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Content
:

1. Introduction (describe the project brief, the things that you have to do etc)
2. A City/Town - Investigation on Better Township or Town or City Guidelines
and Issues
3. Investigation & Data Collection: Ancient and old cities/town
4. Investigation & Data Collection: The present towns/cities
5. Investigation & Data Collection: The future and better township
6. The New “X” Town / Or the new name (describe the new facilities,
characters etc of
the new town)
7. The Conclusion (describe what was important and others should follow or
perhaps
should know and what did you learned)
8. References list


INTRODUCTION

This is the final project for ENBE AUG 2014, this project encourages us to
learn about town planning. We are required to learn and understand about
past, present and future towns and from there create our own future town .
The first part is of this project is individual even though we were split into
groups of 5, which is creating a proposal which includes a video about the town
we plan to build. From there the lecturers will pick out from that group of 5 the
most suitable town to put into life.

Once the lecturers have chosen the preferred town, only construction will begin
to create something spectacular.


2. Towns
Town
/noun/
Method of urban planning designed to
repostion populations away from large
cities by combining homes, hospitals,
industry and cultural, recreational, and
shopping centers to form entirely new,
relatively autonomous communities.
A Brief History
Millions of years ago during the Paleolithic Era our
ancestors lived like nomads. Whenever there was a
depletion of resources they had to seek for new land.
Fast forward to the Neolitic Era, humans started to
live in groups. They harvested crops and cultivated
animals. The Neolitic Revolution was the bringing of
agriculture, which encouraged denser human
populations. Farming activities encouraged hunters
to leave behind their means of nomadic lifestyles and live near to settle with
others.
During the Bronze and Iron ages,
humans invented tools out of metal,
because of this new types of
construction could be possible.
Trading became popular amongst
man. More and more people settled
for areas with constant water source
and fertile land. They used tools to
create irrigation systems and ports.
As more and more people settled in
the same area, a governing body
had to be established to ensure
things didn’t get out of hand. And thus a complex society was formed. As the
villages grew larger, they formed towns, and as those towns grew they form cities.
Towns and Cities serve as a centre of government. To be precise, during the
emergence of the great nation-states of Europe between 1400-1800 led to the
creation of existing cities with extended governmental functions.
What makes a Town ?


- Established municipal government
- Proper infrastructure ; transportation, communications systems, clean
water
- Education institutions
What makes a good Town ?
- Highly efficient and green public Transportation
- Efficient road works
- Many open green spaces
- Proper Town planning
What is the future Town ?
A place where natural disasters, financial crisis, riots, robbery, diseases are a
thing of the past. The streets are safe for our young ones to roam, explore and
learn from the new world at their feet. Racism is non-existent where all
religions are respected not discriminated, a place where the towns people wont
look down at their peers but instead engage in a friendly conversation, where
the water and food is abundant and there are no draughts, the politicians do
what is necessary for the people and not for their own gain. The real estate is
affordable and not insanely overpriced. Because at the end of the day no
matter how amazingly designed is your building, it is still meaningless if it does
not affect the community around it in a positive manner.


3. INVESTIGATION & DATA COLLECTION :

ANCIENT
CITY

Mahenjo–Daro

History

Mohenjo-daro was built in the 26th
century BCE and is located in the south of
Modern Pakistan in the Sindh Province, on the right bank
of the Indus River. It was one of the biggest cities of the
ancient Indus Valley Civilization, also known as the
Harappan Civilization, which developed around 5000
years ago, around 3000 BCE from the prehistoric Indus
Culture, and lasted until 3,700 BP, the city had at least
35,000 residents.

Significance

From the archeological evidence this was a sophisticated society with a well-
planned street grid and an elaborate drainage system suggested that the
civilization of Mohenjo-Daro were skilled urban planners with a reverence for
control of water.


The city lacks pretentious places like
palaces, temples or monuments.
There’s no noticeable seat of
government or evidence of a
hierarchy. Modesty, order, and
cleanliness were apparently preferred.
Pottery and tools of stone and copper
were the standard. Seals and weights
suggested a tightly controlled trade
system.
The city's wealth and stature is evident in artifacts such as ivory, lapis,
carnelian, and gold beads, as well as the baked-brick city structures
themselves.

