King Salman International University

Faculty of Architecture – Sharm El-Sheikh

History & Theory of City Planning – URB253
Level 3 / semester 6 /2023-2024

URBAN SETTLEMENT

Rana Samir
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 Primitive organized urban settlement

 Mohenjo-daro

• Mohenjo-daro has a planned layout with rectilinear buildings arranged on

a grid plan.[17] Most were built of fired and mortared brick; some
incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures. The
covered area of Mohenjo-daro is estimated at 300 hectares
• The sheer size of the city, and its provision of public buildings and
facilities, suggests a high level of social organization. [20] The city is
divided into two parts, the so-called Citadel and the Lower City. The
Citadel – a mud-brick mound around 12 metres (39 ft) high – is known to
have supported public baths, a large residential structure designed to
house about 5,000 citizens, and two large assembly halls. The city had a
central marketplace, with a large central well.
 Primitive non organized urban settlement

 Ciudad Guayana
• Most of the population in Ciudad Guayana was not being served by
the housing programs for two reasons. First, the programs were
unable to supply housing at the rate that people were arriving to the
city, and second, the programs did not meet the real needs of the
people nor their real financial capacity. Therefore, low-income
groups had to provide their own housing through unplanned
settlements. Today, more than 60% of the urban areas are the result
of land invasions.
• Not only were these "reception areas" insufficient to satisfy the
demand, but they were also neither affordable nor easily accessible,
in terms of the required application procedures. Thus, they were not
occupied by new migrants nor by low-income families.
• Instead, as they came to the city, new migrants located themselves in
provisional housing, such as hotels, relatives' and friends' houses and
rented rooms. Once they decided to stay in the city, they settled in
unoccupied areas around the old eastern part of the city, San Félix
 STATIC URBAN SETTLEMENT

 Australia

• Australia has a culture and an expectation of home ownership. With city

growth inflating land and so housing prices in inner urban areas, the
issue of housing affordability is relevant to discussions on creating
liveable cities.

• housing preference studies indicate that close to 90 per cent of

Australians aspire to owning their own home and that home ownership
is an integral part of the traditional ’Aussie dream’.
 DYNAMIC URBAN SETTLEMENT

 New York City

• Has demonstrated remarkable growth over the past four centuries.

• The first of the three central themes identified by Glaeser is the importance of
geography in determining New York’s early success.

• The city enjoyed a natural advantage provided by its port and by its proximity
to the Hudson River and a water-borne connection to the Great Lakes

• The second theme is the value of simple transportation cost and scale
economies. The rise of manufacturing in the city, observes Glaeser, hinged on
New York’s place at the center of a large transport hub and the benefits
afforded by that prime location