This presentation is a compilation of selected topics on the history of urbanization, urban and regional planning theories, urban thinkers and their contributes, concepts, bases of land use, applicability to the Philippine setting, and a briefer of urban design elements.
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5. WHAT WE’LL LEARN ABOUT
1 The history and foundation of urban and
regional planning
2 Theories
3 Evolution of urban forms
4 Types of planning
5 The role of a planner
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Urban and regional planning
Town and country planning
Environmental planning
Human settlements planning
City planning
Master planning
9. “urban”
of, relating to, characteristic of, or
constituting a city (Merriam Webster)
LARGE CITY
LARGE AMOUNT
SIGNIFICANTLY-
DEVELOPED AREA
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DISTANCE
BETWEEN
BUILDINGS IS
VERY SMALL
10. “regional”
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of or relating to a particular region,
district, area, or part, as of a
country; sectional; local
LOCALIZED
A PART OF
TERRITORIAL
PROVINCE
DISTRICTDIVISION
SECTION
QUARTER
ZONE
BELT
PART
14. “environmental”
relating to the natural world and the
impact of human activity on its condition
PERSON’S
SURROUNDINGS
LIVING ORGANISM
SOIL
CLIMATE
CHANGE
PLANTS AND ANIMALS
NATURAL FORCES
19. Environmental planning, also known as urban
and regional planning, city planning, town and
country planning, and/or human settlements
planning, refers to the multi-disciplinary art
and science of analyzing, specifying,
clarifying, harmonizing, managing and
regulating the use and development of land
and water resources, in relation to their
environs, for the development of sustainable
communities and ecosystems. (RA 10587)
20.
21. I’M A
PLANNER.
In the Philippines, an environmental
planner refers to a person who is
registered and licensed to practice
environmental planning and who
holds a valid Certificate of
Registration and a valid
Professional Identification Card
from the Board of Environmental
Planning and the Professional
Regulation Commission.
(RA10587)
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22. what is
my role?
o One who creates and
recommends plans on land
use and other planning fields
o An advisor and regulator to
the government, private
sector, and the communities
o An urban designer
o Someone who looks far into
the future for the welfare of a
place
o A capacity builder, facilitator,
and educator
o An advocate of causes
25. MESOPOTAMIA
10,000 BC – 7TH CENTURY AD
• “Fertile crescent” means land between rivers
• Scope of the Tigris and Euphrates river systems
• Water as a basis of urban development
29. MESOPOTAMIA
10,000 BC – 7TH CENTURY AD
• Sumer was one of the early civilizations
• 15 city-states created
• Religion was power
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31. ANCIENT EGYPT
3,000 – 300 BC
• Religion still powerful: Ancient Egyptians
worshipped kings as gods
• Once buried, lives forever
• Pyramids constructed in capital cities
• Cities of dead people (necropolis)
34. HIPPODAMUS OF MILETUS
498-408 BC
• “Inventor / father of formal city planning”
• Made the Hippodamian Plan or the grid city to
maximise winds in the summer and minimise
them in winter
• Has a geometric, arranged style in design
• Also worked on the Piraeus Port and Alexandria
40. PLATO
428 - 347 BC
• Established the Polluter Pays Principle
“If any one internationally pollutes the water of another,
whether the water of a spring, or collected in reservoirs,
either by poisonous substances, or by digging, or by theft,
let the injured party bring the cause before the wardens of
the city, and claim in writing the value of the loss; if the
accused be found guilty of injuring the water by
deleterious substances, let him not only pay damages, but
purify the stream or the cistern which contains the water,
in such manner as the laws… order the purification to be
made by the offender in each case.”
41. PLATO
428 - 347 BC
• Polluter Pays is in our Environmental Code (PD1152)
It shall be the responsibility of the polluter to contain,
remove, and clean-up water pollution incidents at his own
expense. In case of his failure to do so, the government
agencies concerned shall undertake containment,
removal, and clean-up operations and expenses incurred
in said operations shall be against the persons and/or
entities responsible for such pollution.
