The Master Plan Charles M.Haar o(>﹏<)o

The  Concept  Of  The  Master  Plan
  The master plan has a variety of meanings. Master plan may mean oen thing wehn used to advise on the timing of construction of New York City schools , and  quite another in the allocation of lands for recreational uses in a rural setting. The master plan  concept cannot be said to have an universal meaning.Nor is there any one way of  formulating or administering it.
  The uses to society of this mechanism are envisioned as 6 broad types:
1.a source of information
2.a program for correction
3.a guide to effectuating procedures and measures
4.an ordinance regulating the use of  land
5.a guard against the arbitrary
What The Master Plan Means To The Planner
1.Source of information
The acknowledged initial step of the master plan procedure is the survey.These include studies of economic activity, population composition and growth, land uses, channels of movement, systems of public facilities and physical resources and liabilities.
2.A program for correction
By hypothesis the plan serves to indicate the area`s sore spots and funcitonal deficiencies.
3.An estimate of the future
Plans must be premised upon estimates of industrial growth, of future age and group compositions of the population and the other variables affecting the phsical development of the community.
4.An indicator of goals
The master plan should not merely incorporate ascertained or probale trends of development.Ohterwise, only an incomplete job would ensue.
5.A technique for coordination
The planning commission is directed to study and crystallize the interrelationships of  the various land uses and structures within the city.The coordination is the long range point of view and the phasing of the program for reaching the ultimate objectives that emphasize the potential contribution of the master plan.
6.A device for stimulating public interest and responibility
What the previous categories of the values served by the master plan may very well add up to is simply this:the chief purpose of the master plan is that of mutual education.
The Master Plan Is Hortatory
The statutory mandate to make and adopt a master plan is really synonymous with a mandate to plan.
The Written Master Plan
The master plan is an ever changing recordation of the city planner`s end result thinking.
The improbability of such a mnemonic freak indicates. If the plan is regarded not as the vest pocket tool of the planning commission,but as a broad statement to be adopted by the most representative municipal body the local legislature, then the plan becomes a law through such adoption.
  This will highlight the master plan`s primary role as a constitution. It is a point of view which should be introduced in a courtroom when a particular measure is being assayed.

Downtown is for people~

The Power of Jane Jacobs: healthy cities, urban theory and design
Jane Jacob was born in  Scranton, the daughter of a doctor and a former teacher and nurse, who were Protestant in a Catholic town. A year later, in the middle of the great depression, she left Scranton for New York.
She studied at Columia Unversity Extension School for two years, taking courses in geology, zoology, law, political science and economics. About the freedom to study her wide-ranging interests.
In 1968, Jacobs moved to Toronto, where she lived until her death. She decided to leave the United States in part because of her objection to the Vietnam War and worry about the fate of her two draft-age sons. She and her husband chose Toronto because it was pleasant and offered him work opportunities.
How hard can a street work?
The street works harder than any other part of downtown.It communicates the flavor, the feel, the sights.Users of downtown know very well that downtown needs not fewer streets, but more, especially for pedestrians.also a good street includes 4 points:
1.The animated alley
2.The pedestrian`s level
3.Maps of reality
4.The customer is right.
The Citizen
The remarkable intricacy and liveliness of downtown can never be created by the abstract logic of  a  few men. Downtown  has had the capability of probiding something for everybody only because it has been created by everybody.

Final
  Designing a dream city is easy, rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

Pluralistic Planning 4 Multicultural Cities (⊙o⊙)

"A tree can be the source of neighborhood battles, as shown in Toronto by the "nature meets culture"headlines in the globe and mail. Italians and Portuguese like to keep trees short, allowing a better view of the neighbors.Ango-Saxons want trees to be tall and leafy,blocking any views from and to neighborhood houses.The chinese believe trees in front of a home  bring bad luck."---e.g

                              
Multiculturalism in Canada
  Canada is one of the  multiculturalism countries in the world. In the mosaic of aboriginal cultures and languages there,multiculturalism extends back to antiquity.(include British French Germans Russians and Chinese,ect).There are 3 indicators for Canadian population：ethnic origin，status as an immigrant and languages.There are old and new multiculturalism in Canda.The old multiculturalism or cultural mosaic was a private affair of immigrants.The new one is  acknowledged by public ideology and official policy.
 Multiculturalism,social diversity and the planning process
The cultural and racial diversity of citizens bears on the planning process in 3ways.
1.affects the rational technical component
2.planners must be sensitive to the needs of  individuals in new ways
3.the scope and procedures of citizen involvement in the planning process have to be modified to accommodate multicultural policies
Metropolitan Toronto:Kingsview Park
Kingsview Park is a high rise condominium complex of 6 buildings containing 1794 apartments, it was built in 1971 along the four land Dixon road in Etobicoke. First occupants are young families and empty nester, half of them are European migrants after WWII. In a few years time, tenants have changed to people from south Europe and Asia. The proportion of rents rose to about 12 percent and that’s in 1977. 1980s tomato’s property boom attracts speculator investors, by 1989-1991, 25 percent of the apartments were renter occupied. Because of high vacancies and downturn in property market, occupancy gradually filtered down in the rental market. 1994, most poor Somalis moved in and occupied 59 percent of rental units and 35 percent were in Kingsview Park. Tension grow between owners and poor Somali due to black and white culture, and has caused a culture conflict.
The Dixon case

From the Dixon case, The proposed solutions to the Dixon complex include regulations to discourage overcrowding and a recommendation to amend provincial legislation to allow municipal inspectors the authority to enter private dwellings without warrants. In short the planning response to this social and cultural clash was simply to tune up property standards and create the statutory instruments to enforce the.

This case illustrates public issues precipitated by the diversification of forms, functions and population in neighborhoods.

Ethnic Business Enclaves

In Canadian cities, local businesses of ethnic neighborhoods have been the basis of their cultural economies, and they often extend their markets beyond their surrounding neighborhoods. However not all immigrants owned business target ethnic populations, a historical example is that a restaurant opened in a little village in the 19th century, and they were the main restaurants there.  In the 1970s, a new form of ethnic business enclaves emerged in Canada. Toronto’s revitalized Chinatown and its Chinese suburban malls and office clusters, its Indian bazaars and Greek villages.

Housing Choices- new culture is coming in,the old cultures stay.People move around all the time~

Institutions and services- Not only spatial and architectural forms,but also social institutions and community services,are affected by multicultralism.

Multicultural cities:

                                                                    Hongkong

                                                                       London

                        The entertainment capital of the world-Las Vegas (not 4 sure)

                                                                     Sydney

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