Top Research Papers on Urban Planning

By reviewing the theoretical foundation of the separation between urban planning and urban ecological planning in China,the paper discusses,from a prospect of the construction of urban planning theory,the possibility and necessity of integrating ecological planning into urban planning.It points out that as a basic approach to the integration,the ecologization of urban planning is the direction of planning theoretical development in the future.Finally,it analyzes the respective significances of the ecologization of urban planning for ecological planning and tra- ditional urban planning.

U doba izblijedjelih sjecanja na neosporna strucna i moralna polazista urbanistickoga planiranja, u doba neprimjerenog autoriteta materijalne dobiti i osobnog interesa, ova knjiga uvodi citatelja u odabrane teme detaljnoga urbanistickog planiranja u nastojanju da pojasni svrhu, potrebu i važnost planiranja uporabe i ocuvanja prostora. Prvo poglavlje knjige obuhvaca osvrt na odabrana obilježja razvoja grada i razvoja urbanisticke djelatnosti, svrhu i važnost izrade urbanistickih planova te uloge sudionika u njihovoj izradi i provedbi. Drugo poglavlje obuhvaca postupak izrade urbanistickoga plan...

A ausencia de planejamento urbano tem causado varios problemas em todos os aspectos da vida humana urbana. A ocupacao desordenada, a moradia precaria, a falta de infraestrutura, a informalidade, o aumento das demandas sociais causadas pela expansao urbana desordenada produzem grandes distorcoes na cidade, gerando desigualdades sociais principalmente nas periferias das cidades e tambem contribuindo para a poluicao dos cursos d'agua, escassez de agua potavel e energia, acumulo de residuos, ausencia de saneamento basico e drenagem. Com essa realidade dramatica, os planejadores urbanos agem mais c...

Territorial and urban infrastructures, enrich with its cultural value and the new conceptions about the territory and the city, constitutes an extend patrimonial collection. That suppose not only a requirement to include it in urban planning instruments but also constitutes a fundamental background for plan’s contents and an opportunity to recharge new meaning in the urban space and elements regards. This short reflect is illustrate with nearness and knowness examples, of different elements of historical infrastructures to be able to heritage approach, and its processing in planning instrument...

With an estimated 38 per cent of its population classified urban, Africa is still the least urbanized continent but its urban population growth rates of about 3.3 per cent per annum are among the highest in the world. UNHabitat projects that by 2030 half of the estimated total population in Africa will be urban. What is particularly striking, however, is that incidences of poverty are more extreme than elsewhere in the developing world. Urbanization in Sub-Sahara Africa is, associated with high unemployment, absence of basic infrastructure services particularly in settlements of the urban poor...

The role of urban planning is to manage the spatial organization of cities for efficient allocation of urban infrastructure and land use. Depending on how it is applied, urban planning can improve air quality in the long run by strategic location of polluting sources and exposed population, and encouraging a city structure that would minimize pollution emissions and build-up. Unfortunately, urban regulations in South Asia have historically contributed to misallocation of land use and growth of urban shapes that are not necessarily conducive to economic development or air quality improvement. T...

GIS is increasingly accessible to planners and is now an important tool for urban planning in developed and developing countries alike.

In the contemporary urban order the rational connection between the physique of the city and its non-physical elements is a major concern. Whatever happens in the existence of a city like the social, cultural, economic and political interactions are the inevitable realities through which the qualification and quantification nature of the city are determined. All occurrences in these realities, the constituent elements, are subject to the structural process which can be regulated as one of the social organization (non-physical) in urban settings, namely the social organization of the city, econ...

This paper perceives sustainable urbanization as an ideal to be achieved by the urbanization process and urban growth in Malaysia. Sustainable urbanization should become the common shared value for every citizen and urbanite. Yet the concept is still far from being clear to guide city governance and planners. Cities keep on expanding in size in the country. The urbanization of capital at the global level in the thirty years has made it possible for Malaysia to adopt industrialism as a means to bring itself out of the third world to first in the 2020. In the process industrial estates have been...

The paper expounds the ne- cessity and importance for urban plan- ning to refer to urban anthropology,and discusses the connection between urban planning and urban anthropology.And the paper argues that urban planning could learn from urban anthropology in planning values,planning analysis,in- vestigation and research methodology.

