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Literature Review On Urban Extension Planning
Literature Review On Urban Extension Planning
Literature Review On Urban Extension Planning
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
approaches. It integrates environmental, social and economic value resolve conflicts and build
common land use objectives.
Methods of analyzing land use
An inventory of current uses is the first phase in the land use analysis process. Different sorts of
land uses are classified by the land use inventory. To help in this process, land use maps can be
created and made accessible for inspection.
Which two methods exist for evaluating land?
The four primary categories of land evaluation systems currently in use are parametric, categoric
(or capacity), special purpose, and crop-specific assessments.
ELEMENTS OF LAND USE
1, Land and its tenure and quality.
2, Potential productivity and suitability of the land.
3, The level of technology used to exploit the land resources.
4, The population density
5, The needs and standards of living of the people.
IMPORTANCE OF LAND USE PLANNING
• Environmental protection
• Avoidance of urban sprawl
• Departure from impacts of transportation.
• Promotion of compatible uses and
• Public health and safety
DATA COLLECTION METHOD FOR LAND USE PLANNING
1, Define the planning area
2, Contact the people involved
3, Acquire basic information about the area
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
The Urban Street Design Guide crystallizes a new approach to street design that meets the demands
of today and the challenges of tomorrow. Based on the principle that streets are public spaces for
people as well as arteries for traffic and transportation
Complete streets – Designed to give safe access for all users; bike, pedestrian, motorists, transit
riders – of all age and abilities.
Phases of Transformation
Existing
Existing conditions demonstrate how traditional design elements, such as wide travel lanes and
undifferentiated street space, have had an adverse impact on how people experience the
streetscape.
Interim Redesign
Striping and low-cost materials can realize the benefits of a full reconstruction in the short term,
while allowing a city to test and adjust a proposed redesign.
Reconstruction
Full capital reconstructions can take 5–10 years. A complete upgrade might include new drainage
and storm water management provisions, raised bikeways, wider sidewalks, and traffic calming
elements.
Transportation
The movement of goods and persons from place to place and the various means by which
such movement is accomplished. The growth of the ability—and the need—to transport
large quantities of goods or numbers of people over long distances at high speeds in
comfort and safety has been an index of civilization and in particular of technological
progress.
Concept of Infrastructure
The physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or
enterprise. (Oxford English Dictionary)
Infrastructure is defined as the basic physical systems of a business, region, or nation and often
involves the production of public goods or production processes. Examples of infrastructure
include transportation systems, communication networks, sewage, water, and school systems.
(Investopedia) Infrastructure is understood as an important input for urban development. “ infra "
stems from the Latin language, meaning below, thus "infrastructure" can be taken to express
"foundation“ of urban development. Infrastructure is the set of fundamental facilities and
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
systems serving a country, city, or other area, including the services and facilities necessary for
its economy to function.
• There are 2 broad classifications of infrastructures:
1. Physical infrastructure
2. Social infrastructure
Physical infrastructure
Physical infrastructure refers to the basic physical structures required for an economy to function
and survive, such as transportation networks, a power grid and sewerage and waste disposal
systems. Viewed by some developmental economists as part of a three-pillar system, along with
human capital and good governance, physical infrastructure is a prerequisite for trade and other
productive activities. In a functional sense, a society’s physical infrastructure facilitates the
production of goods and services.
Physical infrastructure can be broadly classified into:
. Underground: water supply system, sewerage, storm drainage system and tunnels
. Aboveground: Electricity, telecommunication, urban roads and traffic, road safety and traffic
control system, Transportation corridors, parking, suspended communication and power lines.
Methodology of Physical infrastructure
• Pre planning stage - Town and city readiness, Infrastructure planning team, Stakeholder
analysis, Work plan budget and schedule
• Planning stage - Basic information and infrastructure inventory, Infrastructure service profile
(utility profile), Infrastructure vision, Infrastructure prioritization, Implementation strategy
• Implementation stage – Implementation
The concept of Housing
Housing, or more generally, living spaces, refers to the construction and assigned
usage of houses or buildings individually or collectively, for the purpose of shelter.
Housing ensures that members of society have a place to live, whether it is a home
or some other kind of dwelling, lodging or shelter.
The housing concept has changed from being a fairly simple concept to one that is
more complex, moving initially from the need to the development of housing.
A) The Narrow Concept: this refers to the dwelling where people live, or the
materialistic building established from the walls and roof.
B) The Broad Concept: this incorporates the narrow concept but also includes
assistance services, which motivate people to live in the house with stability.
Housing in many different areas consists of public, social and private housing.
Housing is one of the most important life components giving shelter, safety and
warmth, as well as providing a place to rest.
There are different types of housing those are single family home, townhome /
condominium, small Lot Single-Family Home, accessory dwelling unit,
apartments, co-living units, mixed use housing, live/work housing, lofts/studios,
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
towns that contribute to urban vitality and fight urban failure. Urban centrality is the
characteristic of a place being central to its periphery.
Urban centralities are associated with a given city’s evolution, but the influence of local factors
can only be perceived over long periods.
METHODS OF ANALAYSING URBAN CENTERALITY
The methodology adopted in this study aims to cross the results of three different approaches to
highlight the emergence of urban centralities. A survey and assessment of urban centralities as
proposed by Gaspar (Gaspar, 1985), a space syntax approach (Hillier, 1996; Hillier & Hanson,
1984), and a chronological urban plan analysis. The adopted methodology was applied in three
stages:
1. to identify and assess urban centralities, a survey, diachronic analysis, and a centrality index
(CI) were carried out, following the methods proposed by Gaspar. (Gaspar, 1985);
2. Space syntax was used to analyze the urban form characteristics, which have proved to be
important with regard to the degree of attractivity of an urban space, thus helping to identify
urban centralities;
3. An analysis of urban planning in Évora was carried out.
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
• Balanced Partnership: Foster partnerships, alliances and networks that link urban actors
and different sectors.
