URBAN DESIGN IN THE CONTEXT OF ACHIEVING ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY THROUGH ECOSYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Four levels of urban design encountered in North America are compared: I flat earth planning (assumes that the land is flat and man is free to impose his design on it to achieve certain perdetermined patterns); II contour planning (topography is taken into account). III feature or constraint planning (physical and symbolic landscape features are identified and integrated into the design or considered as constraints); and IV ecosystem planning (a multi disciplinary approach which includes ecoplanning which views the urbanized landscape as having 3 major subsystems, namely, historical, abiotic and biotic). A 455-acre subdivision of the city of Waterloo (Ontario) is used to show how the urbanization of an agricultural area on the edge of a city of 40,000 people would be designed if these four approaches were followed. Key environmental quality design questions are formulated which may be asked prior to subdivision approval is granted.

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  IPC Building and Contract Journals Limited

  32 Southwark Bridge Road
  London SE1 9EX,   England 
• Authors:
  • Dorney, R S
  • Rich, S G
• Publication Date: 1976-5

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 28-48
• Serial:
  • CONTRACT JOURNAL
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Reed Business Information, Limited
  • ISSN: 0010-7859

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Biology; City planning; Constraints; Ecology; Economics; Environmental impacts; General surface features of the earth; History; Land use; Multidisciplinary teams; Topography; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Landscape
• Subject Areas: Economics; Environment; Highways; History; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00135932
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 16 1976 12:00AM