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Law & section: Refers to activities connected with the management and development of land, as well as the preservation, conservation, and management of the human environment
PD 1308, Section 2
Law & section: The multi-disciplinary art and science of analysing, specifying, clarifying, harmonizing, managing, and regulating the use and development of land and water resources, in relation to their environs, for the sustainable development of sustainable communities and ecosystems
RA 10587, Section 4
4 basic roles of the state
- Supplier of goods and services
- Regulator and facilitator of the market
- Arbiter between contending social groups
- Social engineer
Definition of urban (old): cities and municipalities in their entirety with population density of ___
1,000 persons per sq km
Definition of urban (old): poblaciones or city/municipality central districts with a population density of ___
500 persons per sq km
Definition of urban (old): poblaciones or central districts regardless of population size with (3)
- Parallel or right-angled streets
- At least 6 establishments
- At least 3 of the ff: public building, church, park, market
Definition of urban (old): barangays with at least ___ inhabitants
1,000 persons
Definition of urban (new): barangay with population size of ___
5,000 persons
Definition of urban (new): barangay has at least ___ establishment/s with ___ employees
1 establishment, 100 employees
Definition of urban (new): barangay with ___ establishments with minimum of ___ employees, and ___ facilities within the ___ radius from the barangay hall
5 establishments, 10 employees, 5 facilities, 2 km radius
All barangays in ___ are automatically classified as urban
NCR
- Concept defined by charter or legal act after specific requirements
- An important permanent settlement possessing characteristics of size, density, heterogeneity, granted a substantial level of self-governance by means of Statute of Charter
City
How an area acquires urban character
Urbanization
Proportion of people in urban vs non-urban areas
Level of Urbanization
Way of life associated with living in cities
Urbanism
Proponent of the Hydraulic Civilization Theory, which is applicable in Asia
Karl Wittfogel
The anti-thesis to totalitarian empires
Greek city-states
The centerpiece and the focus of Greek city-states
Temples, civic spaces
- Pre-occupied with defense (castra)
- Grid-iron design was useful for military movement
Roman imperial cities
- Central concern was survival and security
- Theory: urbanization was due to population pressure
Fortress cities, post-Roman empire
Wrote “The Origin and Evolution of Cities”
Gideon Sjoberg
- Urbanization is a cultural process
- Trade commerce fosters socio-cultural diversity
- Cities brought together specialists, which resulted in innovation and technology
Socio-cultural theory of urbanization
Proponent of the religious model
Paul Wheatley
Cities as religious, ceremonial centres became factor for urbanization
Religious model
Cities as burial complexes for eternal god-kings
Necropolis
- The town grew around the cathedral
- Radio-centric, retained protective walls
Cathedral cities, middle ages
- Age of exploration
- Rise of the merchant class
- Cities as commercial nodes
Port/mercantile cities, renaissance
- Industrial revolution
- Located near coal fields
- Massive rural migration and high pollution
Industrial/manufacturing cities
- Information and communication technology’s impact on spatial organization of activities
- Pre-eminence of highly-skilled, intellectual, creative, imaginative labor force
Post-industrial city, information revolution
The dominant form of the post-industrial city
Extended sprawling metro
Proponent of Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener
Proponent of the Cyclical Process
Brian McLoughlin
Proponent of the Systems Approach
George Chadwick
Proponent of Linear Planning
Allan Wilson
Proponent of Survey-Analysis-Plan
Patrick Geddes
Proponent of Mixed Scanning
Amitai Etzioni
- “Successive limited comparisons”
- Strategic selection of goals; loose framework
Mixed scanning
Proponent of Incremental Planning
Charles Lindbloom
Proponent of Communicative Planning
Jurgen Habermas, and the Frankfurt School of Social Critical Theory
- Planning as transactive, to and fro
- Group interest determined through dialogue
Communicative Planning
Uniform 60-storey apartment-towers with large open spaces in between
Radiant City, by Le Corbusier
The Radiant City was meant for ___ people
3 million
- Authoritarian, inflexible, simplistic
- Standardization was inhuman, socially-destructive
