ENBE FINAL PROJECT REPORT PROPOSAL TOWN

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

RADONDARSHIINI A/P VIGNESHWARAN PILLAI

0319359

FNBE APRIL 2014

DARSHIINI A/P VIGNESHWARAN PILLAI | 0319359 | Ar. LEE CHERNG YIH | FNBE APR 2014 | Taylor’s University1


CONTENT1. INTRODUCTION 3

2. A TOWN 4 - 6

3. INVESTIGATION & DATA COLLECTION ~ Ancient City 7 - 11

4. INVESTIGATION & DATA COLLECTION ~ Present City 12 – 15

5. INVESTIGATION & DATA COLLECTION ~ Future City 16 - 18

6. RADON ~ TOWN OF EDUCATION THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY 19 - 27

7. CONCLUSION 28

8. REFERENCES 29 - 30



INTRODUCTION

As the final ELEMENTS OF NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT project, we are given a task to propose a new town that is being crowded. Being the mayor of the town, we students have to propose the new town layout very quickly. The town has to be able to provide the sustainability for the people and also for the future.

Students are given few choices in choosing a theme to create a new town or by re-enhancing a current town. Such as, a town with a lake, a town on a small island, a town with a river flowing right through the town, a town next to the sea or estuary.

So for this task, we have to conduct vigorous research online and research on books to know the type of grid systems that are suitable. At the same time, for a proper urban town planning, we have to consider zonings of the town, activities,



transportation and networking infrastructure and sustainable initiatives for better living.

A TOWNDEFINITION

/toun/

noun: town; plural noun: towns

an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is generally larger than a village and smaller than a city.

A BRIEF HISTORY

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city.

The size definition for what constitutes a "town" varies considerably in

different parts of the world.

In Chile, towns (Spanish: pueblos) are defined by the National Statistics

Institute (INE) as an urban entity with a population from 2001 to 5000 or

an area with a population from 1001 to 2000 and an established economic

activity.



In Australia, towns or "urban centre localities" are commonly understood

to be those centers of population not formally declared to be cities and

having a population in excess of about 200 people.[2] Centers too small to

be called towns are generally understood to be a township.

In addition, some local government entities are officially styled as towns in

Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and before the

state-wide amalgamations of the 1990s in Victoria some local government

entities were styled as towns, but now towns are only localities that

contain an urban centre with a population greater than 200.

WHAT MAKES A TOWN?

A basic town are made up of these aspects :

~ Having a good government administration.

~ Basic needs of sources – efficient electricity, food and water supplies

~ Proper infrastructures – road, sewage systems, proper lightings.

~ Management of segregations for the people.

WHAT MAKES A GOOD TOWN?

A SUSTAINABLE TOWN makes it a good town including these as well :

~ The atmosphere. Not all small town atmospheres are created alike.

~ A busy downtown with lots of folksy-type stuff going on all the time.

~ A desire to meet the challenge of transitioning to renewable energy.

~ Basic transportation for mobility of people.

~ Well organized zonings that equally separates the town and its

environment.

~ Civilization of the people in the town as adjacent to the future.



~ Culture of the town that has established well.

~ Waste are recycled and used as resources that does not extinct.

WHAT IS THE FUTURE TOWN?

As mentioned above, all the criteria falls into one to make a future town.

Whether it is being in the process to be successful or not, a town DOES

become SUSTAINABLE when it has all those criteria fulfilled.

As an example, THE SAFE HOUSE.

A basic model for a disaster resistant, low cost housing solution, that

rather than just being a low carbon build, will actually be prepared for the

results of climate change as well. It is becoming very clear that we are

already too late to prevent climate change from wreaking havoc on

communities all over the world, from the floods in the Philippines which


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killed thousands of people, to the US big freeze this winter and the series

of Jet Stream movements that have brought extreme weather to the UK

on four occasions in the last ten years. It also sets out other disaster

resistant features such as Earthquake resilience.

INVESTIGATION & DATA COLLECTION

ANCIENT CITY

Mohenjo-Daro was discovered in 1922 by R. D.

Banerji, an officer of the Archaeological Survey of India, two years after

major excavations had begun at Harappa, some 590 km to the north.

Large-scale excavations were carried out at the site under the direction of

John Marshall, K. N. Dikshit, Ernest Mackay, and numerous other directors

through the 1930s.

Mohenjo-Daro was a city located in the south of Modern Pakistan in the

Sindh Province, on the right bank of the Indus River. It was built between



four and five thousand years ago, and lasted until 3,700 BP. It was part of

the Harrapan Civilization, and at its peak, the city had at least 35,000

residents.

