Land Use Pattern

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LAND USE PATTERNSyed Mustafa Ali ShahLecturerCIIT, Abbottabad

CEE-309 Introduction to Architecture & Town Planning

11Think ???Think of all the things you would find in a Town or a City.

Turn over your work sheet and write down as many things as you can !

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OK 3FactoriesOfficesHousesShopsBusinessesEntertainmentParksPlaces of worshipRestaurantsIntroductionLand is gift given by the Allah ( )to the mankind hence it is the basic resource of human society.

Land Useis the human use of land.

Land is necessary for human survival, because it provides mean with living space, with food and with number of raw materials which are used in the satisfaction of his wants.4Definitions and Theories The arrangements, activities and inputs people undertake in a certain land cover type to produce, change or maintain it, United Nations'Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO

Land use is any kind of permanent or cyclic human intervention on the environment to satisfy human needs, Vink, A. P. A. (1975)

Land use is the surface utilization of all developed and vacant land on a specific point at a given time and space. Freeman T.W. (1968)

5Human activities that shape a city6

Natural environment into built environment7

8The term Land use and Urban structureUrban structure is the arrangement of land use in urban areas. Sociologists, economists, and geographers have developed several models, explaining the growth pattern of cities.Different models are described in this Lecture.Urban Structure with different units9

10Pattern of growthComplexity due to functionsAs urban areas have grown over time they have become increasingly complex. Each urban area has a variety of functionsHuman way of land use changes (with time)The different activities that take place mean that the way which humans use the land changes throughout the urban areaMore complexity (more models to identify the pattern)Due to the complexity of land uses found throughout a city a number of models have been created to identify patterns of land use To simplify the complexity we need simple models to be developed.11

12Complex pattern and simple modelA model is used to simplify complex, real world situations, and make them easier to be explained and understand

Land use models are theories which attempt to explain the layout of urban areas

13The Land UseLand use can be represented as formal or functional

Formal land use representations are concerned with qualitative attributes of space such as its form, pattern and aspect and are descriptive in natureFunctional land use representations are concerned with the economic nature of activities such as production, consumption, residence, and transport etc.Chicago real growth pattern14

The growth pattern with time15