1. Regional & Urban Planning 21/03/2010 Dr. Ahmad BinTouq E-mail: abintouq@uaeu.ac.ae URL: http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~abintouqhttp://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~abintouq GEO438 Regional & Urban Planning 15:30-16:45 FJC01 0034

2. Overview Part II (Structure and Practices) Contemporary Urban Planning: Land-use planning: Chapter 9; the Tools of land-Use Planning Chapter 10: Urban Design

3. Land Use 2 ways that municipality can shape its land use: 1- public capital investments. 2- land use- decisions.

4. 1) Public capital investments bring a very powerful economic which can develop the cities needs (ROADS) - For example, capital expenditures are quit large, come from salaries of workers in municipal (YAS ISLAND) Sources of PCI (gov. income) -Most local governments have separate capital budget, come from taxes in the US. - Also, the capital expenditure, most of it, come from bonds that the local government make for redevelop the requirement of city needs

5. 2) Land use controls have 2 main items: A)subdivision regulations - subdivision regulations apply to residential development. - Subdivision regulations mean that, local government must approve the map before the owner of the building sell it or make any development A) B)Zoning Ordinances. - Items used in zoning ordinances: 1- Sit layout requirements. 2- Requirements for structure characteristics. 3- Uses to which structures may be put (types.. 4- Procedural matters.

6. Chapter 10: Urban Design: - Urban design: it is a design for entire neighborhoods or cities, it is similar to architecture design but for large scale. - Planners are involve in urban design, because, planners are involved in the political decisions and social needs.

7. The urban design process: 1- Analysis, by using basic information, visual survey, identification of hard and soft areas and functional analyses. 2- Synthesis. 3- Evaluating. 4- Implementation. Example of local urban design in the UAE, Abu Dhabi 2030 Plan and Al Ain 2030 Plan and Western Region 2030.

8. Exercise * Discuss the land-use control in the UAE and how it’s related to urban design and planning at the emirates level?