Human Settlement Theories

HUMAN SETTLEMENT THEORIES
Sharon Macagba, EnP

Assistant Professor 1
DCERP, College of Human Ecology
University of the Philippines Los Baños
April 2-3, 2016
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DCERP & HUMEIN Phils. Inc.
URBAN FORM,
FUNCTIONS, GROWTH
AND URBANIZATION

THEORIES OF
URBAN GROWTH
AND URBAN LAND USE

THEORIES OF URBAN GROWTH
AND URBAN LAND USE
CONCENTRIC RING MODEL
(Ernest W. Burgess, US) CONCENTRIC ZONE MODEL
(Peter Mann, UK)
MULTIPLE NUCLEI MODEL
(Edward Ullman and Chauncy Harris)
GALACTIC CITY SECTOR / RADIAL / AXIAL MODEL

(Peirce F. Lewis) (Homer Hoyt)
INVERSE CONCENTRIC ZONE

(Third World Countries) LATIN AMERICAN MODEL
KEY QUESTIONS
CITY
natural evolution
interests of a few
chaos CITY STRUCTURE
URBAN STRUCTURING
FORMATION OF URBAN LANDSCAPE

URBAN STRUCTURE
How is place put together and how do its parts relate to one another?
Administrative Divisions Urban Form Urban Spatial Structure
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HUMAN ECOLOGY
(Chicago School of Urban Sociology)
Six processes at work in the city
Roderick D. McKenzie, Amos H. Hawley,

Robert Park, and Everett Hughes
– applied the principles of evolution
and natural history to study
social behavior

HUMAN ECOLOGY

Invasion
— traditionally, a process through which a
new activity or social group enters an area
Succession
— a new use or social group gradually
replaces the former occupants
Segregation
— the sorting out of population groups according to conscious preferences
for associating with one group or another through bias and prejudice
HUMAN ECOLOGY

Assimilation and Accommodation
– diverse social groups find a mode of peaceful co-existence
Concentration
— differential distribution of population
and economic activities in a city, and
the manner in which they have
focused on the center of the city
Decentralization
— the location of activity away from the central city
HUMAN ECOLOGY
Filtering
- Every community or neighborhood
goes through a process of decline
Survival of the fittest

- Cities evolve through a process of survival by
different communities in which the most powerful groups
acquire the best locations and weaker groups make do with
the remaining space.
CONCENTRIC RING THEORY
The theory representing American city first

suggested by American sociologist Ernest
W. Burgess (Human Ecology) based on
reflective analysis of the growth of Chicago
over a period of 50 years (1875-1925)
Ernest W. Burgess (1925)
Before the 1870s, cities such as New York had mixed neighborhoods
where merchants‘ stores and sweatshop factories were intermingled
with mansions and hovels. Rich and poor, immigrant and native-born,
rubbed shoulders in the same neighborhoods

Burgess Model (1925)
In Chicago, Burgess‘s home town,

the great fire of 1871 leveled the
core. The result of rebuilding was a
more explicit social patterning
Chicago became a segregated city
with a concentric pattern
This was the city Burgess used for his model. The actual map
of the residential area does not exactly match his simplified
concentric zones. This is an application of Von Thünen‘s
theory to urban areas
Hypothetical pattern of land use

within an urban area, in which
different activities occur at different
distances from the urban center.
The result is a sequence of rings.
Towns expand outward evenly from
an original core so that each zone
grows by gradual colonization into
the next outer ring.
Concentric ring theory

In addition, the cost of land may decrease with increased

distance from the city center as demand for it falls. This means
that commercial agents that can afford high land values will be
concentrated in the city center.
A city extends radially from its center, to form concentric zones

and that as distance from the center increases, there would be
a reduction in accessibility, rent and densities. A series of 5
concentric rings divide the city into five zones

ZONE 1
• The central business district
(CBD)
• Distinct pattern of income levels

out to the commuters‘ zone
• Extension of trolley lines had a

lot to do with this pattern)

ZONE 2
• Characterized by mixed pattern of

industrial and residential land use
• Rooming houses, small apartments, bls.gov
and tenements attract the lowest
income segment
• Often includes slums and skid rows,
many ethnic ghettos began here
• Usually called the transition zone

ZONE 3
• The ―workingmen‘s quarters‖;

Solid blue-collar, located close
to factories of zones 1 and 2
• More stable than the transition

zone around the CBD

ZONE 3
• Often characterized by ethnic
neighborhoods — blocks of
immigrants who broke free from
the ghettos
• Spreading outward because of

pressure from transition zone and
because blue-collar workers
demand better housing
ZONE 4
• Middle class area of ―better
housing‖
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• Established city dwellers, many

of whom moved outward with
the first streetcar network
• Commute to work in the CBD

