stood supreme for Burnham, commercial convenience was significant but health and sanitation concerns were almost nowhere. Burnham’s plan devoted scant attention to zoning.
Baron George Eugene Hausmann- worked on the reconstruction of Paris- linear connection between the Place de Concord, Arc de Triomph, Eiffel Tower and others
THE URBAN THEORIST:
Constantine Doxiadis - Addressed problem of urbanization on a worldwide scale and his major designs have been made for countries where the economy and productive system can be coordinated by policy and decree such as the new developing countries of Africa and the MiddleEast.
Published his “Ekistics Grid” a system for recording planning data and ordering the planning process.
Approaches town planning as a science which includes planning and design as well as contributions from the sociologist, geographer, economist, demographer, politician, social anthropologist, ecologist, etc. all these he assembles into a total rational and human approach which he calls “Ekistics” – the science of human settlements.
THE NEW COMMUNITIES MOVEMENT (EARLY 1920s):
Clarence Stein, Lewis Mumford, Frederick Lee Ackerman –
- Piecemeal development of residential communities on endless gridiron tracts was wasteful & unnecessary; practice of laying out block pattern streets prevented clustered community design & the interspersal of open and built-up spaces.
- One of the aims of the group was the creation of neighborhood centers and the physical delineation of neighborhood groups
Christopher Alexander –
“a city is not a tree” - suggested that sociologically, different people had varied needs for local services & the privilege* of choice was paramount.
Alker Tripp –
- assistant commissioner of police at London’s Scotland Yard.
- published a book called TOWN PLANNING & TRAFFIC.
- idea that after the war, cities should be reconstructed in the basis of PRECINTS.
- hierarchy of roads in which main arterial or sub arterial roads were sharply segregated from the local streets with only occasional access and also were free of direct frontage development.
- influenced Patrick Abercrombie and Forshaw (called for application of the PRECINTUAL PRINCIPLE to London.)
Clarence Stein - The Radburn Idea or “new town idea” was to create a series of superblocks (an island of greens, bordered by homes and carefully skirted by peripheral auto roads), each around open green spaces which are themselves interconnected. The greenways were the pedestrian ways.
The basic layout of the community introduced the ff:
- "super-block" concept
- cul-de-sac (cluster) grouping
- interior parklands
- and separation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic to promote safety.
Every home was planned with access to park walks.
TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING OF BRITAIN:
The Neighborhood Unit
-book by Clarence Perry (1929)
-the embryo of NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT AREA- certain services which are provided everyday for groups of population who can’t or do not travel far, should be provided at an accessible central place for a small community w/in walking distance.
-defined as the physical environment wherein social, cultural, educational,
and commercial are within easy reach of each other
-he discussed the idea of organized towns into cohesive neighborhoods which was applicable not only to new towns but to large city areas.
- concerns self sustainability of smaller units
- Principle based on the natural catchment area of community facilities such as primary schools and local shops. the elementary school as the center of development, determines the size of the neighborhood
THE REGIONAL CITY:
Patrick Geddes - “Survey before plan”
- The answer to the sordid congestion of the giant city is a vast program of regional planning within which each sub-regional part would be harmoniously developed on the basis of its own natural resources with total respect for the principles of ecological balance and resource renewal. Cities in the scheme became subordinate to the region; old cities and new towns alike would grow just as necessary parts of the regional scheme.
- Planning must start with a survey of the resources of such a region and of human responses to it, and of the resulting complexities of the cultural landscape; emphasis on survey method.
- Wrote “Cities in Evolution” (1915); coined the term “conurbation” which meant conglomeration of town aggregates; describing the waves of population to large cities followed by overcrowding and slum formation, and the wave of backflow; the whole process resulting in amorphic sprawl, waste and unnecessary obsolescence; stressed social basis of the city – concerned with the relationship between people and cities and how they affect one another;
Stages in the creation of conurbation:
Inflow - build-up - backflow(central slums) - sprawling mass (central blight)
THE REGIONAL CITY:
Patrick Abercrombie
- most notable professional planner in Britain in the Anglo American period.
- most notable contribution to planning to a wider scale: the scale which region around it in a single planning exercise.
- did the Greater London Plan 1944
Lewis Mumford
- Geddes Follower
- wrote CULTURE OF CITIES, the Bible of regional planning movement
P.G.F. Le Play
-stressed the intimate and subtle relationship between human settlement and the land through the nature of local economy.
PLACE-WORK-FOLK
Le Play’s famous triad- was the fundamental study of men living and on their land; social-survey method of determining relationships of the family and worker to the environment.
MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING:
Charles-Eduoard Jeanneret - Popularly known as Le Corbusier.
- His most outstanding contribution as a thinker and writer was an urban planner on the grand scale.
- the most notable are his Unite’ d’ Habitation (1946-52) at Marseilles in France, a self-contained 'vertical city', with modular housing units for 1600 people, internal streets and community services.
In 1933, proposed “La Ville Radieuse (Radiant City)” anchored on objective to decongest the centers of our cities by increasing their densities by building high on small part of the total ground area. Accordingly, every great city must rebuild on centers
Le Corbusier also conceptualized Le Contemporaine, high-rise offices and residential buildings with a greenbelt for a population of 3,000,000 people
Last of the City Beautiful planners, he commented that it was hard to build a City Beautiful amidst the confusion of democracy and the market.
Chandigarh
Capital of Punjab province of India, and the only realized plan of Le Corbusier: criticized for shifting from a planning style to an architectural style, meaning a shift towards the preoccupation with visual form, symbolism, imagery, and aesthetics rather than the problems of the Indian population; plan was completely impervious to economic and human considerations.
- A regular grid of major roads for rapid transport surrounding residential superblocks or sections each based on the rectangle and measuring 800x1200 meters
- The whole plan represents a large scale application of the Radburn principle regularized by Le Corbusier’s predilection for the rectilinear and the monumental.
Two important books- The City of Tomorrow (1922) and The Radiant City;
small number of propositions:
- traditional city has become functionally obsolete, due to increasing size and increasing congestion at the centre. As the urban mass grew through concentric additions, more and more strain was placed on the communications of the innermost areas, above all the central business district, which had the greatest accessibility and where all business wanted to be.
- the paradox that the congestion could be cured by increasing the density. There was a key to this, of course: the density was to be increased at one scale of analysis, but decreased at another. Locally, there would be very high densities in the form of massive, tall structures; but around each of these a very high proportion of the available ground space- Corbusier advocated 95%- could and should be left open.
- concerned the distribution of densities within the city.
- argued that this new urban form could be accommodate a new and highly efficient urban transportation system, incorporating both rail lines and completely segregated elevated motorways, running above the ground level, though, of course, below the levels at which most people lived.
- he did teach planners in general the importance of scale in analysis.
- his insistence on the elementary truth that dense local concentrations of people helped support a viable, frequent mass-transportations system.
BRASILIA
- capital of Brazil and a completely new twentieth-century city, the biggest planning exercise of the 20th century
- designed by Lucio Costa with a lot of influence from Le Corbusier, his plans or schemes did not include a single population projection, economic analyses, land use schedule, model or mechanical drawing, yet it was awarded to him; plan did not attempt to resolve pedestrian-vehicle conflicts. Unplanned city grew up beside the planned one.
• with two huge axes in the sign of the cross, one for gov’t, commerce, and entertainment, the other for the residential component
• Oscar Niemeyer was among the architects employed to design the buildings
Frank Lloyd Wright
In the 1930s, he wrote the “The Disappearing City” and later “Broadacres” – proposing that every family live on an acre of land and where the city would be built by its inhabitants using mass-produced components; this met difficulties in land supply and logistics as the population increased.
“Broadacres”
- it was desirable to preserve the sort of codependent rural life of the homesteaders.
- that mass car would allow cities to spread widely into countryside.
- homes would be connected by super highways.
Easy and fast travel by car to any direction.
- he anticipated “out- of-town shopping center”
Problems with lack of land lead to his design of the Mile High Tower.
• Proposed to house a significant amount of Manhattan residents to free up space for Greenfields
• 10 or more of these could possibly replace all Manhattan buildings
URBAN RENEWAL:
Jane Jacobs - Wrote the “The Death and Life of the Great American Cities” – one of the most influential books in the history of city planning.
- She argued that there was nothing wrong with high urban densities of people so long as they did not entail overcrowding in buildings. She prescribed keeping the inner-city neighborhood more or less as it was before the planners had got their hands on it. It should have mixed functions and therefore land uses to ensure that people were there for different purposes, of different time schedules, but using many facilties in common. Dense concentrations of people and residents, mixed blocks of different age and conditions resulted in the “yuppification” of the city.
RADICAL IDEAS:
The Arcology Alternative - the 3D city by Paolo Soleri
Motopia - proposed by Edgar Chambless (Vehicular traffic will be along rooftops
of a continuous network of buildings, while the streets will be for pedestrian use only)
Science Cities - Proposed by the “metabolism group”; visionary urban designers that proposed underwater cities, “biological” cities, cities in pyramids, etc.
The Floating City - Kiyonori Kikutake
The Barbican City - a 63 acre area. mixed used development that was built in response to the pressures of the automobile. An early type of Planned Urban development that had all amenities in one compound with multi-level circulation patterns.
MODULE 4: Planning 3 History Part 1
MODULE 4: HISTORY OF PLANNING
ANCIENT TIMES:
- Innovations that influenced the development of the earliest cities
a) The plow and rectilinear farming.
b) Circular and radiocentric planning (for herding and eventually for defense)
NEOLITHIC CITIES:
* Jericho: early settlement in Israel -9000 BC
- A well-organized community of about 3000 people
- Built around a reliable source of freshwater
- Only 3 hectares and enclosed with a circular stone wall
- Overrun in about 6500 b.c., rectangular layouts followed
* Khirokitia: early settlement in Cyprus - 5500 BC
- First documented settlement with streets
- The main street heading uphill was narrow but had a wider terminal, which may have been a social spot
2000-4000 B.C.
Cities in the Fertile Crescent were formed by the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys of Mesopotamia
- Eridu- acknowledged as the oldest city.
- Damascus- oldest continually inhabited city
- Babylon- the largest city with 80,000 inhabitants
Rectilinear plotting with the use of the plow – suited all the needs of agriculture societies on the Nile, Tigris, and the Euphrates river for easy land division for crop planning, land ownership and land plotting and reapportionment after a flood.
3000 B.C.
Cities of Thebes and Memphis along the Nile Valley
- characterized by monumental architecture
- cities had monumental avenues, colossal temple plazas and tombs
- worker’s communities were built in cells along
narrow roads
Egyptian Civilization:
- No need for defensive walls
- Urban mobility
- Little evidence of controlled planning
- No zoning, no defined blocks for housing
- Social classes determined housing sites
- Workers’ camps
- Dependence on Nile River
- Egyptians built reservoirs to store water, and dug canals to carry it to the fields
2500 B.C.
Indus Valley (present day Pakistan)
Cities of Mohenjo – Daro and Harrapa:
- administrative-religious centers with 40,000 inhabitants
- archeological evidence indicates an advanced civilization lived here as there were housing variations, sanitary and sewage systems, etc.
1900 B.C.
Yellow River Valley of China
“land within the passes”. Precursor of Linear City.
800 B.C.
Beijing
founded in approximately same location it’s in today
- present form originated in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
B.C. to A.D.
Elaborate network of cities in Mesoamerica were built by the Zapotecs, Mextecs, and Aztecs in rough rugged land.
