Regional & Urban Planning

18/05/2010

Dr. Ahmad BinTouq

E-mail: abintouq@uaeu.ac.ae

URL: http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~abintouq

GEO438 Regional & Urban Planning 15:30-16:45 FJC01 0034

Overview:Contemporary Urban Planning:Part1 (The Background and Development of Contemporary Planning):

1) Chapter 1: An Overview

2) Chapter 2: The Urbanization of America

3) Chapter 3: The History of Planning

Part 2: (The Structure and Practice of Contemporary Planning)

1) Chapter 5: The Legal Basis of Planning

2) Chapter 6: Planning and Politics

3) Chapter 7: The Social Issues

4) Chapter 8: The Comprehensive Plan

5) Chapter 9: The Tools of Land-Use Planning

Part 3 (Fields of Planning):1) Chapter 10: Urban Design2) Chapter 11: Urban Renewal and Community Development3) Chapter 12: Transportation Planning4) Poster Outlines and Research Examples5) The Geography of the Aerotropolis Model:A Case Study of United Arab Emirates Airports

Chapter 11: Urban Renewal and Community Development

• Urban Renewal : The origins of Urban Renewal Intention and reality Urban renewal in Retrospect

• Community Development: Community development versus the urban renewal approach

• The Housing Question

• Planning for Housing: Federal requirements A more comprehensive approach to planning for housing

Chapter 12: Transportation Planning

• Recent trends in urban transportation

• Paying for transportation

• Transportation planning and land use

• The transportation planning process

• Changes in the federal role

• Fine- tuning the system

• The growing role of tolls and privatization

• Smart highways, intelligent vehicles and new machines

Exercise

* Discuss the land-use and transportation in the UAE and how it’s related to urban design and planning at the emirates level?