Regional & Urban Planning

21/02/2010

Dr. Ahmad BinTouqE-mail: abintouq@uaeu.ac.ae

URL: http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~abintouq

GEO438 Regional & Urban Planning 15:30-16:45 34039 FJC01 0034

Overview

• To provides basic understanding of Urban Planning

• Textbook: Levy, John M (2006). Contemporary Urban Planning, 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc

Overview

• What is Urban Planning? (Future wish-list for cities)

What is it UP

• Urban planning refers to the process by which cities draw future goals and objectives…

• Urban planning is a mixture of science and art.

• It encompasses many different disciplines and brings them all under a single umbrella.

Simple definition of Urban Planning

• Location/allocation discussions/decisions • it is the organization of all elements of a

town or other urban environment (region).

Planning

• Multi-scale urban planning.• Three scales of urban and rural planning,

such as city and town system planning, urban master planning, and detailed urban planning

Urban elsewhere (read)

• Can't we arrest the decline of Dhaka city?• http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=1270

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Dhaka City• “In the absence of a vision, Dhaka has lapsed into a

beehive of filth, congestion and urban blight. With things going so awry, it boils down to the fact that most of our big cities, especially Dhaka has suffered at the hands of the policy makers.”

• Planning and Policy  - land use, urban planning, zoning: to detect changes in land use from agricultural land to a construction site or housing development.

Exercise

* Why is urban planning important?