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Urban Design in Housing Policies:
A Guideline to create better and more sustainable neighborhoods applied to Caracas, Venezuela.
INDEX
•Objectives of the investigation
•Importance of Urban Design and Housing Policies into Urban Planning
•New Urbanism and Smart Growth: Urban Design with sustainable
guidelines
•Housing Policies and its relation to urban design
•Conclusions: Which guidelines can we apply into the Caracas Study Case?
•Sources
OBJECTIVES OF THE INVESTIGATION:
•State the relevance of Urban Design into a well-planned housing policy
•Relate and organize the guidelines of urban design and sustainability for
a better use into housing policies, applied into the Caracas Study case.
Housing is one of the principal problems within
the city; and the housing policies are always at the
top of the urban agenda. On the other hand, Urban
Design is a tool which tries to direct the growth of
the city with an organized spatial pattern.
Importance of Urban Design and Housing
Policies into Urban Planning
Which are the consequences of non-planned or
non-designed housing policies? We see it every
day in our city: Caracas. Transportation
problems, social problems (violence and
intolerance), recreation problems and high life
costs are all related with badly designed
neighborhoods, taking us back to our principal
problem: housing polices and urban
design.
For the two main groups that
have been establishing the
guidelines for a sustainable
city, neighborhood
intervention (housing
policies) is the principal
key.
These guidelines are closely
related to Urban Design,
understanding that spatial
intervention has a direct
consequence in the way people
feel about its own
neighborhood.
Principle 2: Connectivity (Facilitate the
communication through the main centers of the
city reduces the travelling time, having a direct
consequence in the environment)
New Urbanism and Smart Growth: Urban
Design with sustainable guidelines
Principle 3: Walkability (Recover the city and its
neighborhoods from the hands of the car strength
the community sense and help with the health of
people)
Principle 4: Mixed Uses
(Neighborhoods with different land
uses are always active and varied,
reduce the walking distances and
creates differentiated zones)
Principle 7: Community-Oriented Design (Urban
design must take into account that the city is for
the people and the communities that develops
inside it)
New Urbanism and Smart Growth: Urban
Design with sustainable guidelines
How urban design and housing policies
are related?
The first seeks the integration and
development of a delimited zone with high
quality of life standards and the latter seeks
the creation of new urban houses, but this
one should not be made isolated from the
context were it will be applied needing ,
therefore, a good urban design.
Why Urban Design is important in Housing Policies?
Following, some pictures and an explanation of what NOT TO DO when housing plans are designed:
Housing Policies and its
relation to urban design
1. Forget the urban connections: A new
neighborhood must be connected with the rest of the
city.
2. Modify and not to take advantage of the
landscape or environmental value: a good designed
neighborhood take cares of the environment and can
use it as a touristic attractor.
3. Create a uniform and boring spatial pattern:
social diversity reflects in neighborhoods with spatial
diversity, architectural style and differentiated zones.
4. Produce isolated ghettos with no economical
base, recreational places or basic urban
equipments: A new neighborhood must have its own
life, with schools, church, shops, parks…
Housing Policies and its
relation to urban design
In first instance we need to understand that a housing
policy that does not take into account a good urban
design would not be efficient or successful, in political
and economical matters.
Second, we have to envisage the city as a dynamic
being which needs continuous interventions and plans
that must evolve separate from the governors’
periods; this can be achieved if the policy is
community-oriented and is sensed by the citizens as
their own. With these two principles we can create a
housing policy with urban design guidelines. In the
Caracas study case, the guidelines can be organized
as follows:
1.Community oriented design
2.Connectivity
3.Mixed land-use
4.Walkability
Conclusions: Which guidelines can we
apply into the Caracas Study Case?
City of Ottawa (2005). “Urban Design Guidelines for Low-Medium Density, Infill Housing”
[file in PDF format]. Ottawa, USA
Ministry of Environment (2007) “Urban Design Case study: Addison Housing
Development” [file in PDF format]. New Zealand
Pegasus Urban Design (2007) “Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing implications in
urban design” [file in PDF format]. Private Partnership, UK
Abu Hoke (2001). “Urban Design intervention for intensive housing” [file in PDF format].
New Zealand
Huntighdonshire District Council (2008). “Urban Design Framework: Land around
Buttsgrove Way, the Whaddons and Suffolk House, Huntingdon”. [File in PDF format].
Private Partnership, UK.
Smart Growth Toolkit (2008). “Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND)” [File in .ppt
format]. Smart Growth, USA.
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