A watertight pool called the Great Bath, perched on top of a mound of
dirt and held in place with walls of baked brick, is the closest structure
Mohenjo Daro has to a temple. Possehl, a National Geographic
grantee, says it suggests an ideology based on cleanliness. Wells
were found throughout the city, and nearly every house contained a
bathing area and drainage system.
Developed art thrived during that time- Archeologists also found that, the
people living in Mohenjo-Daro were expert artists. They were expert in
terracotta pottery, stoneware bangles, glazed faience ornaments, shell and
ivory carving.


Conclusion

Mohenjo-Daro was a well designed city with a
planned layout, it separated public facilities
from the urban lower cities area. High walls
and low streets, a dense metropolis with
houses packed tightly together. Efficient
drainage was implemented along with trash
shoots to accommodate with the increasing amount of citizens and sanitation.
And the water supply system of the pool was properly constructed like modern
times.

Information
or
element
to
be
implemented
into
new
future
city

Mohenjo-Daro, is an ancient
planned city laid out on a grid of
streets. An orthogonal street
layout was orientated toward
the north-south and eat-east
directions. The street layout
shows an understanding of
the basic principles of
traffic, with rounded corners
to ease the movement of
carts. The drains are covered.



Present
City

Curitiba

History

Curitiba was born from the amalgamation of natives and Portuguese
immigrants, on the first plateau of the State of Paraná, at an altitude of 934
meters above sea level. Its name comes from the language of the Guarani
Indians and means pine grove. The name refers to the predominance of
´pinheiro-do-Paraná (Paraná´s araucaria pines) in its territory.
The city council of Curitiba dates back to March 29th
,1693. At the end of the
17th
century, Curitiba had an agriculture of subsistence and its economic
activities were based mainly on mineral extraction.
The next economic cycle in the region was based on the ´tropeiros´: cattle
drivers who traveled with their herds from Viamão, in the southernmost state of
Rio Grande do Sul, to the fair in Sorocaba, in the state of São Paulo. From
there, the herds were then taken to the state of Minas Gerais. The cattle
drivers would spend winter periods in the middle of the journey, in the ´campos
de Curitiba´ (fields of Curitiba), and these campsites were set up would only be


dismantled when the cold season gave way to spring. These cattle drivers
would take advantage of their stay to carry out businesses, and by doing so,
they led Curitiba to become an essential intermediary trading post.
The cycle of cattle drives lasted for more than two centuries. With it, came
many distinct cultural features now part of the Paraná region, especially the
unique accent noticeable by pronounced Es and Ts.
The river has a low capacity and historically has flooded frequently, giving rise
to a large natural flood plain unsuitable for development.
Significance

You wouldn’t know it at 1st
glance but a city in the south of Brazil has been a
world leader for he past 3 decades. Curitiba has a population of 3 million
people. Curitiba is a city in a developing country which has created a better
environment and quality of life than in much of the 1st
world ,with their highly
efficient bus system, garbage-recycling program and a wealth of network of
parks.


Curitiba used to have a serious flooding issue. Much of the green space was
achieved by using federal funds
for flood control to build small
dams across rivers, creating
lakes and parks for the city
population and also to catch
runoff flooding in low-lying areas.
There are 28 parks and wooded
areas in Curitiba, creating a city
landscape which is unlike any other in a developing city.
The efficient buses that move across the Curitiba metropolitan region are the
most conspicuously un-Brazilian
feature of the city. Instead of
descending into subway stations,
Curitibanos file into ribbed glass
tubes that are boarding platforms
for the rapid-transit buses. a light
rail system would have required
20 times the financial investment;
a subway would have cost 100 times as much, money that Curitiba did not
have at the time. He planners came up with a “trinary” system that embraced
three parallel thoroughfares, a large central avenue dedicated to two-way
rapid-bus traffic.
Curitiba's waste strategy has additionally been recognised through turning
waste into a resource. By persuading the residents of Curitiba to separate their
trash into organic and inorganic waste. Residents could sell their bags of
garbage for bus tickets and agricultural products.

Conclusion

Curitiba offers the world with a model in how to assimilate sustainable transport
considerations into business development, road infrastructure development,


and local community development and all possible with cost-efficient and
environmentally friendly solutions.

