Social and Psychological Considerations of Site

Cultural/ Historical
Significance

Presented by:
FERNANDEZ, MARRIAH ELIZZA
RONDA, JAMIN
VILLASTIQUE, JOHN PHILIP

 Cultural/ Historical
Significance

Existing Land Use.

The pattern of existing land use must be
designated in relationto the site. Community
Facilities both public and semipublic,
residential,commercial, industrial, and
recreational are inventoried to denote
overall trends in development that may
have bearing on uses of land adjacent to
andincluding the site under study.
 Cultural/ Historical
Significance

Existing Land Use.

Along with the study of existing land use,
the site planner should meet with
theadjacent property owners to find out, if
possible, what future development oftheir
sites may be under consideration and
whether this development will be inconflict
with uses planned on the new site.
Cultural/ Historical
Significance
Existing Buildings
.If a project is to be expanded, buildings on the
site must beshown graphically and their uses and
facilities studied. Size, floor area, andexisting
conditions must be inventoried. Are historical
buildings present? Existingbuildings will strongly
influence the physical layout of the new site plan
and willhelp to establish the grading and drainage
patterns on the site. They also maydetermine the
choice of future architectural expression in
building type, color,façade, texture, materials,
window type, and roof style to ensure
coherenceand unity in design.
 History
A campus plan or other large The investigation may show,
project may have a meaningful forexample, that specific
background that influences buildings should be preserved
future expansion. It is then within the redevelopment of a
pertinent to ask “Will historic campus, as should also be
factors be of consequence to reviewed to see if artifacts are
the project?” The history of present and need to be
these projects should be preserved.
investigated and shown
graphically so that the relevant
influences may be considered in
the design phase.
 Socioeconomic
Factors.
Social Factors have a broad range of effects oncommunity
facilities and services. Sometimes new facilities displace
homes,businesses, or other community activities. For example, a
new highway msy cutthrough an area severing its cohesion by
creating visual or physical barriers andaffecting business and
property values.
Demographic
Factors.

Population is the base of many

land use planningdecisions.
Population trends in a local

market area can identify

potential user or consumer. These
characteristics include population
change by births, deaths,age,
sex, family size, occupation,
income levels, housing
accommodations, taxrates, and
assessments
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