Final enbe report

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

Deong Khai Keat | 0320055 | Miss Iffa | FNBE AUG 2014 | Taylor’s University

Better Livable Town

AUDEE

NAME: DEONG KHAI KEAT

ID NUMBER: 0320055

COURSE: Foundation In Natural and Built

Environment

INTAKE: AUG 2014



Content:

1. Introduction

2. A Town

3. Investigation & Data Collection:



6. The “X” Town - AUDEE

7. The Conclusion

8. References list



1. Introduction

The aim of this final assignment is to understand the components and elements

of a town and what makes a better livable and sustainable town. It is divided into

2parts.

As mayor of “X” town, each student will have to propose a new layout for a town

because of reasons that is too crowded. The “X” town conditions:

- Size should be about 30 x 30km

- Population in between 80,000-200,000

This is the final project for the elements of Natural Build Environment. The title

of the project is “The Future Town Representation”. The future town

representation is about proposing a future city. When proposing the future town

there are something important that must consider which is sustainability,

efficiency, food supply and energy supply. We need to refer to the ancient town,

present town, and future town. The things that have to look into from those town

are people, shape, zoning, and the history, those elements that can helps to

proposing the town.



2. The Town

2.1 WHAT IS TOWN

A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several

thousands and is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city.

Towns have particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local

law. It is a small society, sometimes referring to a small city. "Town" is the name

of a village, borough, or smaller city. Town have a less denser population than

the city, with a population that does not grow its own food.

2.2 WHAT IS THE BRIEF HISTORY

A brief history is a short history of a town that is built from maybe an ancient

times, or present time. It is a history of how the city is built. The word town shares

an origin with the German word Zaun, the Dutch word tuin, and the Old Norse

tun. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the

space which these fences enclosed. In England, a town was a small city that

could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and

built a palisade or stockade instead. Town could refer to kinds of settlements as

diverse as agricultural estates and holdings, partly picking up the Norse sense at

one end of the scale, to fortified municipality at the other. All towns display

various degrees of forethought and conscious design in their layout and

functioning. At the beginning, humans built town beside a river which is more

convenient to them and the town change day by day.



2.3 What makes a city / town

A town needs to have transportation, government buildings, business area,

commercial area, recreational area, education are, religious and cultires area,

hospitals, services area, forest and green area and agriculture area.

Furthermore, Town also need organized town zoning that distinguish the town

and its environments and stunning monuments and vista that creates an identity

of the town. The form of town is influenced more by the arrangement of streets

and squares than by any other consideration. Town form has changed

dramatically through the ages.

Towns typically provide a variety of services to their inhabitants, including

(a) Roads

(b) Transportation

(c) Water Supply

(d) Electrical Supply

(e) Food distribution

(f) Sanitation



2.4 What makes a good Town?

A good town is built with good organized areas and all of it is well maintained. A

good city has greener areas, sustainability, more public places for people to

connect with each other. A good Town must have suitable population, density,

good zoning, good access system, convenience, and environmental friendly.

Town should have at least one commanding building or group of buildings, they

can be a mosque, town hall or others.

(a) Clean and safe environment

(b) Waste are recycled and turned to resources

(c) Contains all facilities and services

(d) Good circulation and connectivity

(e) Complex functions

(f) Strategic Location

(g) Good education

2.5 What is the future Town?

Future town is a more sustainable and livable town which provides good

solutions to the problem facing by the current towns. A future Town aims to

reduce all the negative elements and achieve to be perfection. Let the resident

be more comfortable and have a high living standard. The future town focuses

more on the environmental issues and will become clean and green, free of

pollution, safer, and a greener environment to protect the originality of the town.




Ancient Town – Ancient Rome

3.1 When did it start? History and all/

Ancient Rome was founded by the two brothers, and demi-gods, Romulus and

Remus, on 21 April 753. Ancient Rome was an Italic civilization that began on the

Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the

Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to become

one of the largest empire in the ancient world with an estimated 50 to 90 million

inhabitants and covering 6.5 million square kilometers during its height between

the first and second centuries AD. Well, Athenian history is broad, long, and

varied, and we definitely dig into specifics on other areas. This section is for

general overviews and timelines to help give you a big picture perspective and an

overall context for the details.



Athens in the Mycenaean Age - There is very little recorded history about this

age, which lasted from around 1600 BC to 1100 BC. Athens plays only a

tangential role.

Athens and Alexander the Great - Because ancient Athens was the center of

Greek culture and Alexander the most famous of the ancient Greeks, many

people mistakenly assume Alexander was Athenian himself. His relationship to

Athens was actually much more complicated than that.

Athens in the Classical Age – An overview of he major stage and progression

of Athenian history during the Classical Age.

3.2 What ancient city are you concentrating on?

Athens, the birthplace of democrazy is a significant city in terms of its

architecture. Ancient Greek architecture is best known for its temple. Ancient

Greek Architecture is distinguished by its highly formalized characteristics, both

of structure and decoration. The Greeks developed three architectural system

which is Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.



3.4 Conclusion about the cities

Athens had proved itself to be the backbone for the birth of arts, literature,

sciences and philoshophy. This shows that in order for a town to reach its peak.

