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    Domingo, Shekinah Mizpah A.

    2012-00589-MN-0

    I.

    November 16, 2015


    Architect Anthony Yan

    Difference between Urban Design, Urban Planning and Site Planning


    Urban design, urban planning and site planning are distinct

    yet

    complementary disciplines. Urban Design is generally working with the physical form
    of cities. It involves integrating and incorporating information into a socially,
    economically and environmentally viable and applicable creation. Primarily, the work
    in urban design is more on a visual and mostly micro-scaled output. Meaning, there
    is a greater precision of details expected. The orientation of Urban Design is both
    aesthetic and functional, putting it somewhere between arts, whose object is beauty.
    The treatment of space in urban design is three-dimensional, with vertical elements
    as important as horizontal ones. Its scale is primarily that of the street, park, or transit
    stop, as opposed to the larger region, community, or activity center, which are
    foremost in urban planning. However, urban design also involves the design and
    coordination of all that makes up cities specifically 5 elements.
    The elements of Urban Design are buildings that shape and articulate space,
    creating a sense of place; public space that is considered the 'living room' of a city
    where people come together; streets allowing connections between spaces and
    places; transport that enables movement throughout the city and landscape.
    While urban design is more of creation, planning is more on rationalization.
    Urban planning is generally working with policy that shapes urban development. It
    deals with analyzing, collecting, interpreting data, detecting problems and suggesting
    solutions. Urban Planners work on a larger scale and mostly work on statistics. They
    deal with financial planning, economic planning, transportation planning, services that
    Urban Designers don't work on. The object of Urban Planning is utility and is
    customarily a 2-dimensional activity, with most plans visually represented in plan
    view, not model, section, or elevation.
    The essential difference between urban planning and urban design is simply
    that the urban planning makes provision for known spatial arrangements of known
    forms like land use, transport, open space or infrastructure that are reliant upon the
    effects of known forms of exchange (particular industries, e.g. property development,
    housing, infrastructure, social and government services), and urban design makes
    imagined spatial arrangements like village hearts, green lungs, quay-sides, urban
    boulevards, housing typologies, single-loaded dwellings, the realization of which are
    reliant upon the effects of the very same known forms of exchange.

    Planning 3 Assignment 1 | 1

    In simple terms, Planning focuses on land use, rather than the use of living;
    on housing provision rather than a concept of home. Urban design focuses on how
    land is to be used, with little regard to who it may be for; on housing typologies with
    little inquiry into how housing is or could be delivered.
    On the other hand, Site planning is the art and science of arranging the
    structures on the land and shaping the spaces between, an art of arranging uses of
    land linked to architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and city planning
    (Lynch, 1996). Site Planners designate the uses of land in detail by selecting and
    analyzing sites, forming land use plans, organizing vehicular and pedestrian
    circulation, designing visual form and materials concepts, readjusting the existing
    landforms by design grading, providing proper drainage, and finally developing the
    construction details necessary to carry out their projects.
    Generally, Site planning is the organization of the external physical
    environment

    to

    accommodate

    human

    behavior. Its difference with urban design


    and urban planning is that it is generally
    planning the totality of the environment
    whether large (urban planning) or small
    (urban design).

    II.

    Fig I. 1 Diagram showing the


    practitioners of
    site planning.

    Budget of the government for


    provincial municipalities
    Municipality
    is
    a

    local

    government unit in the Philippines.


    Municipalities are also called towns.
    They are distinct from cities, which
    are a different category of local government unit (LGU). They have been granted
    corporate personality enabling them to enact local policies and laws, enforce
    them, and govern their jurisdictions. They can enter into contracts and other
    transactions through their elected and appointed officials and can tax. The
    National Government assists and supervises the local government to make sure
    that they do not violate national law. Municipalities are divided into income
    classes according to their average annual income during the previous four
    calendar years.
    CLASS

    AVE. ANNUAL INCOME

    2015 EQUIVALENT

    Planning 3 Assignment 1 | 2

    First
    55,000,000 or more
    Second
    45,000,000-54,999,999
    Third
    35,000,000-44,999,999
    Fourth
    25,000,000-34,999,999
    Fifth
    15,000,000-24,999,999
    Sixth
    Less than 15,000,000
    Fig II. 1 Annual average income of municipalities

    65.6 million
    53.7 million
    41.7 million
    29.8 million
    17.9 million

    Sec 1 of REPUBLIC ACT No. 2264 tells us that a provincial, municipal,


    regularly organized municipal district or city budget appropriated an aggregate
    amount not exceeding the estimated tax receipts and/or income for the ensuing
    year, certified collectible by the Provincial Treasurer in the cases of provinces,
    municipalities and regularly organize municipal districts, and by the City
    Treasurer in the case of cities: And provided, That provisions have been made for
    the statutory and/or current contractual obligations of the province, city,
    municipality or regularly organized municipal district: And, provided, That no
    official or employee shall receive a salary higher than the maximum salary
    provided by subsisting salary laws and executive orders, the provincial budget
    shall be in full force and effect on the date herein fixed for its effectivity by the
    Provincial Board, the city budget shall be in full force and effect on the date
    therein fixed for its effectivity by the Municipal Board or City Council of the city
    with the approval of the City Mayor, and the municipal and regularly organized
    municipal district budget shall be in full force and effect on the date therein fixed
    for its effectivity by the municipal council of the municipality or municipal district
    with the approval of the municipal mayor.
    References:
    1. http://www.urbandesign.org/elements.html
    2. http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1959/ra_2264_1959.html
    3. http://www.arch.utah.edu/cgi-bin/wordpress-metroresearch/wpcontent/uploads/2012/publications/researchyoucanuse/ResearchJ

    Planning 3 Assignment 1 | 3

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