42. ARISTOTLE
384 - 322 BC
• Provided the foundation for the concept of
intergenerational equity
• For our children’s children
Human well-being is realised only partly by satisfying
whatever people’s preferences happen to be at a
particular time; it is also necessary for successive
generations to leave behind sufficient resources so that
future generations are not constrained in their
preferences.”
43. ARISTOTLE
384 - 322 BC
INTERGENERATIONAL
EQUITY
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45. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
29 BC – 393 AD
• Excelled in military science and engineering
• Designs and inventions looked at improving
transport and military strategies
50. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
29 BC – 393 AD
• Heavily dependent on water
• Engineered sewerage, canals, hydraulics
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ROMAN AQUEDUCT
51. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
29 BC – 393 AD
• Socio-political events resulted to religious
divisions, absence of military discipline, murder,
and citizen unrest
• Moral decay led to the fall of Rome
• Vikings destroyed the Aqueduct
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53. THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
5TH – 15TH CENTURY AD
• The church and monasticism
• Rise of Islam
• Byzantine empire
• State power
• The Crusades
• Carolingian dynasty
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56. CATHEDRAL CITIES
• Cathedral or monument as a focal point of the
city
• Radial growth
• Retained the walled city from Roman practice
• Enclosure caused problems such as epidemics
and limited resources
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58. RENAISSANCE
14TH TO 17TH CENTURY AD
• Commerce as a driving factor
• Called for accessibility and mobility
• Like the Medieval Period, had a radial growth
pattern
• Plans began to follow the topography of an
area
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60. LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI
1404-1472
• Wrote the De Re Aedificatoria: Ten books of
planning and design principles
Growth is
characterized by
a star-shaped
form
66. CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT
1800s – 1900s
• Emphasized beauty and aesthetics
• Think monuments, grand buildings, parks,
perfect landscapes, lakes, and circular road
systems
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67. DANIEL HUDSON BURNHAM
1846-1912
• Father of American
City Planning
• Together with
Frederick Law
Olmstead and John
Wellborn Root,
designed the World’s
Columbian
Exposition, the first
comprehensive
planning document in
the US
68. DANIEL HUDSON BURNHAM
1846-1912
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to
stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not
be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and
work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram
once recorded will never die, but long after we are
gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-
growing insistency. Remember that our sons and
grandsons are going to do things that would
stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your
beacon beauty.”
69. CHICAGO MANILA BAGUIO
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• Greatest feat was the Plan of Chicago (called Paris on
a Prairie); other plans include Manila, Baguio,
Cleveland, and San Francisco
DANIEL HUDSON BURNHAM
1846-1912
72. SIR EBENEZER HOWARD
1850 - 1928
• Wrote the book Garden Cities of Tomorrow
• Addressed population and pollution that came about by
the industrial revolution by creating garden cities
77. SIR RAYMOND UNWIN
Architect – city planner for Letchworth
Wrote Nothing Gained by Overcrowding
SIR FREDERIC JAMES OSBORN
Championed garden cities
LOUIS DE SOISSONS
Architect of Welwyn
83. LE CORBUSIER
(CHARLES EDOUARD JEANNERET)
1887-1965
• Created the Radiant City
• Modernist, futuristic, and orderly
• But socially disadvantageous and unrealistic for
settlements
• Criticized because he tried to solve congestion with
more congestion
• Wrote the books Urbanisme and The City of Tomorrow
and Its Planning
88. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
1867-1959
• Champion and proponent of urban decentralisation
• Involved communities
• Designed the 1,000-hectare Broadacre City
• included social services in the forms of schools, trains,
and museums, as well as employment in the forms of
markets, offices, nearby farms, and industrial areas
• Plan included a helicopter, which was criticized
94. CLARENCE STEIN
1882-1975
• Initiated plans to produce greenbelt resettlements all
over the US
• Wrote the book Toward New Towns for America
HENRY WRIGHT
1878-1936
• Created the superblock
96. CLARENCE PERRY
1872-1944
• Conceptualized the
neighborhood unit
• Similar to the
superblock
• Bounded by major
streets
• Has a church, school,
and shops
• 200 sqm to 2 sqkm
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98. SIR PATRICK GEDDES
1954-1932
• Introduced the notion of a region
• Became the Father of Regional Planning
• Biologist, sociologist, and geographer
• Dissected the planning environment by analysing
occupational activities
• Used observation and rational methods
• Instead of gridiron planning, used conservative surgery
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101. SIR PATRICK GEDDES
1954-1932
• Introduced the
term conurbation, which
means “an aggregation of
continuous network of
urban communities.”
