This document summarizes the original urban design principles behind the neighborhood concepts developed by Clarence Stein/Henry Wright and Clarence Perry in the 1920s. Both aimed to address problems of the time like traffic and crowded living conditions. Stein/Wright's "Radburn model" featured superblocks with houses around a central green, separated vehicle/pedestrian access, and a road hierarchy. Perry's "Neighborhood Unit" centered on an elementary school and parks. While their ideas helped shape planning, subsequent developments distorted the original principles around neighborhood size, boundaries and facilities.
The document discusses several important planning concepts including:
1) Garden City Concept by Ebenezer Howard which proposed planned, self-contained communities surrounded by greenbelts that combined the benefits of both urban and rural living.
2) Geddesian Triad by Patrick Geddes which emphasized the organic relationship between social, physical, and economic environments in planning.
3) Neighborhood Unit concept by Clarence Perry which proposed planning residential areas with schools, parks, and shops at their core to create self-sufficient neighborhoods.
4) Radburn Concept by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright which pioneered the separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic in planned communities.
The Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA) was formed in 1923 as a loose network of New York intellectuals concerned with urban issues like housing reform. Key members included Clarence Stein, Lewis Mumford, and Benton MacKaye, who were influenced by Patrick Geddes and sought to replace mono-nucleated cities with poly-nucleated regional cities. The RPAA is known for early regional planning projects like Sunnyside and Radburn. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was created in 1933 to develop the Tennessee Valley region through flood control, agriculture, education, and most notably power production using dams. While it brought industry and improved living standards, the TVA fell short of the RPAA's
The document discusses the City Beautiful movement which emerged in the late 19th century. It aimed to beautify American cities through neoclassical civic design including grand boulevards, public buildings, and parks. Key examples discussed are the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago which popularized the City Beautiful ideal, and Kansas City's implementation of this approach through a comprehensive park and boulevard system designed by George Kessler. The 1909 Plan of Chicago by Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett also sought to beautify the city through similar civic improvements and create a more functional transportation network. However, critics argued that City Beautiful planning focused too much on aesthetics and wealthy areas, neglecting social and housing issues.
Frank Lloyd Wright proposed Broadacre City as a decentralized city model where each family would be given one acre of land to live on individually. The city was planned to have low-density development and be auto-oriented, with local commercial areas and public services within 150 miles of each home. While intended to promote individualism, the strict zoning system and uniform layouts limited freedom. Broadacre City existed only as a theoretical model and faced criticisms around isolation and dependence on automobiles. However, it explored concepts like suburban sprawl and land ownership that influenced later urban planning.
The first large-scale elaboration of the City Beautiful occurred in Chicago at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The planning of the exposition was directed by architect Daniel Burnham, who hired architects from the eastern United States, as well as the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to build large-scale Beaux-Arts monuments that were vaguely classical with uniform cornice height. The exposition displayed a model city of grand scale, known as the "White City", with modern transport systems and no poverty visible. The exposition is credited with resulting in the large-scale adoption of monumentalism for American architecture for the next 15 years. Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue is one expression of this initial phase.
The Radiant City plan proposed by Le Corbusier involved rebuilding cities using modern construction methods. It centered around large, pre-fabricated apartment buildings called les unites that would house thousands of residents. Les unites would be placed on stilts above the ground and connected by interior streets and elevators. Transportation and industry would be separated onto different roadway levels. However, critics argue that while Corbusier advocated for certain individual freedoms and leisure activities, his vision actually involved a paternalistic and bureaucratic form of authority that did not allow for individual voice or non-rational human behavior. His conception of a rationally-planned city did not account for the complexity and unpredictability of human nature.
The document discusses several important planning concepts including:
1) Garden City Concept by Ebenezer Howard which proposed planned, self-contained communities surrounded by greenbelts that combined the benefits of both urban and rural living.
2) Geddesian Triad by Patrick Geddes which emphasized the organic relationship between social, physical, and economic environments in planning.
3) Neighborhood Unit concept by Clarence Perry which proposed planning residential areas with schools, parks, and shops at their core to create self-sufficient neighborhoods.
4) Radburn Concept by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright which pioneered the separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic in planned communities.
The Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA) was formed in 1923 as a loose network of New York intellectuals concerned with urban issues like housing reform. Key members included Clarence Stein, Lewis Mumford, and Benton MacKaye, who were influenced by Patrick Geddes and sought to replace mono-nucleated cities with poly-nucleated regional cities. The RPAA is known for early regional planning projects like Sunnyside and Radburn. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was created in 1933 to develop the Tennessee Valley region through flood control, agriculture, education, and most notably power production using dams. While it brought industry and improved living standards, the TVA fell short of the RPAA's
The document discusses the City Beautiful movement which emerged in the late 19th century. It aimed to beautify American cities through neoclassical civic design including grand boulevards, public buildings, and parks. Key examples discussed are the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago which popularized the City Beautiful ideal, and Kansas City's implementation of this approach through a comprehensive park and boulevard system designed by George Kessler. The 1909 Plan of Chicago by Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett also sought to beautify the city through similar civic improvements and create a more functional transportation network. However, critics argued that City Beautiful planning focused too much on aesthetics and wealthy areas, neglecting social and housing issues.
Frank Lloyd Wright proposed Broadacre City as a decentralized city model where each family would be given one acre of land to live on individually. The city was planned to have low-density development and be auto-oriented, with local commercial areas and public services within 150 miles of each home. While intended to promote individualism, the strict zoning system and uniform layouts limited freedom. Broadacre City existed only as a theoretical model and faced criticisms around isolation and dependence on automobiles. However, it explored concepts like suburban sprawl and land ownership that influenced later urban planning.
The first large-scale elaboration of the City Beautiful occurred in Chicago at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The planning of the exposition was directed by architect Daniel Burnham, who hired architects from the eastern United States, as well as the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to build large-scale Beaux-Arts monuments that were vaguely classical with uniform cornice height. The exposition displayed a model city of grand scale, known as the "White City", with modern transport systems and no poverty visible. The exposition is credited with resulting in the large-scale adoption of monumentalism for American architecture for the next 15 years. Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue is one expression of this initial phase.
The Radiant City plan proposed by Le Corbusier involved rebuilding cities using modern construction methods. It centered around large, pre-fabricated apartment buildings called les unites that would house thousands of residents. Les unites would be placed on stilts above the ground and connected by interior streets and elevators. Transportation and industry would be separated onto different roadway levels. However, critics argue that while Corbusier advocated for certain individual freedoms and leisure activities, his vision actually involved a paternalistic and bureaucratic form of authority that did not allow for individual voice or non-rational human behavior. His conception of a rationally-planned city did not account for the complexity and unpredictability of human nature.
The City Beautiful movement arose in the late 19th century as an effort to introduce beautification and grandeur to cities through Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts architecture. Planners like Daniel Burnham wanted to replace railway depots with grand entrances, build attractive bridges, and develop boulevards to address traffic issues and house the wealthy. Though some aspects like Manila's American-style post office emerged in the Philippines, the movement declined by 1909 as being too expensive and impractical. Frank Lloyd Wright later proposed Broadacre City as a vision of low-density, automobile-centered suburbia where each family would own an acre, but it failed to account for large population growth and environmental impacts of urban sprawl
The document discusses several important concepts in town planning and human settlements, including:
1) The Garden City concept introduced by Ebenezer Howard, which proposed self-contained communities that blend the advantages of urban and rural living. This influential model was applied in various "Garden Cities" developed in the early 20th century.