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ZONE 5
• Consists of higher-income
families clustered together in
older suburbs
• Located either on the farthest

extension of the trolley or
commuter railroad lines

ZONE 5
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Model Chicago, years „20
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Two Plan
Area
ResidentialDistrict
Bungalow
Section
I – Loop (downtown; CBD) IV – working class area

II – industries V – residential area
III – transition area VI – suburban area

CRITIQUE
Even though portions of each zone did exist, rarely were
1 they linked to totally surround the city; Burgess countered

there were distinct barriers, such as old industrial centers,
preventing the completion of the arc.
Critics felt that Burgess, as a sociologist, overemphasized

residential patterns and did not give proper credit to other
2 land uses, ignored physical features, took little account of
industrial and railway use, and disregarded the effect of
radial routes upon land values and uses

CRITIQUE
Land uses within many parts of the

urban area are heterogeneous – shops,
offices, factories, and housing may all be
3 located close to each other although they
may have notionally different sites and
locational requirements
There maybe many possible locations

4 for different activities which do not
conform to idealized model

CRITIQUE
Accessibility is an important
consideration for many uses
5 especially housing and
commercial uses
Neglected the possibility of

sites being purchased for
6 future development with

current use being at
a sub-optimal value (land
banking and land hoarding)
CONCENTRIC ZONE MODEL
(Peter Mann, United Kingdom, 1965)
• Peter Mann took Burgess's

model and combined them
with his own to typify a British
City in 1965.
• He based his model on studies

of Sheffield, Nottingham and
Huddersfield.

CONCENTRIC ZONE MODEL
(Peter Mann, United Kingdom, 1965)
• Urban area should be large

enough to have distinct
internal differentiation, but not
too large to exhibit the
complexities of a conurbation
• Main feature: commuter

village separated from built
up areas

SECTOR OR RADIAL MODEL
(Homer Hoyt, 1939)
• Homer Hoyt, an economist,

presented his sector model in
1939 based on 142 American
cities. He had the advantage of
writing later than Burgess — in
the age of the automobile
• relates accessibility (transport), land use and land values

• recognizes the influence of lines of transportation-
communication on land use

(Homer Hoyt, 1939)
• cities tended to grow in wedge-

shaped patterns - or sectors -
emanating from the CBD, growth
occurring along major
transport routes
• Higher levels of access meant higher land values, thus,

many commercial functions would remain in the CBD but
manufacturing functions would develop in a wedge
surrounding transport routes.

(Homer Hoyt, 1939)
• suggests that various socio-economic groups expand

outward from the CBD along railroads, highways, seaports,
tramlines, and other transport arteries and that each socio-
economic class creates relatively homogenous use zones
that extend outwards from the center.
• Growth along a particular axis/way follows the dominant land

uses already prevailing; their patterns are reinforced by
transportation

(Homer Hoyt, 1939)
• Moving away from major

transport routes, rents go from
high to low
• Compatible land uses lay

adjacent to each other;
incompatible land uses repel
each other.

SECTOR OR Sector
2 3
RADIAL MODEL 4
(Homer Hoyt, 1939) 3
3
1 3 5
3
3 4
2
1 CBD
2 Wholesale & light manufacturing
3 Low-class residential
4 Middle-class residential
5 High-class residential
6 Heavy manufacturing
7 Sub business district
8 Residential suburb
9 Industrial suburb 32
(Homer Hoyt, 1939)
Sector
2 3
• Hoyt's model attempts to broadly state
4
principles of urban organization. 1
3
His observations: 3 1 3 5
• Wealthy residents choose to live where 3 4

2
they could afford to, eg. services etc.
• Wealthy residents use their cars as transport from home to

work and vice versa thereby living farther from industry but
close to main roads.

(Homer Hoyt, 1939)
Sector
2 3
• High-rent districts for the wealthy are
instrumental in shaping land-use 4
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structure of the city; as wealthy sector 3 1 3 5
tends to locate farthest away from
factories, the middle-class would occupy 2 3 4
these areas, drawing on their past
prestige.
Middle-rent areas move directly next to high-rent areas.

(Homer Hoyt, 1939)
• High-rent sector would expand according to four factors:
along established toward high ground

1 or
1 routes of travel, toward
another nucleus of 2 along waterfronts,
when these areas are
high-rent buildings not used for industry
along the route of
3 fastest transportation 4 toward open space

(Homer Hoyt, 1939)
• Commercial establishments tend to be along business

thoroughfares 1
• Residential functions would grow in wedge-shaped patterns

with a sector of low-income housing bordering
manufacturing/industrial sectors (traffic, noise, and pollution
makes these areas least desirable)
• Low-rent areas fill in the remaining areas
• Low-income households tend to be near railroad lines.

