Prerequisite: Planning 2 or dean's permission
Units: 3.0
Classroom: online via Microsoft Teams
Class Time: Thursday: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
Office Hour: Thursday: 12:30 PM -12:45 PM - Right after class time
Instructor: Zhuo Yao, Ph.D.
Instructor: Archt. Carmela C. Quizana
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
Instructor：Zhuo Yao Ph.D.
Instructor: Archt. Carmela C. Quizana
This course explores important substantive areas and concepts in the field of urban and regional planning and current urban planning and policy issues and debates. Topics include: forces that have historically guided and are currently guiding urbanization; land use, growth management, transportation and traffic congestion, economic development, housing and community development, environmental planning; legal, environmental, governmental contexts. This course also covers principles and theories of urban structure and institutions; concepts and logic of planning as a community process and a professional activity; and the evolution of planning ideas in response to changing social, economic, and environmental conditions within the local political framework.
Man in his ecosetting: Homo Sapiens ▪ early times, a rare animal living in sporadic but intense competition with other animals and subsisting by hunting and food gathering ▪ became successful in adapting his environment to his own needs and in the creation of artificial habitats. ▪ gained a position of almost complete domination over all other forms of life on earth, greatly expanded his sources of food and energy and his ability to modify the effects of nature on him ▪ unique skills and powers evidenced by the great increase in his numbers Human population is doubling itself within one hundred years. T.R. Malthus, an English economist theorized… “population increases in a geometric ratio while subsistence increases arithmetically and that unless natural catastrophes, war, or sexual restraint control population increase, worldwide famine or war will follow.”
Exploitation of nature in new and disturbing ways were recognized. Increasing numbers of mankind and the supplies of food and shelter are the most profound problems … beyond mere subsistence lie questions of the quality of life – bodily and mental health, happiness, fulfillment, joy. The ultimate source of all the benefits of life is the EARTH itself and man’s relationship to all its life and resources. Man’s life is intricately woven into the whole web of life on earth. His astonishing powers have not enabled him to control nature in any categorical sense but merely to administer much more disturbances than before. No matter how socialized our activities are, how artificial their immediate environment and how much local and immediate control may be exercised, WE ARE PART OF THE PLANET’S ECOLOGY AND WE IGNORE THE FACT AT OUR PERIL This course is concerned with the aspect of understanding the complex systems of man’s activities in the whole context of the planets ecological systems.
Dissatisfaction on the part of individuals and groups concerning their relationships with the environment will lead them to take modifying actions. These changes could include:
Modifying actions cause repercussions on other activities, spaces, communications, and channels. Ex. when a man decides to leave his car for work and uses the train, his action causes repercussions though how trivial and unnoticeable. But if several hundred are to do the same, then the effects would be noticeable Actions taken by individuals and groups in interest can bring about conditions which give rise to serious social, economic, and aesthetic problems connected with the use of land. Planning seeks to…
Urban planning is the process that is applied as a way to organize the dynamics of human actions in cities, with the purpose of stipulating guidelines that order spatial occupation through typological patterns of use, mobility, distribution of equipment, services, and natural areas in the territory, in order to provide uniformity in the distribution of the onus and advantages generated by the development of the infrastructures. The planning, furthermore, aims to announce in advance what can be done in the face of solving problems that may hinder the dynamics of functioning that involve cities. (Reference: Eckert N.H., Padilha J.C. (2019) Terminologies and Definitions for Urban Planning. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Özuyar P., Wall T. (eds) Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-71059-4_80-2)
Urban Planning is the art and science of ordering and managing the use of land and its environment and the character and siting of buildings and communication routes so as to secure the maximum practicable degree of economy, convenience and beauty. (Reference: PD 933 – Creating the Human Settlements Commission) Urban planning in the Philippines is also referred to as Environmental Planning. RA 10587 defines “Environmental Planning”, also known as urban and regional planning, city planning, town and country planning, and/or human settlements planning, which refers to the multi-disciplinary art and science of analyzing, specifying, clarifying, harmonizing, managing and regulating the use and development of land and water resources, in relation to their environs, for the development of sustainable communities and ecosystems. (Reference: RA 10587: Law Regulating the Environmental Planning Profession in the Philippines)
Regional planning deals with the efficient placement of land-use activities, infrastructure, and settlement growth across a larger area of land than an individual city or town. It relates land use practices on a broader scale. It also includes formulating laws that will guide the efficient planning and management of such said regions. This planning area covers a multi-jurisdictional geographic area, such as a metropolitan area or a group of rural counties or an area with common economic, environmental or other conditions.