The speed of different urban transportsbecomes diversified, while the general speed of urbantransportation rises. Inspired by the new notion ofcity as a spatial system of social interaction,thisstudy finds that the transport speed, together withthe density, is one of the revelators of urbanity. Sincetraditional and static planning methods cans deal withtodays complicated city problems, it proposes todevelop a new planning approach through the inter-action between urban density and transports speed.Integration of transports speed into urban planningwill greatly contribute to the improvement of ...

The paper illustrates the concept of urban management,and analyzes the characteristics,goals and approaches of urban management as well At the end of the paper,it puts forward thoughts and strategies in promoting the competitive advantages of urban management by virtue of urban pianning.

In view of the intimate relations between urban planning and urban economy, from three aspects the theoretical relation between urban planning and economic development, economic development factors in urban planning and functions of urban planning in economy discussion are made. Author points out that urban planning should combine with economic development; the other hand research of economic problems should be strengthened to improve urban planning level.

This report documents and compares examples of the use of Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML) and proprietary WWW based Virtual Reality modelling software and merging of photorealistic media and solid geometric modelling in the creation of Augmented Reality.

This is the first ‘fit for purpose’ teaching and learning tool for urban planning, which is a simultaneous multi player ‘serious’ game, played cooperatively on a horizontal plane, with planning education as its primary purpose.

Urban planning and community planning are two different concepts, however there exist some relations between them. Urban planning is substantially a kind of spatial planning and it pays great attention to the macroscopic economic benefits. While the nature of community planning is a kind of social planning which take into consideration the microcosmic social benefits. They both fall into the same continuous "decision-make to practice" entities and they have overlapping parts on the planning content. Meanwhile, they condition each other even conflict acutely. On the planning technique, the two ...

European cities informed some unusual thinking for Honda’s first ground-up electric vehicle platform, which is looking to transform the landscape for urban-going EVs

Cities ultimately are human-made environments. It is this very feature of cities that makes them an appealing target for population health inquiry. That they have been created means that they can also be modified and improved to the end of improving the health of their resident populations. Urban planning is concerned with the development and use of land in urban environments and, in this context, can play a central role in how we may think about optimizing urban environments to improve health. This chapter introduces an urban planning perspective on urban health, discussing how a formal urban...

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The textbook outlines the scientific and methodological foundations and provides practical recommendations on the design, formation and development of modern cities and settlement systems. The materials included in the manual are based on an analysis of current trends in urban transformation and development, the best buildings of world leaders in architecture and urban planning in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, China, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates. It contains a large number of examples and original photographs. Meets the requirem...

This chapter discusses the symbiotic relationship between urban planning and public health, examines the features of healthy and sustainable urban environments, provides positive examples of healthy urban planning and the blocks to conducting such planning. Consideration is given to how urban planning can contain sprawl and can create cites that rely more on public transportation, cycling, and walking. Examples of good practice from New York, Zurich, and Bursa (Turkey) are provided. Issues of governance, including public participation in planning and the importance of visionary leadership, are...

1. A cluster of introductory courses reviewing urban problems and solutions for freshmen and sophomores, and introducing urban planning to upper-level undergraduates. 2. A cluster presenting the planning process in a general urban context. 3. A group of upper-level courses that introduce more specialized aspects of planning in contexts ranging from neighborhoods, through suburbs, to new towns and planned communities; and approaches from fiscal planning to environmental issues.

1. A cluster of introductory courses reviewing urban problems and solutions for freshmen and sophomores, and introducing urban planning to upper-level undergraduates. 2. A cluster presenting the planning process in a general urban context. 3. A group of upper-level courses that introduce more specialized aspects of planning in contexts ranging from neighborhoods, through suburbs, to new towns and planned communities; and approaches from fiscal planning to environmental issues.

Spanish urbanismo evolved from the late rise of the discipline, at the beginning of the 20th century, to the consolidation of planning in the1950s and 1960s. In its origins, it payed special attention to urban forms, but in the years of exceptional economic development – 1950s-1970s – planning became more abstract, because of the dissociation between the scales of the comprehensive plan and the more specific definition of layouts and architecture, which remained in the background. Since the end of the 1970s, the functionalist urbanism gave way to a renovated ‘architectural urbanism’, again mor...

The major challenge in Kenya is that UPUagr lacks supportive local policy and legal framework recognizing the socio-economic value of UPUagr. Its integration in broad urban development plans with minimal conflict is also a problem. The study was conducted in 2011, at Bondo Sub County, Bondo Town Council through field studies at Nyawita, Barkowino and Ajigo sub locations. The overall objective of this study was to assess the extent to which Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture is integrated into Bondo Urban Planning achievement of sustainable food security to enhance food security. The objectives w...