CRITIQUE
Used Chicago as a model, an upper class
residential sector evolved outward along
the desirable Lake Michigan shoreline
north of the central business district, while
industry extended southward in sectors
that followed railroad lines.
Few zones or urban clusters can be said

to be homogenous socio-economically.
Many transport routes today are surrounded

by low-rent districts
CRITIQUE
Freeways are today‘s major transport

routes, yet these did not develop
spontaneously but were imposed on
existing urban pattern. Freeways were
built through low-rent areas where land
was cheaper and political opposition
was less.
With the popularity of the car, commuter villages or

middle-class subdivisions proliferate, such that it cannot be
claimed that only the elite can afford to live far away from
the city
AXIAL MODEL
(Transport Model based on Homer Hoyt‘s Sector Model)
• Travel time rather than transport

cost is the important 1
determinant of land use
• Takes into account the effect of
route ways for land use
• Major roads radiate from
center of town
• Commercial development follows

transport routes resulting in Star-
shaped pattern of land use
(Ullman and Harris, 1945)
• Proposed by Chauncey Harris and

Edward Ullman in 1945; Initially 1
related to US cities where the gridiron
road patterns separated land uses
geometrically
• A city develops with equal intensity
around various points
• The CBD was not the sole generator
of change; urban growth takes place
around several distinct nuclei
• A city grows from several independent
points rather than from one central
business district. Each point acts as a 1
growth center for a particular kind of
land use, such as industry, retail, or
high- quality housing. As these expand,
they merge to form a single urban area.
• The multiple-nuclei is the most

complicated of urban land-use models
and gives some insight into the growth
of cities in the developing world.
• A city grows from several independent
points rather than from one central
business district. Each point acts as a 1
growth center for a particular kind of
land use, such as industry, retail, or
high- quality housing. As these expand,
they merge to form a single urban area.
• The multiple-nuclei is the most

complicated of urban land-use
models and gives some insight into the
growth of cities in the developing world.
Rooted their model in four geographic principles

Certain activities require highly specialized facilities
1
• Retail district with need for accessibility
• Port with need for waterfront
• Factor with need for accessible transportation
Certain activities cluster because they profit from

mutual association
• Profitability of agglomeration (retail districts for
concentration of customers, finance for ease of
communication, etc.)
Certain activities repel each other and will not be

found in the same area 1
• E.g. factories and high class residential, schools

and red-light district
Certain activities could not make a profit if they paid

the high rent of the most desirable locations
• Housing tract with need for large areas of open land

Equal weight must be given to:

1
• An old community on city outskirts around which new
suburbs clustered
• An industrial district that grew from an original

waterfront location
• Low-income area that began because of some social

stigma attached to site

Sector Nuclei
2 3 3
4 1
2
3
3 5
3 4
1 3 3
5 7
3
6
2 3 4
9 8
1 CBD 6 Heavy manufacturing

2 Wholesale and light manufacturing 7 Sub business district
3 Low-class residential 8 Residential suburb
4 Middle-class residential 9 Industrial suburb
5 High-class residential

MULTIPLE
NUCLEI MODEL
Multi-centric
or Multi-Nodal

GALACTIC CITY
(Peirce F. Lewis)
Galactic Metropolis is a result of leapfrog development
nucleations resemble a galaxy
of stars and planets  some of 1
the nucleations become cities
Edge cities form in suburbs –

Edge cities are analogous CBDs of newly
emerging urban centers scattered through the
suburban ring that surround older central city
Result  Doughnut Shape.
Doughnut like, because center is kept at very
low density, while more activity distributed
along ring roads.
HYBRID MODEL
(Walter Isard, 1955)
Combines the strengths of the Concentric, Sector, and Zonal
Models of American planners
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This model illustrates that some
urban land uses are oriented along
major transport axis (sectors), while
others, notably industrial and
commercial, are located in nuclei
where they reach both scale and
agglomeration economies. The
urban land use is thus an overlay
of different transport effects

INVERSE CONCENTRIC MODEL
• It is not true that the rich are moving away from the central city as in
• Burgess’ Concentric Model
• It is the poor who are moving away from the Central City.
• Elite keeps its stranglehold of Central City
• social status declines with increasing distance from the center
Inverse Concentric
Observed mostly in LDCs, inverse
concentric pattern where the elite
and upper class reside in central
areas. Center is more desirable
than suburbs.
Social status is related to distance
from center of the city and declines
with increasing distance from the center.
Reversal of concentric zone model of Burgess: instead of

the rich moving away from central city, it is the poor who are
moving away from central city.