Regional planning may be defined as the integrated management of the economic, social, and physical resources of a spatially bounded area. Regional plans and policies have been proposed and carried out since the beginnings of civilized settlement. In the modern era, regional plans have been promulgated for sub-national, multi-jurisdictional areas such as metropolitan areas. Comprehensive regional plans have also been devised for poly-nucleated urban areas and for open regions such as river basins. Because, for historical reasons, regions often lack governmental organization congruent with their natural or economic characteristics, the realization of regional planning goals, policies, and projects has often been constrained or limited. (Reference: https://www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780080430768/international-encyclopedia-of-the-social-and-behavioral-sciences)
Other Related Definitions:
Town Planning is defined as 'the art and science of ordering the use of land and siting of buildings and communication routes so as to secure maximum practicable degree of economy, convenience and beauty'. Lewis Keeble (1969) Human settlement is a place where people live. It refers to the totality of human community with all the social, material, organizational, spiritual, and cultural elements that sustain it. Any form of human dwelling, from the smallest house to the largest city, where group of people reside and pursue their life goals, can be understood as settlement. Human settlements come in many forms and can be permanent and temporary, rural and urban, mobile and sedentary, disseminated and agglomerated. (https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-71063-1_88-1)
Urban Areas refers to all cities regardless of their population density and to municipalities with a population density of at least five hundred (500) persons per hectare. (UDHA – R.A. 7279)
means a poblacion or central district of cities or municipalities having at least 50,000 population, or twin political subdivisions with contiguous boundary which essentially form one community whose population is more than 50,000 inhabitants. Inside these centers of population are some scattered industrial settlements. (PD 856 – Code of Sanitation of the Philippines);
in their entirety, all cities and municipalities which have the population density of at least 1,000 persons per square kilometer and where at least 50% of the economically active population are engaged in non-agricultural activities;
Urbanization – growth in the proportion of a population living in urban areas. (Population Handbook) Metropolitan area – a large concentration of population; usually an area with 100,000 or more inhabitants and containing at least one city with 50,000 or more inhabitants and those administrative areas bordering the city which are socially and economically integrated with the city.(Population Handbook) Megalopolis – a loose term denoting an interconnected group of cities and connecting urbanized bands. (Population Handbook)
Write an essay: what is a city to you?
Create a metaphor on how you describe a city
Narrate your ideas in 1 of paper (8.5” x 11”), Arial font 11, 1.5 line spacing with 1” margin on all sides. Provide a cover page with your name and activity title.
Due at the beginning of next meeting
Rubrics
| Criteria | Rating (%) | Excellent | Very Good | Good | Fair | Poor | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ability to describe accurately | 50% | Very detailed description/ explanation using appropriate words and phrases | A detailed description/ explanation with very few less detailed points. | Significant description/ explanation with some points less detailed. | Provided only simple short descriptions/ explanations. | Provided very short descriptions/ explanations using less than 5 words to explain. | |
| Composition and organization | 50% | Clear and appropriate focus; careful and subtle organization; mastery of grammar, usage and mechanics | Clear and appropriate focus; logical and controlled organization throughout with very minor inconsistencies; | Appropriate focus with very minor inconsistencies; logical progression of ideas with minor inconsistencies; | Established focus but not maintained throughout; organization is with minor inconsistencies; some errors in grammar, | Lacks focus and organization is unclear; many errors in grammar, usage and mechanics |
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List Four (4) special (most interested) topics you are interested in learning in this class. Send them to Archt. Quizana.
Self group the class into Six (6) groups. Each group can only consist of six students. Send your Group Name, Group Members' name to Archt. Quizana.