Teotijuacan and Dzibilchatun were the largest cities
ANCIENT GREECE
Greek cities spread to the Aegean region – Westward to France and Spain
“polis” : defined as a “city-state”. Most famous is the Acropolis- a religious and defensive structure up on the hills, with no definite geometrical plan
Neopolis and Paleopolis (new and old cities)
Sparta and Athens : the largest cities (100-150T)
Compact urban form
Never planned as a whole
Started with natural springs
Integration of social and civic life
Components
Acropolis
Main Harbors
Agora Complex
Cultural and leisure facilities
Acropolis- visible relationship between buildings and nature; sacred
Agora- buildings served as facades to form an enclosed urban space; grouped around central open space
Hippodamus of Miletus (Father of Town Planning) - Greek Architect who emphasized geometric designs grid pattern of streets. The first noted urban planner, he introduced the grid system and the Agora (public marketplace)
Miletus: 3 sections: for artisans, farmers, and the military
ANCIENT ROME
Roman Cities : adopted Greek forms but with different scale- monumental, had a social hierarchy
During the Etruscans’ reign, Rome grew into a great city built on seven hills along the Tiber.
Vitruvius - 10-volume treatise “De Arkitectura” – relates experience of Roman architecture and town design; treats architecture and town design as a single theme; suggested location of streets in relation to prevailing wind; the siting of public buildings; the testing of drinking water; design of plazas
Organization of towns - a system of gridiron streets enclosed by a wall; theater, arena and market were common places for public assembly
Perfected enclosed urban and architectural space – collonaded plazas with a temple or basilica at the end of the space.
Romans as engineers- built aqueducts (serving 200 cities), elaborate plumbing systems for public baths, network of paved roads (covering 50,000 miles), drainage systems, large open interiors for public gatherings
Romans incorporated public works and arts into city designs.
Romans as conquerors- built forum after forum
Developed housing variations and other spaces:
• Basilica- covered markets; later, law courts
• Curia- the local meeting hall; later, the capitol
• Domus- traditional Roman house; with a central atrium
• Insulae- 3 to 6- storey apartments with storefronts
MEDIEVAL AGES:
Decline of Roman power left many outposts all over Europe, where growth revolved around either a monastery or castle, assumed a radiocentric pattern; relied on protective town walls or fortification for security
Towns were fine and intimate with winding roads and sequenced views of cathedrals or military fortifications
Sienna and Constantinople: signified the rise of the Church
Feudalism affected the urban design of most towns
11th century towns in Europe: Coastal port towns (many of these coastal towns grew from military fortifications, but expansion was limited to what the city
could support)
Mercantilist cities : continuous increase in size
World trade and travel created major population concentrations like Florence, Paris, and Venice
Growth eventually led to congestion and slums
RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE PERIODS:
Rebirth of classical towns ; piazza planning in Venice; grandeur in civic structure and public spaces; streets were wide regular and circumferential with the piazza at the center as in Italy.
- Piazza de San Antonio Marco
- Vatican Square
15th Century France: display of power
Arts and architecture became a major element of town planning and urban design
Geometrical forms of cities were proposed
Vienna emerged as the city of culture and the arts - the first “university town”
Landscape architecture showcased palaces and gardens
- Karlsruhe (Germany)
- Versailles (France)
Pierre Charles L’Enfant - Prepared plan for Washington, DC.
- Axial plan of the Mall, Washington, D.C.: the Reflecting Pool and Lincoln Memorial extend the central axis
ROME (1500s)
Leonardo da Vinci –
In his “Codex Atlanticus” he described a new concept of urban planning that was suited for Milan – sketched a city straddling a river where upstream, the river was directed into 6 or 7 branches, all parallel to the main stream and rejoining it below the city.
1844:
Arturo Soria Y Mata – Spanish Engineer
Suggested the idea of “Linear City” from Cadiz, Spain across Europe through St. Petersburg, Russia in which he proposed that the logic of linear utility line should be the basis of all city lay-out. Houses and buildings could be set alongside linear utility systems supplying water, communications and electricity. Proposed high-speed, high-intensity transport from an existing
N.A Milyutin, 1930 - Stalingrad
SETTLEMENTS IN THE AMERICAS:
Medieval Organic City
- taken after the “boug” (military town) and “fauborg” (citizen’s town) of the medieval ages
Medieval Bastide
- taken from the French bastide (eventually referred to as “new towns”)
- came in the form of grids or radial plans reflecting flexibility
The Spanish “Laws of the Indies” town
- King Philip II’s city guidelines that produced 3 types of towns- the pueblo (civil), the presidio (military), and the mission (religious)
The English Renaissance
- “the European Planned City” – ex. Savannah (designed by James Oglethorpe), Charleston, Annapolis, and Williamsburg (Col. Francis Nicholson)
- Today, Savannah is the world’s largest officially recognized historical district
Annapolis - government bldgs were focal points of the plan, though a civic square
was also provided
Williamsburg - plan was anchored by the Governor’s palace, the state capitol, and the College of William and Mary
The Speculator’s Town
- developments were driven by speculation
- Philadelphia (built between the Delaware and Scool Kill) – designed by William Penn
ANCIENT TIMES:
- Innovations that influenced the development of the earliest cities
a) The plow and rectilinear farming.
b) Circular and radiocentric planning (for herding and eventually for defense)
NEOLITHIC CITIES:
* Jericho: early settlement in Israel -9000 BC
- A well-organized community of about 3000 people
- Built around a reliable source of freshwater
- Only 3 hectares and enclosed with a circular stone wall
- Overrun in about 6500 b.c., rectangular layouts followed
* Khirokitia: early settlement in Cyprus - 5500 BC
- First documented settlement with streets
- The main street heading uphill was narrow but had a wider terminal, which may have been a social spot
2000-4000 B.C.
Cities in the Fertile Crescent were formed by the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys of Mesopotamia
- Eridu- acknowledged as the oldest city.
- Damascus- oldest continually inhabited city
- Babylon- the largest city with 80,000 inhabitants
Rectilinear plotting with the use of the plow – suited all the needs of agriculture societies on the Nile, Tigris, and the Euphrates river for easy land division for crop planning, land ownership and land plotting and reapportionment after a flood.
3000 B.C.
Cities of Thebes and Memphis along the Nile Valley
- characterized by monumental architecture
- cities had monumental avenues, colossal temple plazas and tombs
- worker’s communities were built in cells along
narrow roads
Egyptian Civilization:
- No need for defensive walls
- Urban mobility
- Little evidence of controlled planning
- No zoning, no defined blocks for housing
- Social classes determined housing sites
- Workers’ camps
- Dependence on Nile River
- Egyptians built reservoirs to store water, and dug canals to carry it to the fields
2500 B.C.
Indus Valley (present day Pakistan)
Cities of Mohenjo – Daro and Harrapa:
- administrative-religious centers with 40,000 inhabitants
- archeological evidence indicates an advanced civilization lived here as there were housing variations, sanitary and sewage systems, etc.
1900 B.C.
Yellow River Valley of China
“land within the passes”. Precursor of Linear City.
800 B.C.
Beijing
founded in approximately same location it’s in today
- present form originated in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
B.C. to A.D.
Elaborate network of cities in Mesoamerica were built by the Zapotecs, Mextecs, and Aztecs in rough rugged land.
Teotijuacan and Dzibilchatun were the largest cities
ANCIENT GREECE
Greek cities spread to the Aegean region – Westward to France and Spain
“polis” : defined as a “city-state”. Most famous is the Acropolis- a religious and defensive structure up on the hills, with no definite geometrical plan
Neopolis and Paleopolis (new and old cities)
Sparta and Athens : the largest cities (100-150T)
Compact urban form
Never planned as a whole
Started with natural springs
Integration of social and civic life
Components
Acropolis
Main Harbors
Agora Complex
Cultural and leisure facilities
Acropolis- visible relationship between buildings and nature; sacred
Agora- buildings served as facades to form an enclosed urban space; grouped around central open space
Hippodamus of Miletus (Father of Town Planning) - Greek Architect who emphasized geometric designs grid pattern of streets. The first noted urban planner, he introduced the grid system and the Agora (public marketplace)
Miletus: 3 sections: for artisans, farmers, and the military
ANCIENT ROME
Roman Cities : adopted Greek forms but with different scale- monumental, had a social hierarchy
During the Etruscans’ reign, Rome grew into a great city built on seven hills along the Tiber.
Vitruvius - 10-volume treatise “De Arkitectura” – relates experience of Roman architecture and town design; treats architecture and town design as a single theme; suggested location of streets in relation to prevailing wind; the siting of public buildings; the testing of drinking water; design of plazas
Organization of towns - a system of gridiron streets enclosed by a wall; theater, arena and market were common places for public assembly
Perfected enclosed urban and architectural space – collonaded plazas with a temple or basilica at the end of the space.
Romans as engineers- built aqueducts (serving 200 cities), elaborate plumbing systems for public baths, network of paved roads (covering 50,000 miles), drainage systems, large open interiors for public gatherings
Romans incorporated public works and arts into city designs.
Romans as conquerors- built forum after forum
Developed housing variations and other spaces:
• Basilica- covered markets; later, law courts
• Curia- the local meeting hall; later, the capitol
• Domus- traditional Roman house; with a central atrium
• Insulae- 3 to 6- storey apartments with storefronts
MEDIEVAL AGES:
Decline of Roman power left many outposts all over Europe, where growth revolved around either a monastery or castle, assumed a radiocentric pattern; relied on protective town walls or fortification for security
Towns were fine and intimate with winding roads and sequenced views of cathedrals or military fortifications
Sienna and Constantinople: signified the rise of the Church
Feudalism affected the urban design of most towns
11th century towns in Europe: Coastal port towns (many of these coastal towns grew from military fortifications, but expansion was limited to what the city
could support)
Mercantilist cities : continuous increase in size
World trade and travel created major population concentrations like Florence, Paris, and Venice
Growth eventually led to congestion and slums
RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE PERIODS:
Rebirth of classical towns ; piazza planning in Venice; grandeur in civic structure and public spaces; streets were wide regular and circumferential with the piazza at the center as in Italy.
- Piazza de San Antonio Marco
- Vatican Square
15th Century France: display of power
Arts and architecture became a major element of town planning and urban design
Geometrical forms of cities were proposed
Vienna emerged as the city of culture and the arts - the first “university town”
Landscape architecture showcased palaces and gardens
- Karlsruhe (Germany)
- Versailles (France)
Pierre Charles L’Enfant - Prepared plan for Washington, DC.
- Axial plan of the Mall, Washington, D.C.: the Reflecting Pool and Lincoln Memorial extend the central axis
ROME (1500s)
Leonardo da Vinci –
In his “Codex Atlanticus” he described a new concept of urban planning that was suited for Milan – sketched a city straddling a river where upstream, the river was directed into 6 or 7 branches, all parallel to the main stream and rejoining it below the city.
1844:
Arturo Soria Y Mata – Spanish Engineer
Suggested the idea of “Linear City” from Cadiz, Spain across Europe through St. Petersburg, Russia in which he proposed that the logic of linear utility line should be the basis of all city lay-out. Houses and buildings could be set alongside linear utility systems supplying water, communications and electricity. Proposed high-speed, high-intensity transport from an existing
N.A Milyutin, 1930 - Stalingrad
SETTLEMENTS IN THE AMERICAS:
Medieval Organic City
- taken after the “boug” (military town) and “fauborg” (citizen’s town) of the medieval ages
Medieval Bastide
- taken from the French bastide (eventually referred to as “new towns”)
- came in the form of grids or radial plans reflecting flexibility
The Spanish “Laws of the Indies” town
- King Philip II’s city guidelines that produced 3 types of towns- the pueblo (civil), the presidio (military), and the mission (religious)
The English Renaissance
- “the European Planned City” – ex. Savannah (designed by James Oglethorpe), Charleston, Annapolis, and Williamsburg (Col. Francis Nicholson)
- Today, Savannah is the world’s largest officially recognized historical district
Annapolis - government bldgs were focal points of the plan, though a civic square
was also provided
Williamsburg - plan was anchored by the Governor’s palace, the state capitol, and the College of William and Mary
The Speculator’s Town
- developments were driven by speculation
- Philadelphia (built between the Delaware and Scool Kill) – designed by William Penn
Monday, June 9, 2008
Module 3: Planning 3 Location Theory
(see Module 2: http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/05/planning-3-module-2-ekistics.html)
MODULE 3 – LOCATION THEORY
Dissatisfaction on the part of individuals and groups concerning their relationships with the environment will lead them to take modifying actions. These changes could include:
- the nature of the activity itself
- the space in which it was carried out
- its location with respect to all other activities
- the kinds of communications made with activities at other locations
- the channels which served to carry or transmit them
Modifying actions cause repercussions on other activities, spaces, communications, and channels. Ex. when a man decides to leave his car for work and uses the train, his action causes repercussions though how trivial and unnoticeable. But if several hundred are to do the same, then the effects would be noticeable
Actions taken by individuals and groups in interest can bring about conditions which give rise to serious social, economic, and aesthetic problems connected with the use of land.