2) The Geddesian Triad of surveying the social, physical, and economic environment before planning, and Patrick Geddes' work applying regional surveys and analysis to planning projects in India and elsewhere.
3) The Neighborhood Unit concept of Clarence Perry, which aimed to design walkable, self-contained neighborhoods with schools, parks, and other amenities at their
This document provides an overview of the history and evolution of urban planning through summaries of key figures and developments. It discusses the work of Frederick Law Olmsted in designing Central Park and shaping urban planning in New York City and Chicago. It also covers Haussmann's redesign of Paris in the 1850s and Robert Moses' impact on infrastructure and development projects in New York City in the 1900s. The document then introduces concepts from Jane Jacobs and new urbanist approaches to planning exemplified by Seaside, Florida.
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect known for his organic architecture and philosophy of designing structures in harmony with humanity and nature. He was interested in urban planning throughout his career. His most ambitious plan was Broadacre City, proposed in the 1930s, which envisioned decentralized, automobile-oriented communities where each American family would be given one acre of land. Broadacre City was meant to be the antithesis of dense cities and exemplify Wright's vision of suburban living, but it remained primarily a theoretical concept that highlighted some realities of future urban sprawl and independent living. While never fully realized, Broadacre City reflected Wright's belief that technological changes would make large cities obsolete.
Patterns of neighbourhood structure in history Amit Pokharel
1) Neighbourhoods have historically been defined as small, walkable communities within larger cities or towns, with shared social networks and interactions.
2) Early cities from 4000 BC had evidence of neighbourhood structures with facilities like roads, drainage, and multi-story buildings.
3) Throughout history, the forms and structures of neighbourhoods have evolved with periods of urbanization, from tribal settlements to modern high-rise apartments and planned communities.
The City Beautiful Movement sought to beautify American cities in the late 19th/early 20th century through monumental architecture and planning inspired by European styles. Reformers believed beautifying cities could inspire civic duty and morality among residents. Daniel Burnham was a leading architect who helped plan the 1893 World's Fair and 1901 plan for Washington D.C., spreading Beaux-Arts styles. He designed skyscrapers like the Flatiron Building and co-authored Chicago's 1909 plan, establishing himself as a pioneer of American city planning before dying in 1912.
This document discusses the work and urban planning concepts of architect Le Corbusier. It outlines his principle of planning, including the Ville Contemporaine and La Ville radieuse models which proposed centralized cities with strict zoning, abundant green space, and prioritization of vehicles. It also describes Le Corbusier's planning of Chandigarh, India and notes both praise for its architecture and landscaping, as well as criticism of his ideas for being monotonous and car-dependent with class-based housing separation.
History & Theory of Planning: Origins of Modern City PlanningAnuradha Mukherji
This document discusses the origins of modern city planning and 19th century reform movements. It describes the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in cities due to industrialization and mass immigration. Housing, such as tenements in New York City, were extremely overcrowded and unsanitary. This led to public health crises and reform movements focused on sanitation, parks, and municipal governance. Figures like Frederick Law Olmsted designed new types of urban planning focused on parks and green spaces to address these issues.
Urban Form and Design: Urban Design Outside Euro-American ContextsAnuradha Mukherji
The document summarizes the key characteristics of urban form and design in non-Western contexts, specifically in the Arab world and China. It discusses how cities in the Arab world seek to project wealth and power through massive construction projects that primarily benefit the wealthy, while neglecting pedestrian spaces and historic areas. In China, it describes the rapid urbanization process fueled by rural-urban migration, and the large-scale developments, sprawl, segregation, and environmental impacts resulting from the government's development model and hukou system.
EBENEZER HOWARD - Garden city, Letchworth City and Welwyn. Life and Career of Sir Ebenezer Howard. Theory of 3 magnets. Inspiration of what lead to making of garden city.
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years.
Wrightt believed in designing in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.
This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called the best all-time work of American architecture. As a founder of organic architecture, Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing three generations of architects worldwide through his works.
There is a train station and a few office and apartment buildings in Broadacre City. All important transport is done by automobile, and the pedestrian can exist safely only within the confines of the one-acre (0.40-hectare) plots where most of the population dwells.
Urban planning theories have evolved over time in response to changes in populations, economies, and technologies. Early theories focused on orderly city layouts with separate zones. Hippodamus proposed dividing cities into public and private areas with grids. Howard's Garden Cities aimed to blend urban and rural advantages. Geddes emphasized relationships between people and environments. Later, modernist planners like Le Corbusier proposed high-density "Radiant Cities." Burgess' concentric zone model depicted socio-economic groups arranged in circles. Perry's neighborhood unit promoted walkable communities. Today, multiple nuclei and sector theories recognize dispersed growth around transportation networks.
Clarence Perry was an early 20th century American planner who developed the concept of the neighborhood unit. The neighborhood unit aimed to design self-contained residential areas that promoted community and protected residents from industrial areas and traffic. Key elements included centering the neighborhood around an elementary school, placing arterial streets on the perimeter, and dedicating 10% of land to parks and open space. The ideal neighborhood unit size was 5,000-6,000 people and 160 acres to allow children to walk half a mile to school and residents to access local services. Neighborhood planning principles focused on size, boundaries, internal streets, land use mix, and locating community facilities to encourage social interaction.
This presentation completes the arc between the City Beautiful movement of early 20th century and the current emphasis on place-making using North Michigan Avenue as an example.
- Le Corbusier was an influential 20th century architect and pioneer of modern architecture. He developed principles like pilotis and roof gardens.
- His 1925 plan for the Radiant City proposed vertical housing blocks surrounded by green space, with strict zoning and an emphasis on transportation. It aimed to provide a better urban lifestyle.
- Though never fully realized, the Radiant City influenced modern planning with its high-density approach. Le Corbusier later applied these principles to his master plan for Chandigarh, India in the 1950s.
[1] Bandar Tun Razak is a large parliamentary constituency located in central Kuala Lumpur between Petaling Jaya and Cheras.
[2] It was previously known as Kampung Konggo and was renamed Bandar Tun Razak in 1984 in honor of the fourth Prime Minister.
[3] The document provides an overview of Bandar Tun Razak including its history, location, population, geography, and zoning. It then describes the residential, public, commercial, industrial, and market areas around Bandar Tun Razak with pictures and examples.
Impact of renaissance & industrial revolution on city forms & Concepts of utopiaAnoushka Tyagi
The presentation contains principles, and the impacts on city forms with respect to different movements- like the Park movement, linear city concept, Settlement house movement, city beautiful, and the garden city movement.
