Professional Documents
Culture Documents
PLANNING-I-REVIEWER
PLANNING-I-REVIEWER
Cadastral Map
Orthophoto Map
Topographic Maps
LOCAL REGULATIONS
Traffic Projections
Buildings
community’s. Housing
Methods
Gradient <1:20 or 5%
Physiological Factors
Establishing territoriality
Psychological Needs
o Shared Street Concept
1. Social Needs - Its entrances are clearly marked
- Need for social interaction, - There are no conventional,
- Need for group affiliation, straight stretches of pavement
- Need for companionship, and for love with raised curbs, and the
- Need for social interaction pavement and sidewalk are not
- Need for group affiliation rigidly demarcated
- Parks as places of congregation o Overcrowding in urban slum
o Sociopetal form designed to draw conditions is detrimental to the mental
people together. and physical health of its inhabitants.
- Pruitt Igoe was demolished in
2. Stabilizing Needs 1972 - a symbol of failure in the
- need to be free from fear, anxiety, and design of mass housing projects
danger o Self-expression through play
- Need to develop and to hold a clear - Allow for an environment that will
philosophy of life provide possibilities for play
- Hope to have a say in its form and
content through the democratic
process 5. Enrichment
- Need for a clear orientation - Need for self-realization and
- Need to order and organize the personal creativity, i.e., design of
environment (“legibility”) nursing homes
- Defensible Space - Need for beauty and aesthetic
o A term used to describe a series of experience (design for complexity)
physical design characteristics that
maximize resident control of behavior,
particularly crime, within a residential ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING AND USER
community. REQUIREMENTS
3. Desires – to fulfill these basic needs 1. Be familiar with the type of research
people have a built-in desire to acquire and know where to look for
knowledge about their environment; information which will allow for
they are driven to do this by the need general guidelines to be drawn up, i.e.,
to experience satisfaction gov’t. agencies, legal requirements,
etc.
4. Aesthetics – people’s knowledge as 2. Be familiar with the literature available
well as social and cultural conditioning, on the special needs of specific groups
and their past experiences result in in society, i.e., disabled, children,
their developing sensibilities: elderly, adults in diff. stages of their
cycle, etc.
3. Be familiar with studies of particular
Implications for Site Planning environmental settings, i.e., people’s
• They imply that for people to feel behavior in housing areas, schools,
satisfied with their environment, they open parks, etc.
need to understand where they are 4. Use public participation as a means of
and they need to identify with the finding out and providing the public
place they call home. with what it wants.