- Design was good for temporary living, and not as permanent residence
Brasilia, Brazil, by Oscar Niemeyer
4 concepts of the New Towns Movement
- Skyscraper City
- Garden City
- Superblocks
- Neighborhood Clusters
Proponent of the Superblocks
Henry Wright
Proponent of Neighborhood Clusters
Clarence Perry
Island of greens, surrounded by homes, bordered by automobile roads
Superblock
A low-rise, pedestrian-oriented residential quarter with schools as centre, boudned by arterial streets, shops at the circumference and junctions, and internal system discourages through-traffic
Neighborhood Unit
Neighborhood Units are meant for ___ persons
6,000 persons
Neighborhood Units: ___ open green spaces
10%
Proponent of the Garden City
Ebenezer Howard
Central City population
58,000
Garden City population
30,000
City Functional Movement prioritized ___ over master planning
Land Use Zoning
First significant case regarding zoning as police power
Village of Euclid vs. Ambler Realty
Proponent of the Linear City
Don Arturo Soria Y Mata
- Linear utility lines as basis of layout
- May run parallel to a river
- Had 5 sectors: railways, production zone, greenbelt, residential/institutional zone, and agricultural zone
Linear City
Movement that rationalizes urban planning in relation to decentralized economic production and transport planning
City Efficient Movement
The science of human settlements integrates economics and physical design
Ekistics
- Reviving the lost art of place-making
- Opposes suburbs and focuses on rebuilding inner-city neighbourhoods around traditions
- Fostering informal human settlements revitalizes the community
- Pedestrianization and mixed-use
New Urbanism/ Neo-Traditionalism
Anti-big city, return to micro identities as a spatial strategy
Eco-Anarchism
Extra-urban
Exurb
Aim is to redevelop outworn, physically deteriorated areas
Urban Renewal, by the US Federal Program
Urban renewal bonds paid by future tax revenues
Tax increment financing
Up-scaling blighted areas to attract business and elite occupants
Gentrification
Father of Town Planning in Europe
Hippodamus of Miletus
Swiss-French architect-planner who was criticized for “planning paradox”
Le Corbusier
Scottish city planner and the Father of Regional Planning
Patrick Geddes
Coined “city-region” and “conurbation,” and the “Folk Work Place” framework
Patrick Geddes
Father of Urban Planning in Canada, who formed the Town Planning Institute of Canada
Thomas Adams
Said that diversity in geographic concentration spurs urban growth and that mixed-use neighbourhoods make vibrant urban communities
Jane Jacobs
Father of American City Planning
Daniel Burnham
Proponent of Broadacre City
Frank Lloyd Wright
Low-density development which proposed to give 1 acre per family
Broadacre City
Co-founded the Regional Planning Association of America
Clarence Stein, H. Wright, and L. Mumford
Father of Historical Sociological Approach to Planning
Lewis Mumford
Said that planning is multi-disciplinary and it should emphasize organic relationship between people and living spaces
Lewis Mumford
The re-planning of London through the dispersal of 1.25 million people to new towns and rural areas
Abercrombie Plan, by Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie
First modern environmental planner who pioneered environmental impact statements and GIS use
Ian McHarg
“Form must also respect the natural environment”
Ian McHarg
Designed Philadephia: rectangular grid system, central park, and neighbourhood park per quadrant
William Penn and Thomas Holme
Redesigned Paris with circular plazas, long wide boulevards, and pocket parks
Baron Haussmann
- American forester, conservationist and regional planner
- Father of the Appalachian Trail
Benton McKaye
- Proponent of Ekistics and ecumenopolis
- Designed Islamabad
- Town Planning Chief of Greater Athens
Konstantinos Doxiadis
A planetwide city; the future urban areas and megalopolises would eventually fuse and there would be a single continuous worldwide city
Ecumenopolis
- Park Commissioner, head of New York City Planning Commission
- Responsible for every parkway, expressway, and public housing in New York Region
Robert Moses
- Designed the Washington D.C. plan
- Forerunner of City Beautiful
Pierre Charles L’ Enfant
- Conservation and Parks Movement
- Designed Central Park with Calvert Vaux
Frederick Law Olmsted
- Forerunner of avant garde 20th century French architects
- Proposed Une Cite Industrielle (linear industrial city)
Tony Garnier
- First to write a comprehensive book on urban and regional planning
- Quantitative, statistical tools to study social phenomenon
Dr. Francis Stuart Chapin, Jr.
