ENBE - Final Project - Part A Report

ENBE | Final Project | Part A – Report | The Better Livable Town Representation

Better Livable Town

GREEWOOD

LEE KAI YUNG | 0318314

FNBE APR 2014 |

LEE KAI YUNG | 0318314 | Tutor: Pn. Has| FNBE APR 2014 | Taylor’s University1


Content:

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1. Introduction -32. A Town -43. Investigation & Data Collection: Ancient and old cities/town -

5-64. Investigation & Data Collection: The present towns/cities -

7-85. Investigation & Data Collection: The future and better township -

9-106. The New “X” Town / Or the new name -

11-127. The Conclusion - 138. References list - 14



1. Introduction

In this final ENBE project, we are required to plan and build a sustainable future town. First, we have to investigate and examine old cities and towns, present towns and future towns. Collect data to understand the components and elements of a town, case study of cities and towns. As for my group, we had chosen a town with a river flowing right through the town, so I’m going to focusing and collect more information and understanding about river, it’s usage, pros and cons, benefit and cautions of the river. After that, we are going to make a physical model of our town and a presentation board about our town.

In my opinion and experiences after done all the research, I’ve learn about interaction

between human and natural environment. I also be able to expose the elements of the natural and built environment in their basic unit, form and function, understanding what is a sustainable and livable place. I think this is very helpful for my future study and even works.



2. The Town

Definition: “A built-up area with a name, defined boundaries, and local government, that is larger than a village and generally smaller than a city”

What makes a town?

It depends on the criteria. Socialists consider population size, politicians and managers would consider political structure such as the organisation of local government, most professions consider population size.

What makes a good town or township?

Township : A township is a development of substantial size that contains a community or small neighbourhood.

According to GreenBuildingIndex, they categorize a and rate good township in many ways :

- Climate, Energy and WaterBalance in their on going production and consumption of energy and water. Maximising passive design, minimising energy consumption, use renewable energy technologies, reduce water consumption, rain water harvesting and greywater recycling. - Ecology and EnvironmentRespect the surrounding environment and native ecological system. Preserve and enhance the ecological value of the natural environment, reducing the impact of flooding and erosion. - Community Planing and DesignPlanned and design for the benefit of the community, emphasising people priority and greenspaces, resulting in more livable and diverse neighbourhoods. With great public facilities like hospital, clinic, police station, fire station, bus station, school and parks. - Transportation and connectivityWell-connected places and broad range of transportation options, public transportation, great accessiblility, connectivity and well linked to surrounding. Example, rail bus, bus, and cycling network. - Building and ResourcesHave a lower impact on resources, minimise the use of highly resource intensive materials. - Business and InnovationProvide employment opportunities for residents. Provide avenues for businesses to form.



3. Investigation & Data Collection:Ancient Cities / towns

BabylonLocation : Hillah, Babil Governorate, IraqRegion : MesopotamiaType : SettlementArea : 9km2

Founded : 2300 B.C

Babylon is an ancient city that has a river flowing through it. Herodotus also states that the temple complex was square, two stadium per side. The Tower of Babel, located in the middle of this, stood upon a platform base, also square, one stadium per side.



In Babylon, the most significant thing is the Hanging Garden of Babylon. It is a building with all the plants and tree planting around it or on it, which making it look like a green hill and bringing in green to the city.

Another thing is the town planning, Babylon build their most important building in the center and surround it with houses and gardens. The temple and king’s place are located in the middle of the town, with the market.

My future town

As for my future town, I will use the element about hanging garden or other garden to implant into my town, which will create more green space and provide a better environment.



4. Investigation & Data Collection:Present Towns / township

ParisCountry : France

Population : 2300000

The history of Paris, France, spans over 10000 years, during which time the city grew from a small Mesolithic settlement to the largest city and capital of France. Historian discover that the oldest traces of human dating to between 9800 and 7500 BC. They have been go through the Neolithic period, Bronze Age and Iron Age. It’s a significant old history about Paris.



The thing that I will concentrate on in Paris is the green garden and pocket. This is also the most significant thing in this town. They create a lot of large green garden, which is also open for public uses, especially on the tourism place.



Champ de Mars

Besides, the streetscape of Paris, on the both side of the street are plant with green plant or trees, and they focusing on more and wider side walk way. I will consider adding more green garden into my town, just like Paris, to achieve green city planning, and a sustainable town.

