PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING

• The Neighborhood Unit


  Towns divided into wards of 5000
• Radburn, New Jersey


  "A town for the motor age"
• The Abercrombie Plan


  Post-war plans for London
• Cities in Evolution (1915) by Patrick Geddes


  Talked about suburban decentralization
• The Culture of Cities by Lewis Mumford


  The bible of the regional planning movement
• Broadacre City


  A home in an acre of land
• The Mile High Tower


  Proposed to house 1000 inhabitants in a 528-storey skyscraper
• The Mile High Tower


  Inspired the design for Burj Khalifa
• Linear City by Arturo Soria Y Mata


  Elongated urban formation
• Industrial City (Une Cite Industrielle) by Tony Garnier


  Outgrowth of the Industrial Revolution
• Trabantenstadte by Earnst May


  Satellite Towns
• Arcology by Paolo Soleri


  Creation of very densely populated, ecologically low impact habitats
• Arcology by Paolo Soleri


  Portmanteau of architecture and ecology
• Neopolis


  New City
• Paleopolis


  Old City
• Agora


  Marketplace
• Curia


  Senate house, in the Forum
• Insulae


  Apartment blocks in Rome where the poor lived
• Feudalism


  Holding of land in exchange for service or labor
• Feudalism


  Affected the urban design of most towns during the Medieval Ages
• Coastal Port Towns


  Grew from military fortifications
• Medieval Organic City


  Taken after the "buog" (military town) and "fauborg" (citizens' town)
• Medieval Bastide


  taken from the French bastide

  (eventually referred to as "new towns")
• Bastide


  Fortified new town
• The Spanish "Laws of the Indies"

  King Philip II's guideline on town planning
• Pueblo


  Civil
• Presidio


  Military
• Mision


  Religion
• The English Renaissance


  The European Planned City
• Savannah


  The world's largest officially recognized historical district
• The Speculator Town


  Developments which were drive purely from speculation
• Pilotis (5 Points of Modern Architecture)


  Reinforced concrete stilts that lifted the bulk of the structure off the ground
• Free Facade (5 Points of Modern Architecture)

  Non-supporting walls that could be designed as the architect wished
• Open Floor Plan (5 Points of Modern Architecture)

  The floor space is free to be configured into rooms without concern for supporting walls
• Ribbon Window (5 Points of Modern Architecture)


  Long strips of windows that allow unencumbered views
• Roof Garden (5 Points of Modern Architecture)

  To compensate for the green area consumed by the building and replacing it on the roof
• Urban Design


  Focus on the physical improvement of the public environment
• Urban Planning


  Focus on the management of private developments through established planning methods and programs
• Buildings (Elements of Urban Design)


  The most pronounced element of urban design
• Buildings (Elements of Urban Design)


  It shapes and articulates by forming the street walls of the city