LAND PLANNING GUIDE
This book is intended as a practical guide and resource to help planners, professionals, community representatives and politicians understand and apply sustainable community principles in planning processes, in order to achieve more integrated and sustainable towns and cities with a better urban environment and quality of life.
The planning guide introduces new development and planning principles and a participative planning process that is particularly relevant in South Africa, given:
• the legacy of divided apartheid cities, with townships as strategically isolated ‘labour dormitories’ with minimal facilities and services
• low-cost areas with rows of standardised houses on square grid layouts
• urban sprawl with its high transport and environmental costs
• widespread poverty and high levels of unemployment in vast peripheral informal settlements
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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sustainable Community Planning
Pg 14 - 33
2. Development Principles
2.1 Integration
2.2 Sustainability
2.3 Planning Principles
Pg 34 - 63
3. Spatial Planning
3.1 Housing
3.2 Work
Pg 64 - 79
3. Spatial Planning continue
3.3 Services
Pg 80 - 97
3. Spatial Planning continue
3.4 Transport
3.5 Community
3.6 Character and Identity
3.7 Urban Planning Structure
Pg 98 - 122
4. The planning Process
The planning framework
the sustainable and integrated planning process
4.1 The Programming Phase
4.2 The Planning Phase
4.3 The Implementation Phase
4.4 Project Structures
4.5 Institutional Linkages
4.6 Integrated Development Matrix
Pg 124 - 143
5. Community and Stakeholder Participation
5.1 Community Participation
5.2 Stakeholder Involvement
5.3 Participants in the Planning Process
5.4 Communication Strategy and Programme
5.5 Learning and Capacity Building in the Planning Process
Conclusion
Glossary