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  2. The Sixteen Principles of Urban Design - Wikipedia

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    Die Sechzehn Grundsätze des Städtebaus, or The Sixteen Principles of Urban Design, were from 1950 until 1955 the primary model for urban planning in the GDR.. One of the authors was Edmund Collein, a Bauhaus trained architect, who later became Vice-President of the Bauakademie der DDR [] (Building Academy of the GDR) and the President of the Bund der Architekten der DDR [] (Federation of ...

  3. Theories of urban planning - Wikipedia

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    Urban planning designs settlements, from the smallest towns to the largest cities. Shown here is Hong Kong from Western District overlooking Kowloon, across Victoria Harbour. Planning theory is the body of scientific concepts, definitions, behavioral relationships, and assumptions that define the body of knowledge of urban planning. There is no ...

  4. Principles of intelligent urbanism - Wikipedia

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    Principles of Intelligent Urbanism (PIU) is a theory of urban planning composed of a set of ten axioms intended to guide the formulation of city plans and urban designs. They are intended to reconcile and integrate diverse urban planning and management concerns.

  5. Urban planning - Wikipedia

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    Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation ...

  6. Participatory planning - Wikipedia

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    A community engaged in a participatory planning project. Participatory planning is an urban planning paradigm that seeks to involve the community of an area in the urban planning of that area. It's a way for communities to work together to identify and address problems and to create a plan to achieve a desired socio-economic goal.

  7. Planning - Wikipedia

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    Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel . Some researchers regard the evolution of forethought - the capacity to think ahead - as a prime mover in human evolution . [ 1 ]

  8. History of urban planning - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, some cities, such as Nara and Heian-kyo, followed classic Chinese planning principles; [6] later, during the feudal period, a type of town called Jōkamachi emerged. Those were castle towns, planned for - and oriented around - defense. Roads were laid out to make the paths to castles longer; the castles and other buildings were often ...

  9. Urban design - Wikipedia

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    Educational Urbanism is an emerging discipline, at the crossroads of urban planning, educational planning, and pedagogy. An approach that tackles the notion that economic activities, the need for new skills at the workplace, and the spatial configuration of the workplace rely on the spatial reorientation in the design of educational spaces and ...