Introduction to city planning: A historical perspective

This study is an introduction to the world's history of urban planning from its beginnings inthe mid-19th Century until today. The work looks at significant planning historical issues.Why did town design go the way it did? How did it work and how did it change the goals?What was the prosperity of preparation, and who were its leaders? What were the coreconcepts and their relation to thought and social progress in the planning process? This essaygives a summary of the vast literature of urban planning and history by addressing certainqueries. This work is divided into three phases of history: an initial era of separate butincreasingly converging principles of a designated city; a second phase of nationalorganisation, innovation and development; and a third period in which the planning conceptswere applied at almost all levels and areas of urban policy. The roots of modern planning arediscovered in community care campaigns, civil sculpture, and embellishment, classicallyresurrected urban architecture, and neighborhood settlements, and the reform of housing. Asecond portion deals with institutionalizing the profession, the advancement of zoning andcomprehensive planning, significant time statistics and the New Deal initiative for new cities.

Modern Living “hewn out of the unknown wilderness”: Aluminum, City Planning, and Alcan’s British Columbian Industrial Town of Kitimat in the 1950s

As a new town on the Northern British Columbian frontier, Kitimat represented mid-twentieth-century ideas of industrial resource development and town planning. Alcan executives saw Kitimat’s town design as crucial to the recruitment and retention of a workforce for its megaproject of the 1950s and 1960s, which became the crown jewel of its global enterprise. The combination of high-tech aluminum production and town planning techniques promised employees a family-oriented lifestyle in a state-of-the-art town. Kitimat spearheaded this push for a new kind of frontier experience.

Study on Chinese Small Town Design Theory and Practice Explore

It is new important task that urban design theory leads into small town planning. However there are less practice cases in domestic field. Lack of small town planning is mainly as follows: weak of town unique characteristic, little urban space form design, lack of Building group design. So this paper introduces urban design in the town planning field, gradually put forward small town design principle, its type, its different design stage, and its main design content with Chinese characteristics. According to explore urban design, the paper presents results extends the method to divide town design: regional town design, the general town design & detailed town design. Furthermore the article advance the key problem of studying town design theory and have a case application of Hang Zhou city Long Gang downtown design.

The Wetland Plant Manipulation Technology and Management Based on the Principle of Food Web in Damu Bay New Town Design

Based on the principle of food web, this present attempts to discuss various methods to manage the aquatic plant in the city. In the ecological design of urban waterscape, to design the habitat and recover the food web is very important. It can reduce and control pollution; protect and improve the ecological environment, water environment; and maintain the diversity, stability and continuity of the eco-system.

The Water as one Wishes, Ecological Flower Town - Chun Lei Town Concept Planning in Daqing City

This paper used “3S+3L+AVC” tourist town development concepts framework, it imported the beautiful natural waterfront landscape features, unique ecological agriculture condition, natural geothermal hot spring resources and convenient transportation advantage into the small tourism town design. By the analysis of town features, project position, the key design points, it described the theory application in Chun Lei town concept planning from slow system, ecological planning and commercial walk street design three aspects.