the social issues. 1- modern urban planning emerged as a profession in the early decades of the 20th...
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THE SOCIAL ISSUES
1- Modern urban planning emerged as a profession in the early decades of the 20th century .
2- It sprang from architecture and landscape architecture .
Introduction
2- The Pruitt Igoe public housing project .
1- The Civil Rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s focused attention on issues of justice and fairness .
Beginnings
3- In the 1960s and 1970s a ( social planning ) term appeared .
Beginnings
Whats the SOCIAL PLANNING ?
• Social Planning is a process that helps communities identify strengths and weaknesses and determine ways to improve the quality of life in the community
The SOCIAL ISUUSES in planning for housing
1- Housing is probably the area in which physical planning decisions have their greatest social effect .
A- Mechanism of cost.
B- Educational & employment policy .
The SOCIAL ISUUSES in planning for housing
Unemployed line
Family break up
Crime Alcoholism
The SOCIAL ISUUSES in planning for housing
2- Decisions about housing can have powerful effects on how people LIVE .
The Yonkers Housing Case
Murder: 13
Forcible Rape: 25
Robbery: 454
Aggravated Assault: 387
Burglary: 816
Larceny or Theft: 2,185
Car Theft: 788
Arson: 36
Private Communities
1- What is the Private or Gated Community ?
2- Private communities are built in suburban or outside the metropolitan areas entirely .
3- Many of the first private communities were retirement communities .
4- Many private communities are open in the sense that anyone can enter them
5- Private communities have marketing advantages .
6- More design freedom .
7- Other views ( Edward Blakely ) .
Private Communities
Private Communitieseffects
1- More prosperous withdraw to private communities .
2- Destroy the sense of community .
3- More integration happens easily and naturally .
Homelessness
Homelessness
1- Homeless people are increasing .
Homelessness
2- Homelessness causes .
a) Mental Diseases
b) Drugs and alcohol
c) Economic reasons
d) Municipal Housing
e) Urban Renewal
Homelessness
A planner must be
NEUTRAL