Planning seeks to…
a) regulate or control the activity of individual and groups in such a way as to minimize the bad effects which may arise.
b) promote better performance of the physical environment in accordance with a set of broad aims and more specific objectives set out in a plan.
Location theory…
� explains the pattern of land use
� indicates a solution to the problem of what is the most rational use of land suggesting ways in which the current pattern can be improved.
Johann Heinrich von Thunen (1826)…
� postulated that around a central town
-rural land of constant fertility assumed different forms
(the type of land use varies with distance away from the market)
- land use diminishing intensively in reverse relationship to increased distance from the town.
(The intensity of production declines with distance away from the market)
� land in greatest demand would be as near as possible to the market on account of low transport costs.
- the highest rent would be gained for this advantage and the highest value output per hectare would accrue.
� outer belt would have little demand for land because of transport costs.
- rent would be low and the value of extensive production would be correspondingly low.
Modifications…
� overall use pattern might be modified by the existence of a navigable river.
…cost of river transport are low especially for bulky commodities compared to fairly high transport cost overland.
…river would have the effect of extending the different land uses almost parallel along its course.
� further modification might occur if a small city with its own production zones is located within the land use pattern of the main settlements.
Von Thunen model assumed unlikely conditions such as production taking place around an isolated market place and soil being of constant fertility. However, it established a distance-cost relationship which recently became the basis of urban location theory.
© as price mechanism largely decides the profitability or utility of goods and services, it subsequently determines the location of activity and the spatial structure of the urban area supplying these goods and services
William Alonso…
� rents diminish outward from the center of a city to offset both lower revenue and higher operating costs and not least transport costs.
…a rent gradient would compensate for falling revenue and higher operating costs
…different land uses would have different rent gradients, the use with the highest gradient prevailing.
use “a” prevails up to a distance of 2kms from the CBD, from 2 to 5kms use “b” is dominant, and beyond 5kms use “c” prevails.
a change of use could be expected to take place through the price mechanism when one gradient falls below another.
Alonso model did not specify the type of land use associated with each bid-gradient.
assumed that the urban area has a single nucleus and that the market for land is perfect.
Locational determinants of commercial and industrial use…
A. COST
� price and rent of land fall with increased distance from the CBD.
� wages are higher in the center
…local demand for labor being greater than local supply.
…commuting costs need to be offset by higher remuneration. (transport cost more of a reflection of accessibility than distance)
� locations close to junctions, nodes and terminals are particularly favored maximizing proximity to suppliers and markets.
� decentralized shopping centers are being developed following road improvement and increased car ownership.
� modern manufacturing industry relies increasingly on heavy road vehicles for long distance transportation and incurs lower transport costs on the fringes of cities than at more central locations.
B. REVENUE
� retailing revenue is determined by the size of the shopping catchment area or hinterland, not just in terms of population but in terms of purchasing power.
� distribution of the day-time population and points of maximum transit (where people cluster together) are also important.
� in the case of offices, the spatial distribution, number and size of client establishments determine revenue.
� revenue is thus greatest within the CBD and so are the aggregate costs.
…as distance from the center increases, revenue falls and aggregate costs (after falling initially) rises.
…this is due to the upward pull of transport costs, which are no longer offset sufficiently by economies in the use of land and labor.
…only within a fairly short distance from the CBD are commercial users able to realize high profitability.
C. PROFITABILITY
� to maximize profits, firms need to locate where they can benefit from both the greatest revenue and from the lowest costs.
� specialized functions and activities serving the urban market as a whole will locate centrally.
� firms requiring large sites and those attempting to reduce costs of over-concentration will be attracted to the suburbs.
� firms locating close together to benefit from complementary will incur lower costs because of external economies and enjoy higher revenue due to joint demand.
…since there is a high degree of inertia, most firms find it difficult to adjust their locations to the optimum.
…a satisfactory rather than ideal location moreover is established by zoning and land use controls.
A mixture of interacting influences usually explain each locational decision.
.....as price mechanism largely decides the profitability or utility of goods and services, it subsequently determines the location of activity and the spatial structure of the urban area supplying these goods and services
.....high levels of accessibility within the CBD are reflected in low transport cost attracting greatest demand for commercial sites
.....conversely, low over-all accessibility and high transport cost outside urban areas will attract a much lower level of demand.
.....other possible influences: changes in population, technology and transportation, pressures from redeveloped central areas and local and central government policy.
D. LOCATION
A factor which, as propagated by the adage “location, location, location” is considered to be the foremost determinant in the catalyzing of the decision to purchase.
True in the practice of conventional suburban development
Downside being that a preexistence of excellence in location is invariably associated with high cost of land acquisition
Created by proximity to a desirable factor such as transportation, a waterfront, a slope, a long vista, a pleasant climate, a popular resort, or a desirable community
Only method to economically achieve the value added by location is to create it on inexpensive land through Planned Neighborhood Development.
MODULE 3 – LOCATION THEORY
Dissatisfaction on the part of individuals and groups concerning their relationships with the environment will lead them to take modifying actions. These changes could include:
- the nature of the activity itself
- the space in which it was carried out
- its location with respect to all other activities
- the kinds of communications made with activities at other locations
- the channels which served to carry or transmit them
Modifying actions cause repercussions on other activities, spaces, communications, and channels. Ex. when a man decides to leave his car for work and uses the train, his action causes repercussions though how trivial and unnoticeable. But if several hundred are to do the same, then the effects would be noticeable
Actions taken by individuals and groups in interest can bring about conditions which give rise to serious social, economic, and aesthetic problems connected with the use of land.
Planning seeks to…
a) regulate or control the activity of individual and groups in such a way as to minimize the bad effects which may arise.
b) promote better performance of the physical environment in accordance with a set of broad aims and more specific objectives set out in a plan.
Location theory…
� explains the pattern of land use
� indicates a solution to the problem of what is the most rational use of land suggesting ways in which the current pattern can be improved.
Johann Heinrich von Thunen (1826)…
� postulated that around a central town-rural land of constant fertility assumed different forms
(the type of land use varies with distance away from the market)
- land use diminishing intensively in reverse relationship to increased distance from the town.
(The intensity of production declines with distance away from the market)
� land in greatest demand would be as near as possible to the market on account of low transport costs.
- the highest rent would be gained for this advantage and the highest value output per hectare would accrue.
� outer belt would have little demand for land because of transport costs.
- rent would be low and the value of extensive production would be correspondingly low.
Modifications…
� overall use pattern might be modified by the existence of a navigable river.
…cost of river transport are low especially for bulky commodities compared to fairly high transport cost overland.
…river would have the effect of extending the different land uses almost parallel along its course.
� further modification might occur if a small city with its own production zones is located within the land use pattern of the main settlements.
Von Thunen model assumed unlikely conditions such as production taking place around an isolated market place and soil being of constant fertility. However, it established a distance-cost relationship which recently became the basis of urban location theory.© as price mechanism largely decides the profitability or utility of goods and services, it subsequently determines the location of activity and the spatial structure of the urban area supplying these goods and services
William Alonso…
� rents diminish outward from the center of a city to offset both lower revenue and higher operating costs and not least transport costs.
…a rent gradient would compensate for falling revenue and higher operating costs
…different land uses would have different rent gradients, the use with the highest gradient prevailing.
use “a” prevails up to a distance of 2kms from the CBD, from 2 to 5kms use “b” is dominant, and beyond 5kms use “c” prevails.a change of use could be expected to take place through the price mechanism when one gradient falls below another.
Alonso model did not specify the type of land use associated with each bid-gradient.
assumed that the urban area has a single nucleus and that the market for land is perfect.
Locational determinants of commercial and industrial use…
A. COST
� price and rent of land fall with increased distance from the CBD.
� wages are higher in the center
…local demand for labor being greater than local supply.
…commuting costs need to be offset by higher remuneration. (transport cost more of a reflection of accessibility than distance)
� locations close to junctions, nodes and terminals are particularly favored maximizing proximity to suppliers and markets.
� decentralized shopping centers are being developed following road improvement and increased car ownership.
� modern manufacturing industry relies increasingly on heavy road vehicles for long distance transportation and incurs lower transport costs on the fringes of cities than at more central locations.
B. REVENUE
� retailing revenue is determined by the size of the shopping catchment area or hinterland, not just in terms of population but in terms of purchasing power.
� distribution of the day-time population and points of maximum transit (where people cluster together) are also important.
� in the case of offices, the spatial distribution, number and size of client establishments determine revenue.
� revenue is thus greatest within the CBD and so are the aggregate costs.
…as distance from the center increases, revenue falls and aggregate costs (after falling initially) rises.
…this is due to the upward pull of transport costs, which are no longer offset sufficiently by economies in the use of land and labor.
…only within a fairly short distance from the CBD are commercial users able to realize high profitability.
C. PROFITABILITY
� to maximize profits, firms need to locate where they can benefit from both the greatest revenue and from the lowest costs.
� specialized functions and activities serving the urban market as a whole will locate centrally.
� firms requiring large sites and those attempting to reduce costs of over-concentration will be attracted to the suburbs.
� firms locating close together to benefit from complementary will incur lower costs because of external economies and enjoy higher revenue due to joint demand.
…since there is a high degree of inertia, most firms find it difficult to adjust their locations to the optimum.
…a satisfactory rather than ideal location moreover is established by zoning and land use controls.
A mixture of interacting influences usually explain each locational decision.
.....as price mechanism largely decides the profitability or utility of goods and services, it subsequently determines the location of activity and the spatial structure of the urban area supplying these goods and services
.....high levels of accessibility within the CBD are reflected in low transport cost attracting greatest demand for commercial sites
.....conversely, low over-all accessibility and high transport cost outside urban areas will attract a much lower level of demand.
.....other possible influences: changes in population, technology and transportation, pressures from redeveloped central areas and local and central government policy.
D. LOCATION
A factor which, as propagated by the adage “location, location, location” is considered to be the foremost determinant in the catalyzing of the decision to purchase.
True in the practice of conventional suburban development
Downside being that a preexistence of excellence in location is invariably associated with high cost of land acquisition
Created by proximity to a desirable factor such as transportation, a waterfront, a slope, a long vista, a pleasant climate, a popular resort, or a desirable community
Only method to economically achieve the value added by location is to create it on inexpensive land through Planned Neighborhood Development.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Review Questions Planning2 Part1
1. Rebirth of classical towns; piazza planning in Venice; grandeur in civic structure and public spaces; streets were wide regular and circumferential with the piazza at the center as in Italy.
a) Renaissance
b) Medieval
c) Byzantine
d) Romanesque
2. He suggested the idea of “Linear City” from Cadiz, Spain across Europe through St. Petersburg, Russia in which he proposed that the logic of linear utility line should be the basis of all city lay-out.
