POKHARA UNIVERSITY

COSMOS COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT AN TECHNOLOGY

MAHALAXMISTHAN, LALITPUR

SETTLEMENT PLANNING
STUDIO

SUBMITTED BY: group d

SWETA SHRESTHA
SIMRAN SILWAL
RUPA REGMI
PRAKRITI ALE MAGAR
SMRITI BANIYA
LAXMI KHADKA
CONTENT
• INTRODUCTION
• LOCATION
• RETURN OF URBAN LIFE
• CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDIEVAL TOWN
• SIGNIFICANCE:
• POLITICAL BACKGROUND
• URBAN ACTIVITES
• CITY GOVERNMENT AND CULTURE
• CULTURE AND ITS IMPACTS ON CITY PLANNING
• CRISIS IN LOWER MIDDLE AGE
• ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER OF THE CITY
 INTRODUCTION

• AFTER CHRIST AND ROMAN EMPIRE HAD CRUMBLED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF LUXURY.
• MEDIEVAL TOWN PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE HISTORY OF CITIES.
• WESTERN CIVILIZATION DECLINED,TRADE DISINTEGRATED AND THE URBAN POPULATION RETURN TO THE RURAL LIFE.
• IN 12TH AND 13TH CENTURY, A PERIOD OF ECONOMIC GROWTH LED TO THE REBIRTH OF CITIES.
 ORIGIN OF MEDIEVAL CITIES

THE MEDIEVAL CITIES DEVELOPED OUT OF A VARIETY OF NUCLEI. IT IS POSSIBLE TO DISTINGUISH THE FOLLOWING
IMPORTANT ORIGINAL GROWTH POINTS OR TAKE OFF POINTS IN WHICH DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIEVAL CITIES IS BASED.

FIG: AMPHITHEATRE OF ARLES

 LOCATION

• EUROPE IS A SMALL CONTINENT BUT IT

IS VERY DIVERSE.
• MANY DIFFERENT LANDFORM, WATER
FEATURES AND CLIMATE CAN BE
FOUND.
• IT IS A PART OF EURASIA, THE LARGE
LAND MASS THAT INCLUDE BOTH
EUROPE AND ASIA.
• THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONSIDER THE
URAL MOUNTAINS TO BE THE
BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE TWO
CONTINENT.
• IT DID ESTABLISHED IN MANY AND
VARIED LOCATION: IN PLAINS, ON
HILLSIDE, ON HILLTOPS, ON ISLAND, IN
VALLEY, ON RIVER CROOSING.
• SITE SELECTION DEPENDS ON
COMBINATION OF BOTH TRADITIONAL
AND COMMERICAL NEEDS.
 MEDIEVAL TOWN FOUNDATION

THE MEDIEVAL AGE WAS THE GREATEST TOWN FOUNDING PERIOD IN HISTORY. IT BEGAN WITH CHARLEMAGNE WHO LAID
FOUNDATION OF MANY NEW TOWN (800-814) AD. IT WAS ALSO A PERIOD IN HISTORY WHERE ORDINARY PEOPLE BEGAN TO
TAKE AN ACKNOWLEDGE PLACE IN SOCIETY. BIRTH, WEALTH AND POWER BEGAN TO GIVE WAY TO PERSONAL MERIT.

THIS NEW ATTITUDE WAS REFLECTED IN THE FORM THAT TOENS TOOK. THEY EVOLVED TO MEET HUMAN NEEDS AND THEIR
PATTERN CHANGED TO MATCH INCREASED SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. MEDIEVAL CITIES BECOME BOTH PROTECTOR AND
SYMBOL OF CIVIC RIGHTS.

NOT ONLY NEW TOWNS BUT EXISTING VILLAGE AND HAMLETS ARE EXTENDED SPONTANEOUSLY OR BY DESIGN, AND CITIES
GROW AND FLOURISH WIDELY.

AREA : MEDIUM SIZE NOT OVER 50 HECTAR (124 ACRES)

SMALL SIZE TOWN 4-10 HECTAR(10-25 ACRES)

SHAPE : THE SHAPE OF OUTLINE OF TOWN PLAN WAS DELINEATED BY THE WALL WHICH WOULD BEST PROTECT THE CITY. A
WALL HAD TO HAVE THE SHORTEST CIRCUMFERENCE POSSIBLE AND TAKE ADVANTAGES OF TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES.
 RETURN OF URBAN LIFE

• AT THE END OF 11TH CENTURY, IN WESTERN EUROPE AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION AND POPULATION INCREASED.
• THIS SITUATION WAS PRODUCED BY DIFFERENT CAUSES:
1. NO. OF WARS AND INVANSION DECREASED SHARPLY.
2. NEW TECHNICAL INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURE SUCH AS: TRIENNIAL ROTATION WITH INCREASED PRODUCTION.
3. NEW FRAMING TOOL SUCH AS: FERTILIZER, PLOUGHS, AND MILLS.
CLASSICIFICATION OF MEDIEVAL TOWN
PLANNING
MEDIEVAL TOWNSCAPE
CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDIEVAL TOWN