History & Theory of Planning: Postmodern Critiques of ModernismAnuradha Mukherji
Urban renewal and freeway construction in the mid-20th century displaced many inner-city communities and concentrated poverty. Federal programs subsidized suburban development at the expense of cities. Pruitt-Igoe, a St. Louis public housing project, exemplified the failures of top-down modernist planning and strict cost-cutting that ignored community needs. Jane Jacobs criticized such programs' negative impacts and lack of understanding of urban economies and lived experiences. Later reforms decentralized control and funding to local governments.
The document discusses the emergence of planning as a professional field through the ideas of early 20th century idealists like Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier. It focuses on Howard's concept of the Garden City - self-sufficient satellite towns that combined the benefits of urban and rural life. The first attempts to realize Garden Cities were Letchworth Garden City in England and Radburn, New Jersey, which incorporated elements like zoning, greenbelts, and separating vehicles from pedestrians. However, full implementation of the plans was limited. The document examines the vision and legacy of the Garden City movement.
Jane Jacobs critiques modern urban planning practices in her influential book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities". She argues cities should focus on people, not traffic, and observes neighborhoods like Greenwich Village in New York to understand what makes some areas successful while others fail. Jacobs introduces new principles of urban planning by examining topics such as sidewalks, parks, and the importance of aged buildings and mixed uses to generate diversity within cities.
This document provides an overview and guidance on assessing housing and economic development needs to inform local planning policies. It discusses the purpose of assessing needs for different housing tenures, mixes, and specific groups, as well as economic land uses. The key points covered include:
- Housing needs assessments should examine trends in population age profiles, household types and sizes, housing stock, and tenure to understand future needs.
- Affordable housing need is calculated separately from and cannot be included within the overall housing need number.
- Economic development needs assessments should understand business needs both quantitatively and qualitatively for all foreseeable economic activities over the plan period.
- Consultation with stakeholders is important to understand housing and economic needs.
Local neighborhood processing is a common technique in spatial domain image filtering. It involves defining a neighborhood around each pixel and applying an operation to the pixel values within the neighborhood. Common examples are mean and weighted mean filters, which average pixel values to reduce noise. Mean filters replace each pixel value with the average of neighboring pixels. Weighted mean filters assign more importance to central pixels and horizontally/vertically adjacent pixels compared to diagonal neighbors. Neighborhood processing is implemented by defining a filter kernel that specifies the operation and applying it to each pixel location.
The City Beautiful movement arose in the late 19th century as an effort to introduce beautification and grandeur to cities through Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts architecture. Planners like Daniel Burnham wanted to replace railway depots with grand entrances, build attractive bridges, and develop boulevards to address traffic issues and house the wealthy. Though some aspects like Manila's American-style post office emerged in the Philippines, the movement declined by 1909 as being too expensive and impractical. Frank Lloyd Wright later proposed Broadacre City as a vision of low-density, automobile-centered suburbia where each family would own an acre, but it failed to account for large population growth and environmental impacts of urban sprawl
The document discusses several important concepts in town planning and human settlements, including:
1) The Garden City concept introduced by Ebenezer Howard, which proposed self-contained communities that blend the advantages of urban and rural living. This influential model was applied in various "Garden Cities" developed in the early 20th century.
2) The Geddesian Triad of surveying the social, physical, and economic environment before planning, and Patrick Geddes' work applying regional surveys and analysis to planning projects in India and elsewhere.
3) The Neighborhood Unit concept of Clarence Perry, which aimed to design walkable, self-contained neighborhoods with schools, parks, and other amenities at their
This document provides an overview of the history and evolution of urban planning through summaries of key figures and developments. It discusses the work of Frederick Law Olmsted in designing Central Park and shaping urban planning in New York City and Chicago. It also covers Haussmann's redesign of Paris in the 1850s and Robert Moses' impact on infrastructure and development projects in New York City in the 1900s. The document then introduces concepts from Jane Jacobs and new urbanist approaches to planning exemplified by Seaside, Florida.
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect known for his organic architecture and philosophy of designing structures in harmony with humanity and nature. He was interested in urban planning throughout his career. His most ambitious plan was Broadacre City, proposed in the 1930s, which envisioned decentralized, automobile-oriented communities where each American family would be given one acre of land. Broadacre City was meant to be the antithesis of dense cities and exemplify Wright's vision of suburban living, but it remained primarily a theoretical concept that highlighted some realities of future urban sprawl and independent living. While never fully realized, Broadacre City reflected Wright's belief that technological changes would make large cities obsolete.
Patterns of neighbourhood structure in history Amit Pokharel
1) Neighbourhoods have historically been defined as small, walkable communities within larger cities or towns, with shared social networks and interactions.
2) Early cities from 4000 BC had evidence of neighbourhood structures with facilities like roads, drainage, and multi-story buildings.
3) Throughout history, the forms and structures of neighbourhoods have evolved with periods of urbanization, from tribal settlements to modern high-rise apartments and planned communities.
The City Beautiful Movement sought to beautify American cities in the late 19th/early 20th century through monumental architecture and planning inspired by European styles. Reformers believed beautifying cities could inspire civic duty and morality among residents. Daniel Burnham was a leading architect who helped plan the 1893 World's Fair and 1901 plan for Washington D.C., spreading Beaux-Arts styles. He designed skyscrapers like the Flatiron Building and co-authored Chicago's 1909 plan, establishing himself as a pioneer of American city planning before dying in 1912.
This document discusses the work and urban planning concepts of architect Le Corbusier. It outlines his principle of planning, including the Ville Contemporaine and La Ville radieuse models which proposed centralized cities with strict zoning, abundant green space, and prioritization of vehicles. It also describes Le Corbusier's planning of Chandigarh, India and notes both praise for its architecture and landscaping, as well as criticism of his ideas for being monotonous and car-dependent with class-based housing separation.
History & Theory of Planning: Origins of Modern City PlanningAnuradha Mukherji
This document discusses the origins of modern city planning and 19th century reform movements. It describes the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in cities due to industrialization and mass immigration. Housing, such as tenements in New York City, were extremely overcrowded and unsanitary. This led to public health crises and reform movements focused on sanitation, parks, and municipal governance. Figures like Frederick Law Olmsted designed new types of urban planning focused on parks and green spaces to address these issues.
Urban Form and Design: Urban Design Outside Euro-American ContextsAnuradha Mukherji
The document summarizes the key characteristics of urban form and design in non-Western contexts, specifically in the Arab world and China. It discusses how cities in the Arab world seek to project wealth and power through massive construction projects that primarily benefit the wealthy, while neglecting pedestrian spaces and historic areas. In China, it describes the rapid urbanization process fueled by rural-urban migration, and the large-scale developments, sprawl, segregation, and environmental impacts resulting from the government's development model and hukou system.
EBENEZER HOWARD - Garden city, Letchworth City and Welwyn. Life and Career of Sir Ebenezer Howard. Theory of 3 magnets. Inspiration of what lead to making of garden city.
Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years.
Wrightt believed in designing in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.
This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called the best all-time work of American architecture. As a founder of organic architecture, Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing three generations of architects worldwide through his works.
There is a train station and a few office and apartment buildings in Broadacre City. All important transport is done by automobile, and the pedestrian can exist safely only within the confines of the one-acre (0.40-hectare) plots where most of the population dwells.
