Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Urban & Land Use Planning

The failure of many formal solutions for low income housing has often been the lack of understanding of the informal phenomenon which is an alternative to those excluded from the formal housing market. The informal sector represent a solution that appears to deny conventional planning orthodoxy, and clearly the priorities of this sector are not those of the municipal authorities. The way they shape their environment is often completely different than what is shaped for them. Space takes precedence over permanence and use defines need: a porch may be build before a bathroom, an adjoining work...

Like other urban areas in Bangladesh, Khulna is also facing acute housing shortage. The urbanization of the City has suddenly triggered up. To mitigate the additional housing shortage of Khulna City private land developers came forward with public sector. Most of their projects is located on the South-Western fringe of Khulna City. People are fascinated to buy the plots from those developers, because of low price and to avoid the complexity of land purchasing procedure. In absence of any control mechanism these residential areas are being developed without adequate provision of the utility...

Disability development in recent days is an integral part of neo-development paradigm all over the world. Despite the presence of several legal provisions to protect the rights and welfare of disabled people, Dhaka is far below from a disability friendly city because of lack of proper monitoring, implementation and lack of adequate impetus to protect disability rights. The book explored the unconscious but systematic way of discriminations against physically challenged people. It preludes the necessity of conscious and logical efforts to make urban services and facilities i.e. education,...

Nowadays cities develop either urban sprawl and population or technologic progress. Both urban agglomeration and industrial improvement and services increment cause to deteriorate natural areas. Wetlands are important reserve areas for next generations. This book consists of six chapters. They are introduction and problem statement, management of wetland areas, implementation, case studies, land use model of case studies and conclusion. This book suggests a conservation method and settlement appropriateness for maintain wetlands. This book evaluates land use planning is a tool for...

During the late 1950s and and 1960s, when most of the Arab countries gained their independence, the initial goal of many governments was to erase images of underdevelopment and poverty. To achieve this, they embarked on large-scale re-development projects, putting local historic centres and districts under continuous pressure of dereliction and demolition. In many cases, entire historic centres and districts were erased and replaced by alien environments. The few survived historic centres have experienced problems in making the necessary adaptation to present changes. Due to neglect and...

In the first part of this book there is a thorough introduction of how Oscar Hansen, one of the recent prominent architect, whose composition towards free form is in continuation with that of Le Corbusier, 'Towards the new architecture'. He answers beautifully the growing needs of 21st century world inhabitants. Now for Oscar Hansen the global world is one and to come up for an answer to this he traveled far and wide like how Le Corbusier did almost a century ago. His multidimensional approach towards architecture makes him universal; he opens all the physical and psychological boundaries and...

Urban fringe is the foreland in the process of "urban sprawl", especially in developing countries e.g. Bangladesh. The rapid land use changes in this transitional and semi-urban system often puzzled urban researchers. Recently, a spatially explicit model named CLUE (Conversion of Land Use and its Effects) is widely applied to explore the spatial and temporal dynamics of land use. It provides a useful tool to understand the complex and dynamic spatial pattern of urban fringe better. CLUE model is designed to obtain insights into the complexity of the land-use situation as well as to explore...

Providing an equally sufficient and efficient transit service requires careful planning. Author of this book aimed to explore the travel characteristics of the city dwellers and develop a suitable and efficient transit network. To obtain primary data, both household survey and ridership survey were conducted. Characteristics of existing road network and forecasted travel demand for 20 years were used to develop the proposed transit network. Forecasted travel demands were distributed to road node and road intersection of the digital road coverage to perform "P-Median Problem with ...

Urban local bodies (ULBs) in developing countries are in dire need of resources not only for investment but also for maintenance of the existing services. The ability of the ULBs in Bangladesh to raise revenues is far too short because of the fact of the over all poverty of the population. The resources of the ULBs are inadequate and infrastructure is poorly constructed. It also failed to make the reluctant inhabitants to pay taxes. ULBs have outstanding dues and poor collection status leaving out the low-income areas. This study looks into the limitation in the Dhaka City Corporation that...

