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The principle promotes environmental assessments to identify fragile zones, threatened ecosystems and habitats that can be enhanced through conservation, density control, land use planning and open space design. [3] This principle promotes life cycle building energy consumption and pollutant emission analysis. [3]
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 ...
The neighbourhood unit was conceived of as a comprehensive physical planning tool, to be utilised for designing self-contained residential neighbourhoods which promoted a community centric lifestyle, away from the "noise of the trains, and out of sight of the smoke and ugliness of industrial plants" emblematic of an industrialising New York City in the early 1900s.
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.
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 ...
A remarkable characteristic of the architectural movement is the 'structuring of the built volume with units and grid', in different variations. In the book Structuralism in Architecture and Urban Planning [8] this design principle is published under the following titles: 1. Structures formed of building units; 2. Structures formed of building ...
Development Management (DM), formerly known as planning control, or development control, is the element of the United Kingdom's system of town and country planning through which local government or the Secretary of State, regulates land use and new building, i.e. development.
Ekistics is the science of human settlements [1] [2] including regional, city, community planning and dwelling design. Its major incentive was the emergence of increasingly large and complex conurbations, tending even to a worldwide city. [3]