This article aims to highlight and, whenever possible, demonstrate that the urban general plan is still the instrument of the utmost importance to trigger and steer urban transformations. Within the current Italian context, the article examines the characteristics, contradictions, weaknesses and opportunities of urban planning set of rules and practices and tries to propose concrete answers to questions and issues strictly connected that affect the municipality's urban planning: how to manage and govern a contemporary metropolis or city agglomeration, the concerns associated with overlapping j...

This paper argues that China’s existing urban planning system can not be adapt to the rapid development of the cities which directly result in criti- cism from urban planners, the criticism concentrates on the relationship of process and blueprint, techno- logical reason and social reason, physical planning and comprehensive planning, elite-guided close plan- ning and public-participated open planning. It argues that the development of history contains its intrinsic logicality and inevitability, and the present develop- ment of China’s urban planning is similar to some stage of urban planning ...

Clanak prikazuje knjigu Urbanizam: Svezak 1. - Urbanisticko planiranje autora Dietera Prinza.

The roles of the individual and of the public and private sectors must change to meet the realities of present-day life. The new social order should have a dramatic impact on highway and public-transit planning. Because past planning for public facilities and transit was often influenced by how much money was available and an almost limitless amount of available land, local decisions tended to be in the direction of whatever the government would pay for. In the 1970s changing demands for public transit were ignored and most attention was on fixed-route transit. Mathematical planning models wil...

Simulation experiments and relative analysis show that the model of artificial cities is reasonable, which indicates artificial urban planning research is feasible and will offer effective support to urban planning education.

To separate the models into two kinds: integrate planning models and engineering oriented models, the progress in research of these models as well as analysis of the trends and countermeasures of the models research are introduced.

This guide is an introduction to library resources supporting research in Urban & Regional Planning

Decisions relating to urban planning in the city, privilege certain classes others, further intensifying the iniquity of the city. However, planning has different faces, which give rise to conflicts and disputes, and indicate new avenues for him – the planning – is put in place in order to minimize inequalities.

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use and other problems, such as transportation, communications and its distribution networks. In Ho Chi Minh City case, the fastest developing city in Vietnam, the transportation problems have become worse and worse, recently. Even through received lots of concerns from Ho Chi Minh City government and notices from many different stakeholders, traffic jam and others traffic problem keep occur and increase-in-level in many new projects area of Ho Chi Minh City. In fact, there are several challen...

Rapid urban development and dramatic change of landscape have been recently witnessed in the developing city Haikou in China as a result of rapid economic development. In this paper, Dinamica which was a spatially explicit simulation model of landscape dynamics were used to simulate the evolution of Haikou during the period of 1989 to 2012.They are expanding from exist city cell, around the city center, along the transportation line, and rural resident spot. According to the spatial occupation reality of Haikouin 1996 and 2008, the simulation accuracy is greater than 82% . Dinamica model is co...

In a world in growing turbulence,complexity and uncertainty,where crisis is becoming the norm rather than the exception,resilience is increasingly seen as a critical feature that reflects the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize without collapsing. The concept of resilience adds a new perspective to the issue of new urbanization. The main purpose of this paper is to stimulate debate on the concept of resilience and its utility. The paper firstly traces the origin of resilience and unpacks its three fundamentally different meanings; secondly,presents the development of urba...

본 연구는 도시 난개발 현상에 관한 연구이다. 도시 난개발(Urban Sprawl) 현상은 수도권을 중심으로 해서 우리나라 도시 주변부에 광범위하게 진행된 현상이다. 본 연구에서는 분석의 대상으로 수도권지역을 경험적 연구의 대상으로 설정하였다. 또한 난개발의 원인으로 수도권 지역의 인구집중과 계속되는 주택 수요, 국토이용계획제도에 의한 도시 주변부 지역에 대한 허술한 토지이용규제 제도, 그와 동시에 도시 주변부의 농업용지의 도시적 용도로의 토지전용을 통한 지가상승 이익의 실현등을 도시 난개발 진행의 원인으로 파악하여 분석하였다. 결론으로 도시 난개발을 억제하기 위한 토지이용규제 정책의 대안을 제시할 수 있는 시사점을 도출하였다.