This was a sophisticated society with a wide-ranging diet that consisted of

meat from both wild and domesticated animals and a variety of cultivated

wheat, barley, peas and lentils – a huge step forward in human

progression from the nomadic hunter-gatherers.

Mohenjo-Daro was one of the largest centers of the Indus Valley

Civilizations, experiencing the transition from Stone-age to Bronze-age.



A well-planned street grid and an elaborate drainage system hint that the

occupants of the ancient Indus civilization city of Mohenjo-Daro were

skilled urban planners with a reverence for the control of water. But just

who occupied the ancient city in modern-day Pakistan during the third

millennium B.C. remains a puzzle.

The city lacks ostentatious palaces, temples, or monuments. There's no

obvious central seat of government or evidence of a king or queen.

Modesty, order, and cleanliness were apparently preferred. Pottery and

tools of copper and stone were standardized. Seals and weights suggest a

system of tightly controlled trade.

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 a temple.



ANCIENT TOWN

HOI AN TOWN, VIETNAM



Hoi An, an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional Asian

trading port, is an outstanding material manifestation of the fusion of

cultures over time in an international maritime commercial centre.

The town is a special example of a traditional trading port in South-East

Asia which has been completely and assiduously preserved: it is the only

town in Viet Nam that has survived intact in this way. Most of the

buildings are in the traditional architectural style of the 19th and 20th

centuries. They are aligned along narrow lanes of traditional type. They

include many religious buildings, such as pagodas, temples, meeting

houses, etc., which relate to the development of a port community. The

traditional lifestyle, religion, customs and cooking have been preserved

and many festivals still take place annually.

And so, I would like to extract out the grid systems in Mohenjo-Daro and

the incredible maritime commercial centre in Hoi An town to be applied in

my town.




PRESENT TOWNS

GEORGETOWN, PENANG, MALAYSIA



Georgetown, the capital of the island Penang, is named after the British

King George III. The city is located at the northeast side of the island and

has, suburbs included, about 550.000 inhabitants. After Penang was

handed over by the sultan of Kedah to the English, Sir Francis Light

founded the city Georgetown. He immediately started the construction of

Fort Cornwallis. Over the years this first settlement evolved into a big city

(in that time). In 1957 Georgetown got permission to be called a city and

until 1972 it was the only city in Malaysia with this permission.

Georgetown is built in quarters. There is the Chinese quarter (Chinatown)

and also a colorful quarter called Little India. Besides the many beautiful

historical buildings; Georgetown also has many modern highrise buildings

that often contains big shopping malls. In and around Georgetown there

are many fun attractions that are absolutely worthy of a visit.



ARUNDEL TOWN, UNITED KINGDOM

The historic town of Arundel is entirely dominated by its hilltop castle.

Lying in the valley of the River Arun, this little town is full of character and

visitors will find themselves beguiled by its medieval charm. Once the site

of a busy port, Arundel is now a premier tourist attraction in Sussex and a

designated conservation area.



Idyllic Arundel was founded soon after the 11th century Norman

Conquest. It now boasts one of the finest castles in Britain which

overlooks the River Arun and the ruins of a Dominican Friary. First built for

Norman baron, Robert de Montgomery in 1067, Arundel Castle has been

the ancestral home of the Dukes of Norfolk for some 850 years. Indeed,

much of town's wealth and attraction is easily attributed to this

prestigious family. Beautiful Arundel Cathedral was built by Henry, the

15th Duke of Norfolk and the marvellous Arundel Castle Cricket ground,

(formerly the Dukes' private playing field) was opened to the public in

1975. Other beautiful places for which you can give thanks to the good ol'

Dukes of Norfolk are the lovely Arundel Park and the remains of

Blackfriars Friary.

Arundel boasts another unique sight – the only two-in-one church in

England. The Church of St Nicholas is the local Anglican parish which is

entered via London Road. However, this house of worship is soldered to

the Roman Catholic Fitzalan Chapel which lies at the border of the castle

grounds. The two churches are housed in the same building separated

only by an iron grille and a glass screen.



Since I really like the urban landscape planning of this town, I would like to

do the similar landscape design for my town to make it look as green as

possible to make sure it will be sustainable.




FUTURE OF TOWN

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

The reason why I chose this city in particular to let a new future town be

developed with this city’s new improvements. With urban population of

1.2 billion with land area of total 77.20km2, with creating a new town with

smaller population size and land area, as the main focus of how people

will travel, is by cycling.



