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Principle ten: institutional integrity

None of the principles or practices the PIU promotes can be implemented unless there is a strong and rational institutional framework to define, channel and legalize urban development, in all of its aspects. The PIU contends that there must be a cadastral System wherein all of the land in the jurisdiction of cities is demarcated, surveyed, characterized and archived, registering its legal owner, its legal uses, and the tax defaults against it.

The institutional framework can only operate where there is a Structure Plan, or other document that defines how the land will be used, serviced, and accessed. It tells landowners and promoters what the parameters of development are. A Structure Plan is intended to provide owners and investors with predictable future scenarios.

 

Intelligent urbanism promotes Public Participation in the preparation of plans. Public meetings and hearings of objections must be institutionalized. Local Area Plans must be prepared which take into account local views and sentiments regarding plan objectives, configurations, standards and patterns. Such plans lay out the sites of plots showing the roads, public open spaces, amenities areas and conservation sites.

 

Intelligent Urbanism supports the use of Architectural Guidelines which specify architectural elements, motifs and language in a manner intended to reinforce a cultural tradition. Building designs must respect traditional elements, even though the components may vary greatly to integrate contemporary functions. Even in a greenfield setting Architectural Guidelines are required to assure harmony and continuity of building proportions, scale, colour, patterns, motifs, materials and facades.

 

Rostock (Germany) has been nicely renovated and now is a very pleasant place to live. The historical building style uses bricks very effectively – and many of the modern buildings in the town center are also brick-built and blend in with the traditional buildings, as you can see in the case of the building on the left.

Intelligent Urbanism insists on safety, hygiene, durability and utility in the design and construction of buildings. Where large numbers of people gather in schools, hospitals, and other public facilities that may become emergency shelters in disasters, special care must be exercised. A suitable Building Code is the proposed instrument to achieve these aims.

 

PIU proponents state that those who design buildings must be professionally qualified architects; those who build buildings must be qualified civil engineers; and, those who supervise and control construction must be qualified construction managers. Proponents maintain that there must be recognized Professional Accrediting Boards, or Professional Bodies, to see that urban development employs adequate technical competence. Finally, there must be legislation creating Statutory Local Authorities. Intelligent Urbanism insists that cities, local authorities, regional development commissions and planning agencies be professionally managed.



 

Intelligent Urbanism views plans, urban designs and housing configurations as expressions of the people for whom they are planned. The process must be a transparent one, which makes those privileged to act as guardians of the people’s will. Intelligent Urbanism sees urban planning and city governance as the most salient expressions of civility. Intelligent Urbanism is not just planning for the present; it is also planning for the distant future. Intelligent Urbanism is not Utopian, but futuristic in its need to forecast the scenarios to come.

 


Date: 2015-12-11; view: 852


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