Cities where this pattern exist are mostly not fully industrial
• Primarily administrative and/or religious centers
(or were at the time of their Founding)
• Central area is the place of the residence of the elite class
• Low income families live on the periphery
Reasons for this pattern:
• The lack of an adequate and dependable transportation
system  restricts the elite to the center of the city so
they can be close to their places of work
• The functions of the city (administrative, religious, cultural)
are controlled by the elite and concentrated in the center
of the city
Urban Patterns in South and
Southeast Asian Cities
Bazaar City
Colonial City
Planned City

METRO MANILA

AFRICAN MODEL
One-storey traditional building
• More complex because of

influence of local cultures on Open-air informal
market zone
urban development
• Difficult to group cities into Squatter settlemement
one or two comprehensive

models
• Generalized scheme has to be Waza Logone, Cameroon
both sensitive to local cultures
and to articulate pervasive
influence of international forces,
both Western and non-Western

LATIN AMERICAN MODEL
“City Life” is the cultural norm in Latin America.

1 Most people live in primate cities. (11.43d)
• Most jobs are in downtown. People live in city or in

edges and commute to work. They rely on public
transit from the central city

2 Latin American cities are vibrant, dynamic, and

increasingly specialized
• Latin American cities have two parts - modernized

CBD and traditional ―market‖ segment of small, street-
oriented business and shops. These two zones are
interrelated and called the spine/sector

Latin American cities are vibrant, dynamic, and
2 increasingly specialized
• “Spine” - continuation of the features of the city center

outward along the main wide boulevard (upper-middle-
class housing) - connecting to the mall (at the
end of the elite commercial spine).
Essentially an extension of the
CBD down a major boulevard
• The relatively affluent population live closest to CBD

Outside the CBD, the dominant component is a
3 commercial spine surrounded by the elite residential
sector
• Here are the city‟s important amenities — parks,

theaters, restaurants, and even golf courses
• Strict zoning and land controls ensure continuation

of these activities, protecting elite from incursions by
low-income squatters

Outside the CBD, the dominant component is a
3 commercial spine surrounded by the elite residential
sector
• A ring highway (periferico)
- connect the mall and developing industrial parks
• Three established residential districts arranged in

concentric rings around the core.
• Opposite of many US cities.

Inner-city zone of maturity
• Less prestigious collection of traditional colonial homes
and upgraded self-built homes
• Homes occupied by people unable to participate in the

spine/sector
• Area of upward mobility

Zone of accretion
• Diverse collection of housing types, sizes, and quality

• Transition between zone of maturity and next zone
• Area of ongoing construction and change
• Some neighborhoods have
city-provided utilities

Zone of accretion
• Other blocks must rely on water and butane delivery

trucks for essential services
• Barrios and Favelas (slums) - on the outskirts of the city.

House Upgrading in the zone of ―in situ accretion‖ when
times are good.

Zone of peripheral squatter settlements
• Surrounded by landscape bare of vegetation that was cut
for fuel and building materials
• Streets unpaved, open trenches carry wastes, residents
carry water from long distances, electricity is often ―pirated‖
• Residents who work have a long commute
• Many are transformed through
time into permanent
neighborhoods

Fuentes on Historical Evolution of Latin American cities
The establishment of border open the opportunities for

1 commerce & services.
The surge of maquiladoras (industry) reorganize the

2 urban structure and started competing with commerce &
services for location near the bridges.
3 The transition from a monocentric to polycentric city.

URBAN FORMS
Strip/Linear
Development
Grid
Development
Concentric
Development
Central and
Nodal
Radial and
Circumferential System
URBAN FORMS
Strip/Linear Development

URBAN FORMS
Grid Development

URBAN FORMS
Concentric Development

URBAN FORMS
Central and Nodal

URBAN FORMS
Radial and Circumferential System

FORCES SHAPING A CITY
Centripetal – Pull forces of the city
• Clustering of certain functions

• Maximum accessibility
• Maximum potential
• Threshold population
• Proximity of residence to range of entertainments
• Prestige of central address
• Huge urban-rural wage differentials --Very low rural
• incomes versus better paying jobs in cities
• Better quality urban services and facilities
• Possibility of publicly subsidized goods and services
• Lure of ―bright lights
FORCES SHAPING A CITY
Push forces from rural towards the city
• Wars and civil strife
• Natural calamities
• Difficult access to land
• Labor surplus due to farm mechanization
• Price of agricultural inputs and outputs
manipulated by traders
Centrifugal or Push Forces from the city
• Increasing bid rent
• Congestion
• Restrictions on city centre developments
• Lack of space
STAGES OF URBAN GROWTH
Stage of Export Specialization:

