PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING

Maria Lourdes T. Munárriz, PhD, EnP UP-School of Urban and Regional Planning

Institute of Environmental Planners

Cities and Urban Areas

… relational support systems spread across many dimensions. Neighbours live in different ‘life-worlds’.

The neighbourhood can simply be a collection of households connected by passing in the street.

Cities and Urban Areas

Sharing spaces is more complex …

with new lifestyle ideas,

with new limits to material resources,

… demands are generated for:

new housing forms,

new types of location,

new products, etc.

… and in turn, change the spatial structure of urban regions.

Planning and Development of Cities and Urban Areas

Urban structure has become fluid, multi-nodal and complexly-layered.

Requires new efforts in imaginative capacity and socio-spatial understanding.

Urbanization Issues

Sports and healthy lifestyles generate new kinds of leisure developments, new housing projects, and new facilities.

Lively use of city centres in the evenings can be associated with …

• Gangs

• Drugs, alcohol

… a form which older people find threatening and hostile.

Urbanization Issues

Concept of Dwelling:

a unit of shelter,

a home, a workplace,

a social setting,

a base for many leisure activities,

a location for household’s material goods,

a refuge and

a solace from the difficulties of life outside.

Urbanization Issues

Change in the concept of Dwelling:

– has become a major preoccupation of the management of local environmental change in many cities.

– change in social status of neighbours due to burglary and assault

– change in use of environments … elites have live in gated villages.

– change in the whole planning system.

Urbanization Issues

Evidence from the US and Britain shows

… through the 1980s, the scale of disadvantage between those doing well in our societies and those doing badly has increased (Pinch, 1993).

Urbanization Issues

Failure of the concept of mass provision … evident from the 1960s

… concepts of Weber and Marx about societies to redress inequalities

Academicians and policymakers became aware of conditions in many urban neighbourhoods …

… people live in multiple dimensions of social discrimination and disadvantage.

Urbanization Issues

Climate change, the more recent urbanization issue has brought high disaster risks, e. g.,

Strong typhoons … flooding

Extreme weather … heavy snow, blizzard, etc.

Urban Planning Principles Planning Institute Australia (PIA)

Improve urban form, legibility and coherence to balance and achieve social, economic and environmental outcomes.

Foster efficient and effective settlement patterns to promote prosperity, equitable distribution of resources and opportunities.

Urban Planning Principles PIA

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Improve urban form, legibility and coherence to balance and achieve social, economic and environmental outcomes.

Foster efficient and effective settlement patterns to promote prosperity, equitable distribution of resources and opportunities.

Urban Planning Principles PIA

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Predict, avoid and ameliorate the adverse economic, social and environmental consequences of human activities, promote intergenerational equity, prudent use of non-renewable resources, the sustainable use of renewable resources, and the precautionary principle.

Urban Planning Principles PIA

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Reflect our distinctive national character, nurture vibrant communities and contribute to our knowledge of ourselves and our built and natural environments.

Regional Planning Principles wikipedia

Regional planning will seek to:

Resist development in flood plains or along earthquake faults. These areas may be utilised as parks, or unimproved farmland.

Designate transportation corridors and considering major new infrastructure

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Regional planning will seek to:

Consider designating essential nuisance land uses locations, including waste disposal.

Designate green belt land or similar to resist settlement amalgamation and protect the environment.

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Regional planning will seek to:

Set regional level ‘policy’ and zoning which encourages a mix of housing values and communities.

Consider building codes, zoning laws and policies that encourage the best use of the land.

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