Urban planning theories have evolved over time in response to changes in populations, economies, and technologies. Early theories focused on orderly city layouts with separate zones. Hippodamus proposed dividing cities into public and private areas with grids. Howard's Garden Cities aimed to blend urban and rural advantages. Geddes emphasized relationships between people and environments. Later, modernist planners like Le Corbusier proposed high-density "Radiant Cities." Burgess' concentric zone model depicted socio-economic groups arranged in circles. Perry's neighborhood unit promoted walkable communities. Today, multiple nuclei and sector theories recognize dispersed growth around transportation networks.
Clarence Perry was an early 20th century American planner who developed the concept of the neighborhood unit. The neighborhood unit aimed to design self-contained residential areas that promoted community and protected residents from industrial areas and traffic. Key elements included centering the neighborhood around an elementary school, placing arterial streets on the perimeter, and dedicating 10% of land to parks and open space. The ideal neighborhood unit size was 5,000-6,000 people and 160 acres to allow children to walk half a mile to school and residents to access local services. Neighborhood planning principles focused on size, boundaries, internal streets, land use mix, and locating community facilities to encourage social interaction.
This presentation completes the arc between the City Beautiful movement of early 20th century and the current emphasis on place-making using North Michigan Avenue as an example.
- Le Corbusier was an influential 20th century architect and pioneer of modern architecture. He developed principles like pilotis and roof gardens.
- His 1925 plan for the Radiant City proposed vertical housing blocks surrounded by green space, with strict zoning and an emphasis on transportation. It aimed to provide a better urban lifestyle.
- Though never fully realized, the Radiant City influenced modern planning with its high-density approach. Le Corbusier later applied these principles to his master plan for Chandigarh, India in the 1950s.
[1] Bandar Tun Razak is a large parliamentary constituency located in central Kuala Lumpur between Petaling Jaya and Cheras.
[2] It was previously known as Kampung Konggo and was renamed Bandar Tun Razak in 1984 in honor of the fourth Prime Minister.
[3] The document provides an overview of Bandar Tun Razak including its history, location, population, geography, and zoning. It then describes the residential, public, commercial, industrial, and market areas around Bandar Tun Razak with pictures and examples.
Impact of renaissance & industrial revolution on city forms & Concepts of utopiaAnoushka Tyagi
The presentation contains principles, and the impacts on city forms with respect to different movements- like the Park movement, linear city concept, Settlement house movement, city beautiful, and the garden city movement.
History & Theory of Planning: Postmodern Critiques of ModernismAnuradha Mukherji
Urban renewal and freeway construction in the mid-20th century displaced many inner-city communities and concentrated poverty. Federal programs subsidized suburban development at the expense of cities. Pruitt-Igoe, a St. Louis public housing project, exemplified the failures of top-down modernist planning and strict cost-cutting that ignored community needs. Jane Jacobs criticized such programs' negative impacts and lack of understanding of urban economies and lived experiences. Later reforms decentralized control and funding to local governments.
The document discusses the emergence of planning as a professional field through the ideas of early 20th century idealists like Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier. It focuses on Howard's concept of the Garden City - self-sufficient satellite towns that combined the benefits of urban and rural life. The first attempts to realize Garden Cities were Letchworth Garden City in England and Radburn, New Jersey, which incorporated elements like zoning, greenbelts, and separating vehicles from pedestrians. However, full implementation of the plans was limited. The document examines the vision and legacy of the Garden City movement.
Jane Jacobs critiques modern urban planning practices in her influential book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities". She argues cities should focus on people, not traffic, and observes neighborhoods like Greenwich Village in New York to understand what makes some areas successful while others fail. Jacobs introduces new principles of urban planning by examining topics such as sidewalks, parks, and the importance of aged buildings and mixed uses to generate diversity within cities.
This document provides an overview and guidance on assessing housing and economic development needs to inform local planning policies. It discusses the purpose of assessing needs for different housing tenures, mixes, and specific groups, as well as economic land uses. The key points covered include:
- Housing needs assessments should examine trends in population age profiles, household types and sizes, housing stock, and tenure to understand future needs.
- Affordable housing need is calculated separately from and cannot be included within the overall housing need number.
- Economic development needs assessments should understand business needs both quantitatively and qualitatively for all foreseeable economic activities over the plan period.
- Consultation with stakeholders is important to understand housing and economic needs.
Local neighborhood processing is a common technique in spatial domain image filtering. It involves defining a neighborhood around each pixel and applying an operation to the pixel values within the neighborhood. Common examples are mean and weighted mean filters, which average pixel values to reduce noise. Mean filters replace each pixel value with the average of neighboring pixels. Weighted mean filters assign more importance to central pixels and horizontally/vertically adjacent pixels compared to diagonal neighbors. Neighborhood processing is implemented by defining a filter kernel that specifies the operation and applying it to each pixel location.
This document provides a course review for an urban form and design planning course. It summarizes key concepts covered in the course, including Renaissance urban design principles from Michelangelo's Piazza Del Campidoglio in Rome, Haussmann's redesign of Paris, the urban parks movement led by Frederick Law Olmstead, Ebenezer Howard's Garden City ideas, Le Corbusier's modernist city planning principles, Jane Jacobs' work on urban neighborhoods, and new urbanism. It also features images related to these topics to illustrate important urban planning and design concepts discussed in the course.
“Housing” in the modern concept includes not only the “physical structure” for
providing protection and shelter but also includes the immediate surrounding and
related community services and facilities. Residence is constructed for family life
where a person gets physical and mental peace. World health organization (WHO)
refers the term “Residential environment” where family can develop and flourish
physically, mentally and socially and it includes all necessary services, facilities
and equipment and devices needed for physical and mental health and social
well-being.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
- The presentation discussed challenges with large development sites and Section 106 agreements. It focused on infrastructure needs, multiple landowners, long timescales, and engaging other organizations.
- Effective strategies include starting early, collaborating, ensuring robust evidence, finding flexible solutions, and using review mechanisms in Section 106 agreements to adapt to changing market conditions.
- Tools like development frameworks, infrastructure delivery plans, and phased approaches can help plan and deliver infrastructure over multiple phases of large sites.
Regulation 122 and 123 of the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 2010 place limitations on the use of planning obligations (also called section 106 agreements) to fund infrastructure when a charging authority has adopted a CIL. The key limitations are that planning obligations must be necessary to make a development acceptable, directly related to the development, and fairly related in scale. There are also restrictions on pooling more than 5 similar obligations to fund one infrastructure project or type. The regulations have been subject to complex legal interpretation and can impact the number of developments that can be approved.
Housing has evolved significantly over time due to various influences. Early humans lived in caves for safety, while Native Americans built structures using local materials. Colonists initially copied Native American dwellings, building with materials like sod, logs, and dirt floors. Urban housing became dense as cities grew, with multi-family dwellings like tenements. Over centuries, housing diversified as the population increased and new technologies emerged. The economy, environment, government regulations, and societal changes continue shaping housing development and design.
Housing Standards Review: Building Regulations PerspectivePAS_Team
This document provides information about the Housing Standards Review and optional requirements that can be applied by planning authorities. Key points:
- The review aims to standardize housing requirements nationally and remove local variation. It leaves Part L (energy efficiency) and allows optional standards for accessibility and water efficiency.
