Tomorrowland

STEPS to CREATING your own TOMORROWLAND

1. Research living things using the Toronto Biodiversity books

2. Research Urban Planning

3. Design your own city

4. Build your city in Sketchup

5. Create a model

WHAT IS URBAN PLANNING?

Physical environments are partly natural and partly man-made. A satisfying man-made or "built" environment is the ultimate goal of planning, but relations between natural and built environments, and interactions between people and their environments, are also of great concern. Human activities can have negative impacts upon the natural environment, just as certain natural conditions are hazardous to human well-being.

Urban planning is the process by which communities attempt to control the development in their physical environments. There are a variety of ways to describe it, including town planning, city planning, community planning, land use planning, and physical environment planning. The object of planning is the "physical environment," which means the land and all its uses, along with everything that exists on, beneath or above the land surface.

Planning also includes the design by which buildings are laid out in a city, and the design of public places.

Urban Design

Grid Cities

The grid plan, grid street plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid. The infrastructure cost for regular grid patterns is generally higher than for patterns with discontinuous streets.

Garden Cities

The garden city movement is a method of urban planning in which self-contained communities are surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture. The idea was initiated in 1898 by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom.

Land Use

Regardless of the layout of the city, it must accommodate a variety of uses such as transportation, structures, vegetation and, of course, living things. There are a number of zones that are used to describe the land use. They are

Most cities contain several functional zones.