Dear All,
I am sharing this presentation containing my proposed presentation on the Physical Plan for your reference. This is an attempt to spell out "our story" in short succinct statements, as decided by the working group on Physical Planning.
•Outline:
–Vision/Goal/Objective
–Urban Ecology
–Urban Strategies
–Lahore
–Planning Criteria
–Derived Parameters
–Proposed Regional Structure
–Alternate Development Strategies
–Tasks Ahead
I look forward to your participation in the next Monthly Forum scheduled for Wednesday, 13th March, 2013, at Dabistan e Iqbal, 2 S, Gulberg II, at 5.30 pm.
KKM
2. Global Capitalism‟s Vision
is
A Recipe for Disaster!
• We do not share the corporate capitalist vision
of rapid urbanization as an investment
opportunity, and cities as employment markets,
whose expanding size provides economies of
scale for profiteers who are valorized for their
contribution to the national exchequer.
3. Our Vision for Lahore
A center of urbanity and civilization
A city that thrives in a symbiotic relationship
with its region.
4. Our Goal
• Realization of our highest human potential.
• the greatest challenges of the new millennium is
the conservation of our humanity and our
environment
• Our humanity is defined by the universal set of
qualities and values that define what it means to
be “human” – qualities such as
Love, Compassion, Justice and Beauty – not by
quantities such as gross national
product, monetary wealth and material
possessions
5. The City & its Region
• Cities process primary raw materials,
manufacture secondary products and provide
services.
• Economically they are integrated with the
region that produces the primary products,
and the region to which they provide goods
and services.
6. Parasite & Host
• In a symbiotic relationship, the value of what
each takes from the other is more or less
equivalent to what it gives.
• In a parasitic relationship the city extracts
resources in excess of their rates of renewal
and re-generation, and produces toxic and
non-recyclable waste.
7. Urban Strategies
• Cities are the biggest
consumers & the
biggest polluters
• Causes: • Sustainable cities:
– Mechanised – Pedestrian circulation
transportation
– Integration
– Segregation
– Low-rise
– High rise
– Low-tech
– High tech
– High density
– Low density
8. Physical Growth
Large, Growing &
Young Population
&
Unsustainable Physical
Growth Trends
based on
motorized circulation,
single central high-rise business
district and cultural center
low-density suburbs, segregated and
widely separated land-use zones
and
open-ended growth in the size of its
population and physical area
9. Planning Criteria
Quantity
Variables Unit
Sustainable cropland
Area: ha/capita 0.07
Urban Desity persons/ha 300
Walking speed km/hour 4
Commuting Time hours 0.5
ha/plow(animal
Max.Farm size drawn) 5
Household size persons 7
Population persons 14068538
Other Uses Area % 30
Available Area km.sq 14687
10. Typical Farming
settlement
Max.Farming
Unit Quantity Derived
Area
km.sq. 13 Parameters
Farming
Households house 251 • Lahore Division is a Sustainable
Region
Farming
Population persons 1759
persons/km. 40
Density sq. 140
20
Typical Urban Settlement
Urban Area km.sq. 13
0
Urban
Population persons 376991
-20
Lahore
Regional Land Use Division
Times surplus/deficient
-40
Cropland Area km.sq. 9848
Urban Area
km.sq. 469 -60
Other Uses km.sq. 3095
-80
TOTAL km.sq. 13412
Times surplus/deficient
Surplus
-100
(Deficient) km.sq. 1275
11. Proposed Regional Structure
Population
/Unit Units Quantity
4000 Village 400
17000 Town 80
375000 city 11
Metropolis
comprising of 18
7000000 „cities‟ 1
12. Alternate Development Strategies
Union Council Pop. = 38282
Persons Area:
Density /hectares hectares
Highest 1500 25.5
high 700 54.7
Low 125 306.3
Lowest 37 1034.6