- Optional requirements relate to Part G (water efficiency) and Part M (accessibility). Part M has three categories with increasing accessibility. Planning can require categories 2 and 3 through conditions.
- Meeting the optional requirements, especially category 3, has major implications for design such as larger room and circulation sizes, step-free access, and wheelchair storage. Not considering these could result in non-compliant schemes.
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Clarence Perry defined the neighborhood unit as having a population of 5,000-6,000 people within a 160 acre area. The neighborhood unit centers around an elementary school located within a half mile walking distance of all homes. It also includes small shopping centers, parks, and community facilities clustered near the school. Perry's conceptualization of the neighborhood unit aimed to make key services and amenities accessible by foot to residents. Later authors refined the neighborhood unit model by suggesting smaller walking distances and connecting multiple units around shared high schools and commercial centers.
Radburn is a planned community located in New Jersey that was developed in the 1920s based on principles of separating pedestrian and vehicular traffic. It utilized superblocks with interior parks and a network of pedestrian paths to allow residents to access all community amenities without crossing streets. The community was designed with turned-around houses facing the pedestrian network and included single-family homes, row houses, apartments, parks, and a shopping center. While innovative at the time, some of Radburn's designs did not work as intended, such as underutilized front green spaces. However, Radburn demonstrated early principles of planning that focused on open space and community design, influencing later suburban development.
The document discusses various town planning concepts including Garden Cities, Linear Cities, Radburn Superblocks, Neighbourhood Units, Green Belts, Central Place Theory, Concentric Zone Theory, and Ribbon Development. It provides background information and key characteristics of each concept. For example, it explains that Garden Cities were designed by Ebenezer Howard to combine the benefits of town and country living, with populations of around 30,000 people and self-contained employment, industry, commerce and agriculture. It also discusses criticisms of some of the concepts.
This document discusses how housing meets human needs and affects quality of life. It covers Maslow's hierarchy of needs and how different types of housing can fulfill physical, safety, love and esteem needs. Housing choices are influenced by factors like personal priorities, family relationships, costs and life stages. The types of households like nuclear families, single-parent families and extended families are reviewed. Finally, it discusses how housing impacts both personal quality of life and society's quality of life through areas like human ecology.
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2. Urban design principles of the original neighbourhood concepts
Abstract. The neighbourhood concept is arguably one of the major planning
landmarks that shaped the urban form of the twentieth century city in many countries.
Coincidently, both the neighbourhood idea of Clarence Stein and Henry Wright,
exemplified in their plan for Radburn, and the Neighbourhood Unit idea of Clarence
Perry were published in 1929. The urban design principles of Stein and Wright included
the idea of a superblock of residential units grouped around a central green, the
separation of vehicles and pedestrians, and a road hierarchy with culs-de-sac for local
access roads. A cluster of superblocks was to form a self-contained neighbourhood. A
group of neighbourhoods would then comprise the city. For Perry the physical
arrangement of the elementary school, small parks and playgrounds, and local shops
was the basis of his neighbourhood idea. Each neighbourhood was to be a >unit= of the
city. Briefly outlined are the deviations from the original ideas made subsequently by
numerous architects, planners, developers, and bureaucrats. This article re-examines
the intentions of Stein and Wright and Perry and the sources of their ideas to recover
the principles of the original concepts that have become obscured over the decades.
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3. Urban design principles of the original neighbourhood concepts
The neighbourhood concept was undoubtedly one of the major landmarks in twentieth
century urban planning. Two different original ideas appeared in the same year, 1929.
First, there was the
idea for neighbourhoods by Clarence Stein and Henry Wright (Adams, Bassett and
Whitten, 1929). Secondly, there was the Neighbourhood Unit idea of Clarence Perry
(Perry, 1929). As the design principles of Stein and Wright were most clearly seen in
their plan for Radburn, New Jersey their concept for the neighbourhood will be referred
to as the Radburn model.
The aim of this article is set out the antecedents of these neighbourhood ideas
to better understand the design intentions of Stein and Wright and those of Perry.
These intentions were, unfortunately, distorted in subsequent new town and post-war
public housing neighbourhood developments. Criticism of the results led to the virtual
abandonment of the neighbourhood concept. By re-examining the original principles
underlying the ideas of Stein, Wright and Perry it is hoped to restore confidence in the
use of the neighbourhood concept in contemporary urban design.
Antecedents
Mumford (1961), Creese (1966), Scott (1969) and Vance (1990) are among the many
scholars who have provided general appraisals of the problems facing cities towards
the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth. More specific
assessments have been provided by Relph (1987), Kostof (1991), Hall (1992; 1998)
and others. Relph (1987) recounts the discussion at the 1909 national planning
conference held in Washington where techniques to deal with urban problems were
presented. He describes in some detail the planning procedures developed between
1910 and 1945 that had a considerable effect on the appearance of cities. Notable
among these were the neighbourhood unit of Perry and the Radburn principles of Stein
and Wright that were contributions to the solutions for dealing with the urban problems
of the time (Relph, 1987; Hall, 1998). Perry and Stein were among the handful of
pioneer thinkers in urban planning from 1880 to 1945 (Hall, 1992). Kostof points out
that an early formulation of the Radburn superblock idea was in the City Club of
Chicago competition of 1915 (Kostof, 1991). The problems facing cities was neatly
summarized by John Nolen, President of the National Conference on City Planning in
1927 (Birch, 1980). The problems he enumerated included traffic congestion, crowded
living and working conditions, and an unfavourable environment. Perry considered his
neighbourhood a formula for addressing these issues and others (Perry,1939). These
included the problems created by the automobile, dwellings without yards, urban
isolation, the decline in property values, and the human consequences of these urban
defects.
Stein studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and in the early 1920s opened an
office with Wright, whom he described as >my fine associate and planning genius (and
as) the greatest site planner I have known, excepting possibly Raymond Unwin= (Stein,
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4. 1958 in Parsons, 1998, p. 582). Before Wright teamed up with Stein he worked on the
master plan for Yorkship Village (later renamed Fairview) in Camden, New Jersey,
recognized as one of the best communities built during World War I. One of the early
designs of the firm, that for Sunnyside, Long Island in New York (1924), was intended
as an urban laboratory to work out better house and block plans. The theoretical basis
established in this plan was later applied to other plans, particularly Radburn (Stein,
1928). The intellectual foundations of their work came from Stein=s involvement in the
Regional Planning Association, where the ideas of Patrick Geddes, Ebenezer Howard,
the economist Thorstein Veblen, the sociologist Charles Cooley, and the philosopher
John Dewey, were discussed.
An antecedent for the Radburn neighbourhood idea can be found in Howard=s
concept of the Garden City first published in 1898 (Howard, 1946). He divided the City
into six identical wards with each ward accommodating just over 5000 people. Howard
envisaged a school in an open space (the >Grand Avenue=) at the centre of each ward,
roads differentiated hierarchically, and variations in the architecture of the houses. The
scheme was not fully followed by the designers Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker at
Letchworth, nor by Louis de Soissons at Welwyn, but appeared in the plan for
Hampstead Garden Suburb by Unwin and Parker (Unwin, 1909). In 1922, Stein and
Wright visited Howard in England and saw first hand the garden city of Letchworth.
