URBAN PLANNING- planning a city’s structures URBAN PLANNERS- often speak at public
including its policies, infrastructure, neighborhoods, gatherings and assess market research data to
building codes, and regulations. discover the wants and needs of a city.
- “planning of city strategies, structures, and - tasked with working alongside land
policies.” developers and public officials to build plans
- focus is more technical and political on the for the development of parks and public
strategy, structure, and policy. buildings
URBAN DESIGN- used to focus solely on URBAN DESIGNERS- stay busy meeting up with a
designing individual city features range of clients
- for those who want to do creative work. - relying on programs like AutoCAD,
- People who want to work on quality of life, SketchUp, and GIS to develop blueprints for
population resilience, and sustainability will city parks and public buildings
find rewarding career as urban designers. - requires a good deal of creativity and artistic
vision, as well as the ability to make sure
plans are workable.
URBAN URBAN
PLANNING DESIGN - . They meet with landscapers, civil
engineers, and a variety of other
SCALE Entire cities, Places bet. professionals
districts/or bldgs HUMAN ECOLOGY
neighborhoods - interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary study of
ORIENTATION utility Functional & the relationship between humans and their
aesthetics natural, social, and built environments.
- is composed of concepts from ecology like
TREATMENT Primarily 2D 3D interconnectivity, community behavior, and
OF SPACE spatial organization.
TIME FRAME Long term Short term - Ernst Haeckel- used the word “oekologie” in
5-20 yrs >5yrs 1866 to describe the study of an organism’s
relationship to its environment
FUNCTION Strategic Technical CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATIONS
planning design - Location
- Density
ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN - Growth Rate
- bldgs, public space, streets, transport, What causes a population’s size to change?
landscape - Number of births
ELEMENTS OF URBAN PLANNING - Number of deaths
- Built up area ( resdl bldg, public & - Number of individuals that move in or out of
semi-public bldgs, comm’l bldgs, industries) a certain area or place
- Communications ( rd. ways, railways, POPULATION GROWTH
airways, waterways) - Under ideal conditions populations grow
- Road network ( arterial sts. Sub-arterial exponentially.
streets, collector sts, local sts. - As the population grows larger, it grows
- Open Spaces (recreational places, open faster
lands, for graveyard., cremation grounds..) - In the natural world population shows
- Public Utility Services (water supply, “logistic growth”
drainage, electricity, telephone, gas) - Population growth slows or stops after a
- Public Amenities (post office, police station, period of exponential growth. -Population
petrol pumps, fire brigade station, dairies) reaches a carrying capacity
, LIMITING FACTORS Restoring the Environment
- Density Independent Limits - Individual actions- ppl choose
- Limits that affect a population - Societal actions- cities, states & govt
regardless of population size. WK. 4: EKISTICS: THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN
- temperature, storms, flood SETTLEMENT
- Density Dependent Limits HUMAN SETTLEMENTS- totality of the human
- - Limits that increase as population community, with all the social, material,
size increases. organizational, spiritual & cultural elements that
- disease, parasites, competition, sustain it.
predators Human Settlements Realities: Economical, Social,
URBANIZATION- movement to cities Political, Technical, Aesthetic
- Outcome: Increased runoff causing flooding EKISTICS- coined by Greek architect and urban
& erosion; Use of nonrenewable natural planner Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis in 1942.
resources - Applies to the science of human
DEFORESTATION- human destruction of forests, settlements.
building of malls, houses, farming - Includes regional, city, and community
- Outcome: Loss of biodiversity; Soil erosion planning and dwelling design
– loss of topsoil - The principles man takes into account when
OVERFARMING- when plants are harvested soil building his settlements, as well as the
becomes less fertile evolution of human settlements through
- Outcome: Abandoned field; Erosion of history in terms of size and quality.
topsoil - The target is to build a city of optimum size,
NON-RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES- can that is, a city that respects human
be taken from earth only once. (ex. Coal, oil, dimensions.
natural gas, metals, minerals) - It aims to encompass all scales of human
RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES- naturally habitation and seeks to learn from the
replaced (ex. Air, water, soil, sunlight, living things) archeological and historical record by
SUSTAINABLE USE- use of natural resources at a looking not only at great cities but, as much
rate that does not deplete them. as possible, at the total settlement pattern.
Conserving Soil – How? BASIC PARTS OF COMPOSITE HUMAN
- Crop rotation SETTLEMENTS:
- Fertilizer - Homogenous Parts: the fields
- Strip cropping - Circulatory Parts: rds, paths w/in the fields
- Terracing - Central Parts: built-up village
- Contour Farming - Special Parts: monastery contained w/in
- Windbreaks homogenous part
Conserving Forests – Why and How? CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
- Sustained-yield-free farming- cutting down based on
trees only in certain areas so surrounding SIZES
areas are untouched - Small and sparsely spaced (rural
- Reforestation - replace lost trees by planting settlements/ villages)
new ones - Large and closely spaced (urban)
Controlling Pollution LOCATION of SETTLEMENTS - plains, mountains,
- Emission controls for cars coastal, etc
- Ban aerosol sprays • Control industrial PHYSICAL FORMS - form as the expression of
waste content, function, and structure
- Sewage treatment plants FIVE ELEMENTS OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
- Sewage treatment plants
- Special sites for toxic waste
including its policies, infrastructure, neighborhoods, gatherings and assess market research data to
building codes, and regulations. discover the wants and needs of a city.
