UNIT 4-Process in Landscape Planning

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Process in Landscape

planning

UNIT IV


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Need for Landscape planning

Competition for scarce land, water,

biological and energy resources

T!e need to protect t!reatened

en"ironments

T!e desire to maintain or impro"e t!e

#uality of life $as distinct from material

de"elopment%

&orldwide issues suc! as 'desertification,

misuse of tropical forest, global warming,

loss of wetlands( subse#uent water


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&!o ma)es *ecisions+

o"ernment officials, Politicians,

corporation officials, -ilitary and "arious

ot!er organi.ations including citi.en groups

Professional planners ' /ole of Tec!nical

ad"isors

Pro"iding data, defining alternati"e course of

actions, forecasting impacts, and structuringstrategies


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Landscape planning

Considers t!e Landscape as a series of

!abitats in w!ic! "arious forms of life reside,

and t!at any c!anges to t!e !abitats s!ould

be 0udged t!e way t!ey will affect t!e li"ing

conditions

Co"ers t!e macro en"ironment of Landuse

and planning acti"ity dealing wit! t!elandscape features, processes and

systems


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T!e tas)s and scope of landscape planning,

as defined by landscape planning commission

of IUCN is as follows(T!e ecology and appearance of a landscape is

formed and will continue to be formed by

geological, economic, landuse, climate and social

factors T!ese factors are normally studied asseparate sub0ects

T!e role of landscape planner is to understand t!e

interactions and effects of t!ese factors on t!e

landscape

1y t!is understanding !e can assess t!e possible

conse#uences of c!anges on t!e landscape and

can ad"ise !ow c!anges may eit!er

2% be absorbed into t!e e3isting ecological condition


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&!at a Landscape Plan Is

4stablis!es oals, 5b0ecti"es, /esponsibilities

and Priorities

*efines6

&!at you want t!e land to loo) li)e and w!at you wantto get from it7

8ow you9ll wor) to get it t!at way7

&!o will wor) get it t!at way7 and

&!en t!ey9d li)e to get it t!at way

Identifies )nowledge gaps and fills )nowledge

gaps

5utlines monitoring tool for management


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2ll Planning starts from a "ision ordirection 5"erall direction of Plan, almost

always represents some sort of policy

decision7 one based on a formal conceptof w!at a community, city or

neig!bour!ood intends for itself and t!us

will stri"e to become T!ese concepts

about t!e future are called planning goals

and t!ey are t!e dri"ing force be!ind t!e

planning process


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Process

Planning realm (*ecision ma)ing, tec!nical and

*esign

*ecision ma)ing process6 1uilding met!ods and

means for arri"ing at planning decisions, formulatingplans and t!en pro"iding t!e directions necessary for

carrying out decisions

Tas)s commonly underta)en are 6

Consolidation of Tec!nical studies

*efinition of rele"ant policies

2rticulation of goals

:ormulation of alternati"e courses of actions;election of referred lans


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Tec!nical planning6 Includes processes and

ser"ices t!at are used in support of bot!

decision ma)ing and design acti"itiesIncludes ' 4n"ironmental in"entories,

carried out by specialists

;oil "egetation mapping4ngineering analysis

;oil suitability for construction

Tec!nical *ecision ma)ing


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Landscape design 6 4ntails t!e laying out on

paper< Computer screen, t!e configuration

of t!e uses, features and facilities t!at are

built, c!anged or preser"ed by "irtue of t!edecision ma)er9s decision


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in

Landscape

planning4n"ironmentalin"entory


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5pportunity and constraint


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;ite assessment


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Land capability

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