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Ebenezer Howard
c) Daniel Burnham
d) Arturo Soria y Mata
3. Town design stems from their sense of the finite, the idea that all things should be of a definite size to be comprehensible and workable
a) Ancient Roman
b) Ancient Greek
c) Ancient Egyptian
d) Ancient American
4. In their towns, they choose another kind of module. They choose large modules in order to achieve a sense of overpowering grandeur.
a) Ancient Roman
b) Ancient Greek
c) Ancient Egyptian
d) Ancient American
5. Rectilinear land division during ancient times is a result of what?
a) Herding
b) Defense
c) Plow Farming
d) Politics
6. He believed the use of open space as element of urban system and the urban park as an aid to social reform.
a) Clarence Perry
b) Frederick Olmstead
c) Clarence Stein
d) Arturo Soria y Mata
7. It combined the advantages of the town by way of access and all the advantages of the country by way of the environment without any of the disadvantages of either.
a) New Towns
b) New Urbanism
c) Garden Cities
d) Neighborhood
8. According to him, the city was a totally designed system of main circulation arteries, a network of parks and clusters or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers incl. city hall, a country court house, a library, an opera house, a museum, and a plaza
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Ebenezer Howard
c) Daniel Burnham
d) Arturo Soria Y Mata
9. He developed the neighborhood principle based on the natural catchment area of community facilities such as primary schools and local shops.
a) Clarence Perry
b) Frederick Olmstead
c) Clarence Stein
d) Arturo Soria Y Mata
10. He proposed “La Ville Radieuse (Radiant City)” anchored on the objective to decongest the centres of our cities by increasing their densities by building high on small part of the total ground area.
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Arturo Soria Y Mata
c) Le Corbusier
d) Frank Lloyd Wright
11. Radburn represented a dramatic advance in community planning. It introduced the following except one.
a) Introduced a hierarchy of roadways.
b) Deliberately separated pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
c) Introduced the concept of the residential superblock
d) Houses were oriented towards the streets
12. A center of activity; distinguished by virtue of its active function; it is a distinct hub of activity.
a) Paths
b) Nodes
c) Landmarks
d) Edges
13. The concept of the center is probably the single most important idea with which the designer works because of the following reasons except for one which is:
a) It gives the city imageability or a strong image.
b) Nodes are points, the strategic spots in a city into which an observer can enter, and which are the intensive foci to and from which he is traveling.
c) Emphasize all parts of the city.
d) Lively, pedestrian-friendly downtowns with a mixture of stones, merchants, services and public spaces.
14. The choice the environment represents to the user.
a) Legibility
b) Permeability
c) Genius Loci
d) None of the Above
15. With their emphasis on street layout, they introduced the idea of major and minor streets – two main streets at right angles called “cardo” and "decumanus” dividing the town into four quarters.
a) Ancient Roman
b) Ancient Greek
c) Ancient Egyptian
d) Ancient American
16. First documented settlement with streets with a narrow main street heading uphill and a wider terminal which might be a social spot.
a) Jericho
b) Khirokitia
c) Catalhoyuk
d) Damascus
17. Ancient Egyptian settlements are characterized by the following except one.
a) Social classes determined housing sites.
b) Dependence on the Nile River.
c) Has zoning and defined blocks for housing.
d) Built reservoirs to store water and dug canals to carry it to the fields.
18. Ancient cities in Indus Valley well known for their impressive, organized and regular layout and had advanced and extensive drainage system.
a) Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
b) Thebes and Memphis
c) Eridu and Jericho
d) Damascus and Babylon
19. The first noted urban planner who introduced the grid system and the agora.
a) Arthemus
b) Hippodamus
c) Miletus
d) Spartacus
20. Chiefly remembered for his “Ideal” cities, star-shaped plan with streets radiating from a central point, usually proposed as the location for a church, palace, or possibly by a castle.
a) Leon Batista Alberti
b) Biaggio Rosseti
c) Peter Kropotkin
d) Andrea Palladio
21. A Russian-born geographer, author, and revolutionary, he suggested the use of electricity to allow towns to be built anywhere.
a) Tony Garnier
b) Arturo Soria Y Mata
c) Peter Kropotkin
d) Leon Batista Alberti
22. What became a major element of town planning and urban design during the Renaissance and Baroque periods,
a) Arts and Architecture
b) Universities
c) Coastal Towns
d) World Trade
23. A Spanish “Laws of the Indies” town classified as civil.
a) Pueblo
b) Poblacion
c) Mission
d) Presidio
24. The world’s largest officially recognized historical district designed by James Oglethorpe.
a) Charleston
b) Annapolis
c) Williamsburg
d) Savannah
25. A speculator’s town designed by William Penn.
a) Annapolis
b) Philadelphia
c) Chicago
d) New Harmony
26. City proposed by Robert Owens designed for 800 to 1200 persons with agricultural, light industrial, educational, and recreational facilities.
a) Radiant City
b) Ideal City
c) New Towns
d) Industrial City
27. The first garden city designed by Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker in 1902.
a) Welwyn
b) Letchworth
c) Hampstead
d) London
28. Urban design with emphasis on grand formal designs, with wide boulevards, civic spaces, arts, etc.
a) Unite d’Habitation
b) Radburn
c) Le Contemporaine
d) City Beautiful
29. A concept coined by Jean Gottman for urban complexes used today to refer to massive urban concentrations created from strong physical linkages between three or more large cities.
a) Conurbation
b) Metropolis
c) Megalopolis
d) Barbican
30. Which of the following statements is not true?
a) Legibility is important at two levels: physical form and activity patterns.
b) Legibility in the old days: important buildings stood out.
c) Legibility of form and uses is reduced in the modern environment.
d) Separating pedestrians from vehicles also increases legibility.
31. Lack of connectivity is linked to ____________.
a) Vehicle Dependence
b) Consequent Significant Public Health Risk
c) Poor Health Benefits
d) All of the Above
32. Poor quality of public space and walkability can be linked to ________.
b) Bad Street Lighting
c) Perceived Lack of Safety
d) Personalization
33. Counters the gigantism of the metropolis and protect the residents from the hazards and convenience of the city.
a) Local Character
b) Neighborhood Character
c) Heritage Character
d) All of the Above
34. A city is an urban area differentiated from a town, village or hamlet by:
a) Size
b) Population Density
c) Legal Status
d) All of the Above
35. That knowledge of a place.
a) Sense Of place
b) Orientation
c) Interrelatedness
d) Gentrification
36. Supports choice by maintaining or enhancing the feature that make one place different from one another.
a) Urbanization
b) Urban Centers
c) Urban Character
d) Urbanism
37. The grid layout system of settlement had been the product of the ____________.
a) Herdsmen
b) Farmer
c) Fisherman
d) Anchorman
38. A building layout where buildings have two faces: the public face is the front of the building which faces the street where the entrances are; the private face is usually the back of the building and faces the inside of the block.
a) Strip Development
b) Cluster Development
c) Planned Unit Development
d) Perimeter Block Development
39. A successful place offers a mix of activities to the widest range of possible users. This is achieved by the following except one:
a) Uses create a balanced community with a range of services, without increasing the need for the car.
b) Narrow plot frontages allow small scale shopping and commercial activities to flourish.
c) Big shared structures such as superstores or multiplex cinemas can be wrapped by small plot units to create active frontages.
d) To promote social inclusion, social housing is distinguishable from private housing by its design or its location in less desirable sites.
Answers at: http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/answers-to-review-questions-planning2.html
a) Renaissance
b) Medieval
c) Byzantine
d) Romanesque
2. He suggested the idea of “Linear City” from Cadiz, Spain across Europe through St. Petersburg, Russia in which he proposed that the logic of linear utility line should be the basis of all city lay-out.
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Ebenezer Howard
c) Daniel Burnham
d) Arturo Soria y Mata
3. Town design stems from their sense of the finite, the idea that all things should be of a definite size to be comprehensible and workable
a) Ancient Roman
b) Ancient Greek
c) Ancient Egyptian
d) Ancient American
4. In their towns, they choose another kind of module. They choose large modules in order to achieve a sense of overpowering grandeur.
a) Ancient Roman
b) Ancient Greek
c) Ancient Egyptian
d) Ancient American
5. Rectilinear land division during ancient times is a result of what?
a) Herding
b) Defense
c) Plow Farming
d) Politics
6. He believed the use of open space as element of urban system and the urban park as an aid to social reform.
a) Clarence Perry
b) Frederick Olmstead
c) Clarence Stein
d) Arturo Soria y Mata
7. It combined the advantages of the town by way of access and all the advantages of the country by way of the environment without any of the disadvantages of either.
a) New Towns
b) New Urbanism
c) Garden Cities
d) Neighborhood
8. According to him, the city was a totally designed system of main circulation arteries, a network of parks and clusters or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers incl. city hall, a country court house, a library, an opera house, a museum, and a plaza
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Ebenezer Howard
c) Daniel Burnham
d) Arturo Soria Y Mata
9. He developed the neighborhood principle based on the natural catchment area of community facilities such as primary schools and local shops.
a) Clarence Perry
b) Frederick Olmstead
c) Clarence Stein
d) Arturo Soria Y Mata
10. He proposed “La Ville Radieuse (Radiant City)” anchored on the objective to decongest the centres of our cities by increasing their densities by building high on small part of the total ground area.
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Arturo Soria Y Mata
c) Le Corbusier
d) Frank Lloyd Wright
11. Radburn represented a dramatic advance in community planning. It introduced the following except one.
a) Introduced a hierarchy of roadways.
b) Deliberately separated pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
c) Introduced the concept of the residential superblock
d) Houses were oriented towards the streets
12. A center of activity; distinguished by virtue of its active function; it is a distinct hub of activity.
a) Paths
b) Nodes
c) Landmarks
d) Edges
13. The concept of the center is probably the single most important idea with which the designer works because of the following reasons except for one which is:
a) It gives the city imageability or a strong image.
b) Nodes are points, the strategic spots in a city into which an observer can enter, and which are the intensive foci to and from which he is traveling.
c) Emphasize all parts of the city.
d) Lively, pedestrian-friendly downtowns with a mixture of stones, merchants, services and public spaces.
14. The choice the environment represents to the user.
a) Legibility
b) Permeability
c) Genius Loci
d) None of the Above
15. With their emphasis on street layout, they introduced the idea of major and minor streets – two main streets at right angles called “cardo” and "decumanus” dividing the town into four quarters.
a) Ancient Roman
b) Ancient Greek
c) Ancient Egyptian
d) Ancient American
16. First documented settlement with streets with a narrow main street heading uphill and a wider terminal which might be a social spot.
a) Jericho
b) Khirokitia
c) Catalhoyuk
d) Damascus
17. Ancient Egyptian settlements are characterized by the following except one.
a) Social classes determined housing sites.
b) Dependence on the Nile River.
c) Has zoning and defined blocks for housing.
d) Built reservoirs to store water and dug canals to carry it to the fields.