Stein later acknowledged that he and Wright carried on the work of Howard and
Raymond Unwin but that Radburn was >realistically planned for the Motor Age [and] not
a Garden City as Howard saw it= (Stein, 1939, p. 19). Although Stein and Wright
incorporated the ideas of the superblock and cul-de-sac into their design for Radburn
they did not attempt to create a garden city.
The cul-de-sac street had been introduced in the garden city of Letchworth and
other places for reasons of privacy. Unwin was influenced in his considerations of
architectural effect by the work of Camillo Sitte but admitted that in advocating the use
of curved streets perhaps he had >not done quite justice to the advantages which attach
to the straight street= (Unwin, 1909, pp. 249-52). The cul-de-sac was also able to cope
with the problems of the automobile in the Radburn concept as the danger of
automobiles to pedestrian safety are reduced to a minimum (Adams, Bassett and
Whitten, 1929). While the English Garden City movement was a major influence in the
design of Radburn, there were distinctive differences (Adams, Bassett and Whitten,
1929). Primarily the variation was in the need to serve the motor vehicle. The
hierarchical road system itself was derived from Frederick Law Olmsted=s separation of
routes in his design for New York=s Central Park (Southworth and Ben-Joseph, 1995).
Perry began work for the Russell Sage Foundation, established by Mrs. Russell
Sage in 1907 for the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States of
America, in 1909 and remained with them until he retired in 1937 (Perry, 1910; 1921).
He first presented his concept of the neighbourhood unit in a lecture >A community unit
in city planning and development= at a joint meeting of the American Sociological
Society and the National Community Centre Association in 1923, published later as
>The local community as unit in the planning of urban residential areas= (Perry, 1926).
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5. The main elements of the community unit were included in his neighbourhood unit plan
3 years later (Perry, 1929).
Perry=s residence in Forest Hills Gardens, a Russell Sage Foundation
development in Queens, New York begun in 1909, played a major role in the unfolding
of his concept. He lived there from 1910 onwards. Perry devoted an entire section of
his published monograph on the neighbourhood unit concept to a description and
analysis of Forest Hills Gardens as a neighbourhood community (Perry, 1929). Later he
was to write that >the virtues and defects of Forest Hills Gardens contributed to the
neighborhood unit formula= (Perry, 1939, p. 211). Frederick Law Olmsted Jr planned
the street layout and landscaping while Grosvenor Atterbury designed the buildings of
Forest Hills Gardens. In part, the precedents for the design were
Hampstead Garden Suburb in England, designed by Raymond Unwin and Barry
Parker, and the suburbs of Llewellyn Park, Lake Forest, and Riverside in the United
States (Herbert, 1963). Perry was also influenced by the plan for Mariemont, Cincinnati
by the noted American planner John Nolen. It appears that in 1929 Stein and Wright=s
Radburn plan was published first, as Perry referred to and used illustrations of this plan
in his neighbourhood unit monograph.
In his analysis of the plan of Forest Hills Gardens, Perry identified five factors
that contributed to the obvious success of the development. These were clear
boundaries, the character of the internal street system and the streets themselves, the
types of land uses, the presence of a central area, and the provision of open space.
The curved or short and intimate streets provided direct access to the shops and
railway station. Residential land uses predominated - industrial and business uses
were limited to definite and convenient locations. The centre consisted of a school with
other community facilities. Open spaces took the form of neighbourhood parks and
recreation spaces. In addition to these factors there were aesthetic restrictions to
preserve a unified architectural character. Perry=s purpose in carrying out the analysis
was to concern himself >with those features of physical arrangement which add to or
detract from its qualities as an environment for a neighbourhood community= (Perry,
1929, p. 97). He incorporated many of these features into his neighbourhood unit
concept.
The original neighbourhood concepts
The design of the Radburn neighbourhood model was in essence a hierarchical one
comprising four levels - enclave, block, superblock, and neighbourhood (Figures 1 and
2). The fundamental component was an enclave of twenty or so houses. These houses
were arrayed in a U-formation about a short vehicular street called a >lane,= really a culde-sac court with access to individual garages. While the back of each house faced
this court the front of the house had a garden. Three or more of these enclaves were
lined together to form a block. Enclaves within the block were separated from one
another by a pedestrian pathway that ran between the front gardens of all the houses.
The blocks, usually four in number, were arranged around the sides of a central
parkway in such a manner so as to enclose the open green space. The clustered
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6. blocks together with the central parkway comprised what Stein and Wright termed a
superblock. Four to six superblocks commonly formed a neighbourhood that was
bounded by major roads or natural features (Figure 2). At one end of the parkway there
could be a small school with community rooms. Roads in the neighbourhood were to be
hierarchical - major through traffic roads to border each neighbourhood, distributor
roads to surround each superblock, and culs-de-sac to provide access to individual
property lots. Stein emphasized that the prime goal was to design a town for the
automobile age. In fact the title on the drawing of the town plan was >A town for the
motor age= (Stein, 1928).
Although Stein and Wright considered neighbourhoods as each being relatively
self-contained they arranged them in an overlapping manner to support joint use of
facilities such as hospitals, high schools, and theatres (Figure 3). They visualized the
neighbourhood as forming the building block of the city whereas previously the lot and
the city were the basis for town design. To their minds there should be a three level
hierarchy consisting of neighbourhood, town, and region (Stein, 1942). They believed,
following Howard (1902), that future urban development should be based on the
regional city, a constellation of smaller-sized towns tied together by a parkway or open
highway.
Perry identified six neighbourhood unit design principles (Figure 4). First, the
unit was to be ideally a shape in which all sides were fairly equidistant from the centre,
and its size was to be fixed. Secondly, a central neighbourhood or community centre
was to contain various institutional sites, including a school, grouped round a central
green space. Thirdly, local shops or shops and apartments were to be located at the
outer corners of the neighbourhood. Fourthly, scattered small parks and open spaces,
located in each quadrant of the neighbourhood, were to form 10 per cent of the total
area. Fifthly, arterial streets were to bound each side of the neighbourhood while,
sixthly, the layout of the internal street was to be a combination of curvilinear and
diagonal roads to discourage through traffic. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic was to be
segregated.
Perry=s concept of the neighbourhood was as a relatively self-contained building
block of the city, hence the addition of the word >unit= to his concept. He identified four
urban locations where the idea could be applied B new sites in the suburbs, vacant
sites in the central area, predominantly apartment districts, and central areas that had
suffered deterioration and required rebuilding (Perry, 1933). He later recognized that
land assemblage in the existing built-up areas of cities to create neighbourhoods was
impractical and suggested a modified process of eminent domain (government right to
take private land for public benefit with just compensation through the process of
condemnation) be applied in the assemblage of neighbourhood unit sites (Perry, 1939).
Comparison of design principles
Stein and Wright, along with Perry, agreed that the neighbourhood was to have a
limited or fixed size determined by the population needed to support an elementary
school. Other similarities between their two models were defining the neighbourhood by
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7. means of boundaries, the inclusion of a significant amount of open space, a
neighbourhood centre that would include the school, and a road system that was safe
for pedestrians and did not allow through traffic.
