This document discusses layout patterns for housing blocks and public facilities and services. It defines layout as an arrangement or plan, especially the schematic arrangement of parts or areas. It then describes common layout patterns like rectilinear/gridiron layouts with uniform blocks and right angle streets, cul-de-sacs which limit through traffic, and radiocentric, star, and ring patterns. It also defines public facilities and services as infrastructure financed by the government like roads, transportation, utilities, schools, hospitals and discusses their significance for quality of life.

1. LAYOUT PLAN OF HOUSING
BLOCKS AND PUBLIC FACILITIES
AND SERVICES

2. LAYOUT PATTERN OF HOUSING
BLOCKS

3. Definition of Layout
The act or an instance of lying out. An
arrangement or plan , especially the schematic
arrangement of parts or areas .The layout of a
factory , the layout of a printed circuit .

4. RECTILINEAR/GRIIRON
A systematic layout of streets in a subdivision
that creates blocks of uniform length and width
and streets that intersect at right angles.
A rectilinear theme is created in plan-view through
the use of vertical and horizontal lines on a square
grid. Just as a homes architecture is designed in this
way, the same treatment of the garden reinforces
the rectangular layout of the home.
Some examples are showing in pictorial form.

6. EXAMPLE
An approved Community Development Plan in
Calgary, Alberta that is based on the Grid
model.

7. CUL-DE-SAC
A cul-de-sac, dead end,
closed, no through
road, a close and no
exit is a street with
only one inlet/outlet.
While historically built
for other reasons, one of its modern users is
to calm vehicle traffic. In urban planning cul-
de-sac streets are created to limit through-
traffic in residential areas.

8. Radiocentric
A large circle with radial corridors
of intense development emanating
from the center.
Star
Radiocentric form with open spaces
between the outreaching corridors
of development.
Ring
A city built around an open space.

9. GENERAL TYPE OF HOUSING BLOCKS

10. PUBLIC FACILITIES AND
SERVICES

11. PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES
Public facilities and public services means “facilities or
services which are financed, in whole or in part, by any
state or political subdivision thereof, including, but not
limited to, highways and secondary roads, parking,
mass transit, docks, navigation aids, fire and police
protection, water supply, waste collection and
treatment (including drainage), schools and education,
and hospitals and health care. Such term may also
include any other facility or service so financed which
the Secretary finds will support increased population.”

12. They refer to all of the services/facilities which
are required by an urban area to provide the
necessary and essential functions for its
citizens. These include:

13. SIGNIFICANCE
The provision of public services and facilities in
the urban environment has a significant
impact on the quality of life that residents and
others enjoy. Good quality local public
services, including education and training
opportunities, health care and community
facilities, are identified as one of the key
elements for a Sustainable Communities Plan
connected with crime reduction and
community safety.

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