18. Ancient cities in Indus Valley well known for their impressive, organized and regular layout and had advanced and extensive drainage system.
a) Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa
b) Thebes and Memphis
c) Eridu and Jericho
d) Damascus and Babylon
19. The first noted urban planner who introduced the grid system and the agora.
a) Arthemus
b) Hippodamus
c) Miletus
d) Spartacus
20. Chiefly remembered for his “Ideal” cities, star-shaped plan with streets radiating from a central point, usually proposed as the location for a church, palace, or possibly by a castle.
a) Leon Batista Alberti
b) Biaggio Rosseti
c) Peter Kropotkin
d) Andrea Palladio
21. A Russian-born geographer, author, and revolutionary, he suggested the use of electricity to allow towns to be built anywhere.
a) Tony Garnier
b) Arturo Soria Y Mata
c) Peter Kropotkin
d) Leon Batista Alberti
22. What became a major element of town planning and urban design during the Renaissance and Baroque periods,
a) Arts and Architecture
b) Universities
c) Coastal Towns
d) World Trade
23. A Spanish “Laws of the Indies” town classified as civil.
a) Pueblo
b) Poblacion
c) Mission
d) Presidio
24. The world’s largest officially recognized historical district designed by James Oglethorpe.
a) Charleston
b) Annapolis
c) Williamsburg
d) Savannah
25. A speculator’s town designed by William Penn.
a) Annapolis
b) Philadelphia
c) Chicago
d) New Harmony
26. City proposed by Robert Owens designed for 800 to 1200 persons with agricultural, light industrial, educational, and recreational facilities.
a) Radiant City
b) Ideal City
c) New Towns
d) Industrial City
27. The first garden city designed by Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker in 1902.
a) Welwyn
b) Letchworth
c) Hampstead
d) London
28. Urban design with emphasis on grand formal designs, with wide boulevards, civic spaces, arts, etc.
a) Unite d’Habitation
b) Radburn
c) Le Contemporaine
d) City Beautiful
29. A concept coined by Jean Gottman for urban complexes used today to refer to massive urban concentrations created from strong physical linkages between three or more large cities.
a) Conurbation
b) Metropolis
c) Megalopolis
d) Barbican
30. Which of the following statements is not true?
a) Legibility is important at two levels: physical form and activity patterns.
b) Legibility in the old days: important buildings stood out.
c) Legibility of form and uses is reduced in the modern environment.
d) Separating pedestrians from vehicles also increases legibility.
31. Lack of connectivity is linked to ____________.
a) Vehicle Dependence
b) Consequent Significant Public Health Risk
c) Poor Health Benefits
d) All of the Above
32. Poor quality of public space and walkability can be linked to ________.
b) Bad Street Lighting
c) Perceived Lack of Safety
d) Personalization
33. Counters the gigantism of the metropolis and protect the residents from the hazards and convenience of the city.
a) Local Character
b) Neighborhood Character
c) Heritage Character
d) All of the Above
34. A city is an urban area differentiated from a town, village or hamlet by:
a) Size
b) Population Density
c) Legal Status
d) All of the Above
35. That knowledge of a place.
a) Sense Of place
b) Orientation
c) Interrelatedness
d) Gentrification
36. Supports choice by maintaining or enhancing the feature that make one place different from one another.
a) Urbanization
b) Urban Centers
c) Urban Character
d) Urbanism
37. The grid layout system of settlement had been the product of the ____________.
a) Herdsmen
b) Farmer
c) Fisherman
d) Anchorman
38. A building layout where buildings have two faces: the public face is the front of the building which faces the street where the entrances are; the private face is usually the back of the building and faces the inside of the block.
a) Strip Development
b) Cluster Development
c) Planned Unit Development
d) Perimeter Block Development
39. A successful place offers a mix of activities to the widest range of possible users. This is achieved by the following except one:
a) Uses create a balanced community with a range of services, without increasing the need for the car.
b) Narrow plot frontages allow small scale shopping and commercial activities to flourish.
c) Big shared structures such as superstores or multiplex cinemas can be wrapped by small plot units to create active frontages.
d) To promote social inclusion, social housing is distinguishable from private housing by its design or its location in less desirable sites.
Answers at: http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/answers-to-review-questions-planning2.html
Review Questions Planning3 Part3
1. It was during this period that the concept of urban design was established
a) Renaissance
b) Bronze Age
c) Medieval Period
d) Atomic Age
2. They understood the importance of transportation and thus emerges as the first regional planners of the world
a) Greeks
b) Romans
c) Sumerians
d) Egyptians
3. He developed the first theoretical basis for physical planning
a) Hippodamus
b) Nicodemus
c) Nostradamus
d) Aristotle
4. Urbanization began around 4,000 BC in the area known as the
a) Fertile Crescent
b) Mediterranean
c) Babylon
d) Asia
5. Rectangular streets are examples of the
a) Axial
b) Ribbon-type
c) Grid-iron
d) Radial
6. What was the most important factor in designing settlement patterns during the Spanish Period in the Philippines
a) Religion
b) Economy
c) Transportation
d) Plaza
7. He postulated that population increases in a geometric ratio while food production increases arithmetically and that unless natural catastrophes, war or sexual restraint control population increase, worldwide famine or war will follow
a) Von Thunen
b) William Alonso
c) Lowdon Wingo Jr.
d) Robert Malthus
8. The sole regulatory body for housing and land use development. It is charged with encouraging greater private sector participation in low-cost housing through liberalization of development standards, simplification of regulations and decentralization of approvals for permits and licenses.
a) HUDCC
b) HLURB
c) UDHA
d) none of them
9. The most frequent shape of a city, a large circle with radial corridors of intense development emanating from the center.
a) Star
b) Radiocentric
c) Ring
d) None of them
10. This two corridors of intense development crosses at the center and is usually found in small cities
a) Linear
b) Branch
c) Rectilinear
d) None of them
11. These are ways in which the main elements within the city are arranged to form a pleasing and memorable pattern.
a) ornament
b) decoration
c) a & b
d) none of them
12. A street pattern that provides ease of orientation adopted to right angle
a) linear
b) grid
c) concentric
d) star-shaped
13. An area intended for regional shopping centers such as large shopping malls and other regional commercial activities, high-rise hotels, sports stadium or sports complexes.
a) C-1
b) C-2
c) C-3
d) None of them
14. Zoning takes the form of a locally enacted ordinance which embodies among others, regulations affecting:
a) Uses allowed or disallowed in each zone or district
b) Conditions for allowing them
c) Deviations legally allowed from the requirements of the ordinance.
d) All of the above
15. It shall refer to areas designated principally for trade, services and business purposes.
a) Commercial
b) Built-up area
c) CBD
d) None of them
16. The ratio of the total building floor area to the total lot area
a) Floor area ratio
b) Gross ratio
c) Net floor ratio
d) None of them
17. This zone is for particular types of institutional establishments e.g. welfare homes, orphanages, home for the aged, rehabilitation and training centers, military camps/reservation/bases/training grounds, etc.
a) AZ
b) AIZ
c) GIZ
d) SIZ
18. A residential motor court around which housing may be arranged.
a) Collector
b) Links
c) Cul-de-sac
d) None of them
19. He is the author of the 10-volume treatise “de Arkitektura” which relates experience of Roman architecture and town planning
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Hipodamus
c) c.) Nicoletus
d) Vitruvius
20. Arturo Soria y Mata suggested this type of development running from Cadiz, Spain across Europe through St. Petersburg in which he proposed that the logic of linear utility line should be the basis of all city lay-out
a) Boadacre
b) Linear City
c) Radiant City
d) Component City
21. This type of development pattern emerged as towns grew around a monastery or castle during the medieval times.
a) Radiocentric
b) Rectilinear
c) Ekistics
d) Nodes
22. Le Corbusier proposed this type of development that is anchored on the objective of decongesting the centers of our cities by increasing their densities by building high on small part of the total ground area.
a) Radburn
b) City Beautiful
c) Radiant City
d) Garden city
23. The minimum population necessary to support a service
a) Threshold population
b) Required population
c) Demography
d) Conurbation
24. This is the golden era of urban design in the U.S. characterized with a totally designed system of main circulation arteries, a network of parks, and clusters or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers.
a) Radburn
b) City Beautiful Era
c) Garden City Movement
d) Neighborhood Unit
25. The science of Human Settlements
a) Demography
b) Ekistics
c) Logistics
d) Conurbation
26. It is a merging of two or more metropolises with a population of 10 million or more
a) Conurbation
b) Megalopolises
c) Metropolitan
d) Threshold population
27. Each successive district admits the uses of all the more restricted districts
a) Spot zoning
b) Bonus zoning
c) Non-cumulative zoning
d) Inclusionary zoning
28. Exponents of the systems view of planning
i. Brian McLoughlin ii. George Chadwick iii. John Glasson iv. Alan Wilson
a) i, ii, iii
b) ii, iii, iv
c) i, iii, iv
d) i, ii, iv
See answers at http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/answers-to-review-questions-planning3.html
a) Renaissance
b) Bronze Age
c) Medieval Period
d) Atomic Age
2. They understood the importance of transportation and thus emerges as the first regional planners of the world
a) Greeks
b) Romans
c) Sumerians
d) Egyptians
3. He developed the first theoretical basis for physical planning
a) Hippodamus
b) Nicodemus
c) Nostradamus
d) Aristotle
4. Urbanization began around 4,000 BC in the area known as the
a) Fertile Crescent
b) Mediterranean
c) Babylon
d) Asia
5. Rectangular streets are examples of the
a) Axial
b) Ribbon-type
c) Grid-iron
d) Radial
6. What was the most important factor in designing settlement patterns during the Spanish Period in the Philippines
a) Religion
b) Economy
c) Transportation
d) Plaza
7. He postulated that population increases in a geometric ratio while food production increases arithmetically and that unless natural catastrophes, war or sexual restraint control population increase, worldwide famine or war will follow
a) Von Thunen
b) William Alonso
c) Lowdon Wingo Jr.
d) Robert Malthus
8. The sole regulatory body for housing and land use development. It is charged with encouraging greater private sector participation in low-cost housing through liberalization of development standards, simplification of regulations and decentralization of approvals for permits and licenses.
a) HUDCC
b) HLURB
c) UDHA
d) none of them
9. The most frequent shape of a city, a large circle with radial corridors of intense development emanating from the center.
a) Star
b) Radiocentric
c) Ring
d) None of them
10. This two corridors of intense development crosses at the center and is usually found in small cities
a) Linear
b) Branch
c) Rectilinear
d) None of them
11. These are ways in which the main elements within the city are arranged to form a pleasing and memorable pattern.
a) ornament
b) decoration
c) a & b
d) none of them
12. A street pattern that provides ease of orientation adopted to right angle
a) linear
b) grid
c) concentric
d) star-shaped
13. An area intended for regional shopping centers such as large shopping malls and other regional commercial activities, high-rise hotels, sports stadium or sports complexes.
a) C-1
b) C-2
c) C-3
d) None of them
14. Zoning takes the form of a locally enacted ordinance which embodies among others, regulations affecting:
a) Uses allowed or disallowed in each zone or district
b) Conditions for allowing them
c) Deviations legally allowed from the requirements of the ordinance.
d) All of the above
15. It shall refer to areas designated principally for trade, services and business purposes.
a) Commercial
b) Built-up area
c) CBD
d) None of them
16. The ratio of the total building floor area to the total lot area
a) Floor area ratio
b) Gross ratio
c) Net floor ratio
d) None of them
17. This zone is for particular types of institutional establishments e.g. welfare homes, orphanages, home for the aged, rehabilitation and training centers, military camps/reservation/bases/training grounds, etc.
a) AZ
b) AIZ
c) GIZ
d) SIZ
18. A residential motor court around which housing may be arranged.
a) Collector
b) Links
c) Cul-de-sac
d) None of them
19. He is the author of the 10-volume treatise “de Arkitektura” which relates experience of Roman architecture and town planning
a) Leonardo da Vinci
b) Hipodamus
c) c.) Nicoletus
d) Vitruvius
20. Arturo Soria y Mata suggested this type of development running from Cadiz, Spain across Europe through St. Petersburg in which he proposed that the logic of linear utility line should be the basis of all city lay-out
a) Boadacre
b) Linear City
c) Radiant City
d) Component City
21. This type of development pattern emerged as towns grew around a monastery or castle during the medieval times.
a) Radiocentric
b) Rectilinear
c) Ekistics
d) Nodes
22. Le Corbusier proposed this type of development that is anchored on the objective of decongesting the centers of our cities by increasing their densities by building high on small part of the total ground area.
a) Radburn
b) City Beautiful
c) Radiant City
d) Garden city
23. The minimum population necessary to support a service
a) Threshold population
b) Required population
c) Demography
d) Conurbation
24. This is the golden era of urban design in the U.S. characterized with a totally designed system of main circulation arteries, a network of parks, and clusters or focal buildings or building blocks of civic centers.