Cycling became the most primary mode of transportation in Copenhagen

back in the starting of the 20th century. Whereby the very first bicycle

path was established in 1892. Back then, there were only about 2500

bicycles running around the city but now it has radically increased to

about 80,000 cyclists everyday. As the city developed quickly, the

tradition of cycling to places did not vanish, instead a lot more people

started to cycle wherever they were going. Mainly from a perspective of

health, this way of transportation was a very good choice of not polluting

the environment.

Everyday, approximately 38% of citizens in the city cycle to work, school

and universities covering a range area of 1.2million kilometers daily.

Copenhagen is well-known as being the most bicycle-friendly city in the



world. Copenhagen aims a goal to be the first carbon neutral capital by

the year 2025.

Therefore, promoting my town proposal, I would like to have the primary

mode of transportation will be the bicycle, as it is environmentally

pollution free, cheapest mode of transportation and not forgetting the

best way to not have or start any traffic congestions.



RADONBased on all the investigations that I have done, I have decided to propose

a town with a lake. This is because my main aim of town will be an

education and research hub for the study of marine lives in the lake.

Furthermore, my town will be having almost 60% of greeneries, such,

green parks, deep forest and public fields for the use of my people in this

town. I have chosen to name my town, RADON is because the scientific

meaning of this name is actually a harmless gas particle that does not

hurt or harm anyone, and so my town.

This town’s grid system will be square grid system as this grid happens to

be a very structural grid as shown in the investigation about ancient city ;

Mohenjo-Daro. The reason of choosing it to be an education and research

hub is because of the Hoi An Town that has the connecting sea to the

ports which is used as international maritime commercial centre.

As for the modes of transportation for my town, it will be the same as in

Copenhagen, Denmark which they use bicycles to go everywhere. My

town is significantly have efficient amount of bicycle path and also not

forgetting pedestrians path for the people to conveniently walk around the

town.



ZONING OF THE TOWN

ZONE A : EDUCATION ZONE

CONSIST OF A MARINE UNIVERSITY TO STUDY THE LIVES OF MARINE AND

EXPERIENCES.

ZONE B : RESEARCH HUB

CONSIST OF THE RESEARCH CENTRES IN THE STUDY OF MARINE LIFE IN

THE

LAKE.MAKING NEW FINDINGS IN LAKE THAT IS TO BE EXAMINED.

ZONE C : GOVERNMENT ZONE

ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE AND OFFICIAL BUILDINGS WITH GREEN

INFRASTURCTURE.

ZONE D: COMMERCIAL ZONE

CONSISTING OF ENTERTAINMENT AREA ; SHOPPING AND DAILY GROCERIES

STORES

ZONE E: RESINDENTIAL AREA



CONSIST OF SAME LEVELED MEDIUM RISE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS GREEN

ROOFTOPS

ZONE F: MEDICAL HELP CENTRE

THIS ZONE IS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE FACING WITH HEALTH PROBLEMS TO

BE EXAMINED FIRST BEFORE REFERRING TO THE MAIN HOSPITAL OUT OF

THE TOWN.

OVERALL ZONING PLAN LAYOUT



THE PROCESS AND PROGRESS

TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS


LEGEND - BICYCLE LANE - PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY


PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF BICYLE LANE AND

PEDESTRIANS PATHWAY



PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF ZONE C :

GOVERNMENT ZONE



PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF ZONE D :

COMMERCIAL ZONE



PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF ZONE E :

RESIDENTIAL ZONE



OVERALL MASTER PLAN

TOTAL AREA : 25 KM2

POPULATION SIZE : 120,000 MALAYSIANS



CONCLUSIONConstructing a well developed town does not mean that everything has to

be structured and out into place but how much it can be sustainable for

the more years to come and to make sure everything that is built will be

able to be concrete for all the people living in the town.

Sustainability is just not having the amount of materials that is going to

uphold the infrastructures, but the amount of effort that has been applied

in order to make it successful counts more. Never the less, the more effort

is put into the development of this town, the more better sustainability

can be obtained not just for the people but also for the town itself to be

maintained well.



In a nutshell, a town is always a good start off to learn more what makes it

to be incredibly noticeable by the outside people who are outside the

boundary of the town ,when other people notice how well maintained is

one’s town, it is where the sustainability comes all up together.

REFERENCES

BOOKS

Bibliography: Charlesworth, E. and Adams, R. (2011). The EcoEdge.

1st ed. London: Routledge

Bibliography: Bacon, E. (1976). Design of cities. 1st ed. New York:

Penguin Books

Bibliography: Cook, P. (2003). The city, seen as a garden of ideas. 1st

ed. New York, N.Y.: Monacelli Press.



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