This document discusses urban forms and their impact on sustainability. It describes three main urban forms: the radiocentric city, grid iron city, and linear city. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each. Next, it discusses how urban forms impact sustainable development in the Philippines by placing stress on natural resources and exacerbating issues like poverty. Finally, it provides context on Manila's urban form, noting its large population size and trends of suburbanization that have decreased population density in the city center over time.
This document discusses urban forms and their impact on sustainability. It describes three main urban forms: the radiocentric city, grid iron city, and linear city. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each. Next, it discusses how urban forms impact sustainable development in the Philippines by placing stress on natural resources and exacerbating issues like poverty. Finally, it provides context on Manila's urban form, noting its large population size and trends of suburbanization that have decreased population density in the city center over time.
This document discusses urban forms and their impact on sustainability. It describes three main urban forms: the radiocentric city, grid iron city, and linear city. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each. Next, it discusses how urban forms impact sustainable development in the Philippines by placing stress on natural resources and exacerbating issues like poverty. Finally, it provides context on Manila's urban form, noting its large population size and trends of suburbanization that have decreased population density in the city center over time.
This document discusses urban forms and their impact on sustainability. It describes three main urban forms: the radiocentric city, grid iron city, and linear city. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each. Next, it discusses how urban forms impact sustainable development in the Philippines by placing stress on natural resources and exacerbating issues like poverty. Finally, it provides context on Manila's urban form, noting its large population size and trends of suburbanization that have decreased population density in the city center over time.
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Far Eastern University
Institute of Architecture and Fine Arts
SY. 2019-2020
Planning 3: Assignment #3
Urban Forms And its Impact to Sustainability
Submitted by: Raynier I. Ligaya
Submitted to: Ar. Jeoffrey Cardenal Urban Forms Urban Forms. It is the arrangement or the layout of the larger functional parts of the city that reflects the historical development of the city and its more recent planning history. It is also defined as spatial patterning of the city such as commercial, residential, industrial, agricultural land use. It also refers to the size, shape and configuration of an urban area that includes its parts. There are characteristics of the urban form range from at the local scale into a broader scale. The concept of urban form encloses the non-physical aspect such as density. The factors that affects the Urban Forms are the geography, length of the development, impact to natural environment, trade practice and economic, political, and social forces. Radiocentric City It is a form that radiates outward from a common center. It has an advantages such as: A direct line of travel for centrally directed flows. Economics of a single-centralized terminal or origin point. It also has disadvantages such as: Central Congestions Local flow problems Difficult building sites.
The Grid Iron City
The Grid Iron City, it is a form that is characterized with straight streets that is crossing at the right angle to create many regular blocks. It is a typical form of cities that are built after the industrial revolution. During the industrial revolution, cities place such significance on economic activity. Grid Iron City, it facilitates the flow of people and products throughout the city. Advantages High accessibility Minimum Disruption of flow Expansion flexibility Proper psychological orientation. Disadvantages It requires flow hierarchies it is limited adaptability to the terrain. The Linear City It a form that is proposed by Soria Y Mata. It expands the city along the spine transport. Conscious Form of Urban Development with Housing and Industry along the highway between the existing sites and contained by the continuous open space of rural countryside is the basis of its concept. Advantages High Accessibility Adaptability to linear growth Useful to the limited edge Disadvantages It is very sensitive to blockage because it requires control of growth. It has less focus. The direction of flow are much less than the other forms. Impact of Urban Forms to Sustainable Development. Because of the expanding populace of the Philippines, there are reasonable advancements that ought to be followed so individuals of the nation would endure less. In a nation where neediness, defilement, joblessness, and such issues exist, its kin ought to improve in having maintainable advancements like in lodging, wellbeing, and training emergency. Likewise, since individuals ache for to make due from destitution our regular assets keep on diminishing in amount because of flames, contamination, and human impacts. Loss of biodiversity has come about human exercises, for example, deforestation and contamination. Perils created by society that sabotage the built up security arrangement of the state's current hazard. Considering everything having an economical improvement in the Philippines, it would be a test since it requires everybody's interest. It would be a promise to all the individuals living in the Philippines, and everybody should look for far reaching appraisals of social, financial, and ecological turn of events. Environmental Impacts of Urban Forms Cities have numerous diverse impacts on the environment. Moreover, diverse sorts of cities will have diverse natural impacts. Here we consider a few major donors. As you studied almost these supporters, think almost how they may well be interconnected with one another. Philippines and its Urban Form The Manila urban zone positions as the world's fifth biggest urban range (region of ceaseless urban improvement) with a populace of around 21,000,000 covering a arrive zone of 1,425 square kilometers. The urban populace thickness sits at around 38,000 individuals per square mile (14,500 per square kilometer). Like about all major urban regions of the world, Manila has experienced significant suburbanization over later decades and considerably falling urban populace densities. In 1950, the center district of Manila had a populace of beneath 1 million individuals, and it spoken to roughly 60 percent of the urban region populace. Over the mediating a long time, the center of Manila developed by around 700,000 individuals, whereas the adjust of the urban range included about 20,000,000 individuals. Reference/s: https://www.newgeography.com/content/002198-the-evolving-urban-form-manila