a) Radburn
b) City Beautiful Era
c) Garden City Movement
d) Neighborhood Unit
25. The science of Human Settlements
a) Demography
b) Ekistics
c) Logistics
d) Conurbation
26. It is a merging of two or more metropolises with a population of 10 million or more
a) Conurbation
b) Megalopolises
c) Metropolitan
d) Threshold population
27. Each successive district admits the uses of all the more restricted districts
a) Spot zoning
b) Bonus zoning
c) Non-cumulative zoning
d) Inclusionary zoning
28. Exponents of the systems view of planning
i. Brian McLoughlin ii. George Chadwick iii. John Glasson iv. Alan Wilson
a) i, ii, iii
b) ii, iii, iv
c) i, iii, iv
d) i, ii, iv
See answers at http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/answers-to-review-questions-planning3.html
Review Questions Planning3 Part2
1. It shall refer to a town deliberately planned and built which provides, in addition to houses, employment, shopping, education, recreation, culture and other services normally associated with a city or town.
a) New Town
b) PUD
c) Radburn
d) Neighborhood Unit
2. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of a population by age and sex.
a) Population Pyramid
b) Population Projection
c) Population Density
d) Population Implosion
3. The ability of an area’s resource system to support the activities of a given population.
a) Threshold Population
b) Resource Use
c) Carrying Capacity
d) Demography
4. The elements of the human settlements.
i. Nature
ii. Man
iii. Society
iv. Shells
v. Network
vi. Hamlet
vii. Community
a) i, ii, iii, v, vi
b) ii, iii, iv, v, vi
c) i, ii, iii, iv, v
d) i, iii, iv, v, vi
5. The period in history wherein towns grew around either a monastery or castle assuming a radiocentric pattern.
a) Renaissance
b) Ancient Rome
c) Medieval Times
d) Ancient World
6. Leonardo da Vinci described in this book a new concept of urban planning that was suited for Milan, a city straddling a river where upstream, the river was directed into 6 or 7 branches, all parallel to the main stream and rejoining it below the city.
a) Milan Plan
b) De Arkitektura
c) Linear City
d) Codex Atlanticus
7. He wrote the Chicago Plan which was heavily criticized and referred to as centro-centrist
a) Pierre Charles L’Enfant
b) Daniel Burnham
c) Frederick Law Olmstead
d) Clarence Stein
8. The golden era of urban design in the US
a) Garden City Era
b) The Park Movement Era
c) City Beautiful Era
d) The Conservationists Era
9. It is the division of a community into districts or zones according to present and potential uses of land to maximize, regulate and direct their use and development.
a) Comprehensive Development Planning
b) Zoning
c) Land Use Planning
d) Police Power
10. He advocated the concept of the “Social City”, a polycentric settlement, where growth is without limit, surrounded by a greenbelt.
a) Ebenezer Howard
b) Daniel Burnham
c) Frederick Law Olmstead
d) Arturo Soria Y Mata
11. Which one is bigger in the hierarchy of settlements
a) City
b) Metropolis
c) Conurbation
d) Megalopolis
12. He believed in the use of open space as element of urban system.
a) Pierre Charles L’Enfant
b) Daniel Burnham
c) Frederick Law Olmstead
d) Clarence Stein
13. The links within the settlement and with other settlements.
a) Shells
b) Networks
c) Norms
d) Hamlet
14. Father of American Town Planning.
a) Clarence Perry
b) Daniel Burnham
c) Frederick Law Olmstead
d) Clarence Stein
15. A central business district usually has a.
i. High Daytime Population
ii. Large Concentration of Office and Retail Activities
iii. Large Daily Inflow and Outflow of Commuter
a) i, ii, iii
b) i, ii
c) i only
d) iii only
16. Urban development tends to occur along major transportation routes because.
a) Population Tends to Concentrate Where Transportation is Available
b) Transportation Facilities Tend to Service Areas Where There is Population Concentration
c) Both a and b
d) None of the above
17. An area with a minimum income of P20M, at least 10,000 has. in land area or minimum population of 150,000.
a) Component city
b) Highly urbanized city
c) Independent component city
d) City
18. Metro Manila is considered a primate city because
a) It is the largest urban center of the country
b) It contains the country’s primary central business district
c) It has a very large population compared to all other urban centers of the country
d) It is a metropolitan center
19. A single detached dwelling unit is defined as a house
a) Good for one household
b) Intended for ownership
c) Completely surrounded by yards
d) With one or more of its sides abutting the property line
20. A single detached dwelling unit is defined as a house
a) good for one household
b) intended for ownership
c) completely surrounded by yards
d) with one or more of its sides abutting the property line
21. Growth in the proportion of a population living in urban areas
a) Urbanization
b) Demography
c) Megalopolis
d) Component
22. The agency responsible for coordinating the housing program is
a) NHA
b) HUDCC
c) HLURB
d) NEDA
23. An urban planning approach that puts priority on people and environment wherein the model is the traditional city neighborhood that existed before where workplaces, shops and houses where within walking distance of each other
a) Garden City
b) New Urbanism
c) Letchworth
d) Welwyn
24. He postulated that land use diminish intensively in reverse relationship to increased distance
a) Von Thunen
b) William Alonso
c) Lowdon Wingo Jr.
d) Robert Malthus
25. Where can we find the highest level policy statements on environmental protection?
a) Constitution
b) PD 1151
c) RA 5454
d) LOI 90
26. This refers to all barangays or portion/s of which comprise the poblacion and other built-up areas including the urbanizable land in and adjacent to said areas and where at least 50% of the population are engaged in non-agricultural activities:
a) Central business district
b) Urban area
c) City center
d) Suburban area
27. What is zoning?
a) It is the designation and delineation of specific areas of a community as functional land use zones which uses of land may be allowed or regulated in accordance with the goals and objection of the development plan
b) It is a tool to implement the development plan
c) It is a means of redistributing land acquisition and disposition
d) None of the above
28. An urban area becomes a central business district because this is an area where
a) Infrastructure is most concentrated
b) Economic activities and transactions are concentrated
c) The formal economy is present
d) Income is highest
29. The most efficient type of hierarchy of settlements is one wherein
a) There is no single, dominant urban center
b) All settlements are equal in size
c) All settlements are distributed equally in space
d) None of the above
30. Often, a hierarchy of settlements is characterized by the presence of
a) a few large cities, some medium-sized cities, and many small settlements
b) only medium-sized and small settlements
c) equally-sized large cities in every region
d) only one large city and many small settlements
31. A city pattern usually formed of a central core surrounded by a freely arranged constellation of satellite clusters.
a) Grid
b) Star
c) Galaxy
d) Concentric
See answers at http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/answers-to-review-questions-planning3_03.html
a) New Town
b) PUD
c) Radburn
d) Neighborhood Unit
2. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of a population by age and sex.
a) Population Pyramid
b) Population Projection
c) Population Density
d) Population Implosion
3. The ability of an area’s resource system to support the activities of a given population.
a) Threshold Population
b) Resource Use
c) Carrying Capacity
d) Demography
4. The elements of the human settlements.
i. Nature
ii. Man
iii. Society
iv. Shells
v. Network
vi. Hamlet
vii. Community
a) i, ii, iii, v, vi
b) ii, iii, iv, v, vi
c) i, ii, iii, iv, v
d) i, iii, iv, v, vi
5. The period in history wherein towns grew around either a monastery or castle assuming a radiocentric pattern.
a) Renaissance
b) Ancient Rome
c) Medieval Times
d) Ancient World
6. Leonardo da Vinci described in this book a new concept of urban planning that was suited for Milan, a city straddling a river where upstream, the river was directed into 6 or 7 branches, all parallel to the main stream and rejoining it below the city.
a) Milan Plan
b) De Arkitektura
c) Linear City
d) Codex Atlanticus
7. He wrote the Chicago Plan which was heavily criticized and referred to as centro-centrist
a) Pierre Charles L’Enfant
b) Daniel Burnham
c) Frederick Law Olmstead
d) Clarence Stein
8. The golden era of urban design in the US
a) Garden City Era
b) The Park Movement Era
c) City Beautiful Era
d) The Conservationists Era
9. It is the division of a community into districts or zones according to present and potential uses of land to maximize, regulate and direct their use and development.
a) Comprehensive Development Planning
b) Zoning
c) Land Use Planning
d) Police Power
10. He advocated the concept of the “Social City”, a polycentric settlement, where growth is without limit, surrounded by a greenbelt.
a) Ebenezer Howard
b) Daniel Burnham
c) Frederick Law Olmstead
d) Arturo Soria Y Mata
11. Which one is bigger in the hierarchy of settlements
a) City
b) Metropolis
c) Conurbation
d) Megalopolis
12. He believed in the use of open space as element of urban system.
a) Pierre Charles L’Enfant
b) Daniel Burnham
c) Frederick Law Olmstead
d) Clarence Stein
13. The links within the settlement and with other settlements.
a) Shells
b) Networks
c) Norms
d) Hamlet
14. Father of American Town Planning.
a) Clarence Perry
b) Daniel Burnham
c) Frederick Law Olmstead
d) Clarence Stein
15. A central business district usually has a.
i. High Daytime Population
ii. Large Concentration of Office and Retail Activities
iii. Large Daily Inflow and Outflow of Commuter
a) i, ii, iii
b) i, ii
c) i only
d) iii only
16. Urban development tends to occur along major transportation routes because.
a) Population Tends to Concentrate Where Transportation is Available
b) Transportation Facilities Tend to Service Areas Where There is Population Concentration
c) Both a and b
d) None of the above
17. An area with a minimum income of P20M, at least 10,000 has. in land area or minimum population of 150,000.
a) Component city
b) Highly urbanized city
c) Independent component city
d) City
18. Metro Manila is considered a primate city because
a) It is the largest urban center of the country
b) It contains the country’s primary central business district
c) It has a very large population compared to all other urban centers of the country
d) It is a metropolitan center
19. A single detached dwelling unit is defined as a house
a) Good for one household
b) Intended for ownership
c) Completely surrounded by yards
d) With one or more of its sides abutting the property line
20. A single detached dwelling unit is defined as a house
a) good for one household
b) intended for ownership
c) completely surrounded by yards
d) with one or more of its sides abutting the property line
21. Growth in the proportion of a population living in urban areas
a) Urbanization
b) Demography
c) Megalopolis
d) Component
22. The agency responsible for coordinating the housing program is
a) NHA
b) HUDCC
c) HLURB
d) NEDA
23. An urban planning approach that puts priority on people and environment wherein the model is the traditional city neighborhood that existed before where workplaces, shops and houses where within walking distance of each other
a) Garden City
b) New Urbanism
c) Letchworth
d) Welwyn
24. He postulated that land use diminish intensively in reverse relationship to increased distance
a) Von Thunen
b) William Alonso
c) Lowdon Wingo Jr.
d) Robert Malthus
25. Where can we find the highest level policy statements on environmental protection?
a) Constitution
b) PD 1151
c) RA 5454
d) LOI 90
26. This refers to all barangays or portion/s of which comprise the poblacion and other built-up areas including the urbanizable land in and adjacent to said areas and where at least 50% of the population are engaged in non-agricultural activities:
a) Central business district
b) Urban area
c) City center
d) Suburban area
27. What is zoning?
a) It is the designation and delineation of specific areas of a community as functional land use zones which uses of land may be allowed or regulated in accordance with the goals and objection of the development plan
b) It is a tool to implement the development plan
c) It is a means of redistributing land acquisition and disposition
d) None of the above
28. An urban area becomes a central business district because this is an area where
a) Infrastructure is most concentrated
b) Economic activities and transactions are concentrated
c) The formal economy is present
d) Income is highest
29. The most efficient type of hierarchy of settlements is one wherein
a) There is no single, dominant urban center
b) All settlements are equal in size
c) All settlements are distributed equally in space
d) None of the above
30. Often, a hierarchy of settlements is characterized by the presence of
a) a few large cities, some medium-sized cities, and many small settlements
b) only medium-sized and small settlements
c) equally-sized large cities in every region
d) only one large city and many small settlements
31. A city pattern usually formed of a central core surrounded by a freely arranged constellation of satellite clusters.
a) Grid
b) Star
c) Galaxy
d) Concentric
See answers at http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/answers-to-review-questions-planning3_03.html
Review Questions Planning Part1
1. A system for recording planning data and ordering the planning process
a) Ekistics Grid
b) Survey before plan
c) Grid System
d) Sectoral Planning
2. Patrick Geddes coined this term to mean the conglomeration of town aggregates, describing the waves of population to large cities followed by overcrowding and slum formation
a) Backflow
b) Broadacre
c) Amorphic
d) Connurbation
3. Also called a “new town idea” which is to create a series of superblocks, island of greens, bordered by homes and carefully skirted by peripheral auto roads.
