SABADO, BILL JON ADRIAN A.

BS ARCHITECTURE-4
PLANNING 2

1.What is Urban Design and Community Planning?

COMMUNITY PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN

Discovering and capitalizing on opportunities for the future.

Community Planning starts with understanding the civic framework of a place — the agencies,
organizations, institutions, and residents that shape places. It entails meaningful engagement to
learn how places are valued and to identify expectations, hopes, and concerns.

Urban Design involves understanding, organizing, and shaping relationships between buildings,

streets, open spaces, landscape elements, and natural features. Its principles operate within all
place types, from rural to metropolitan. Urban design is interdisciplinary; we work with architects,
engineers, economists, and other technical and creative professionals to uncover new paths and
possibilities. We create clear, compelling visuals to communicate observations, ideas, and
concepts, and to generate excitement about the future.

Expertise

 Vision Plans & Comprehensive/Master Plans

 Plans for Neighborhoods, Corridors, Down towns, & Districts
 Redevelopment Plans & Reuse Studies
 Character Analysis, Zoning Codes, & Design Guidelines
 Public Realm Guidelines & Concepts
 Mobility & Way finding Plans

Interactive urban design and community planning for innovative and practical solutions

The physical design of neighbour hoods is at the forefront of many municipal and community
planning exercises. The real challenge is to creatively apply integrated urban design principles
which contribute to the quality of life within communities. Each plan must take into account the
needs of the community, planning principles, provincial policy initiatives, servicing and financing. A
creative yet pragmatic approach to each issue is essential.

MHBC utilizes an interactive design process which leads to practical solutions reflecting the vision
and character of communities while balancing the needs of developers, stakeholders and the
municipality.

MHBC's approach relies on tried and true planning and design principles coupled with innovation.
MHBC has a thorough understanding of the regulatory environment and undertakes detailed
investigations of existing site features, surrounding land use, servicing, decommissioning issues
and assessment of development/redevelopment options. MHBC is well-known for strong project
management and our ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams including architects, ecologists,
landscape architects, engineers, surveyors, lawyers and contractors.

Our clients appreciate the 'value added' approach we provide in order to maximize creative
solutions and minimize delays.

MHBC is dedicated to providing exceptional service in community planning and urban design.
Development codes and design standards

We have demonstrated success in crafting user-friendly zoning codes and design standards that
implement local goals and policies. Our projects address client and community needs, from both a land
use and design goal as well as a usability and predictability objective. Our team brings extensive best
practice research and experience on hybrid form-based codes, sign codes, planned-unit developments,
visualizing compatible density, and more. Our broad experience gives us confidence in pioneering new
regulatory concepts to solve problems and accomplish local objectives.
Downtown, neighborhood, and subarea plans

Our plans have been successful in achieving their community revitalization goals. Building on each
community’s unique identity, our plans address a variety of issues, including land use and community
design, environmental enhancement, economic revitalization, historic preservation, transportation,
integration of public facilities, and streets cape improvements. Economic vitality is a primary objective of
our urban center and downtown improvement projects. Our projects have resulted in increased
pedestrian activity, merchant sales, and commercial redevelopment.
Transit-oriented development, mobility and corridor plans

We work closely with communities, transportation planners, and engineers to develop transit-oriented
design solutions that balance the community’s vision with land use and transportation objectives. Our
community outreach, user-friendly graphics, and concise documents help humanize large-scale
transportation projects. Our work has demonstrated that public improvements can make heavy-traffic
corridors more efficient, safe, and more attractive to development

Housing action plans

We have extensive experience in helping communities update housing code and design provisions to
meet objectives for both the quantity and quality of housing development. Our urban design emphasis
helps communicate issues, options, and solutions and resolve compatibility challenges. We craft specific
in clusionary zoning and housing diversity options, and, by conducting meaningful and inclusive
community engagement, we create implementable plans with buy-in from community members,
stakeholders, and public officials.
Resiliency and climate action plans

