GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Public Participation, Urban Design
Document Summary
Contemporary planning issues: urban dispersion and car dominance, loss of sense of place. People don"t have connections with their neighbourhoods anymore. Neighbourhood becomes just a place you sleep: how do you continue development and keep a sense of place in a neighbourhood, loss of environment. Plan to plan for sustainable neighbourhoods: functional and social segregation, tensions between developers and planners, public participation. Often dominated by politically motivated by neighbourhood groups: mistrust of government. People don"t differentiate between civil service and administration. Addressing the planning issues: new city form. Associated with andres dunay and elizabeth plater-zyberk. Argues that it is really dealing with the loss if sense if place . Summed up as seeking a return to traditional forms of urban design. If you build a place where people want to live you have more social cohesion. Re-integration of uses, land and social: criticisms. Sprawl will still exists at edges of urban area. Modification required to design for regulatory reasons.
