Overview of what urban planning entails.

1. Lecture 2

2. Principles in
Planning

3. Principles in Planning
Principles considered in planning are listed below:
1. Green Belts
2. Housing
3. Transportation
4. Public Building
5. Zoning
6. Recreations
7. Roads System

4. 1. Green Belts
The implementations of the green belts on the periphery of town
results in limitations of its size and hence the final size of town
can anticipated.
It prevents the loss of town identity. Ensures the economic use
of urban land and facilities. It also prevents ribbon development.
Also ensures that adequate recreational facilities are in every
one’s environment, prevents erosion of agricultural land.

5. 2. Housing
A lot of care should be taken while providing
housing accommodation to different categories of
people. It should be made sure that there is no
development of slums and in future if occur it
must be discouraged and removed by the
authorities.

6. 3. Transportation
The town must be provided with suitable facilities at easy access so that there is least time
consumed from work place to residency. The essential format of transportation planning
process is based upon two fundamental assumptions. Firstly the various land use activities
that are pursued at both origin and destinations. Secondly, that a relationship inevitably
emerges from these movement demands which not only be readily quantified but also remains
constant in future.
 Surveys
 Forecasts
 Goal Formulations
 Network Design and Testing
 Evaluation and Implementation
These factors are important and play a key role in the transportation planning.

7. 4. Recreation
As per size of town enough space must be given for the recreation centers for
general public. Following are the factors which determines its demands:
 Population growth
 Changing work pattern
 Income
 Education
 Car ownership
These are the things which are necessary at the time of plotting the recreation
in any area. Keeping these aspects in mind a planner can easily provide such
recreation which is up-to-date and also for the necessities of future.

8. 5. Zoning
Towns should be divided into suitable zones, and suitable area must be
provided in order to accommodate people easily. Zoning is the process of the
development and segregation of land and its parcels or area of towns and
ascribes to them broad classification of appropriate use.
These zones are
 Residential zone
 Commercial zone
 Educational zone
 Recreational zone
These zones provide a proper distribution of land that makes it easy to provide
the place of a particular zone and specify the area for that according to
standards.

9. 6. Public Building
It includes everything a community needs to support its residents, capital
buildings, libraries, museums, parks, parking structures, conference
centers, courthouses, fire station and police station, other administrative
spaces and offices. Planner is concerned with thousands of such projects
worth in billions. These projects or buildings are design by planner
keeping in mind the assessments from public, construction services,
professional excellence thus he achieve his goal by these skills and meet
the requirements of public. Planner keep in mind that the buildings
should be sophisticated following success and community’s identity.