A critical distinction between the Radburn model of Stein and Wright and Perry=s
idea was the kind of neighbourhood boundary each envisaged. Although Perry as well
as Stein and Wright used arterial streets to form the neighbourhood boundary, Stein
and Wright preferred the use of natural forms where possible. Another difference
between the two models was the maximum walking distances each proposed - 0.8 km
in the Radburn neighbourhood and 0.4 km in the Neighbourhood Unit model. Further
distinctions were the superblock with its central green, the separation of streets and
pedestrian paths, and the road hierarchy of the Radburn model (Stein, 1939, p.123).
Another difference was that Perry envisaged the neighbourhood as a separate urban
unit. When a number of units were amalgamated they would form the city. Stein and
Wright, on the other hand, conceived the Radburn neighbourhoods as overlapping one
another and grouped into districts to support large-scale facilities.
Diffusion of the neighbourhood concept
Applications of the neighbourhood concept followed publicity about Radburn in
magazine articles and discussions at meetings of professional organizations (Birch,
1980). Acceptance of Perry's neighbourhood unit idea also spread (Dahir, 1947). After
Radburn, Stein and Wright produced other ground-breaking plans, such as that for
Chatham Village in Pittsburgh (1932), and their ideas for the plan of Greenbelt New
Town, Maryland (1937). Baldwin Hills Village in Los Angeles (1941) is probably the
best exposition of their neighbourhood design principles after Radburn.
During the 1930s endorsement by various agencies of the federal government,
real estate developers, and lending institutions in the United States encouraged the
application of the neighbourhood concept. Well-planned neighbourhoods were seen as
essential to rational urban development (Urbanism Committee, 1939; Federal Housing
Administration, 1941a, b). The national Chamber of Commerce concluded that the
residential areas of American cities, whether new or redeveloped, should be divided
into well defined neighbourhoods (Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1936,
1937, 1941). Over twenty organizations, from the Urban Land Institute, the American
Institute of Architects, and the American Society of Planning Officials to the National
Association of Home Builders, supported some or all of the neighbourhood unit
principles (Solow, Ham and Donnelly, 1969). Two influential textbooks, The urban
pattern (Gallion, 1950) and The city of man (Tunnard, 1953) praised the Radburn
model. New communities authorized by the Housing and Urban Development Act of
1968 also used the model (Knack, 1998). The idea of neighbourhoods and of planning
for neighbourhoods in urban planning was taken for granted. In Britain the
neighbourhood principle was applied in several plans including that for Wythenshawe
by Barry Parker and the County of London Plan of 1943 by Abercrombie and Forshaw;
a comprehensive explanation of neighbourhood theory appeared in The size and social
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8. structure of a town by the National Council of Social Service in 1943; and influential
design guidelines appeared in the Dudley Report of 1944, The design of dwellings, the
Housing manual 1944 by the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, and the Reith
Committee=s New towns final report of 1946 (Tetlow, 1959, pp.113-4). After World War
II, the neighbourhood unit plan became a central feature in the rebuilding of existing
towns and in the planning of new developments and had a great influence on
residential layout (Wright, M.., 1982). It was in the New Towns as a group that the most
consistent examples of the application of neighbourhood theory appeared (Herbert,
1963).
Stein himself provides a starting point for differentiating between the original
neighbourhood concept and morphological variations that occurred in the applications
from the 1930s onward. He acknowledged that the basic conceptions of the Garden
City, the Radburn Idea, and the Neighbourhood Unit were used in the American
Greenbelt new towns but that the >applications of these three conceptions varied, often
with contrasting emphases= (Stein, 1939, p. 119). Whereas in American new towns it
was a question of different emphases, British new towns, in contrast, differed radically
from the fundamental principles set forth by Perry as revealed in the Dudley Report, the
Housing Manual, and the Reith Report recommendations (Goss, 1961). First, local
shops were placed in the neighbourhood centre instead of on the edge of the
neighbourhood. Secondly, public open space was situated on the perimeter of the
neighbourhood to act as a buffer between neighbourhoods instead of as an open space
connected with the neighbourhood centre. Thirdly, and most significantly, the size of
the neighbourhood was close to 10,000 people with more than one elementary school,
whereas Perry clearly based the size of his neighbourhood unit on the population to be
served by one elementary school, from 3000 to 9000 people.
>A physical plan of this nature will tend to produce neighbourhood organization
and a local social control which are lacking in many parts of the modern city= (Birch,
1980, n.30). This statement, made at the President=s Conference on Home Building
and Home Ownership in 1931, was one of the earliest of many statements that the
physical plan of a neighbourhood determined its social aspects. It led a number of
critics during the 1960s, particularly Jane Jacobs, Catherine Bauer and Herbert Gans,
to discredit the Radburn concept on the ground that it assumed that physical designs
could promote social progress (Birch, 1980, 1989). They also attacked the mindless
and diluted application of the neighbourhood unit principle of the superblock in
American post-war public housing. In Britain studies of council housing estates showed
the divergence between theory and practice. Town planners and housing authorities
set up neighbourhood units so that their inhabitants could become good neighbours
and friends as a result of interaction at home and at the shops. But it was found that
>such planning and ideology seeks to impose an idealized version of village life on the
town dweller in council estates= (Frankenberg, 1969, p. 197). While there was
widespread official and professional acceptance of the neighbourhood concept, studies
showed that it had little social validity (Stewart, 1972).
The imposition of social objectives by practitioners, officials and others was a
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9. major and significant departure from the intentions of the original neighbourhood
concept (Patricios, forthcoming). The focus of Stein and Wright as well as Perry was
almost entirely on the physical aspects of the concept B the superblock, the shopping
centre, the road pattern, the green spaces, or the organization of houses. Social
benefits were afterthoughts (Tannenbaum, 1948). Perry was concerned with
convenience and with the quality of the residential area, as expressed in harmonious
architecture, street layout, landscaping and building setbacks. Neither he nor Wright
refer to any social objectives in their writings. Stein, similarly, was concerned with the
physical issues of neighbourhood design.
Return to basic principles
It is not surprising, then, that during the 1970s and 1980s the neighbourhood concept
went out of favour. To restore this landmark of modern urban planning the original
principles need to be re-examined for their applicability and relevance to contemporary
urban design. A sign that neighbourhood design has made a comeback is evident in
the work of the New Urbanists (Duany and Plater-Zyberk, 1994).
The principles of the Radburn neighbourhood model can be related to each level
of the hierarchical design. At the block level the farthest house was to be within a oneminute walk of a parkway. In the superblock vehicular and pedestrian traffic was to be
separated so that every child could walk to school, not more than 0.8 km, without
crossing a single road. Wright saw the superblock as a way to advance city
development, primarily in the middle-class ring of housing lying between the slums at
the centre of the city and the suburbs at the periphery (Wright, 1935). City blocks were
combined to form superblocks in which >group housing= would save space through the
elimination of narrow side yards. It was argued that superblocks would reduce the
amount of land devoted to streets. This would make possible central garden courts to
bring air, sunlight and green vegetation to the areas as well as a safe place for children
to play. As applied to Radburn the superblock, according to Wright, reduced the cost of
street improvements, provided seclusion from street noise and danger, segregated the
pedestrian from vehicular traffic, and enabled a sizable internal area to serve as a
sheltered park (Wright, 1935).