The local economy is centered on one principal
industry/product/firm.
Examples: Natural resource towns, tourist towns
Stage of Export Complex:

Local economy broadens to other related products and/or
expands to other facets of the production of this single
industry/product/firm.
Examples: Detroit as car manufacturing center

Stage of Economic Maturation

(Local Service Sector Puberty):
The local economy replaces imports with local
products and services.
Stage of Regional Metropolis:

When the city serves as a node for travel, products, etc.
from nearby cities, and now exports products and services
to these satellite cities. (can be followed by the…)

Stage of National/International Metropolis)

Examples: Atlanta in 1960s,
Stage of Technical/Professional Virtuosity:

National eminence in some specialized skill.
Examples: Detroit, Los Angeles

Why Cities Grow (or don‟t grow)
What factors can act to limit urban growth?
1 Failure of Momentum
2 Competition
3 Lack of Natural Advantages
4 Lack of Cultivated Talent/Urban Management
5 Economic restructuring
„POST-INDUSTRIAL CITIES‟
Age of Information Revolution (1970s-2000s)
The phenomenon of ‗de-industrialization‘

in historic cities in Europe and North
America witnesses the decline of
industries, closure of dirty factories
and their relocation to remote regions
or to Third World countries – consistent
with the international division of labor
(NIEO) conceptualized by neo-liberal
economics. (Clarification: ―Neo-liberal‖ in USA
is called ―Neo-Conservative‖ in UK) New York City‟s
Central Park

The Information Revolution since the 1970s and the Baby

Boom (Population Explosion) combined to create the Post-
industrial society which is organized around knowledge
and innovation.
ICTs have implication for spatial organization of all human

activities; they allow people to work in urban peripheries or
at home offices; they cause the so-called “annihilation of
space.” Use of computer, internet, and transport technology
is changing production dramatically.

City economies are dominated by

tertiary (service), quaternary (finance,
information and knowledge), quinary
(pleasure technologies) sectors that
can cater to large markets.
Emergence of information-processing
technologies that require a highly
skilled, intellectual, creative, and
imaginative labor force; preeminence
New York City‟s
of the professional and technical class. Central Park

Growth primarily benefits highly

skilled professionals and offers little
benefits for displaced workers in
manufacturing sector and those who
are unskilled.
Dominant city form is the sprawling

extended metropolitan region without
clearly defined urban edges – which
tends to overrun farmland and open
New York City‟s
space and to damage nature.
Central Park

EDGE CITIES
Joel Garreau (1991)
Edge or Fringe Cities are alternate CBDs in urban peripheries

and these are gaining on older central cities. Capital and
skilled people are moving away from historic central cities.
Former functions of historic central cities are now distributed

to multiple urban nodes or Edge Cities
Edge cities are centered on suburban shopping malls,

Office-Parks, technology parks or techno-poles. Most have
5 million sq ft of office, 600,000 sq ft of retail and more jobs
than bedrooms.
EDGE CITIES
Joel Garreau (1991)
Financial Globalization, Firm re-structuring (streamlining,

rationalization, break-ups and mergers), fragmentation of
production (business process re-engineering), and neo-
liberal tenets of liberalization, de-regulation, privatization,
de-bureaucratization - all contribute to de-concentration
away from historic central cities.
Thus historic central cities become vulnerable to cycles of

investment and dis-investment. They have to be deliberately
re-developed to avoid economic collapse as in the ―donut
shape model‖ of Peirce Lewis.
OPTIMUM SIZE OF CITY
Leo H. Klaassen
The concept of “optimum size of city”

City must be large enough to take
investment decisions of an economic
size to have a common approach to
and awareness of its problems
Must contain at least one growth pole;
Must be able to supply its own

industry with necessary labor

OPTIMUM SIZE OF CITY
Leo H. Klaassen
Should have a homogenous

economic structure
Minimum size:
200,000 to 600,000 inhabitants
City should have limit on
population size:
Maximum would be equilibrium
point where costs/benefits
meets population size.

