New City Planning Concepts

Happy Cities
Happy city, is a city that designs an
Tactical Urbanism
HAPPY CITIES? A
happy city is one that infrastructure that supports
Tactical urbanism includes In both Dallas and Forth Worth a
meets the core elementary concepts of human
low-cost, temporary changes few of the temporary better block
psychological needs of connection. Cities should make us
to the built environment, improvements will be made
the people who live happy by fostering emotionally
usually in cities, intended to permanent by the city. fort
there. Informed by intelligent design and creating
improve local neighborhoods worth’s initial better block was
psychology, brain closely connected communities, with
and city gathering “built” using only $500 worth of
science, economics, the benefits shared by everyone” By
places. Tactical urbanism is materials.
and public health. Charles Montgomery 
also commonly referred to as
Case Study: Vancouver, Canada. guerilla urbanism, pop-up
urbanism, city repair, or D.I.Y.
The city’s vibrant downtown core, with urbanism.
its mixture of residential and •Build A Better Block
commercial uses all in close proximity •Parking Day
to nature provides unique •Play Streets
opportunities for recreation and social •Open Street
interaction. Vancouver neighborhoods •Pavement To Plazas
The pedestrianized
held their annual Car Free Day •Pop-up Cafes
Saint Catherine .
celebrations.  The communities got •Pop-up Shops
together for massive street parties, •Chair Bombing
bringing together musicians, artisans, •Guerrilla Gardening
non-profit groups and lots of fun •Street Fairs 40 Of The 50+ Known
activities for people of all ages, along •Food Carts/Trucks Open Streets Initiatives In
streets closed to automobile traffic for •Mobile Vendors North America Began
an afternoon.   Within The Last Three
Colombian students Years.
ride their bicycles

Despite the scattered

showers, thousands Children playing in the Of The New Times Square
flocked to enjoy the street without fear or Pedestrian Plaza, Injuries To
open street. restriction Motorists And Their
Passengers Declined By
63%. Similarly, Pedestrian
Injuries Decreased 35%,
Even While Pedestrian Traffic
Increased
Compact City Tourism City Literature Review
Transit Oriented Development (TOD) ‘
The integration of land use with transport systems is called “Transit Oriented cities or places of high population density where trips are taken by travellers for leisure
Development”, which is essentially “any development, macro or micro that is focused and recreation can be referred as tourism cities’.
around a transit node, and facilitates complete ease of access to the transit facility Planning Strategy
thereby inducing people to prefer to walk and use public transportation over personal A tourism city planning strategy is to be broadly based on the understanding ‐
modes of transport”. The policy includes: •For ‘Nature’ in its many forms, its mountains, streams, sylvan surroundings;
•Its ‘Culture’ as manifest in the art, architecture, temples and pilgrim towns;
•Network & Connectivity: Disperse high traffic •Its ‘History’ as seen in the archaeology of the tangible and intangible outputs of an
volumes over multiple parallel. earlier era.
•Last mile connectivity: Provide fast, convenient Proposed Land use Structure of Tourism city
interchange options and spatial. Sl. No. Land use Category Percentage of Developable Area
•Pedestrian access: Provide the shortest direct route 1 Residential 35 ‐40
to pedestrians and nonmotorised. 2 Commercial 5 ‐7
•High Density, Mixed Income Development: Compact 3 Industrial 4 ‐5
neighborhoods . 4 Public and Semi‐Public 10 ‐12
•Streetscape Design: Urban places should be designed 5 Transport and Communication 12 ‐14
for enjoyment, relaxation and equity. 6 Recreational & water bodies 10 ‐12
•Promote Place Making to Create a Sense of Place: 7 Special areas (including heritage and religious areas) 7 ‐10
Focus on promoting . Total 100
•Direct Business to TOD Locations: Create transit services to regional job. Case Study : Mumbai –
•Public facilities at nodes of public transport: Plan for public facilities. Mumbai is the economic and financial capital of India. There is immense pressure on
•Function/Activities at nodes of public transport: Promote multi ‐functional . the city resources which is further increased due to commercial and industrial activities.
Thus, it is important to study the demographics of the city in order to understand how
tourism can be developed without increasing the pressure on its already over-exploited
resources. Mumbai has a rich historical and cultural heritage value that has shaped the
development of the city. In order to understand its impact on tourism and vice a versa,
understanding of the heritage, values and characters becomes necessary. The Mumbai
development authority prepared tourism development plan which includes the areas of
greater Mumbai and its suburbs.
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Lean Cities
Tactical Urbanism