- Father of Advocacy Planning
- Public interest is political, not scientific
Paul Davidoff
- American biologist and eco-feminist who sparked environmental movement in US through Silent Spring
- Advocacies led to the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Environmental Impact Assessment system
Rachel Louise Carson
Proponemnt of Human Ecology
Robert Park, of the Chicago School of Urban Sociology
Human ecology: a social group enters an area
Invasion
Human ecology: a former social group is replaced
Succession
Human ecology: sorting out of population groups according to conscious preference, bias, and prejudice
Segregation
Human ecology: diverse groups find peaceful co-existence
Assimilation/ accommodation
Human ecology: distribution of activities, population, and manner which they have focused on the city centre
Concentration
Human ecology: locating away from the central city
Decentralization
Human ecology: neighbourhood declines
Filtering
Human ecology: powerful groups acquire best locations; matter of who can maximize and pay costs
Survival of the fittest
The pull forces of a city
Centripetal
Forces urging rural to city movement
Push Forces
Push forces from the city
Centrifugal
- First stage of urban growth
- Natural resource, tourism
Export specialization
- Second stage of urban growth
- Broadens to other facets of focus
Export complex
- Third stage of urban growth
- Local service sector puberty
- Import substitution
Economic maturation
- Fourth stage of urban growth
- Serves as node to others
Regional metropolis
- Fifth stage of urban growth
National / international metropolis
- Sixth stage of urban growth
- National eminence in specialized skill
Technical/ Professional Virtuosity
Proponent of the Concentric Ring Theory
Ernest W. Burgess
- Accessibility, rent, and densities decrease with distance from city centre; commerical agents that can afford high land values will concentrate at the centre
- Outward pressure as those with higher income pursue better development
Concentric Ring Theory
Concentric Ring Theory: Zone 1
Central business district
Concentric Ring Theory: Zone 2
Zone of transition
Concentric Ring Theory: Zone 3
Blue-collar residential
Concentric Ring Theory: Zone 4
Middle-class residential
Concentric Ring Theory: Zone 5
Commuter residential
- Opposite of Burgess’ s model: poor moving away from city centre, while the rich retain control
- Observed mostly in less developed countries and primarily administrative cities
- Lack of adequate transport system restricts elites to city centre
Inverse Concentric Model
Proponent of the Sector or Radial Model
Homer Hoyt
- High-rent districts shape city land use
- Residential areas grow in wedge shape
- Expands towards trade routes, high ground, waterfronts, transportation, and open space
Sector or Radial Model
Sector Model: center
Central business district
Sector Model: Middle top-bottom wedges and left half-circle
Low-class residential
Sector Model: Left top-bottom wedges
Industry
Sector Model: right wedge from center outwards
High-class residential
Sector Model: right half-circle closest to center
Zone of transition
Sector Model: right larger half-circle
Middle-class residential
Proponents of the Multiple Nuclei Model
Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman
- Related from US gridiron road patterns
- Nuclei acts as growth centres for particular land uses that expand and merge to form a single urban area
- Certain activities cluster for profit, while other repel
Multiple Nuclei Model
Multiple Nuclei Model: center jigsaw puzzle
Central business district
Multiple Nuclei Model: left rectangle, closest to center jigsaw puzzle
Light manufacturing/ zone of transition
Multiple Nuclei Model: three rectangles around the left rectangle closest to center jigsaw puzzle
Low-class residential
Multiple Nuclei Model: blob to the right of the center jigsaw puzzle
Medium-class residential
Multiple Nuclei Model: rightmost blob
High-class residential
Multiple Nuclei Model: small rectangle at the bottom left of one of the three rectangles
Heavy manufacturing
Multiple Nuclei Model: square in the middle of the two blobs
Outlying central business district
Multiple Nuclei Model: isolated square located under the blobs
Residential suburb
Multiple Nuclei Model: isolated square under the rectangles surrounding the center jigsaw puzzle
Industrial suburb
Proponent of the Hybrid Model
Walter Isard
- Combines strengths of the Concentric, Sector, and Zonal models
- Urban land use is overlay of different transportation effects - some oriented along transportation effects, some along transport axis, some in nuclei to reach scale and agglomeration economies
Hybrid Model
Proponent of Concentric Zone Modification
Peter Mann
- Typical British town model
- Main feature is the separated commuter village
- Considers prevailing wind from west, and the best residential area is upwind from industrial
Concentric Zone Modification
Proponent of Galactic City
Peirce F. Lewis
- Result of leapfrog development
- Edge cities form in suburbs
- “Doughnut shape,” low-density centre, activity along ring roads resemble galaxy
Galactic City
Proponent of Edge Cities
Joel Garreau
- Fringe cities on alternate CBDs centered on suburban malls, office/techno parks
- “More jobs than bedrooms”
- Functions deconcentrated away from historical central cities
Edge Cities
Evolution of LA Cities: maquiladoras
Industry
Latin American Model: central area
Central business district (the original colonial city)
Latin American Model: vertical area from center to bottom
Spine (the CBD extension down a main boulevard)
Latin American Model: smallest circle around the central area
Zone of maturity (gradually improved self-built housing)
Latin American Model: larger circle around the central area
Zone of accretion (transition zone, modest housing)
Latin American Model: largest circle
Zone of peripheral squatter settlements (refugee camp-like)
Latin American Model: periferia
Older, more permanent in informal housing
Latin American Model: favela
Recent, poor quality informal housing