Elements of urban structure
• Often seen as the physical elements of an urban area:
• Networks
• flow of goods and services/ streets, transport
• Buildings
• The prominent/ solid aspect of the urban area
• Open Spaces
• Hard spaces- Plaza, malls etc
• Soft spaces- parks, gardens, lawn/ Public spaces and Landscape
• Evolution of Urban Form (Organic vs Planned)

PRINCIPLES OF
CITY DESIGN
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What is Urban Design?
1. Urban design is an urban development tool for the
transformation of the public realm into a livable place with
a unique identity.
2. Urban design is a multi-disciplinary process (architecture;

planning; infrastructure; development economics;
landscaping and engineering)
3. Urban design implementation makes use of a) policy

instruments (building regulations, zoning ordinance and
policies, etc.) and b) modeling initiatives (catalytic
physical projects)

4. Urban design is essentially about:
• Urban form • Urban character

 Buildings and structures  Parks, plazas and
greenbelts
 People centers
 Accessibility
 Infrastructure  Public art & street
furniture
• Urban shape  Cultural centers
 Skyline
 Boundaries
 Topography
 Functional fit
URBAN DESIGN
Is concerned with the

arrangement, appearance, and
functionality of whole towns and
cities
‣ shape and form of city blocks

‣ uses of urban public space
‣ articulation of physical features
in four dimensions

URBAN DESIGN
Creates places for people while

respecting/enhancing natural
environment and use of
resources efficiently
In between planning and
architecture; a disciplinary subset
of landscape architecture and
urban ecology
Articulation of urban plans in 4
dimensions

(CONT‘D)
Kevin Lynch is an American urban planner who is
the author of the ―Image of the City‖ (1960). His book
defines the key elements of modern urban design.
“
The legibility of the cityscape concerns itself with the
ease with which its parts can be recognized and
organized in a coherent pattern; a legible city is one
whose districts or landmarks or pathways are easily
identifiable and are easily grouped into an
overall pattern.
„
- Kevin Lynch (1960)
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IMAGE OF THE CITY
by: Kevinlynch
a collective image map of a city, a collective picture of what
people extract from the physical reality of a city.
Five (5) basic elements which people use to construct their

mental image of a city:
Paths: connectors; channels along which the observer

1 moves
Edges: elements that delineate; linear elements not
2 considered as paths
IMAGE OF THE CITY
by: Kevinlynch
3 Districts: medium to large sections of a city; recognizable

as having some common, identifying character; areas
which have uniformity
Nodes: points, strategic spots which an observer can
4 enter; junctions and concentrations; highlighted points of
space (e.g. pocketparks, intersections)
5 Landmarks: point references considered to be external to

the observer; physical elements that may vary widely in
scale; e.g. monuments & gateways
Urban Design and Image of the City

SENSE OF PLACE
• Place has distinctive and distinguishing
physical and human characteristics of locale
• Place is characterized by unique site

and situational endowments (a
material setting that is located
somewhere)
• The key elements of Sense of place are

–Distinct identity
–Recognition of Subjective Meaning
–Connection or Emotional Attachment
to the Area

SENSE OF PLACE
• Place is imbued with subjective meanings and
attachments, it is the context of IDENTITY.
Place is a social and symbolic setting that has
meaning and value for individuals.
• Place is a node within the web of flows

• Places are interdependent, tied into
wider regional and global processes.
• Places exhibit variability - evolve over

time as people create and modify them

TYPES/FORMS OF URBAN DESIGN
‣ Emphasizes “form” over “function”
‣ Baroque urban design
Formal ‣ Beaux Arts Tradition or City Beautiful Movement
‣ Aesthetics/beauty
‣ Deals with the management of public space and the way public spaces are experienced and
used
‣ Public spaces and public assembly areas as “anchors”; some aspects of privately-owned
Civic- spaces (building facades or domestic gardens) are considered in urban design
Centered ‣ Form has to meet function
‣ Open air environments
‣ New Urbanism
‣ Smart Growth USA
‣ Post-industrial urban design
‣ Focuses on the convenience and comfort of the end-users
Customer- ‣ Emphasizes on direct access by costumers
Centered ‣ Mixed-used environments
‣ Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
‣ Centers on the experience of Nature and the experience of humankind as part of Nature; co-
existence
‣ The natural environment is the basis of all human activities
Eco-Centric ‣ Urban design safeguards natural systems and uses resources efficiently
‣ Environmentally-responsive developments or Green Buildings
‣ Plantation Bay Cebu, Marikina River Park
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FORMAL URBAN DESIGN
BAROQUE URBAN CITY
DESIGN BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT
1600-1800 1890-1930
symmetry, cohesiveness, Golden Age of urban design
grandeur, monumentality,
exuberance
began during the Renaissance
energetic, theatrical, flowing
lines
beauty, form & function
combined
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CIVIC-CENTERED URBAN DESIGN
NEW URBANISM
Principles 8. Smart Transportation
1. Walkability 9. Sustainability
2. Connectivity 10. Quality of Life
3. Mixed-Use and Diversity Or Neo-Traditionalism
4. Mixed Housing Andres Duany &
5. Quality Architecture and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Urban Design
6. Traditional Neighborhood
Structure
7. Increased Density
CIVIC-CENTERED URBAN DESIGN
SMART GROWTH USA
Principles 7. Strengthen and direct
1. Mix land uses development towards existing
2. Take advantage of compact communities
building design 8. Provide a variety of
3. Create a range of housing transportation choices
opportunities and choices 9. Make development decisions
predictable, fair, & cost effective
4. Create walkable neighborhoods
10. Encourage community and
5. Foster distinctive, attractive
stakeholder collaboration in
communities with a strong development decisions
sense of place
6. Preserve open space, farmland,
natural beauty, and critical
environmental areas
CUSTOMER-CENTERED
URBAN DESIGN
TRANSIT-ORIENTED
DEVELOPMENT (TOD)
A mixed-use residential or commercial