Neighbourhoods were to have a fixed population size. Stein and Wright did not
specify a specific number but the size was to be small enough to allow each individual
to play a part in neighbourhood life. Stein noted that in both London and Los Angeles
the extent of the neighbourhood was largely determined by the areas of influence of the
elementary and secondary schools. After Stein and Wright published their plan for
Radburn, architects and planners that applied the concept seemed to settle on 5000
people as the appropriate size for the neighbourhood. Each neighbourhood in the
Radburn model was to have definite boundaries, preferably as natural as possible,
focussed on a tangible centre. Stores were to be located at the junction of
neighbourhoods.
Perry explained the sources of his six neighbourhood design principles. First,
the size of the neighbourhood was the population necessary to support one elementary
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10. school, that is 3000-9000 people. He believed no child should have to walk more than
0.4 km distance from the farthest house to the school at the centre of the
neighbourhood (Strayer and Engelhardt, 1929). Secondly, his own earlier studies led
him to the view that the school was a major factor in neighbourhood development.
Perry envisaged the school located in the neighbourhood centre along with churches, a
little theatre, a fraternal hall, or a branch library. Perry mentioned Central Square,
Hampstead Garden Suburb in London by Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker as a model
for the design of the centre. Thirdly, Perry placed the local shopping centre at the
intersection of the main streets that bound the neighbourhood unit. This would make
the centre economically viable as it would serve two or more neighbourhoods as well
as passing traffic. He was also influenced by the research that showed >community
trading areas= at the intersection of two principal business streets helped define
neighbourhoods (Burgess, 1929). Fourthly, instead of concentrating open space in one
or two large parks it was to be in the form of many small parks and playgrounds
scattered throughout the neighbourhood so that young children should be close to a
play space. Perry=s fifth principle was to create a pedestrian oriented environment by
restricting >foreign traffic= to the arterial streets that bounded the neighbourhood. His
sixth principle was to have an internal street layout that not only discouraged through
traffic but provided residents with direct paths to their destinations. Not well known was
Perry=s concern for aesthetics: >the quality of the architecture, the layout of streets, the
planting along curbs and in yards, the arrangement and setback of buildings= were
important attributes of the neighbourhood (Perry, 1929, p. 34). Aesthetics also
concerned Stein and Wright as is evidenced in the quality of their architectural projects.
Future outlook
It has been contended that the current urban malaise of placelessness can be
overcome by providing individuality or identity to places, that is by creating a sense of
place (see for example Relph, 1976, 1981; Tuan, 1977; Steele, 1981). Application of
the principles of the neighbourhood concept can play a role in providing a sense of
place. In the last two decades of the twentieth century principles of the neighborhood
concept have appeared in New Urbanist, >neo-traditional=, and traditional neighborhood
development (TND) projects of which well over one hundred have been built across the
United States (Miller, 2001). At the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban
development (HUD) several programmes have adopted the tenets of New Urbanism
(Dunlop, 1997). Many of the built projects display principles related to mixed use
planning, walking distances, pedestrian oriented internal road patterns, and
architectural quality. Southern Village, North Carolina, for instance, has a virtual
walkthrough on its website illustrating New Urbanist precepts
(www.southernvillage.com). Other selected project examples will be cited as well in the
brief presentation below as to how all the design principles of the original
neighbourhood concept, except one, can still apply today.
First, the insertion of residential, open space, commercial, and civic land uses in
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11. the Radburn and neighbourhood unit models anticipates the emphasis today on mixeduse planning. Inclusion of places of selected employment opportunities would be an
addition today. Shops would be located on the periphery to be accessible by
automobile and on foot from many neighbourhoods. In one of the best-known New
Urbanist developments, Kentlands in Maryland stores, a school, churches, and a day
care centre serve several neighbourhoods (http://www.tndhomes.com/tour03.html).
Conveniences such as a dry cleaner and café are a stroll away in Southern Village
(Padgett, 1999) as are the stores with offices above at the New Urbanist development
of Orenco in Oregon (Ehrenhalt, 2000). Secondly, a neighbourhood centre, preferably
within a 0.8 to 0.4 km walking distance of as many houses as possible, and having
educational and recreational facilities, remains a desirable element. In Kentlands, for
instance, most homes are a 5-to-10-minute walk or 0.4 to 0. 8 km from the local
shopping centre (Southworth, 1997). At Southern Village children are able to walk or
bicycle to school. Thirdly, scattered small parks and playgrounds are still attractive
features to have in modern neighbourhoods. Green spaces, particularly a greenway,
have been included in the plan of Southern Village. In Kentlands public open spaces
are many, small, and varied (Southworth, 1997). Probably the major concern of
residents today is the traffic that cuts through their area. Thus, fourthly, a road
hierarchy becomes essential to direct local and through traffic. The debate on the
nature of the local street pattern, whether curved, diagonal, cul-de-sac, or grid in form
(preferred by the New Urbanists) will no doubt continue. Calthorpe, who aligns himself
with New Urbanism, asserts that the grid-like street patterns in his neotraditional
designs reduce potential trip distances (Calthorpe,1993). A modified grid is used for the
internal street pattern in the TND projects of Harbor Town, Tennessee and Newpoint,
South Carolina and not cul-de-sac or loop streets
(http://www.tndhomes.com/tours.html). Streets are organized mainly into a warped grid
pattern at Kentlands (Southworth, 1997) while curvilinear grids with culs-de-sac are
used in the plan for Celebration in Florida (http://www.celebrationfl.com; Frantz and
Collins, 1999). Southern Village has the traditional cul-de-sac internal road pattern.
Fifthly, boundaries formed by natural features and major highways would identify a
residential area and provide residents with a sense of identity. In Kentlands a lake,
wetland preserves, greenbelts and public squares help define neighbourhoods.
Similarly the use of green spaces as boundaries is clearly evident in the village map of
Fairview Village, Oregon (http://www.fairviewvillage.com/main.html) and that of
Southern Village (Padgett, 1999). Sixthly, achieving architectural quality will need the
utmost attention. Although Perry did not list aesthetics as one of his design principles,
he did refer in his description of the neighbourhood unit idea the importance of the
residential character and quality of the neighbourhood to be achieved through
harmonious architecture. Many of the New Urbanist and TND developments have
codes or guidelines to assure architectural quality. Kentlands, I=On, Newpoint, and
Harbor Town are some examples (http://www.tndhomes.com/tours.html).
Finally, the principle of fixed size would not apply today. With today=s mobility
neighbourhood boundaries do not have the force they did early in the twentieth century.
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12. Fixed size is invalidated by demographic changes, by school systems where children
are brought in by bus from a wide area, or driven to school by a parent, or where
parents are allowed a choice of local schools, not necessarily the nearest. However,
provided that no social objectives, such as >creating community= or >building
community,= are imposed, the physical design principles of the neighbourhood concept
can still be applied today to create meaningful places for people.
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