The document discusses transition zones between rural and urban areas. It defines transition zones as sparsely built up areas with incomplete infrastructure that contain some urban uses like industry or recreation areas. Transition zones act as a buffer between rural and urban land uses and can expand as cities grow. The document also presents Burgess's concentric zone model of urban growth which showed urban zones expanding and reconverting rural land at the edges, creating early transition areas. Finally, it provides a case study of defining and zoning transition areas in Olsztyn, Poland using GIS data and land use mapping.

1. ZONE OF
TRANSITION

2. TRANSITION ZONE: By some authors
In 1967, Zaremba, defined the transitional zone between rural and urban
area as “off-town areas”, whose characteristic features include: Sparsely
built-up area, intensively used horticultural farms, incomplete communal
infrastructure, sparsely situated industrial and warehousing facilities, and
sports and leisure greenery. These areas are also regarded as temporary
(transitional) form of the land use, preceding the phase of more intense
building development. The transitional zone can also be regarded as the
border zone, which covers a structurally non-uniform area of direct
contact of urban investment and open land, associated with a different
extent and during different periods with the presence of the administrative
border of the town.
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3. TRANSITION ZONE: By some authors
According to Słodczyk , there are forms and functions typical of rural and
urban areas that inter-permeate in the transitional zone formed on the
outskirts of a developing town. It is an area situated in the immediate
vicinity of the town, linked with the town in a variety of ways and steadily
transformed as a result of these links.
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4. DEFINITION
• Transition areas as the space (not necessarily empty) between areas
with single-family homes and areas with commercial buildings.
• In transition areas, the size and height of buildings generally get
smaller as you move away from commercial areas into neighborhood
residential areas.
• Transition zones are the zoning categories assigned to parcels or lots in
a transition area.
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5. HISTORICAL EVOLUTION
OF
TRANSITION ZONES
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According to Burgess Urban Land Use
Model:
Urban growth is a process
of expansion and reconversion of
land uses, with a tendency of each
inner zone to expand towards the outer
zone. In the shown figure, zone II
(Factory zone) is expanding towards
zone IV (Working class zone), creating
a transition zone with the reconversion
of land use.
1. CONCENTRIC ZONE MODEL
BY: BURGESS MODEL

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• The model was developed when American cities were growing very fast
in demographic terms, and when motorized transportation was still
uncommon, most people used public transit.
• The expansion thus involved reconversion of existing land uses.
• This concept cannot be applied effectively in a contemporary (from the
second half to the 20th century) context where highways have enabled
urban development.
FAILURES

8. CASE STUDY:
Olsztyn, Poland
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9. STEP 1: LOCATION OF THE STUDY AREA
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▧ Image taken from GIS.
▧ Defined all the
residential,
commercial, public,
semi-public plots,
agriculture land,
mining areas, forests,
objects under
construction.

10. STEP 2: DEFINING THE LANDUSES
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▧ Data from Corine Land over
data and divided into 44
classes which describes five
categories: Artificial surfaces,
Agricultural areas, forest and
semi-natural areas , open
spaces with little no vegetation
and wetlands and water
bodies.

11. STEP 3: DETERMINING THE BORDERS OF URBAN AND
RURAL AREAS
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▧ When determining the borders
of urban and rural investment,
the space thus formed, which
cannot be assigned to either of
the functions, is present only
at places where the method of
use is considerably affected by
both urban and rural use.

12. STEP 4: TRANSITION
ZONE
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13. METHODOLOGY
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14. ELEMENTS OF ZONING:
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▧ Railway Lines
▧ Roads
▧ Public gardens
▧ Parks
▧ Canals/ Rivers/
Playgrounds
▧ Fire station like
essential services
▧ Bus stand
▧ Government offices
& Premises

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17. PRINCIPLES OF ZONING:
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▧ Arrangement of zones
▧ Boundaries
▧ Existing towns
▧ Flexibility
▧ New towns

19. Thanks!
BY: SIMRAN AGGARWAL
MURP-1(2020-22)
FACULTY OF PLANNING, SUPVA
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