This textbook for planning students and practitioners explains how to develop the necessary technical competences to perform practical tasks efficiently, and how to make and assess the quality of development proposals.

Spatial planning is a process. The focus of this book is on the sequence of key tasks that constitute the process and on special techniques that are suitable to conduct these tasks. Spatial planners require a number of skills to manage this process in an efficient manner, select the necessary tasks for each specific planning context, as well as the appropriate techniques for each task - always considering the people with whom and for whom they plan.

Rather than recommending options, or 'recipes', this book stimulates critical thinking and questioning: What do we want to achieve? How...

Although the feeling of safety contributes crucially to the quality of life, streets of Bangladesh have become very unsafe and become a major domain for urban crime. In this regard, various authorities are playing their role.In such circumstances, it is high time for the professionals to play their respective roles. Thus decision makers in the city councils as well as the citizens themselves think about strategies to make life in cities safer. Authorities must follow a legal mandate to guarantee public safety as a public good. But, what is planners' role and how can physical planning elements...

Space Place Life is the first in a series of books drawing on the expertise of the Academy of Urbanism. This book examines the concepts that are core to the academy; the way that urban space is designed, the quality place created by the buildings that enclose this space and the life that animates it. All great towns and cities across the world depend on these three fundamental aspects of urban life.

The Academy of Urbanism brings together architects, urban designers planners, surveyors, economists academics and developers to better understand what makes successful...

The Colorado Front Range is a natural repository of beauty and majesty needing preservation and management. However, regional planning for this magnificent open space is not self-evident. The question is, does the Colorado Front Range have effective regional coordination that would benefit open space preservation? Using interviews with officials from the Denver Regional Council of Governments, Boulder County, Jefferson County, and Douglas County as well as historic research, the first portion of the book examines if there has been effective regional coordination through the...

The accelerating rate of population growth in and around the Dhaka Metropolitan Area (DMA) makes a tremendous pressure on land and on urban infrastructural services. There is a strong tendency of urban expansion in the suburban Savar, just lying outside the DMA. The study reveals a number of clear changing characteristics regarding land use, morphology, socio-economic conditions. Savar Paurasava is mainly characterized by a mixer of urban and rural land use. By Suburban growth Savar experienced a number of geographic transformations in terms of exceeding rate of increase in population and...

Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today's cities will be equitable and healthy.

Having made the case for what he calls 'adaptive urban health justice' in the opening chapter, Corburn briefly reviews the key events, actors, ideologies, institutions and policies that shaped and reshaped the urban public health and planning from the nineteenth century to the present day. He...

How can we create sustainable zero carbon communities cost-effectively at the same time as increasing the probability of people leading happy and healthy lives? Written from the perspective of practical experience gained from world-leading projects such as Beddington Zero fossil Energy Development (BedZED), One Brighton and Masdar City, this book provides a clear overview and simple insights for students, interested individuals and professionals in all areas of the property development and planning industries - including architecture, planning, engineering, surveying, development management,...

The great earthen mounds of southern Ohio have attracted archaelogical attention since the first half of the nineteenth century. Until now, little has been known of the social organization of the Native Americans who constructed these spectacular ceremonial monuments.

In the early 1960s, Olaf Prufer argued that the Ohio Hopewell societies who built the mounds that characterize the Middle Woodland Period (200 B.C. to A.D. 400) lived in a small, scattered hamlets. Prufer's thesis was evaluated at the symposium "Testing the Prufer Model of Ohio Hopewell Settlement Pattern" at the...

Politics and culture are at once semi-autonomous and intertwined. Nowhere is this more revealingly illustrated than in urban design, a field that encompasses architecture and social life, traditions and modernization. Here aesthetic goals and political intentions meet, sometimes in collaboration, sometimes in conflict. Here the formal qualities of art confront the complexities of history. When urban design policies are implemented, they reveal underlying aesthetic, cultural, and political dilemmas with startling clarity.
Gwendolyn Wright focuses on three French colonies Indochina,...