Urban Design and Community Planning July 25, 2019

15-21006

University of Nueva Caceres

College of Engineering and Architecture
City of Naga

URBAN DESIGN
AND
COMMUNITY PLANNING
ARCH413a-J5b
PLANNING 2 FUNDAMENTALS OF URBAN DESIGN AND COMMUNITY PLANNING

BY:
15-21006, Tilak Madanlo
July 25, 2019

This paper revolves around planning, the fundamentals of urban planning and community planning to the society, socio-
cultural basis of design in communities and Historical background, aesthetics and community architecture.
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I. URBAN DESIGN
1.1 Introduction
Urban design involves the arrangement and design of buildings, public spaces, transport systems, services, and
amenities it is the process of giving form, shape, and character to groups of buildings, to whole neighbourhoods, and the
city. It is a framework that orders the elements into a network of streets, squares, and blocks. Urban design blends
architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning together to make urban areas functional and attractive.
Urban design draws together the many strands of place-making, environmental stewardship, social equity and
economic viability into the creation of places with distinct beauty and identity. It creates connections through people,
community and the environment through movement of urban planning. Urban design is derived from but transcends
planning and transportation policy, architectural design, development economics, engineering and landscape. It draws
these and other strands together creating a vision for an area and then deploying the resources and skills needed to bring
the vision to life.

1.2 Urban design involves place-making

The creation of a setting that imparts a sense of place to an area. This process is achieved by establishing identifiable
neighbourhoods, unique architecture, aesthetically pleasing public places and vistas, identifiable landmarks and focal
points, and a human element established by compatible scales of development and ongoing public stewardship. Other key
elements of place making include: lively commercial centres, mixed-use development with ground-floor retail uses,
human-scale and context-sensitive design; safe and attractive public areas; image-making; and decorative elements in the
public realm.
Urban design practice areas range in scale from small public spaces or streets to neighbourhoods, city-wide systems, or
whole regions.

"Urban design and city building are surely among the most auspicious endeavours of this or any age, giving rise to a
vision of life, art, artefact and culture that outlives its authors. It is the gift of its designers and makers to the future. Urban
design is essentially an ethical endeavour, inspired by the vision of public art and architecture and reified by the science of
construction." -Donald Watson

II. COMMUNITY PLANNING

2.1 Introduction
Planning is an essential factor in creating the society, it is needed to achieve the desired environment that one community
likes to express. Community planning involves the formulation of long range visions, goals, policies and strategies for
achieving social, economic and environmental sustainability within a community in order to guide future community
development. Typically referred to as "long range planning", community planning differs from day to day development
planning which typically focuses on the review of current development proposals to determine how they fit within
community plans such as the Official Community Plan, neighbourhood or sector plans and other plans and strategies.
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III. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN URBAN DESIGN AND COMMUNITY

PLANNING

3.1 Urban Design vs. Community Planning

Urban design and community planning can be easily interchanged without the right information, although both
about the society and planning it, it differs in a lot of way.

URBAN DESIGN COMMUNITY PLANNING

DEFINITION The design of city features Planning of city strategies
structures and policies

LEVEL Feature Systems Strategy Structure Policy

FOCUS Design Experience The technical Politics

GOAL Sustainability Sustainability

Resilience Resilience
Quality of Life Quality of life
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IV. SOCIO-CULTURAL BASIC OF DESIGN IN COMMUNITIES

4.1 Introduction
Since the beginning of time, human communities have taken various forms of the primitive forms, transforming into the
collective pattern of activities and living in small communities. According to Lynch, inhabitants have long associations
with some parts of those communities. They imagine it as a place permeated with memories and meanings.
On the other hand, it is believed that the inflation of modern architecture in our communities seems quite similar to what
is happening in communities of modernity in other parts of the world. It has recently enhanced competition among our
communities in increasing this modern trend neglecting, at the same time, our cultural dimension that gives it character.

Socio-cultural is of, relating to, or involving a combination of social and cultural factors. Sociocultural factors are
customs, lifestyles and values that characterize a society or group.
Cultural aspects include concepts of beauty, education, language, law and politics, religion, social organizations,
technology and material culture, values and attitudes.

Social factors include reference groups, family, role and status in society, time and available resources.
Sociocultural perspective refers to a point of view that is built upon the idea that society and culture are major
factors influencing personal development.
There are many sociocultural factors referring to man; some examples are religion, attitudes, economic status,
class, language, politics and law. These factors can affect quality of life, business and health, but as future architects we
will be focusing to what planning and designing architecturally a community should be.
Demographic structure (eg. size and density of population, rate of population growth, age and sex structure);
Ethno-linguistic characteristics (ie. division of the population on the basis of 'physical' characteristics, such as race, tribe,
clan or language);
Social structure (eg. leadership structures, division on the basis of class or caste, gender relations, degrees and
forms of cooperative activity);
Inheritance systems, including land tenure;
Religious beliefs and practices;
Other cultural beliefs and practices (eg. particular customs, ceremonies, taboos, prejudices); and
Individual and group attitudes to any aspect of life (including actual or proposed development activities), which
may result from any of the other social characteristics (eg. social structure, religious or cultural beliefs) and/or from the
personal views of the individuals or groups concerned.
History (eg. Conditions of the land, Territorial aspects, Landmarks, and the like)
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V. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF AESTHETICS AND COMMUNITY ARCH

ITRCTURE

Origins and vernacular architecture

 Ancient architecture
 Asian architecture
 Islamic architecture
 Middle Ages
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University of Nueva Caceres

College of Engineering and Architecture
City of Naga

URBAN DESIGN
AND
COMMUNITY PLANNING
ARCH413a-J5b
PLANNING 2 FUNDAMENTALS OF URBAN DESIGN AND COMMUNITY PLANNING

BY:
14-20030 Montes,Almira D.
July 25, 2019

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Renaissance and the architect
 Early modern and the industrial age
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 Modernism

 Postmodernism
 Architecture today

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