• Emphasized the
relationships of people
and cities, thus the city-
region term.
• Used the rational planning
method of Survey
Analysis
• Wrote the book Cities in
Evolution
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102. SIR LESLIE PATRICK ABERCROMBIE
1954-1932
• Created the post-war plans for London, and combatted
sprawling by resettlement
• Made the London Country Plan (1944) and the Greater
London Plan (1943)
104. LEWIS MUMFORD
1895-1990
• A historian-sociologist who studied cities and
architecture
• From his 23 books, the most prominent in city planning
is The City in History, which pointed out how
technology and nature could be harmonious
• Gave the concept of an organic city
• Rationalised how planning has various disciplines
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105. Mumford was friends
with City Beautiful
advocates Frank Lloyd
Wright, Clarence Stein,
and Frederic Osborn.
Mumford and
Wright exchanged
transatlantic letters on
professional and
personal matters.
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106. BENTON MCKAYE
1879-1975
• Originator of the 3,500 km Appalachian Trail in the
eastern United States (Georgia to Maine)
• Was a forester and conservationist, and co-founded
the Wilderness Society
• Championed regional conservationism
110. EDWARD BASSETT
1863-1948
• Urban planner and lawyer who was the Father of
American Zoning. He was the first to use zoning as a
means of implementing land use in New York. He
wrote books about zoning.
• Also coined the term freeway and parkway
111. DON ARTURO SORIA Y MATA
1844-1920
• Made the concept Linear City, which has many
parallel and specialized functions
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112. DON ARTURO SORIA Y MATA
1844-1920
The linear city gears away from the usual centric urban
forms. The lines help control the expansion of a city.
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113. TONY GARNIER
1869-1948
• Made the concept Linear Industrial City, which has
many parallel and specialized functions
• Used the concept of zoning and labeled space into
leisure, industry, work, and transport
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• Plan caters to 35,000 residents
• Follows the principles of funciton, greeneries, open
space, and exposure to the sunlight
• City is linked by circular patterns
115. THOMAS ADAMS
1871-1940
• Worked primarily on low-density residences or garden
suburbs
• Founded the British Town Planning Institute
• Wrote the book Rural Planning and Development
• Pushed for planning legislation by mandate, local
plans, zoning, building regulations, and recognized
the responsibility of a licensed or professional
planner
117. CONSTANTINOS APOSTOLOS DOXIADIS
1914-1975
• Studied the science of
human settlements,
called ekistics
• Looks into the culture,
economics, and society
in varying scales
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120. FRANCIS STUART CHAPIN
1888-1974
• As a sociologist
and educator, he
stressed the
importance of
quantifying social
activities in an
evolving city
through statistics.
• He was the first to
write the
textbooks on
urban and
regional planning
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122. IRA LOWRY
• Published A Model of Metropolis, a computer model for
spatial organization of anthropogenic activities in a
metropolitan area
• This generates an assessment that can be the basis for
urban policy decisions
• Worked with Robert Garin on a model that looks at the
relationship and logic to the spatial arrangement of human
activities
• Expands to gravity modeling, or trip distribution in
transport planning, or distance decay in physics
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125. WILLIAM LEVITT
1907-1994
• Father of American Suburbia / The King of Suburbia /
The Inventor of the Suburb
• Mass produced houses that were affordable
131. CATHERINE BAUER WURSTER
1905-1964
• An advocate of social and public housing. She
authored the American Housing Act of 1937 and was
an adviser to five presidents.