With an estimated 38 per cent of its population classified urban, Africa is still the least urbanized continent but its urban population growth rates of about 3.3 per cent per annum are among the highest in the world. UN-Habitat projects that by 2030 half of the estimated total population in Africa will be urban. What is particularly striking, however, is that incidences of poverty are more extreme than elsewhere in the developing world. Urbanization in Sub-Sahara Africa is, associated with high unemployment, absence of basic infrastructure services particularly in settlements of the urban poo...

Urban development has gradually been changed from extension expansion into intension improvement. This paper begins with the concept of "manage" in economics, reviews the progress of urban design theories and practices, and discusses the alteration of the concept and method of contemporary urban design in China.

This research focuses on the issues of urban sprawl in Korea. The urban sprawl phenomenon began around the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA) at the beginning of the 1990 s. The research reviews the situation in other cities around the country, and analyzes the causes of urban sprawl, such as population concentrations around the SMA, the failure of planning systems, land conversion and land prices. In particular, this article attempts to explain the increase in land price by using empirical data on the areas under investigation. The article also attempts to present planning alternatives to prevent ...

Dispersed urbanization, urban planning and management instruments such as zoning, and urban expansion zones, have become increasingly consistent in leading cities toward an uncertain and chaotic future. The urban perimeters of municipalities have been used increasingly in favor agents of the reproduction of unequal urban space, aggravating the process of socio-spatial segregation, the formation of urban gaps and real estate speculation. Inherent to this process, infrastructure, one of the most important components of urban land and one of the most costly for local governments, has become incre...

This research aimed to find the differences between the American undergraduate major Urban Studies and the Chinese undergraduate major Urban Planning and aimed to figure out which major would help students find a better job in China. The researcher reviewed different universities’ syllabi and found that the learning objectives and course contents of the two majors in the two countries were different. The American major Urban Studies was more about social science. The Chinese major Urban Planning was more about planning and designing, including sketching graphs for architecture and communities....

Much new development in japan takes the form of urban sprawl or scatteration, that is to say, sporadic building of farm plots within commuting distance of towns. The first half of the paper summarises the general arguments for preventative measures, showing how these are reflected in Japan's legal and policy framework of land management. The second part of the paper reviews the actual ineffectiveness of planning, explaining it in the light of institutional and land market factors. In conclusion, the Japanese experience is seen to suggest at least a partial re-evaluation of the received argumen...

This paper concludes that the urban society as an anomie system has one of its for-itself control means, urban planning. During the society transitional period urban planning can contribute to the steady development of urban system. The paperfocuses on the use of some control means in urban planning and advances in the planning field jaw system should be perfected,public participation and society survey institution should be established, universal planning education should be spreaded, publicopinion and society appraisal should be taken advantage of.

Based on analyzing the current situation of environmental pollution in some cities,it proposes main contents of environmental protection planning,then points out long-range object of urban air,water,solid waste and urban acoustic environment development,finally elaborates the importance of environmental protection planning in urban planning.

The urbanization,along with the economic development,has been significantly speeding up in recent years.In order to achieve the harmonious development of the city,it is particularly important to make a scientific and sound urban planning.It is well known that China has made an outstanding achievement in urbanization and,correspondingly,got an intractable "urban diseases".Therefore,an in-depth research on urban geology is required to help solve the problems of urban planning.In this article,the new frontiers of urban geology and the urban-planning problems have been analyzed and summarized.Mean...

To relieve traffic congestion and other issues blocking, road construction can not only enhance road construction, but also make some innovation about the new thoughts and methods for the functional departments of the government.

Geography is one of the umbrella disciplines which integrated with lot of sub disciplines. Urban Geography is one of the young sub disciplines of Geography. Temporal and spatial view in geography is unique and that influences the professionalism of urban Geographer. It is considered that the role of urban geographer is prominent figure on urban planning due to their holistic perception on urban landscape. The need of urban planning emerged with the Industrial Revolution in 1830s in the west. In the third world countries, urbanization has become a controversial and complicated trend with the ov...

This paper aims to describe the NCC approach, in order to stimulate discussion on growing environmental health concerns and urban planning.

The article describes the basic ideas of urban geography and its use in solving urban transportation problems. Some basic concepts of urban geography, which are discussed, include the concept of the gravity analog, the concept of potential, the central place theory, geographical regions, and the concept of hierarchy. The article concludes with a discussion of the urban economic base.