• Human Right based: Embed human rights-based approaches in all policy instruments
and actions to ensure that development initiatives and processes do not negatively affect
anyone’s human rights across the urban continuum.
• Do no harm and provide social protection: Strengthen urban linkages to overcome
conflict, recognize cultural diversity and reduce inequalities.
• Environmentally Sensitive: The resources needed by the current population must be
addressed without compromising the ability of future generations to meet future needs.
• Participatory Engagement: Ensure meaningful participation by people, local
institutions and communities across the urban continuum.
• Data Driven and evidence based: Establish or improve knowledge systems and fill data
gaps so that there is evidence to support planning methods that will reinforce to improve
territorial cohesion.
SOCIO-ECONOMY
Socio-economic in urban planning is concerned with methodologies for socio-economic analysis
and planning, a subject which is increasingly engaging the attention of development planners and
policy makers as well as professional social scientists.
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Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
The main grid is oriented in the N-S direction. This orientation adapts to the surrounding natural
features: one of the directions of the grid is parallel to the Blue Nile river and the main
commercial street has its ending in the lake shore.
The streets of the neighborhood grid are mostly aligned in the N-S or E-W directions, resulting
in a variety of orientations for housing.
The 2006 integrated Development Plan proposes a land use distribution for the city area.
Commercial, administrative and productive uses are aligned with the main avenues in the N-S
and E-W directions which are connected to the major city outlets (Gonder, Mota, Debre
Marqos).
The street
The main grid (800x800) is composed of 35-40m wide avenues that carry the main vehicular
traffic. In the city’s central avenues, the buildings are aligned with the sidewalk limit creating a
livable street with commercial uses on the GF and street planting. On the other hand, in the
avenues that cross the
Street types:
A: Avenues: 40m
B: Intermediate sts: 16m
C: Inner neighborhood streets: 12m
Residential areas, the buildings are set back from the sidewalk, generating little street life. These
avenues are occupied mainly by vehicular traffic.
In the inner neighborhood streets, the building façades front the street. There is no space reserved
for pedestrians, therefore vehicles and pedestrians use the central street space.
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
Pedestrian
Vehicular
The block
The inner areas of the 800x800 units are occupied by single family and incremental housing
(GF+2) with street frontage and inner courtyards. On the streets fronting the commercial
avenues, there are commercial or office blocks (GF+4) with commerce on the GF.
In the center of the unit some smaller blocks are reserved for open spaces and services. The
shape and size of the smaller blocks with the main grid is rather random and spontaneous. The
most common block is composed of a double row of single-family housing.
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
The layout and urbanization of the streets of the main grid is done simultaneously with the
construction of the buildings. The inner neighbourhood streets seem to appear more
spontaneously and not respond to a rigid plan. Their creation is more diffused through time once
the main grid that supports them is in place.
The development of urban plans in 1965 and, particularly, in 2006 (Integrated Development Plan
analyzed in this document) allows for the existence of a basic framework that guides the growth
of the city.
The existence of an institutional planning and legal framework allows for the generation of the
2006 Integrated Development Plan and its enforcement.
Key lessons
Strengths:
• The existence of a citywide plan allows for a coherent and organized growth of the city in a
period of rapid urbanization.
• The land use plan takes into account the basic natural features of the site and organizes the
city accordingly. Lake Tana and the Blue Nile River have an important place in the city
structure and many of the open spaces and services are located beside them. This provides a
good basic organization of the main open spaces that are relevant in the initial phases of the
city and can be upgraded as the city evolves.
• The land use plan allows for a certain mix of uses. Commercial, service and productive
areas are broken up into smaller units which are distributed throughout the city.
• The land use plan respects the preeminence of the street as a defining urban element. It
concentrates commercial, business, productive and representative activities along the main
streets, rather than in designated abstract areas.
• In the city centre the buildings are aligned, with the sidewalk limits providing street
frontage and street life. There is commerce and activity in the ground floor. The street is read
as a public space.
The current regulatory framework in Ethiopia is the following:
• 2005 National Urban Development Policy - by the Ministry of Urban Development
• Regional Urban Development Plans - by the Regional Government
• Citywide master & structure plans - by chartered cities and urban administrations
• Local development plans (kebeles) - by urban administrations.
• The avenues in the city center are well urbanized and planted, generating relevant and
livable civic spaces.
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
Weaknesses:
• The clear structure of the main grid allows for a somewhat random and spontaneous layout
of the smaller neighbourhood grid. There are many streets with dead ends and random
alignments.
• In the areas developed after 1984 the grid is deformed, losing structural clarity and
homogeneity, which results in subsequent city extensions that are less related to the original
city fabric.
• When the main grid avenues cross residential neighbourhoods, the buildings are set back
from the public space and the avenues are dedicated mainly to vehicular traffic and have little
street life.
• The new developments on the East and South West of the city are less dense with single
family detached housing or isolated condominiums that do not conform to streets as civic
spaces.
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Fourth Year BSc. in Urban Planning and Design
Course Title: Integrated Urban Project III(Extension of City planning and design)
Individual Assignment: Literature Review on Urban Extension planning
References
1. M. Gordon Wolman, “Population, Land Use, and Environment: A Long History,” 1993).
2. Nathan Keyfitz, “Impact of Trends in Resources, Environment and Development on
Demographic Prospects,”
3. Research gate
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