KMU

Architecture , year III

Introduction to Urban Planning

Tefera Amenu
Introduction
I. Self introduction

• Instructor to students
• Students to instructors
 1. Background
• BSc. Urban and Regional Planning (AAU, EiABC) .2019
• BA. Management (BDU, distance ) …………………….2020
• Certificates – (summer school)
• Planning and designing with water …. Netherland, Tu Delft institute of technology
• GIS – AAU
• Leadership and management – VICOD Ethiopia
2. Work
i. Teaching (my passion )
About me • Hawassa University for one semester
 Department of architecture and Urban planning
• Kotebe Metropolitan University …. now
 Department of architecture and Urban planning

NB: This my forth course ……. I need your tolerance

ii. Parttime job – private consultancy

3. Dedicated for quality of education

• Zero tolerance for cheating and plagiarism
• we all are students …… two way
Icebreaking
I. Why you are here?
II. Is being silent a smart way of
dealing with classes?
III. What kind of problem do you
observe at the teachers that you
what not to be repeated in this
course?
IV. What I expect from you?
V. What did u expect from us?
Telegram Group
Our platform for communication.
• rise any question,
• suggestion,
• Critics
• Vote an issue
• discussion ideas and so on

• but you are also responsible to answer your friends question and discuss
freely in the group.

• Assignments, lectures and reading materials will be posted in this group.

“The collapse of education is
the collapse of the nation”
Introduction At the end of the course you are able to:

to the course 1. Be familiar with the concepts and terminologies of

urban planning

2. Identify the different types of urban planning and

Course plan with its process
objective
3. Understand the current urban planning concepts and
be able to integrate with your architectural projects.

4. Be able to make analysis in urban context and

Course Title:
Introduction to Urban Planning
integrate in with your architectural projects
Course number: ARCH 3331
ECTS: 4 5. Be able to discuss ideas
 1. Introduction

Introduction 2. The need for urban planning

3. Types of urban planning
to the course i. Comprehensive planning
ii. Incremental planning
iii. Strategic planning
4. Types of urban Plan & Planning instruments
i. Structural plan
Course ii. Local development plan
iii. Urban design
Contents iv. Block design
v. Architectural design
5. Urban planning process
6. Sustainable Urban Development
7. Urban Planning concepts
i. Garden city
ii. New urbanism
iii. Planning with nature
8. Elements of urban plan and Urban analysis
 No. Learning activity
Introduction 1 Lecture
to the course 2 Seminar
3 Assignments

Learning method No. Assessment items Value

and Grading 1 Group work (Evaluated in a 30
seminar discussion)
2 Individual assignment 20
3 2 Quizzes 20
5 Written exam 30
Total 100
 Part one
Introduction
Introduction
Brain storming : 1. What is urban?

2. What is Urbanization?

3. What is Planning?

4. What is urban planning?

5. Why we need urban planning?

6. Why urban Planning course for Architects ?

7. Is there a relation between architecture and

Urban planning?
Introduction
Brain storming
: Urban -----> Place
1. What is urban?
2. What is Urbanization?
3. What is Planning?
4. What is urban planning?
5. Why we need urban
planning?
6. Why urban Planning
course for Architects
7. Is there a relation
between architecture and
Urban planning?
Concentrated with people
>2000 People in Ethiopian
context
Urbanization -----> Process -----> Concentration of
people in a urban area
(dense population )
Characteristics of urban area
• High density
• Diversity of culture
• Job differentiation
 Physician, architect, merchant ….
• Communal infrastructure
 Education, health, Religious ……
NB: Rural areas are opposite to Urban
Introduction
Brain storming Thinking ahead
:
1. What is urban? “Deciding in advance about what to do, How to do it,

2. What is Urbanization? when to do it and who is to do it. It provides the ends to

3. What is Planning? be achieved.” (Stephen P. Robbins)

4. What is urban planning?

5. Why we need urban
planning?
6. Why urban Planning
course for Architects
7. Is there a relation between
architecture and Urban Who are
planning? building
planners?
Introduction
Brain storming
“Art and science of creating a healthy city”
:
1. What is urban? “It is the art and science of organizing land use and setting of
buildings and communication routes to provide best possible
2. What is Urbanization? degree of economy, beauty, healthy, preservation, sustainability
3. What is Planning? and convenience in terms of the available resources and time. “

4. What is urban
planning?
5. Why we need urban
planning?
6. Why urban Planning course
for Architects
7. Is there a relation between
architecture and Urban
planning?
Introduction
Brain storming
: Peoples concentration causes problem
1. What is urban? • Pollution
o Air
2. What is Urbanization? o Water
3. What is Planning? o Land
• Urban poverty
4. What is urban planning?
• Informality
5. Why we need urban • Slums
planning? • Social and spatial inequities
6. Why urban Planning
course for Architects
7. Is there a relation between Urban planning -----> finds solution
architecture and Urban
planning?
Introduction
Brain storming
: 1. To harmonized architectural projects with
1. What is urban? Urban context
2. What is Urbanization?
3. What is Planning? 2. To effectively implement higher order
planning restriction in architectural projects
4. What is urban planning?
5. Why we need urban
planning? 3. To work in a team on planning projects
6. Why urban Planning
4. Architects play urban planners role some
course for Architects
times
7. Is there a relation between
architecture and Urban
planning?
Introduction
Brain storming
: Major difference is Scale
1. What is urban? Continental planning . . . . . . . . . . 1:1,000,000,000
2. What is Urbanization?
National planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:10,000,000
3. What is Planning?
4. What is urban planning? Regional planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1,000,000
5. Why we need urban Urban planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:100,000
planning?
Urban design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:10,000
6. Why urban Planning course
for Architects Block design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:1,000
7. Is there a relation between Architectural design . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:100
architecture and
Urban planning? Complexity increase with increasing of scale Why ?