We develop visions, policies, strategies, and actions that promote community resilience and ecological
sustainability at a range of scales—site, subarea, citywide, and regional. Our plans and concept designs
reduce GHG emissions through integrated land use and transportation planning, improve multimodal
transportation options, set policies for supporting transitions to electric vehicles, protect natural systems,
offer green infrastructure solutions, encourage transitions to alternative energy sources, and thoughtfully
consider how public infrastructure investments can benefit climate, natural disaster, and economic
resiliency. We also develop guidebooks to educate about design-related resiliency and climate
adaptation actions.
Comprehensive plans

Our comprehensive plans help communities achieve greater land use and transportation efficiency,
equitable outcomes, economic development, and environmental sustainability and resiliency. We bring
three critical capabilities: (1) award-winning experience in building a public “vision” on which to base
comprehensive planning policies, (2) creating, through visualization, greater public understanding and
support for implementation, and (3) crafting development standards that resolve development issues
and balance competing objectives.
Race and social equity planning

Our plans center race and social equity from the get-go by setting an equity framework and analyzing
equity impacts for all recommendations. We seek opportunities to right past wrongs, set policy that
improves community wide health and well being, and define equitable development for each community.
We design our engagement processes to co-create plans with communities, elevate voices from BIPOC
and traditionally under served communities, and build trusting, long-term relationships.
Public engagement

We employ a variety of tools to harness the expertise and knowledge of community members and
project stakeholders, facilitate an efficient exchange of ideas, and bring everyone together around an
achievable solution. Our team designs engagement strategies for each project’s unique needs, finding
the most appropriate method for the project and affected communities. Our commitment to social equity
extends to inclusive community engagement, using innovative in-person and online tools to co-create
plans with traditionally underrepresented populations. We have led the way in compensating community
members for their time and expertise through formal contracts and stipends, and we regularly seek
trusted advocate and community gatekeeper team members.

2. What is socio Cultural basis of design of community?

INTRODUCTION

What is Community Architecture?

• Study of communities, the forces that cohere them, and that pull them apart. Its purpose is
to understand the changing nature of communities, in their historical and cultural contexts, and
the value of communities in sustaining and enhancing our quality of life.

• Its vision is to mobilize the potential for increasingly inter-connected,

Culturally diverse,communities to enhance participation, prosperity, sustainability, health & well-being by
better connecting research,stakeholders and communities.

HUMANITIES RESEARCH INTO URBANAND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS

DESIGN
• The core practice of architecture is the design of spaces for in habitation.This includes the design of
buildings, the spaces between buildings, spaces without buildings, conglomerations of buildings,
parts of buildings(inglenooks, details, the parts of buildings we touch, the parts we never touch),
and other aspects of the built environment.

• Architecture has the capacity to imagine new forms of living, new patterns
of occupation of the surface of the earth, new spatial and aesthetic and social relations. It is a
concrete form of the imaginary.
ABSTRACT
• Multifunctional space is perhaps the most appropriate representation in architecture of the changes
through which passes the contemporary society.

• The relation between multifunctional space and the scale of community Architecture.

CREATING A HUMAN SCALE THROUGHPLACEMAKING

• Nature, society, human himself the meaning of cultural activities, it is improves the character, the
cultivation of all components of human existence.

• The ability to show the rights limits in the form of goal-setting, designing the ideal image of human
and world.

CREATING A HUMAN SCALE THROUGHPLACEMAKING

•The main obstacle to developing at a human scale are municipal departments and the real
estate developers who exercise an undue influence on those government officials.

•Planning departments look to make city-wide changes in zoning instead of neighborhood

specific ones, resulting in controversies

Contemporary principles of Community related to their size

• Contemporary society trends, globalization and population are reflected also in the contemporary
principles used in designing communities.
• The scale of community reflects a significant criteria of analyze by defining elements of
principles, typologies and functions, users-public, community and spaces.

Hybrid multi-functionality
• Most of the contemporary community provide spaces for clearly defined spaces but also spaces
with polyvalent features.

Polyvalence Adaptability
• The most used multi-functionality formula in thinking of contemporary community that integrates
an array of spaces with specific functional destinations, flexible,adaptable, and non-finite spaces
.
3. What are Socio Cultural factors in community design?