Information
or
element
to
be
implemented
into
new
future
city

Mass transit, lower energy consumption and ecologically sensitive buildings.
Methods Curitiba implies to diverge city congestion are by zoning its tallest
buildings along main transit corridors.
Turning areas vulnerable to flooding into parks planted with many trees, and
creating artificial lakes to hold floodwaters, Curitiba has managed to address
its potentially costly flooding problem, in terms of flood control and drainage.
The cost of this strategy, including the relocation costs of slum dwellers, is
estimated to be five times less than building concrete canals.
Curitiba has also promoted waste management infrastructure and public
awareness on waste separation and recycling. How this is done is by garbage
trucks would come to collect garbage about once a month and residents of the
area will exchange their collected trash for items like bus rides or agriculture
produce.


The
future
of
Towns
and
Better
Towns

Mega
Box

Entitled Floating City, the team's proposal involves a series of prefabricated
hexagonal modules that tesselate to create all the infrastructure needed for a
city on water – from a transport network of yachts and submarines, to a floating
hotel and entertainment complex.
Recreational green spaces should be located both above and below the
water's surface, while farms, hatcheries and rubbish collection facilities would
allow the community to produce its own food and sustainably dispose of waste.

The modules used to construct the island would be prefabricated in a
factory then floated out to a site. A cruise dock would be an integral feature of
the city, allowing these new deliveries to be easily received.


Information
or
element
to
be
implemented
into
new
future
city

The Floating City has been designed with its
own docks, roadways and even farms
meaning it will be self-sufficient. The city will
be connected above water with a series of
canals meaning eco-friendly boats and
submarines could provide most of the
transportation. The metropolis will be made
from a series of hexagonal and triangular
modules which c onnect using walkways and
tunnels both above and below the waves.
While trees will be dotted around the oasis,
there will also be two dedicated green spaces
within the city for residents to enjoy, along
with panoramic views of the ocean. In order
to stop the underground tunnels becoming
polluted, and to keep the city eco-friendly,
citizens will use electric cars to get wherever
they need to go. Also the Floating City will be equipped with a dock large
enough for cruise ships, and to allow transport to and from the colony.


6. The New “X” Town

QUADRILITY

To
have
4
united
as
1

The
solution
to
a
new
better
town

The streets of Malaysia are currently packed with constant jams on the
freeway. These jams are not only costly to our fuel budget but are bad for the
environtment and an utter waste of time; and just to add on our streets are
unfriendly and uninviting to cyclists and especially pedestrians let alone public
transport. As the number of personal cars increase something had to be done
about the congestion.
The only way to curb the downsides of an increasing amount of personal
motorized vehicles was to create a more inviting setting. Buildings needed to
be at a walkable distance from each other, creating a space which people
would rather pick up their bicycles and not pick up their car keys to reach their
destination. This being said, the streets needed to be safe, people friendly and
efficient, that was the main criteria for pedestrians and cyclists.
The aim of this new town is to create a open and inviting space for people to
meet each other and not to hide in their vehicles and commute to wherever
they were going but to interact with their fellow beings whom they live amongst.
Also to have a sustainable, green, advance city. While at the same time
changing the mindset of the citizens of Malaysia to be more matured and open
to the world around them.
I envision a town where commuting to a destination didn’t have to mean a
traffic jam at peak hours but a fast efficient and comfortable method of getting


where we want to go. The first step is to get rid of the cars and up the public
transport systems, because as I see it, the future isn’t about us individually in
fancy cars cruising along the freeway (which sounds nice and appealing) but a
future where we can just hop on to a bus and know that it’ll get us there in half
the time we could by ourselves.
What
grid
did
I
use?

I used an style type octagonal grid infused with triangles and diagonals and
hexagons.
-Futuristic looking design
-Easily accessible by citizens from any corner of the town
Why
Town
floating
on
water?

Because, the water is a natural shock absorber itself, the advantages are, will
not be affected by earthquakes, Tsunami’s are less likely as out at the deep
ocean floor the waves of the tsunami are small. Also sea air is charged with
healthy negatice ions that accelerate our ability to absorb oxygen. Which is
why after a holiday you feel more alert, relaxed and energized.
Important
characteristics
and
elements?