• Wrote the book Modern Housing
• She also worked with Lewis Mumford
132. ROBERT MOSES
1888-1981
• The Master Builder of New York
• His plans had parkways, expressways, and housing
development
• One of the most controversial figures in the history of
urban planning
136. SAUL DAVID ALINSKY
1909-1972
• Founder of modern community organizing
• Wrote the book Rules for Radicals
• Worked with the poorer communities, and influenced
neighbourhood organisations
137. SHERRY ARNSTEIN
1909-1972
• Social and health worker
• Published an article on the ladder of citizen
participation, which gave not only a voice but power
to the citizens. This addressed how citizens were being
victimised, and led the way to participatory planning.
145. JANE JACOBS
1916-2006
• An urban activist who
was strong and vocal
against urban renewal;
she fought for new
urbanism
• Wrote the powerful
book The Death and Life
of American Cities Her
book and activism led to
the eventual fall of urban
renewal towards city
diversity, mixed-use,
dense neighborhoods,
and vibrant communities.
• Also wrote the book The
Economy of Cities
149. RACHEL LOUISE CARSON
1907-1964
• A marine biologist
• Wrote the powerful book Silent Spring, a haunting
compilation and narrative of research about the
detrimental and even lethal effects of pesticides and
fertilisers on the living environment
• This book launched a global environmental
movement
150. IAN MCHARG
1920-2001
• Was called an
“architect who valued a
site’s natural features”
• Transformed efforts of
traditional planning
into environmental
planning by using the
technique of sieve
mapping or overlay,
which took into account
the varied features of
the environment.
151. IAN MCHARG
1920-2001
• Wrote the book Design with Nature, which triggered
responsible planning of landscapes, respecting natural
features
• Laid the foundation for Geographic Information
Systems
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158. Theory Rural areas organize agricultural production in support of
an urban center. Distance from the center determines the
use of land.
Findings Longer distance from market
Less profitability
Easier to transport
Applicability or
Planning
Implication
Showed the early analysis of human behavior and its
spatial consequences
160. Theory The range of good and threshold population of retail shops
and service establishments are the major influences in
explaining the number, size and distribution patterns of
settlements.
Findings Consumers avoid higher transport costs by going to the
nearest service location.
The larger the settlements in size, the fewer in number they
will be.
The more number of settlements, the higher order of
services, and the higher the degree of specialization that
occurs.
Applicability or
Planning
Implication
Provides an economic and spatial development of regions
through provision of appropriate goods and services, with
establishments according to scale.
168. Theory A factory or plant locates where transport and labor costs
are at a minimum, determined by cost of distance vs.
weight of raw materials, cost of labor, agglomeration and
deglomeration.
Findings The point of least transport costs is that at which the
combined weight movements involved in assembly (from
sources and in distribution is at a minimum). If savings in
labor cost is labor cost per unit output exceeds the extra
transport costs, labor will attract the industry to the location.
Applicability or
Planning
Implication
Brings economics into the spatial domain.
Provides rationality in determining the location of a firm
172. BID RENT PUSHES AWAY
THOSE WHO CANNOT
MATCH THE PRICES
CREATES
CONCENTRIC
PATTERNS
THIS IS WHY SLUMS
SURROUND A BETTER
OFF CITY CENTER
173. Theory The price of and demand for land changes according to the
distance from the center (CBD). The center commands the
highest value of land because of its proximity to business
establishments and supports services as well as the
market.
Applicability or
Planning
Implication
Provided an explanation on why slums and squatter
settlements proliferate in areas close to the CBD or
commercial centers
176. Theory Birth, mortality rates, and population movement are major
determinants of settlement patterns.
Findings Migration is caused by economic reasons.
Migrants tend not to go straight to their ultimate
destinations. They leapfrog.
Applicability or
Planning
Implication
Gives basis for migration and urban growth studies:
distance decay, push-pull studies on migration, and gravity
modeling
178. Theory Migration is an economic dimension of rural dwellers where
individual and household members believe that there is a
higher expected income in urban areas.
Findings Pakikipagsapalaran
Applicability or
Planning
Implication
This influenced national policy on on-site and services
approach to low cost housing, resettlement, relocation and
minimization of rural-urban disparities.