area designed to maximize access to
public transport, incorporates features
to encourage transit ridership
Typically has a center with a transit
station or stop (train station, metro
station, tram stop, or bus stop)
In Metro Manila, examples include
Trinoma North EDSA and Gateway
Mall Cubao
ECO-CENTRIC URBAN
DESIGN
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS
OR GREEN BUILDINGS
A green building is an
environmentally sustainable
building, designed, constructed
and operated to minimize the
total environmental impacts.
In the Philippines, examples

include Marikina River Park and
Plantation Bay in Cebu

ECO-CENTRIC URBAN
DESIGN
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTS
OR GREEN BUILDINGS
Plantation Bay ―green‖ features

‣ Locally-sourced/indigenous materials
(e.g. bamboo, banig, Mactan marble,
plants, etc.)
‣ avoiding use of plastics
‣ asphalt and gravel for roads to allow
water absorption and generate
groundwater
‣ instead of extracting sand, readily
available limestone was used
‣ seaweeds are placed on top of plants to
reduce re-watering
‣ used tea bags/coffee are scattered on
ground to drive away ants/pests
NEW URBANISM

NEW URBANISM (1993)
• A city design approach aimed at changing

the haphazard, poorly planned growth of
American communities; it advocates
public policies and development practices
that support more livable communities. Trenton250.com
• It has a set of principles that apply to the

design and development of all levels of
community – the region, the city, and the
block.
Thesisprep.wordpress.com

NEW URBANISM (1993)
• ―New urbanism involves

communities that are diverse and
integrated, in terms of who and
what is there. It takes in a full
Trenton250.com
range of people of all colors and
backgrounds. It includes shops,
schools, housing, parks,
businesses, all the uses, all mixed
together, all walkable.‖ (Peter
Calthorpe)
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NEW URBANISM PRINCIPLES
• Neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population.
• Communities should be designed for the pedestrian and
for public transit as well as the car.
• Cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined
and universally accessible public spaces and community
institutions.
• Urban places should be

framed by architecture and
landscape design that
celebrate local history, climate,
ecology, and building practice.

NEW URBANISM: APPLICATIONS
• Inner-city infill development
• Affordable housing
• Transit-oriented development (TOD)
• Mixed-use developments
• New towns
Baltimore, Maryland
HERITAGE
CONSERVATION

HERITAGE CONSERVATION
• Cultural heritage - the
beliefs, values, practices
and objects that give a
place its own specific
character and identity.
• Practices refer to
customary traditions, rituals
and ceremonies.
• Objects can be either

intangible, such as historical
events, or tangible such as
furniture, native delicacies,
handicrafts 113
• Man-made tangible objects, such as
buildings
• Natural tangible objects, such a

revered landscape like the Chocolate
Hills of Bohol and the Mayon Volcano
• Movable tangible objects can also

be either movable, such as paintings,
or non-movable such as buildings,
streets and town plazas. Aside from
these, immovable objects also include
certain districts such as Binondo and
San Nicolas in Manila, and even entire
cities such as Vigan in Ilocos Sur.
HERITAGE CONSERVATION:
BENEFITS
• Social
– ensures that heritage assets continuously provide the
community its unique character and identity, and promote
pride of place among its residents.
• Economic
– contributes significantly to tourism and, in the process,
generates more revenue for local governments and helps
create jobs and livelihood.

BENEFITS
• Political
– An attractive and well-ordered city or municipality projects
the authority of the local government and ultimately its
officials. Well preserved historic landmarks project
respectability and good taste.
• Environmental
– Well preserved heritage structures have less carbon
footprint than new construction.

ADAPTIVE REUSE
• A process that adapts buildings for

new uses while retaining their
historic features.
• The most successful built heritage

adaptive reuse projects are those
that best respect and retain the
building‘s heritage significance and
add a contemporary layer that
provides value for the future.

ADAPTIVE REUSE
• Sometimes, adaptive reuse is the
only way that the building‘s fabric
will be properly cared for, revealed
or interpreted, while making better
use of the building itself.
• Where a building can no longer

function with its original use, a new
use through adaptation may be the
only way to preserve its heritage
significance.

