Urban planning practices

Women s Specific Needs and Urban Planning Practices in the Middle East The Case of Palestine... 

Women s Specific Needs and Urban Planning Practices... 

To investigate how women s need for privacy is considered in design of cities and urban planning practices, the research design is based on two sections ... 

But high modernism, unimpeded by liberal political economy, is best grasped through the working out of its high ambitions and its consequences. It is to this practical terrain in urban planning and revolutionary discourse that we now turn. 

The planned "scientific city," laid out according to a small number of rational principles, was experienced as a social failure by most of its inhabitants. Paradoxically, the failure of the designed city was often averted, as was the case in Brasilia, by practical improvisations and illegal acts that were entirely outside the plan. Just as the stripped-down logic behind the scientific forest was an inadequate recipe for a healthy, successful forest, so were the thin urban-planning schemata of Le Corbusier an inadequate recipe for a satisfactory human community. 

Ibid., p. 376. The early constructivist Le Corbusier would not have disavowed this view as a matter of principle, but as a matter of practice he was always greatly concerned with the sculptural properties of an urban plan or a single building— sometimes with brilliant results, as in Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp (1953). 

Landscape architecture attempts to unify the human-constructed environment with the existing natural environment to create a practical, sustainable, and aesthetically pleasing space. Landscape architecture tends to incorporate urban planning, ecological restoration, and green infrastructure in the design of open-air public spaces. 

Corey, K. E., Wilson, M. 1. (2006). Urban and regional technology planning Planning practice in the global knowledge economy. London and New York Routledge. 

New awareness of the potential danger to water supplies posed by the use of agricultural chemicals and urban industrial development has also focused attention on the nature of rainfall-runoff and recharge processes and the mobility of various solutes, especially nitrate and pesticides, in shallow systems. Dumping and spills of other potentially toxic materials are also of concern because these chemicals may evenmally reach streams and other public water supplies. A better understanding of hydrologic flow paths and solute sources is required to determine the potential impact of contaminants on water supplies, develop management practices to preserve water quality, and devise remediation plans for sites that are already polluted. 

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