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Land, Building Law & Urban Development

Final report
2019 / 2020

TITLE

Report presented by:

STUDENT NAME:

STUDENT AFFILIATION:

Report presented to:

Dr. Walaa Salah Eldeen
Arch. Fatma O. Alamoudii
Arch. Amany Epead
Arch. Mayar Fekry

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Table of content

Project description........................................................................................................2

Aims..............................................................................................................................2

Terms............................................................................................................................2

Intended Learning Outcomes.......................................................................................2

Knowledge and understanding..................................................................................2

Subject-specific cognitive skills.................................................................................2

Subject-specific practical skills..................................................................................2

Learning methods.........................................................................................................2

Assessment..................................................................................................................2

Report instructions........................................................................................................2

Report Structure...........................................................................................................2

Analysis.....................................................................................................................2

Evaluation..................................................................................................................2

Strengths................................................................................................................2

Weakness..............................................................................................................2

Opportunities..........................................................................................................2

Threats...................................................................................................................2

Proposal....................................................................................................................2

Steps of decision making.......................................................................................2

Process of decision making...................................................................................2

Involved participants..............................................................................................2

Evaluation of alternatives.......................................................................................2

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Project description
Students should work in groups to study an existing urban area; applying the main
topics discussed during the lectures.

Aims
Students are required to survey and document an existing urban area, define its
urban problems, and present alternative proposals for solving these urban problems
while defining their development approaches and strategies.

Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module students should be able to:

Knowledge and understanding

Explain building law, property law and their application

Explain the importance of building laws for urban development
Explain different levels of planning and their relative limitations and regulations

Subject-specific cognitive skills

Explain different scopes and scales of building codes and regulations; for both the
urban and building scales
Explain regulations of Land subdivision
Explain initiatives for green neighbourhood development

Subject-specific practical skills

Apply building law to determine building heights and dimensions

Explain building regulations in new cities and existing cities in Egypt
Develop guidelines and assessment tools for green neighbourhood development.

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Learning methods
Students shall practice numerous tools for studying urban area and proposing urban
development patterns. This includes analysis using surveying and documentation,
evaluation using the SWOT analysis, and proposing and evaluating proposals.

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Report instructions

All reports must be submitted electronically on the turnitin

4000 words

The text must be submitted in Microsoft Word format.

References should be added (HARVARD style)

This document gives instructions on how to format the full paper.

Paper layout

All settings like paper size, margins and styles are embedded in this template. You do not
have to make any document settings. The page size is 210 mm x 297 mm (DIN A4), the
margins are: top 20 mm, bottom 25 mm, left 25 mm, right 25 mm, gutter 0 mm.

PAGE NUMBERS

Page numbers should be included centrally at the bottom of the page

TEXT styles

The styles provided in this template are as follows:

Title:

Arial bold, 20 pt, all caps, flush left.

STUDENT NAME:

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STUDENT AFFILIATION:

Arial, 12 pt, all caps, flush left.

MAIN SECTION HEADING:

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Sub-section Heading:

Arial bold, 12 pt, flush left.

Heading 3: Sub-sub-section:

Arial bold italic, 12 pt, flush left.

Main text:

Arial, 12 pt, flush left.

Nb. 1.5 line spacing between paragraphs

Figures

Figures in your paper should be centred.

Suggested maximum size 100x100mm

Figure captions should be: Arial 10pt, italic, centred.

Figure 1. Example of figure

Tables

The tables should be numbered Table 1, Table 2, etc., and should be referenced in
the main text using Table with an initial capital letter. Use the ‘text in table’ style for
the table body.

Table 1. Example of a table

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Numbered lists should be numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. with indents as shown here.

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References

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Report Structure
Title page

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Abstract or summary

Introduction

Literature Review

Method

 Data gathering
 Data Analysis
 Evaluation
 Proposal

Results or findings

Discussion

Conclusions and recommendations

References

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Analysis

Survey:
Students should conduct site visit(s) for their identified urban area.
Use Google maps, Photos, questionnaire

1. Use Google maps and photos to analyse the type of urban development
 Identify the location of the urban area (CBD, Inner city, suburbs, new
development or rural fringe).
 Identify the type of urban development (TOD, conservation, infill, sprawl, new
development)
 Identify the type of zoning (single use, multiuse zoning) and whether the ype
of zoning is based on use or form or both.
 Identify housing development patterns (Detached single unit, semi detached
single unit, attached single unit, attached multi unit, apartments)- as well as
type of residential class (High, middle, economic.)
 Identify urban cluster development patterns (linear, loop, tree cluster).

2. Use maps and photos to analyse the following points:

 Identify public property and private property lines.
 Identify proximity to public services (hospitals, education facilities, recreational
areas...etc.), as well as proximity to public means of transportation.
 Road width, pavement width
 Land uses (Ground Floor–Typical Floors)
 Building Height
 Building Condition
 Construction Material
 Landmarks

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Land use

Building height

Building condition

Type of construction

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3. Use sketches to investigate the application of
Building codes on the urban and building
scales
 Set backs (front, back, side)
 Building heights and compare them to street width
 Courts and ducts dimensions are areas, openings,
and so on.
 Dimension between street axis
 Dimension of plots- and the ration between plot: land ratio.

4. Use questionnaire to identify existing urban potentials and problems

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Evaluation

Evaluate your urban area using the SWOT analysis method, identifying the
following points:

Strengths

Weakness

Opportunities

Threats

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Proposal
Propose at least three alternatives for your identified urban problem

Steps of decision making

 Urban Problem identification based on the previous steps

 Identifying potentials & constrains: social, economic, environmental

 Proposing alternatives

Process of decision making

It should consider the following aspects;

 Complex nature

 Sequential

 Iterative

 Scope and goal oriented

Involved participants
Identify participants for the identified urban problem solving

 Government

 Municipalities

 Inhabitants

Evaluation of alternatives
Evaluation of alternatives based on identifies:

 Targets

 Time

 Feasibility

 Organizational & Political aspects

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Proposal

Use LEED checklist to evaluate your proposal

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