(CONT‘D)
Adaptive Reuse
• A process that postures existing
buildings for new uses while
retaining their historic features.
• The ideal adaptive reuse project is
that which respects and retains a
building‘s heritage significance and
spirit despite changing its
functional use.
• Oftentimes, adaptive reuse for
commercial purposes is the most
practical way to induce the
preservation of a heritage
building.
(CONT‘D)
Relevant Law
“
The state shall foster the preservation, enrichment and
evolution of a Filipino culture; The state shall conserve,
develop, promote and popularize the nation‘s historical
and cultural heritage and resources, as well as artistic
creations.
„
- R.A. 10066 National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009
MANDATE

(CONT‘D)
Relevant Law
R.A. 10066 National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009
Important Cultural Property Items* (Section 5)
a) Works by a Manlilikha ng Bayan;
b) Works by a National Artist;
c) Archeological and traditional ethnographic materials;
d) Works of national heroes;
e) Marked structures;
f) Structures dating at least fifty (50) years old;
g) Archival material/ document dating at least fifty (50) years
old.
* Subject to recourse if required by the owner.

GREEN
DEVELOPMENT

Green Development:
Core Objectives
• To ensure that development takes
place in areas that are safe from
natural calamities and disasters
• To reduce the carbon footprint

(greenhouse gas emission) of
urban growth and the contribution
of cities to global warming and
climate change

Green Development:
Core Objectives
• To protect and enhance natural
ecosystems in order to ensure
their continuing provision of
ecological ―services‖ (eg,
purification of air and water,
decomposition and detoxification
wastes, pollination of crops and
natural vegetation, generation and
renewal of soil fertility, protection
from ultraviolet rays, etc.)

Green Development:
Approach
• Views the city, suburbs, and
countryside as a single, evolving
system within nature.
• Cultivates and nurtures nature in the
city just like a garden, rather than
ignored or subdued
• Evaluates and incorporates natural factors, such as
topography, hydrology, geology, natural hazards and micro-
climate into cities, rather than overcoming them through
technology which is often expensive and do not necessarily
work.
Green Development:
Examples
• Endangered species‘ habitat conservation plans

• Urban gardening / farming / agriculture
• Switching to renewable and non-polluting energy
sources (eg, hydro-electric, wind, solar, geothermal,
waste-to-energy, etc)
• ―Green design‖ of houses, buildings and schools

Green Development:
Examples
• Rehabilitation and adaptation of urban green spaces

• Restoration and protection of urban wetlands and other
sensitive habitats
• Preservation of old growth trees and forest areas
• Urban watershed management
• River basin and coastal floodplain conservation plans

REFERENCES:
• Alan Cadavos. Theories of Urban Growth and Urban
Land Use. Ecopolis Presentation. 2013.
• Kevin Lynch. Image of the City. 1960.
• Nathaniel Von Einsiedel. Principles of City Design.

Ecopolis Presentation. 2013.
• Ces Orquina. Settlements, Urban Design, and Site

Planning. PIEP Refresher Course. 2013.

THANK YOU!


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HUMAN SETTLEMENT THEORIES

Sharon Macagba, EnP

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GALACTIC CITY SECTOR / RADIAL / AXIAL MODEL

INVERSE CONCENTRIC ZONE

FORMATION OF URBAN LANDSCAPE

Administrative Divisions Urban Form Urban Spatial Structure

Six processes at work in the city

Roderick D. McKenzie, Amos H. Hawley,

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Six processes at work in the city

Six processes at work in the city

Six processes at work in the city

Survival of the fittest

The theory representing American city first

Ernest W. Burgess (1925)

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In Chicago, Burgess‘s home town,

Hypothetical pattern of land use

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In addition, the cost of land may decrease with increased

A city extends radially from its center, to form concentric zones

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• Distinct pattern of income levels

• Extension of trolley lines had a

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• Characterized by mixed pattern of

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• The ―workingmen‘s quarters‖;

• More stable than the transition

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• Spreading outward because of

• Established city dwellers, many

• Commute to work in the CBD

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• Located either on the farthest

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• Spacious lots and large houses

• From here the rich pressed Calagaryluxuryportfolio.comc

outward to avoid congestion and

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I – Loop (downtown; CBD) IV – working class area

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Even though portions of each zone did exist, rarely were

1 they linked to totally surround the city; Burgess countered

Critics felt that Burgess, as a sociologist, overemphasized

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Land uses within many parts of the

There maybe many possible locations

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Neglected the possibility of

6 future development with

• Peter Mann took Burgess's

• He based his model on studies

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• Urban area should be large

• Main feature: commuter

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