1. Bicycle lanes
Bicycle lanes are paved and are closed from other mobile vehicles.
Also encourages cyclists to cycle to their destination instead of relying
on public transport only.
2. Green spaces

The implementation of green spaces are well conceived in Quadrality.
Green spaces also double as community areas, so residents may
mingle with each other and improves economy.

3. The layout of Quadrality is such that it encourages you to take a walk


instead of taking a drive. With the highly efficient public transport
, getting to your destination has never been easier, convenient and
comfortable.
4.There are no cars here so the only way to get around is by bicycle, or
buses. I did not add in trains as they would be too heavy for the floating island
and much too costly to build, buses could be just as effective as subways in
moving people but for 500 times cheaper to implement.
5. To save time and increase efficiency, citizens will pay at the bus stops
before entering the bus to decrease stop time and the bus driver can better
concentrate on driving.
6. Buses will not run on fossil fuel but on electricity, because electricity is much
more sustainable than fossil fuel and also it does not pollute the environment.
7. I implemented a Bahai House of Worship into the town. Bahai is
samonotheistic religion emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind.[2]
Three
core principles establish a basis for Bahá'í teachings and doctrine: the unity of
God, that there is only one God who is the source of all creation; the unity of
religion, that all major religions have the same spiritual source and come from
the same God; and the unity of humanity, that all humans have been created
equal, and that diversity of race and culture are seen as worthy of appreciation
and acceptance


ZONNING
Hydropower Generator
Agricultural Farmland
Commercial Hub
Greenery Water Reservoir
Industrial
Sector
Trash and
Sewage
Management
Emergency
Response
Unit
Residential
Area
Port Airport
Cultural &
Religious
Area
Tourism &
Hospitality
Area
Government

Building

Business

District


Zonning

Greenery – Lowers crime rate, improves perceived general health, improves
cognitive functioning, develops psychomotor skills, helps kids with better
grades and social behavior.
Agricultural Farmland - Farmland provides a high level of capital security
and a low level of risk. Farmland is an effective inflation hedge, Farmland
investment delivers lower income volatility, Farmland investment delivers high
total returns
Cultural & Religious Area - To develop an understanding of the relationship
between culture, religion and sustainable living
Water reservoir – To ensure constant supply of water
Hydropower Generator – To be self sufficient in generating electricity.
Commercial Hub - Commercial focal point of a city. An important aspect that
can be said in factor of the commercial hubs is their role in facilitating
understanding and cooperation between communities.
Tourism and Hospitality Area – Because its near the commercial hub, so
tourists have easy access.
Idustrial Sector – Outskirts of the town, so won’t be an eye sore
Trash & Sewage Management – Also around thr outskirts of the town and
near to industrial sector so wont pollute whole town.


Emergency Response Unit – Located in town center, centralized routes
makes for easier access to happening emergencies.
Residential area – Located slightly outskirt of town center so property prices
would not cost a bomb, but at the same time not too far to become unwalkable
distance

Government building – At the center of it all is the government headquarters,
I believe that there should keep an eye on everything that’s happening, thus a
high rise green building was deemed suitable.

Port – To allow access from cargo ships and other freight liners to support
business.
Business District – Also commonly called "downtown" or "city center". Near to
airport so important people with meetings can reach on time.
Airport – To allow more people to enter the city, does not limit tourism to just
marine but also air. Increase number of tourist


Master
plan
of
Quadrality


The
Conclusion

The design process of the new town was not an easy task. From the structure
to the urban planning strategy and the features that make is sustainable, every
little detail was thought and put into accounted for in organizing them.
From this project I realized that we can improve so much on our town planning
in Malaysia. Such as why aren’t we focusing more on our public transport
system instead. We build large and wide highways to accommodate more cars
when in retrofact this is the opposite direction we are going. Buses should earn
the trust of the people so they may be more comfortable with using the public
transport.
Zonning is also very important, how you zone the areas of the city also play a
crucial role in having a great city.
I have personally learnt a lot from this project on town planning and hope to
contribute my idea in an actual construction project in the future.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use pub-
lic transport
– paraphrased from Enrique Penalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia


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