Plans? Many names for the same thing – Regions Areawide Land Policy Plan Puget Sound Regional Council San Francisco Bay Area Conservation District Tahoe Regional Planning Agency California Coastal Commission Joint Venture Silicon Valley – Local Governments (cities and counties) Communitywide Land Use Design Plan The General Plan The Comprehensive Plan Specific Plans, District Plans, Policy Plans
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Plans?Many names for the same thing
– RegionsAreawide Land Policy PlanPuget Sound Regional CouncilSan Francisco Bay Area Conservation DistrictTahoe Regional Planning AgencyCalifornia Coastal CommissionJoint Venture Silicon Valley
– Local Governments (cities and counties)Communitywide Land Use Design PlanThe General PlanThe Comprehensive PlanSpecific Plans, District Plans, Policy Plans
Plans?Many names for the same thing
– RegionsAreawide Land Policy PlanPuget Sound Regional CouncilSan Francisco Bay Area Conservation DistrictTahoe Regional Planning AgencyCalifornia Coastal CommissionJoint Venture Silicon Valley
– Local GovernmentsCommunitywide Land Use Design PlanThe General PlanThe Comprehensive PlanSpecific Plans, District Plans, Policy Plans
Planning as Reasoning TogetherFacilitation
Planning as CommunicationWays to transmit information
Planning as PoliticsInformation has political power
Planning as applied scienceRational, value-neutral
Views of Planning
Consensus-Building
Strategic PlanningPolicy PlanningComprehensivePlanning
Schools of Thought
1990s1980s1970s1960sTimeframe
A Language for Plans
It’s all about space
1. Land available2. Demands for growth (pop, emp)3. How much space is needed4. Where to supply it (houses, jobs)
… ideas that came along slowly, one by one
A bit of …History1785 Ordinance of 1785. Provided for the rectangular
land survey of the Old Northwest.1901 New York State Tenement House Law. The
legislative basis for the revision of city codes that outlawed tenements such as the "Dumbbell Tenement.“
1916 Nation's first comprehensive zoning resolution adopted by New York City Board of Estimates.
1924 U.S. Department of Commerce issues a Standard State Zoning Enabling Act.
Zoning …History
Tenement Housing in New York CityRiis, Jacob. 1890. How the Other Half Lives. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
A bit of …History1926 Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.
Constitutionality of zoning upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Fulton, William. 1999. Guide to California Planning. Solano Press.
Euclidian and Exclusive Zoning
…History1928 U.S. Department of
Commerce issues a Standard City Planning Enabling Act.
Kent, TJ. 1964. The Urban General Plan.
Finally,… Planning!
Zones v. Plans
Governor’s Office of Planning and Research. 2005. California Planning Guide.
It’s all about space
1. Land available2. Demands for growth (pop, emp)3. How much space is needed4. Where to supply it (houses, jobs)
… looking at 3 and 4
The Real Estate Development ProcessKaiser, H. 1978. The Building of Cities. Ithaca: Cornell U Press.
It’s all about space
1. Land available2. Demands for growth (pop, emp)3. How much space is needed4. Where to supply it (houses, jobs)
TransportationThe Tyranny of Standards
Irvine, California
Estimating Demand
Andersen, Larz. 2000. Planning the Built Environment. APA.
Hierarchy of Streets
Andersen, Larz. 2000. Planning the Built Environment. APA.
Process for Highways
Dowall and Whittington. 2003. Making Room for the Future. PPIC.
Institute of Transportation Engineers. 1997. Trip Generation.
Andersen, Larz. 2000. Planning the Built Environment. APA.
Standards?• Don’t take them lightly
– Safety– Respect
• Don’t take them for granted– They creep up– They take over the landscape– They prevent us from re-creating places we love
Creeping Standards
Southworth and Ben-Joseph. 1997. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. McGraw-Hill.
Cobblestone Streets of Rome, 15 BC Hampstead Garden Suburb, 1904
Creeping Standards
Southworth and Ben-Joseph. 1997. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. McGraw-Hill.
Radburn Cul-de-sac, 1929
Southworth and Ben-Joseph. 1997. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. McGraw-Hill.
Radburn Cul-de-sac, 1990s
Sunset District, San Francisco, California
Institute of Transportation Engineer’s guidelines for street width, 1965 and 1984
Southworth and Ben-Joseph. 1997. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. McGraw-Hill.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Developers have their own process for deciding how to utilize space
Bosselman, Peter. 1998. Representation of Places. UC Press.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Boston, Massachusetts
Paris, France
In Sum• Scale matters (regional, local)• Organization matters
– Is the plan/map voluntary or binding?• Laws don’t change very much• Figure out how to do your best
– Know what you like– Learn how it became what it is– Develop a critical eye for standards– Engage the public with your ideas
Related Documents