5. Investigation & Data Collection:The future of towns and Better Towns



A Better Town is a Sustainable and Livable Town.

The components of liveability are:

1 protection of the environment2 maintenance of a diverse economy3 provision of accessibility through land use4 delivery of services for residents and businesses5 housing choices6 balanced city budget7 the involvement of citizens in planning and delivery.

It has to be said that the aims of a liveability policy on communities are focused on quality of life, rather than implicitly on sustainable development, but there are inevitable improvements for sustainable development through reduced car transportation, increases in greenspace and opportunities for social capital and participative planning regimes.

Financial Costs and Funding Sources

The choice regarding the costs of infrastructure is twofold:

- increasing costs to provide services and infrastructure to increasingly sprawling and lower density suburban residential communities with both market forces and zoning policies restricting the degree to which services can be located near people, or

- increasing density and multi-use zoning to allow for a more efficient use of resources and the provision of services near the people that access them.

A liveable community is also an efficient community, and will cost less to maintain in the long term. For example, green building programs in Vancouver from the 1990s have shown that there are real economic and sustainability benefits to such design. Unfortunately, residential developers are behind in adopting such technologies.

Critical Success Factors

Critical success factors in the identification and implementation of liveability as an integral part of sustainable communities are:

- the value of liveability as an overall theme, among others, in the development of a community’s sustainability plan

- the overarching role of public engagement in the articulation of what is meant by liveability



- an acceptance that liveability may differ significantly from community to community

- a recognition that liveability extends to economic dynamism and career opportunities as well as recreational, aesthetic, cross-generational and cultural activities

- the ability to embed liveability concerns into the culture of the municipality rather than politically motivated short-term initiatives

- the recognition that the provision of a diverse residential community with a full complement of services, means that a system approach to both the city region and the individual neighbourhood is required. This will ensure that individual neighbourhoods do not become liveability ghettos, but have a real and vibrant place within the whole city region context.

6. The New “X” town /

GREENWOOD

My solution to create this new town is to build more residential area for resident. Besides, the grid I choose is square grid. square grid is very suit to my town planning because in the centre of the hexagon provide some room for green space or green pocket to create a green city.

Since the town size is very small, it’s really hard to fit in such population,

so I decided to expand upwards. For example, build more apartment.



Considering the transportation and vehicle, in this 30km2 town, I would implant more public transport, rail bus, bus, even cycling network.

This is my town planning. I will separate the commercial area into two. This is because to minimize the crowds and traffic problem. The residential area are near the commercial area so that they can get to work easily or get what they need for daily live easily.

Industrial area I put it on the corner of the town, far away from residential or commercial area, just to avoid the pollution that caused by the factories. In the tourism area, they will be a public garden.

Transportation. In this town, will provide a very wide range of transportation with great accessibility. First there will be basic road way. Then is the public transport, bus and train.



There will be 2 type of train in my town. First is the above ground train, this is use to connect to other neighbourhood town or city, also use to transport people or cargo. Next is the underground train. This underground train will only run in this town. It connected to every place, from industrial to commercial to residential area.

Another major change of my road is I added a special bus track and bicycle track on both side of the road. Both of it are connected through out the whole town.

Example of my road

7. Conclusion

For my conclusion, to develop a sustainable town is not that easy. We have to think about lots of element or factor to improve the town. Besides, this is not a very big town, the space are limited, to make this happen, really take a lot of effort and thinking to shape it until its perfect.

From this assignment, I have learn that what is sustainable town. It’s a lifestyle, that how you design your town that fit perfectly for the citizen. For example, the distance between the citizen house and working place, is that far or near, can they reach their working place by walking or public transport, those are the factor that we have to think about all time. Also the economy for the town, develop some industrial area or agriculture area is a must as it is where the income come from, or tourism.



Lastly, I’m glad that I have done this assignment and have learnt a lot of thing that are useful for my future study or work. Thank you.

8. Reference Links

http://www.greenbuildingindex.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris Ava J.Abramowitz. (2009) Architect’s essentials of negotiation David Chappell and Andew Willis. (2010) The architect in practice Ken Smith. (2006) Landscape Architect : Urban Projects Tim Waterman. (2009) The fundamentals of landscape architecture


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon

http://www.greenbuildingindex.org/

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