3.5 information and element for my new future town

Among the elements and characteristic found in the Athens, the element that can

be use in future is hierarchy in town planning. A town planning is a important

roles when build the town. The town is well planned by having the agency to

control and manage the land properties and zoning .The centre of the town is the

home to the town’s most important buildings, including the town hall and

government buildings. Buildings that play similar roles in the town are placed

further away from the central area of the town. A great town must have the great

system to separate or arrange the different zone such as insdustries area and

residential area. Besides, when draw a zoning for a town the things that must be

consider is the environment, location, people and their activities.




The Present of town – Cape Town

4.1 History of Cape Town

Although the founder of the Cape Colony, Jan van Riebeeck, planted vines and

made wine himself. Van der Stel created Groot Constantia, the superb estate on

the flanks of Table Mountain, and passed on his wine-making skills to the

citizens.

For a long time, Cape wines other than those produced at Groot Constantia were

not in great demand and most grapes ended up in brandy. The industry received

a boost in the early 19th century as war between Britain and France.

Apartheid-era approvals and the power of the Kooperatieve Wijnbouwers

Vereeniging didn't exactly encourage innovation and instead hampered the

industry.

Many new and progressive wine makers are leading South Africa's return onto

the world market. New wine-producing areas are being established away from

the hotter inland areas.



4.2 Concentrating of town

This town is famous for its harbou, for its natural setting in the Cape floral

kingdom, as well as for such well-known landmarks as Table Mountaion and

Cape Paint. It located on the share of Table Bay.

4.3 Element of the town

Can use the Nuclear-powered electricity and the Renewable-source electricity in

the Cape town for the new “X” town.




Future Town – Copenhagen, Denmark

5.1 History of Copenhagen

Copenhagen was founded in 1167 by tough-as-nails Bishop Absalon, who erected a

fortress on Slotsholmen Island, fortifying a small and previously unprotected harbourside

village. Copenhagen, founded more than 800 years ago, has stood as the capital of

Denmark for more than 500 years. Now a large, modern city, it has endured wars, sieges,



fires and a bubonic plague.

5.2 What makes is a significant town and the details

Copenhagen is a well-known green city in the world. 50% of Copenhagener

commutes daily by cycling. They are born and raised into a biking culture.

Copenhageners think that “biking is a much faster and more convenient way of

getting around.” Copenhagen back in the 20th century where the city’s first

bicycle path was established in 1892. There was only 2500 bicycles around the

city but the number quickly increased after 17years later with 80,000 cyclists.

5.3 Conclusion about Copenhagen

Copenhagen is well-known as being the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world.

Copenhagen aimed to be the world’s first carbon neutral capital by 2025. The city

offers free public bicycles and also with an extensive and well-designed system of

cycle tracks. Copenhagener are smart which they’ve already used cycling as their

transportation few years ago. They use green technologies in their building and

also daily life.



5.4 Information or element for my new town

Promote a similar transportation method that is healthy, environment friendly,

cheap and convenient. Beside that’s, can use their Green technologies , cycling

culture and walkability.

6. The Audee

6.1 How did i came up with the solution to create this

new town

The design of The Audee city plan is to make people’s life more

comfortable by sheltering citizens from the heat and UV rays caused

by the thinning of the ozone layer. The Audee can help overcome snd

extract the benefits of the rising temperature, water pollution and so

on. I plan such that my town will be low carbon footprint because less

of cars on major roads, hence reduce the carbon dioxide emission.

Like Cape Town, I plan to build a city at a cooler location to certain

that more people would want to live in my city.



Characteristics of town:

1. Fixed transit routes

2. Bicycle town

3. Green spaces and town

4. Air dredge pipe

5. Water transportation system

Zoning



Perspective

Si

Elements of town:

1. Water and Electricity

2. Resident

3. Security

4. Government

5. Business and commercial

6. Land mark

Side view



Transportation system

S-WALKER Bicycle Sharing



7. Conclusion

We must learn the knowledge about the green technologies. We can apply

these kind of green technologies in our building and residential. Green

technologies are good for our mother nature and it can minimize the impact to

the nature.

A great future town is a town that is sustainable and liveable and I gained a lot

of extra information about built environment. I have learned how to compare the

different development of the town through research on the ancient, present, and

future town.

The evolution of technology keeps on going, throughout the research, there is a

huge different between ancient architecture building and future architecture

buildings. We must learn how to catch up the evolution and try to practice it in our

projects.



8. Reference Links

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/town

http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-rome

http://www.southafrica.net/za/de/articles/entry/article-southafrica.net-cape-

towns-history-culture

http://www.copenhagenet.dk/cph-history.htm

http://denmark.dk/en/green-living/bicycle-culture/

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/town

http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/ancient-rome

http://www.southafrica.net/za/de/articles/entry/article-southafrica.net-cape-towns-history-culture

http://www.southafrica.net/za/de/articles/entry/article-southafrica.net-cape-towns-history-culture

http://www.copenhagenet.dk/cph-history.htm

http://denmark.dk/en/green-living/bicycle-culture/

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