a) Radburn
b) Neighborhood Unit
c) Broadacre
d) Garden city
4. The result of dense concentrations of people and residents, mixed blocks of different age and conditions.
a) Genius Loci
b) Yuppification
c) Amorphic
d) Obsolescence
5. The maximum distance a consumer is willing to travel to avail of a good or service beyond which people will look to another center
a) Hierarchy of Services
b) Market Area Analysis
c) Market Range
d) Core Periphery
6. Minimization of total costs (transport and production costs) in site selection; supply-oriented
a) Profit Maximizing
b) Market Area Analysis
c) Market Range
d) Least Cost Approach
7. Planning that contains the entire components relevant to the requirements of a geographic area, say socio-economic plan, land use plan, implementing machinery and specific programs and projects within a given time frame.
a) Action-Oriented
b) Sectoral Planning
c) Comprehensive Planning
d) Zoning
8. Planning on a longer term (5 – 10 years) and deals on a particular sector, say transportation, industry or housing.
a) Action-Oriented
b) Comprehensive Planning
c) Sectoral Planning
d) CLUP
9. A plan that has been formulated to check immediate problems of a community on a short term basis.
a) Action-Oriented
b) Sectoral Planning
c) Comprehensive Planning
d) CLUP
10. He conceived the city as a series of five concentric zones
a) Burgess
b) Hoyt
c) Mckenzie
d) Ullman
11. The ever-increasing use of automobiles produced a shift to a more dispersed pattern of development in cities referred to as.
a) Scatteration
b) Sprawl
c) Linear
d) Transition
12. The concept of Homer Hoyt which provided insights into the patterning of land uses and led to a theoretical explanation on residential land uses in terms of wedge-shaped sectors radial to the city’s center along established lines of transportation
a) Concentric Zone Concept
b) Sector Concept
c) Multiple Nuclei Concept
d) Transition
13. Determinants of location
i. Cost and Revenue ii. Topography iii. Accessibility iv. Desirability
a) i, ii, iii
b) ii, iii, iv
c) i, iii, iv
d) i, ii, iv
14. A local legal measure which embodies regulations affecting land use is
a) CLUP
b) Zoning Ordinance
c) Cadastral Survey
d) Tax Declaration
15. In central business districts, the highest land values are usually the areas where…
i. Zoning is for Commercial Land Use
ii. No Front Setback
iii. Fronting the Road
iv. Density is Highest
a) i, ii
b) iii, iv
c) i, iii
d) I, iv
16. An urban ecology process that occurred as early as the late 19th century in England and was attributable among others to the railway system, a mobile middle class and the tendency to establish housing estates/model dwellings.
a) Urbanization
b) Suburbanization
c) Gentrification
d) Sprawl
17. The planning body of the local government unit which assists the Sanggunian in setting the direction for economic and social development and coordinating development efforts within its territorial jurisdiction.
a) LDC
b) Mayor
c) SEPP
d) CLUP
18. A type of urban development in which activities are concentrated at the core and supported by rings of varying width and land use.
a) Star-Shaped
b) Concentric
c) Galaxy
d) Cluster
19. It is a land development scheme wherein project site is comprehensively planned as an entity via unitary site plan which permits flexibility in planning/design, building siting, and the preservation of significant natural land features.
a) PUD
b) STRIP Development
c) Mixed-Use Development
d) New Urbanism
20. A type of development wherein development is on direct frontage on primary distributors.
a) Arterial
b) Commercial Dev’t
c) Strip Development
d) Radburn
21. A concept wherein blocks are lengthened, and cross streets reduced in number or eliminated.
a) Superblock
b) T-intersection
c) Grade Separation
d) Radburn
22. This hypothesis is built around the observation that frequently there are a series of nuclei in the patterning of the urban land uses rather than the single central core used in the other theories.
a) Concentric Nuclei Concept
b) Sector Nuclei Concept
c) Multiple Nuclei Concept
d) Transition
23. A document that describes the present or actual situation of the community in relation to its natural and human resources.
a) SEPP
b) CLUP
c) CDP
d) IP
24. It means the combination of commercial and residential uses on a single lot or within a single integrated development on multiple lots.
a) PUD
b) Mixed-Use Development
c) New Urbanism
d) Cluster Development
25. A major CBD serves a population of _____.
a) 50,000-100,000
b) 100,000-250,000
c) 250,000-300,000
d) 300,000-500,000
26. The use of land which generates the maximum profit without negative consequences especially on the environment
a) Highest and Best Use
b) Zoning
c) Land Use
d) Planning
27. The second zone in Burgess Concentric Zone Theory.
a) CBD
b) Transition Zone
c) Independent Working Men’s Homes
d) Area of Better Residences
28. These development forms a mini-community in which these parts are shared: semi-private open spaces, paths and stairways, parking facilities, children’s play areas, etc.
a) PUD
b) Mixed-Use Development
c) Cluster Development
d) New Urbanism
29. Built-up areas in a general land use map is represented by what colr.
a) Red
b) Yellow
c) Blue
d) Brown
30. According to the Multiple Nuclei Model of Harris and Ullman, this activity will be located on the outskirts of towns or where the outskirts were when the development took place.
a) Heavy Industry
b) High Class Housing
c) CBD
d) Lower Quality Housing
Answers at: http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/answers-to-review-questions-planning3_7445.html
a) Ekistics Grid
b) Survey before plan
c) Grid System
d) Sectoral Planning
2. Patrick Geddes coined this term to mean the conglomeration of town aggregates, describing the waves of population to large cities followed by overcrowding and slum formation
a) Backflow
b) Broadacre
c) Amorphic
d) Connurbation
3. Also called a “new town idea” which is to create a series of superblocks, island of greens, bordered by homes and carefully skirted by peripheral auto roads.
a) Radburn
b) Neighborhood Unit
c) Broadacre
d) Garden city
4. The result of dense concentrations of people and residents, mixed blocks of different age and conditions.
a) Genius Loci
b) Yuppification
c) Amorphic
d) Obsolescence
5. The maximum distance a consumer is willing to travel to avail of a good or service beyond which people will look to another center
a) Hierarchy of Services
b) Market Area Analysis
c) Market Range
d) Core Periphery
6. Minimization of total costs (transport and production costs) in site selection; supply-oriented
a) Profit Maximizing
b) Market Area Analysis
c) Market Range
d) Least Cost Approach
7. Planning that contains the entire components relevant to the requirements of a geographic area, say socio-economic plan, land use plan, implementing machinery and specific programs and projects within a given time frame.
a) Action-Oriented
b) Sectoral Planning
c) Comprehensive Planning
d) Zoning
8. Planning on a longer term (5 – 10 years) and deals on a particular sector, say transportation, industry or housing.
a) Action-Oriented
b) Comprehensive Planning
c) Sectoral Planning
d) CLUP
9. A plan that has been formulated to check immediate problems of a community on a short term basis.
a) Action-Oriented
b) Sectoral Planning
c) Comprehensive Planning
d) CLUP
10. He conceived the city as a series of five concentric zones
a) Burgess
b) Hoyt
c) Mckenzie
d) Ullman
11. The ever-increasing use of automobiles produced a shift to a more dispersed pattern of development in cities referred to as.
a) Scatteration
b) Sprawl
c) Linear
d) Transition
12. The concept of Homer Hoyt which provided insights into the patterning of land uses and led to a theoretical explanation on residential land uses in terms of wedge-shaped sectors radial to the city’s center along established lines of transportation
a) Concentric Zone Concept
b) Sector Concept
c) Multiple Nuclei Concept
d) Transition
13. Determinants of location
i. Cost and Revenue ii. Topography iii. Accessibility iv. Desirability
a) i, ii, iii
b) ii, iii, iv
c) i, iii, iv
d) i, ii, iv
14. A local legal measure which embodies regulations affecting land use is
a) CLUP
b) Zoning Ordinance
c) Cadastral Survey
d) Tax Declaration
15. In central business districts, the highest land values are usually the areas where…
i. Zoning is for Commercial Land Use
ii. No Front Setback
iii. Fronting the Road
iv. Density is Highest
a) i, ii
b) iii, iv
c) i, iii
d) I, iv
16. An urban ecology process that occurred as early as the late 19th century in England and was attributable among others to the railway system, a mobile middle class and the tendency to establish housing estates/model dwellings.
a) Urbanization
b) Suburbanization
c) Gentrification
d) Sprawl
17. The planning body of the local government unit which assists the Sanggunian in setting the direction for economic and social development and coordinating development efforts within its territorial jurisdiction.
a) LDC
b) Mayor
c) SEPP
d) CLUP
18. A type of urban development in which activities are concentrated at the core and supported by rings of varying width and land use.
a) Star-Shaped
b) Concentric
c) Galaxy
d) Cluster
19. It is a land development scheme wherein project site is comprehensively planned as an entity via unitary site plan which permits flexibility in planning/design, building siting, and the preservation of significant natural land features.
a) PUD
b) STRIP Development
c) Mixed-Use Development
d) New Urbanism
20. A type of development wherein development is on direct frontage on primary distributors.
a) Arterial
b) Commercial Dev’t
c) Strip Development
d) Radburn
21. A concept wherein blocks are lengthened, and cross streets reduced in number or eliminated.
a) Superblock
b) T-intersection
c) Grade Separation
d) Radburn
22. This hypothesis is built around the observation that frequently there are a series of nuclei in the patterning of the urban land uses rather than the single central core used in the other theories.
a) Concentric Nuclei Concept
b) Sector Nuclei Concept
c) Multiple Nuclei Concept
d) Transition
23. A document that describes the present or actual situation of the community in relation to its natural and human resources.
a) SEPP
b) CLUP
c) CDP
d) IP
24. It means the combination of commercial and residential uses on a single lot or within a single integrated development on multiple lots.
a) PUD
b) Mixed-Use Development
c) New Urbanism
d) Cluster Development
25. A major CBD serves a population of _____.
a) 50,000-100,000
b) 100,000-250,000
c) 250,000-300,000
d) 300,000-500,000
26. The use of land which generates the maximum profit without negative consequences especially on the environment
a) Highest and Best Use
b) Zoning
c) Land Use
d) Planning
27. The second zone in Burgess Concentric Zone Theory.
a) CBD
b) Transition Zone
c) Independent Working Men’s Homes
d) Area of Better Residences
28. These development forms a mini-community in which these parts are shared: semi-private open spaces, paths and stairways, parking facilities, children’s play areas, etc.
a) PUD
b) Mixed-Use Development
c) Cluster Development
d) New Urbanism
29. Built-up areas in a general land use map is represented by what colr.
a) Red
b) Yellow
c) Blue
d) Brown
30. According to the Multiple Nuclei Model of Harris and Ullman, this activity will be located on the outskirts of towns or where the outskirts were when the development took place.
a) Heavy Industry
b) High Class Housing
c) CBD
d) Lower Quality Housing
Answers at: http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/answers-to-review-questions-planning3_7445.html
Planning 3 Module 2: Ekistics
Human settlements are no longer satisfactory for their inhabitants…
�economically speaking
- don’t have the means to satisfy their basic needs
- remain homeless or live in houses of very low quality
�social point of view
- man appears to be lost in the big cities
- feels abandoned by progress in many small towns/villages
�political level
- new types of societies and new types of people have not found their corresponding political institution.
