HDB has been efficient in creating new towns with the community spirit in mind. Each public housing block is considered a vertical community, with common area built into the design to promote social interaction. Another key priority of HDB is the building of cohesive communities within its towns.
Living
environments are provided with community spaces for residents to mingle and
interact. Public housing policies and schemes are formulated not only to meet
changing needs and aspirations, but they also support national objectives such
as maintaining racial harmony and stronger family ties, and focus on the needs
of elderly and those who may be in financial difficulty.
Urban Design Studies
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Sunday, 3 November 2013
28/10
Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects.
The key is to examine cities from an eye-level rather than a bird’s-eye view, and integrate alternative modes of transportation to a degree that decreases the need for cars and focuses on the human-scale. In doing so it’s important to consider the needs of various life stages, from the toddler to seniors. If neighborhoods are accessible to these age groups, they’re inherently walkable by everyone.
The key is to examine cities from an eye-level rather than a bird’s-eye view, and integrate alternative modes of transportation to a degree that decreases the need for cars and focuses on the human-scale. In doing so it’s important to consider the needs of various life stages, from the toddler to seniors. If neighborhoods are accessible to these age groups, they’re inherently walkable by everyone.
23/10
Irregular/organic patterns are formed or accident-grown. It is expected to develop without the contribution of the designers, not the object of the master plan, and is the subject of time, the landscape and the daily life of citizens. The resulting shape is irregular, organic, with a share of bent and crooked streets and indiscriminate open spaces.
Grids patterns can be built incrementally, on dual carriageways, one carriageway at a time. Grids have what road engineers call ‘natural redundancy’ – a highly desirable quality, whereby if a road is blocked by accident or repair, an alternative route is available. Non-hierarchical systems are very vulnerable to blockages - a problem on a major distributor can paralyze a large area. Most importantly, grids are vastly more cost effective than hierarchical systems.
In Radial patterns
the network of roads is in the form of circles emanating from the center of the area. Roads radiate outwards from a central point.
Saturday, 2 November 2013
21/10
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