- “planning of city strategies, structures, and - tasked with working alongside land
policies.” developers and public officials to build plans
- focus is more technical and political on the for the development of parks and public
strategy, structure, and policy. buildings
URBAN DESIGN- used to focus solely on URBAN DESIGNERS- stay busy meeting up with a
designing individual city features range of clients
- for those who want to do creative work. - relying on programs like AutoCAD,
- People who want to work on quality of life, SketchUp, and GIS to develop blueprints for
population resilience, and sustainability will city parks and public buildings
find rewarding career as urban designers. - requires a good deal of creativity and artistic
vision, as well as the ability to make sure
plans are workable.
URBAN URBAN
PLANNING DESIGN - . They meet with landscapers, civil
engineers, and a variety of other
SCALE Entire cities, Places bet. professionals
districts/or bldgs HUMAN ECOLOGY
neighborhoods - interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary study of
ORIENTATION utility Functional & the relationship between humans and their
aesthetics natural, social, and built environments.
- is composed of concepts from ecology like
TREATMENT Primarily 2D 3D interconnectivity, community behavior, and
OF SPACE spatial organization.
TIME FRAME Long term Short term - Ernst Haeckel- used the word “oekologie” in
5-20 yrs >5yrs 1866 to describe the study of an organism’s
relationship to its environment
FUNCTION Strategic Technical CHARACTERISTICS OF POPULATIONS
planning design - Location
- Density
ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN - Growth Rate
- bldgs, public space, streets, transport, What causes a population’s size to change?
landscape - Number of births
ELEMENTS OF URBAN PLANNING - Number of deaths
- Built up area ( resdl bldg, public & - Number of individuals that move in or out of
semi-public bldgs, comm’l bldgs, industries) a certain area or place
- Communications ( rd. ways, railways, POPULATION GROWTH
airways, waterways) - Under ideal conditions populations grow
- Road network ( arterial sts. Sub-arterial exponentially.
streets, collector sts, local sts. - As the population grows larger, it grows
- Open Spaces (recreational places, open faster
lands, for graveyard., cremation grounds..) - In the natural world population shows
- Public Utility Services (water supply, “logistic growth”
drainage, electricity, telephone, gas) - Population growth slows or stops after a
- Public Amenities (post office, police station, period of exponential growth. -Population
petrol pumps, fire brigade station, dairies) reaches a carrying capacity
, LIMITING FACTORS Restoring the Environment
- Density Independent Limits - Individual actions- ppl choose
- Limits that affect a population - Societal actions- cities, states & govt
regardless of population size. WK. 4: EKISTICS: THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN
- temperature, storms, flood SETTLEMENT
- Density Dependent Limits HUMAN SETTLEMENTS- totality of the human
- - Limits that increase as population community, with all the social, material,
size increases. organizational, spiritual & cultural elements that
- disease, parasites, competition, sustain it.
predators Human Settlements Realities: Economical, Social,
URBANIZATION- movement to cities Political, Technical, Aesthetic
- Outcome: Increased runoff causing flooding EKISTICS- coined by Greek architect and urban
& erosion; Use of nonrenewable natural planner Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis in 1942.
resources - Applies to the science of human
DEFORESTATION- human destruction of forests, settlements.
building of malls, houses, farming - Includes regional, city, and community
- Outcome: Loss of biodiversity; Soil erosion planning and dwelling design
– loss of topsoil - The principles man takes into account when
OVERFARMING- when plants are harvested soil building his settlements, as well as the
becomes less fertile evolution of human settlements through
- Outcome: Abandoned field; Erosion of history in terms of size and quality.
topsoil - The target is to build a city of optimum size,
NON-RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES- can that is, a city that respects human
be taken from earth only once. (ex. Coal, oil, dimensions.
natural gas, metals, minerals) - It aims to encompass all scales of human
RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES- naturally habitation and seeks to learn from the
replaced (ex. Air, water, soil, sunlight, living things) archeological and historical record by
SUSTAINABLE USE- use of natural resources at a looking not only at great cities but, as much
rate that does not deplete them. as possible, at the total settlement pattern.
Conserving Soil – How? BASIC PARTS OF COMPOSITE HUMAN
- Crop rotation SETTLEMENTS:
- Fertilizer - Homogenous Parts: the fields
- Strip cropping - Circulatory Parts: rds, paths w/in the fields
- Terracing - Central Parts: built-up village
- Contour Farming - Special Parts: monastery contained w/in
- Windbreaks homogenous part
Conserving Forests – Why and How? CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
- Sustained-yield-free farming- cutting down based on
trees only in certain areas so surrounding SIZES
areas are untouched - Small and sparsely spaced (rural
- Reforestation - replace lost trees by planting settlements/ villages)
new ones - Large and closely spaced (urban)
Controlling Pollution LOCATION of SETTLEMENTS - plains, mountains,
- Emission controls for cars coastal, etc
- Ban aerosol sprays • Control industrial PHYSICAL FORMS - form as the expression of
waste content, function, and structure
- Sewage treatment plants FIVE ELEMENTS OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
- Sewage treatment plants
- Special sites for toxic waste