�technical point of view
- most settlements don’t have the facilities indispensable to their proper functioning in spite of the technological achievements
�aesthetically
- the ugliness of human settlements around
creating better conditions for tomorrow can be understood better if we look into the different elements of the human settlements…
Human Settlements & their Elements
Human settlements are settlements inhabited by man. Human settlements should satisfy man.
Human settlements consist of:
a. the CONTENT (man, alone or in societies)
b. the CONTAINER (or the physical settlement, which consists both natural and man-made or artificial elements)
When taken together make up the human settlement whose largest possible dimensions are defined by the geographic limits of the earths surface.
The total surface of the Earth:
�the largest possible container of man
�the whole cosmos of man
�the cosmos of the anthropos
�the anthropocosmos
Such definition of human settlement implies that it is not merely 3-dimensional but 4-dimensional. . .
- man & society change continuously and by so doing, create functions which unlike shells (which can be conceived in 3-dimensional terms) require a fourth dimension ---TIME in order to be carried out
- a 3-dimensional conception of a settlement is very like a film which suddenly stops and arrest all the figures in their movements. A still photograph of a building looks real only if there are no human figures in the pictures; if people have been arrested in the process of walking in front of the building, then the picture is frozen, unreal.
A human settlement needs both categories of elements in order to come into existence…
� man alone or in groups, if not settled anywhere cannot be said to form a settlement or even a part of one.
� once he does settle somewhere even temporary, we have a temporary, elementary settlement in which a pattern of relationship between man and his container comes into existence for a certain period of time (one day, many days, or one season) regardless of whether the container is a natural one ( a cave) or man-made (tent or a building).
Nature alone, without man, cannot be said to form a settlement or even a container, since it has no human content…
� a man-made settlement is only the corpse or the abandoned shell of a settlement, which must be considered dead as in any other corpse.
� some people call dead settlement a “settlement” but this is no more correct calling the shell of a snail a snail.
� term is used in many such cases for reasons of simplicity, but this is not accurate and should be used with care to avoid confusion.
2 basic elements of human settlements (Doxiadis)
THE CONTENT AND THE CONTAINER
This can be further subdivided into 5 categories (in hierarchical order)
(Container)� NATURE – providing the foundation upon which the settlement is created and the frame within it can function
(Content)� MAN – an individual, Homo Sapiens
- biological needs (oxygen, nutrition)
- sensation and perception (5 senses)
- emotional needs (satisfaction, security, sense of belonging)
- moral values
(Content)� SOCIETY – a group of individuals sharing the same culture, values, norms, and traditions
(Container)� SHELLS or the structures within which man lives and carries out his different functions, the built component.
(Container)� NETWORKS or the natural and man-made system which facilitate the functioning of the settlement, or links within the settlement, roads, communications systems, utilities, etc.
Hierarchy of human settlements…
� a hamlet, a neighborhood, a small village
� a community, a town
� a city, an urban area
� a metropolis
� a conurbation – a composite of cities, metropolises, urban areas
� a megalopolis – merging of two or more metropolises with a population of 10M or more; a 20th century phenomenon (Megalopolis - concept coined by Jean Gottmann for urban complexes in the Northeastern United States.)
… a hierarchy of settlements is characterized by a few large cities, some medium-sized cities, and many small settlements.
go to Module 3: http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/module-3-planning-3-location-theory.html
�economically speaking
- don’t have the means to satisfy their basic needs
- remain homeless or live in houses of very low quality
�social point of view
- man appears to be lost in the big cities
- feels abandoned by progress in many small towns/villages
�political level
- new types of societies and new types of people have not found their corresponding political institution.
�technical point of view
- most settlements don’t have the facilities indispensable to their proper functioning in spite of the technological achievements
�aesthetically
- the ugliness of human settlements around
creating better conditions for tomorrow can be understood better if we look into the different elements of the human settlements…
Human Settlements & their Elements
Human settlements are settlements inhabited by man. Human settlements should satisfy man.
Human settlements consist of:
a. the CONTENT (man, alone or in societies)
b. the CONTAINER (or the physical settlement, which consists both natural and man-made or artificial elements)
When taken together make up the human settlement whose largest possible dimensions are defined by the geographic limits of the earths surface.
The total surface of the Earth:
�the largest possible container of man
�the whole cosmos of man
�the cosmos of the anthropos
�the anthropocosmos
Such definition of human settlement implies that it is not merely 3-dimensional but 4-dimensional. . .
- man & society change continuously and by so doing, create functions which unlike shells (which can be conceived in 3-dimensional terms) require a fourth dimension ---TIME in order to be carried out
- a 3-dimensional conception of a settlement is very like a film which suddenly stops and arrest all the figures in their movements. A still photograph of a building looks real only if there are no human figures in the pictures; if people have been arrested in the process of walking in front of the building, then the picture is frozen, unreal.
A human settlement needs both categories of elements in order to come into existence…
� man alone or in groups, if not settled anywhere cannot be said to form a settlement or even a part of one.
� once he does settle somewhere even temporary, we have a temporary, elementary settlement in which a pattern of relationship between man and his container comes into existence for a certain period of time (one day, many days, or one season) regardless of whether the container is a natural one ( a cave) or man-made (tent or a building).
Nature alone, without man, cannot be said to form a settlement or even a container, since it has no human content…
� a man-made settlement is only the corpse or the abandoned shell of a settlement, which must be considered dead as in any other corpse.
� some people call dead settlement a “settlement” but this is no more correct calling the shell of a snail a snail.
� term is used in many such cases for reasons of simplicity, but this is not accurate and should be used with care to avoid confusion.
2 basic elements of human settlements (Doxiadis)
THE CONTENT AND THE CONTAINER
This can be further subdivided into 5 categories (in hierarchical order)
(Container)� NATURE – providing the foundation upon which the settlement is created and the frame within it can function
(Content)� MAN – an individual, Homo Sapiens
- biological needs (oxygen, nutrition)
- sensation and perception (5 senses)
- emotional needs (satisfaction, security, sense of belonging)
- moral values
(Content)� SOCIETY – a group of individuals sharing the same culture, values, norms, and traditions
(Container)� SHELLS or the structures within which man lives and carries out his different functions, the built component.
(Container)� NETWORKS or the natural and man-made system which facilitate the functioning of the settlement, or links within the settlement, roads, communications systems, utilities, etc.
Hierarchy of human settlements…
� a hamlet, a neighborhood, a small village
� a community, a town
� a city, an urban area
� a metropolis
� a conurbation – a composite of cities, metropolises, urban areas
� a megalopolis – merging of two or more metropolises with a population of 10M or more; a 20th century phenomenon (Megalopolis - concept coined by Jean Gottmann for urban complexes in the Northeastern United States.)
… a hierarchy of settlements is characterized by a few large cities, some medium-sized cities, and many small settlements.
go to Module 3: http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/06/module-3-planning-3-location-theory.html
Planning 3 Introduction (Module 1b)
Cities are a human invention. They are the result of a deliberate effort to expand social life and to make it more satisfying. The invention of agriculture and invention of cities resulted in complex social organizations. Longer life spans, larger populations, expanded knowledge and education, improved health, expanded welfare, and the proliferation of the arts and of recreational activities became major aspects of urban way of life.
Urbanization has saturated many of the world societies. Early cities developed government, commerce, and religion as distinct activities and occupations. Early urban way of life was clearly different from the rural way of life. But urban social organizations continued to grow beyond walls and city limits. Cities are people – ideas of culture and science – more than they are physical buildings or geographical places.
City-generated lifestyles are now spreading so rapidly that we may expect them soon to urbanize the entire archipelago...
HOMOS SAPIENS
…early times, a rare animal living in sporadic but intense competition with other animals and subsisting by hunting and food gathering.
…became successful in adapting his environment to his own needs and in the creation of artificial habitats.
…gained a position of almost complete domination over all other forms of life on earth, greatly expanded his sources of food and energy and his ability to modify the effects of nature on him.
…unique skills and powers evidenced by the great increase in his numbers
Human population is doubling itself within one hundred years.
T.R. Malthus, an English economist theorized that “population increases in a geometric ratio while subsistence increases arithmetically and that unless natural catastrophes, war, or sexual restraint control population increase, worldwide famine or war will follow.”
Exploitation of nature in new and disturbing ways were recognized.
Increasing numbers of mankind and the supplies of food and shelter are the most profound problems
…beyond mere subsistence lie questions of the quality of life – bodily and mental health, happiness, fulfillment, joy.
The ultimate source of all the benefits of life is the EARTH itself and man’s relationship to all its life and resources.
Man’s life is intricately woven into the whole web of life on earth. His astonishing powers have not enabled him to control nature in any categorical sense but merely to administer much more disturbances than before.
No matter how socialized our activities are, how artificial their immediate environment and how much local and immediate control may be exercised, WE ARE PART OF THE PLANET’S ECOLOGY AND WE IGNORE THE FACT AT OUR PERIL
Solutions must come about in two ways…
- there are enormous ethical problems raised by the need to make choices and decisions affecting the relationships between men and all other forms of life and between different human groups.
- there is the problem of understanding the nature of all these relationships in order to create more effective and sympathetic controls over the problem.
This course is concerned with the aspect of understanding the complex systems of man’s activities in the whole context of the planets ecological systems.
go to Module 2: http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/05/planning-3-module-2-ekistics.html
Urbanization has saturated many of the world societies. Early cities developed government, commerce, and religion as distinct activities and occupations. Early urban way of life was clearly different from the rural way of life. But urban social organizations continued to grow beyond walls and city limits. Cities are people – ideas of culture and science – more than they are physical buildings or geographical places.
City-generated lifestyles are now spreading so rapidly that we may expect them soon to urbanize the entire archipelago...
HOMOS SAPIENS
…early times, a rare animal living in sporadic but intense competition with other animals and subsisting by hunting and food gathering.
…became successful in adapting his environment to his own needs and in the creation of artificial habitats.
…gained a position of almost complete domination over all other forms of life on earth, greatly expanded his sources of food and energy and his ability to modify the effects of nature on him.
…unique skills and powers evidenced by the great increase in his numbers
Human population is doubling itself within one hundred years.
T.R. Malthus, an English economist theorized that “population increases in a geometric ratio while subsistence increases arithmetically and that unless natural catastrophes, war, or sexual restraint control population increase, worldwide famine or war will follow.”
Exploitation of nature in new and disturbing ways were recognized.
Increasing numbers of mankind and the supplies of food and shelter are the most profound problems
…beyond mere subsistence lie questions of the quality of life – bodily and mental health, happiness, fulfillment, joy.
The ultimate source of all the benefits of life is the EARTH itself and man’s relationship to all its life and resources.
Man’s life is intricately woven into the whole web of life on earth. His astonishing powers have not enabled him to control nature in any categorical sense but merely to administer much more disturbances than before.
No matter how socialized our activities are, how artificial their immediate environment and how much local and immediate control may be exercised, WE ARE PART OF THE PLANET’S ECOLOGY AND WE IGNORE THE FACT AT OUR PERIL
Solutions must come about in two ways…
- there are enormous ethical problems raised by the need to make choices and decisions affecting the relationships between men and all other forms of life and between different human groups.
- there is the problem of understanding the nature of all these relationships in order to create more effective and sympathetic controls over the problem.
This course is concerned with the aspect of understanding the complex systems of man’s activities in the whole context of the planets ecological systems.
go to Module 2: http://pupclass.blogspot.com/2008/05/planning-3-module-2-ekistics.html
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