Urban land use and land values

BY

MANIKANTASWAMY V S

FIRST SEMESTER (M U R P)

INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE

MANASAGANGOTHRI, MYSORE-6

What is land use? Land use is the human use of land. Land use

involves the management and modification of natural environment into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements.

'Land use' is also often used to refer to the distinct land use types in zoning

." As of the early 1990s, about 13% of the Earth was considered arable land, with 26% in pasture, 32% forests and woodland, and 1.5% urban areas.

•To ensure orderly arrangement of the various parts of the town put to different uses such as Residential, Industrial, Commercial etc.•Equitable distribution of land uses with respect to population•To utilize the high valuable land which are either unutilized or underutilized at present. •To reconstruct the older part of the town so as to bring it into a liveable condition, and •To ensure equitable distribution of basic amenities and facilities and to locate them within easy reach of the residents

Need for Land Use Planning

(TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ORGANISATIONMinistry of Urban Development & Poverty AlleviationGovernment of India)

Classification of Land Use (Urban) AS PER

More complex model involving the development of urban areas around pre-existing villages.

Multiple Nuclei Model (Harris/Ullman)

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How many characteristics of a CBD can you spot in the next four slides?

What typical

characteristics of a CBD are shown

here?The Tallest Buildings Public Buildings eg.

Corn Exchange / Town Hall

Busy – lots of pedestrians

Markets

What typical characteristics of a CBD are shown

here?

shopping centres providing undercover shopping experience

Big Department Stores and National Chain

Stores

What typical characteristics of a CBD are shown

here?Public Buildings eg.

Corn Exchange / Town Hall

Very accessible – public transport & traffic management

required due to congestion.

Historic/ old street pattern – often some

narrow streets

Some of the oldest buildings

What typical characteristics of a CBD are shown

here?

Entertainment – e.g. restaurants

Entertainment e.g. cinemas (although increasingly these

are moving further out of town)

Entertainment e.g. pubs

What is land value?“The price, of a particular site of land is what

a fair exchange brings in terms of money during an agreed trade or transaction between two parties, one of whom is the land owner is called land value”

. The ingredients that constitute land value are utility, scarcity and desirability

FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO LAND VALUE

The physical attributes of landquality of location, fertility and climate; convenience to shopping, schools and parks; availability of water, sewers, utilities and

public transportation; absence of bad smells, smoke and noise; and

• The legal or governmental forces• the type and amount of taxation, • zoning and building laws, • planning and restrictions.

•The social factors•population growth or decline, •changes in family sizes, •typical ages, •attitudes toward law and order, •prestige and •education levels.

•The economic forces•value and income levels, •growth and new construction, •vacancy and •availability of land.

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Distance from centre

Land Value Variation from CBD to outskirts of the city

Superimpose of different graphs

Retail

Industrial/ Commercial

family housing

Agriculture

Category Area inhectares

%Area2001

Residential 2,849.91 39.9

Commercial 215.95 3.02

Industrial 962.61 13.48

Park and openspaces

981.7 13.74

Public semi public

639.69 8.96

Transportation 1,150.27 16.1

Public utility 36.48 0.51

Water sheet 143.99 2.02

Agricultural 162.33 2.27

7,142.93 100

Nehru Loka 2,078.14

Total 9,221.07

Mysore city Land use (2001)

Category Area inhectares

%Area2001

Residential 6,097.87 43.45

Commercial 344.07 2.45

Industrial 1855.05 13.22

Park and openspaces

1055.05 7.52

Public semi public

1180.78 8.41

Traffic and Transportation

2,380.56 16.96

Public utility 43.35 0.31

Water sheet 178.95 1.27

Agricultural 898.99 6.41

Nehru Loka 1,634.82

Total 15669.49 100

Mysore city Land use (2011)

conclusions

Land is a finite resource ; require policy to be conservation and waste minimization

Reference GUIDE TO PRELIMINARY PLANNING SURVEYS OF

URBAN AREAS INCLUDING LAND USE CLASSIFICATION BY TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ORGANISATION Ministry of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation Government of India

Arthur B.Gallion, Simon Eisner; Part IV, Elements of Land Use; The Urban Pattern, Fifth Edition,

Mysore C.D.P.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use